Buddhas Under the Milky Way: The Best of the Church is a terrific, comprehensive anthology, tracing their career from their 1981 debut, Of Skin and Heart, to 1994s Sometime Anywhere. Some hardcore fans may notice some personal favorites missing, but all their best-known songs -- "The Unguarded Moment," "Tear It All Away," "Month of Sundays," "Myrrh," "Under the Milky Way," "Reptile," "Metropolis," "Ripple" -- are here, along with an excellent, representative sampling of album tracks. Its an ideal record for casual fans, along with being a great introduction for the curious and neophytes. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine, allmusic.com

This Japanese issue compilation brings together 10 songs by the prog rock legends Yes. The set covers their early hits from the 1970s up through mid-80s fare like "Owner of a Lonely Heart."

Compilation from successful prog rockers. 10 tracks including America, Heart of the Sunrise, Sound Chaser and Owner of a Lonely Heart.

Strutting Texas blues. This compilation album at least features the man doing what he does best. Many collections concentrate on his dire seventies rocknroll glutfest and his even direr mid-sixties early embarrassments. Its the blues that defines him from 1969 onwards, and this CD thankfully concentrates on that definition of him as an artiste. Johnny Winter has many hardcore fans, myself obviously included. His fire, precision and inventiveness combine with his songwriting talents and his ability to quote stock phrases of the Blues Bible in a new and exciting way. This creates instant classics. Im sometimes surprised to find Im listening to a Winter original when Id assumed it was something from the early rustic days of the blues. As for his guitar playing, well, combine the sting and attack of Albert "the Ice Man" Collins and the raw scrape of slide legend Elmore James and the development of musical sentences from Claptons Cream days and youll have a fair idea of Johnnys appeal. That voice too is pretty cool - its like a coyote gargling with sandpaper. Diehard fans will have all these tracks anyway - theyve appeared on his three Alligator Records releases from the early to mid eighties. And theyre terrific. A healthy helping of Texan blues with extra chili - he yodels, growls, yelps and brags through these songs with an energy and relish thats kinda hard to resist. Each solo is a delight- the slower numbers feature exciting developments of licks and phrases - you can follow the ideas through each solo, and the faster songs combine Chuck Berry chops with sudden high register flurries. Guitar fans will argue until the end of time about the merits of their particular hero. My mind was made up in 1969 with one song from a CBS sampler. Yep, it was I Love Everybody by Johnny Winter from his third album, confusingly called Second Winter. I bought every album for the next 40 years and the tracks on this compilation represent a period I recall with great fondness. At the risk of sounding cliched - Go Johnny Go! (Amazons Customer)

The 20th Century Masters series is the best-selling single-artist line in music history and is being re-released by Universal Music Enterprises (UMe) in its ground-breaking, environmentally-friendly packaging format. A first for the music industry, the standard package (both sleeve and tray) will be completely paper-recyclable, continuing the companys long-standing commitment to being "green."

UMe is the first North American music company to replace the traditional jewel case with recycled paperboard sleeves and the plastic tray with trays made from PaperFoam®, a new packaging technology from Shorewood Packaging, a business of International Paper, that is paper-recyclable and biodegradable. Shorewood Packaging is the first North American packaging supplier to produce disc trays from PaperFoam®

Released around the same time Columbia/Legacy expanded the original The Best of Simon & Garfunkel to a comprehensive 20-track single-disc collection, the British-only Tales From New York: The Very Best of Simon & Garfunkel takes that expansion a little further. It weighs in at a hefty 40 songs spread over two discs. Contains all 16 of their Billboard chart hits from 1965-75, including Bridge Over Troubled Water, Mrs. Robinson, The Sounds Of Silence, I Am A Rock, Cecilia, Scarborough Fair/ Canticle and My Little Town.