Weighing in at 14 tracks,
Greatest Hits is a good, basic collection of
the Bangles' biggest singles, containing all the hits, including the previously non-LP "Hazy Shade of Winter," plus a couple of album tracks and, for the dedicated, a new cover of
the Grass Roots' "Where Were You When I Needed You." It may be easy to carp about fine album tracks from
All Over the Place and
Different Light that should have been included, yet this is a fine sampler/introduction that might not necessarily capture
the Bangles' best -- in this context, their ties to the Paisley Underground and college rock seem nonexistent -- but still finds them as masters of irresistible pop singles. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine