The closest thing yet to a decent compilation, wisely pretends that the latter-day continuation of the band (featuring as frontman instead of the inimitable ) doesn't exist. As it should, the song selection leans heavily on the early material, especially the career high points and , respectively the original lineup's sole full-length and the best offering by the reconstituted second version of the band with subbing for the great . The latter third of the album, recorded when reasserted control over the name and recorded in the years prior to his 1998 suicide, is painfully unlistenable, and not just because ' voice is shot: the ever-worsening junkie on display in these later songs is as effective as any anti-drug PSA ever made. The accompanying DVD, recorded in 1990 at a club gig at which the temporarily reunited original lineup plays the entirety of and a few other tunes, is a stark depiction of the beginning of that sad decline. ~ Stewart Mason