Been toying with the idea of this thread for a while, and the fantasy tribute album thread made me want to actually do this. Tired of "Best of" albums only being comprised of "okay, I guess..." songs? Well, show them you know better!
The idea is simple enough: create your very own "Best of" album for an artist of your choice and, if you'd like, write a little blurb about why you picked the songs you did and if they cover each era nicely.
**Rules** Keep it to a minimum of 10 songs. Feel free to go down the route of multi-disc ideas (bonus points if each one is themed!), but only if the band has a large enough discography to warrant doing so. I'm not going to make up a threshold for you, but use your better judgement. For example, Buck-tick, D, and Penicillin all have 100023402 albums so it would make sense to do that for them.
The only bands that could be excluded are bands with a very small discography (let's say less than 20 songs). There's no point in making a "best of" if it's just going to be everything they've ever made. Phantasmagoria did it like 8 times, but that doesn't mean they were right.
I'll go first:
Megaromania - 「Creative」 Aesthetic
01. Prologue & Epilogue [Prophetic Faction -the Universe-]
02. Deus [Deus]
03. Angelical Jewelry [Angelical Jewelry]
04. Idea [birth of an 「Idea」]
05. Cardinal Sin [Transparent Shine]
06. Crimson [Oath-Cross of Eternity-]
07. Distrust Labyrinth [Prophetic Faction -the Universe-]
08. Lily-幻想に覆われる空と天空の華- [Heaven's Novel-ヘヴンズノベル-]
09. A Revolving Lantern.... [A Revolving Lantern....]
10. Spell of Mystery-幻色螺旋- [Artistcal Glint]
11. Phantom to the Past [Quintessence Voyage]
12. Amethyst [Prophetic Faction -the Universe-]
13. Clear Flora [birth of an 「Idea」]
14. 神創曲 -Variant Jihad- [Phantasmagoria Cover]
15. -the Universe- [Prophetic Faction -the Universe-]
16. In Universe-魂の邂逅- [Transparent Shine]
17. Oblivious [Oblivious]
18. Apocalypse [Apocalypse]
I probably could have trimmed this track list a bit, but I wanted to give a variety of their different song styles. I was careful not to pick all of their fast-paced power metal songs ("Cardinal Sin", "Crimson", "God of Megaromania", "Sabbath", "Black Temptation", etc. can be considered more or less interchangeable) and mixed a variety of first and second lineup releases in there.
The ending is a bit lengthy, with "In Universe" and "Oblivious" being longer than 7 minutes each, but I feel like their longer "epic" songs are often overlooked. These two songs, with "A Revolving Lanturn..." and "Phantom to the Past" accurately cover their Versailles worship nicely.
"Clear Flora", "Idea", "Angelical Jewelry", "Amethyst", and "Lily" give kind of an old school feel to the mix and provide a softer balance to their typical -shredding bruh- attitude.
Lastly, I've purposely ended this mix with "Apocalypse." This song is often referred to as the song that "made them" and if someone only likes one song by these guys, "Apocalypse" tends to be the one. A song about everything ending is the one that made everything happen for them: how's that for visual irony?