Depending on your count, is the third or fourth posthumous compilation -- a number that may be a bit excessive considering the group's rather concise catalog, containing just four studio albums and singles rounded up on three singles compilations (and two of those covered the same essential territory, too). That's a lot of repetition but whether it's taken in either its single-disc or double-disc deluxe editions, is the best of these posthumous overviews. The single-disc -- which is the first disc of the deluxe set -- is the hits disc, containing every cut from the 18-track 1995 compilation and expanding it with five cuts all dating from the mid-'80s: and As a -basics goes, it's first-rate, an introduction and summary that's compulsively listenable. The second disc on the deluxe splits the difference between a rarities compilation and a "more of the best" collection of album tracks, rounding up non-LP singles and B-sides like and the New York Vocal version of live versions of the demo of and a bunch of great songs including a hefty chunk of . It falls short of being the long-awaited collection of rarities, the absence of which remains a mystery, but it's the best stab at one to date and a pretty entertaining listen in its own right. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine