Hits That Should Have Appeared on an Artist's Greatest Hits Album

About 5 years ago I finally bought the standard Hall & Oates greatest hits collection, Rock 'n Soul, Part 1. It was clear to me that there was no killer Hall & Oates album to be had, and for the right price I was will to bring home a hits collections that included some '80s turds by an artist I liked best in the '70s. Beside, as '80s hitmakers went, I could live with my share of Hall & Oates hits like "You Make My Dreams" and "I Can't Go for That (No Can Do)."

Over the years I kept feeling like something was missing from the collection of five or so Hall & Oates songs that made buying this hits CD for the right price. I listened to clips from each of their earlier '70s albums in search of the hit that was not included, but it was not until I got to the band's 1980 "New Wave" album, Voices, that I found the song I was missing: "How Does It Feel to Be Back." Although the third highest-ranking song on the album (behind "You Make My Dreams" and the presumably-also-left-for "Part 2" cover of "You've Lost That Lovin' Feeling"), the song did crack the Billboard Top 30 and it was in regular rotation on Philadelphia radio in its time. Listening to it now, it still stands up as a pretty stately power pop song, if not the most immediately catchy song in their catalog.

It's funny how that song has lost its place in the band's catalog, and I wonder if there are other hit songs you feel have suffered this fate owing to their not being included on an artist's first greatest hits collection, perhaps with a Part 2 left long ago on the drawing board.