Albums that sound like Greatest Hits collections, but are actually all-new...

xp I stand corrected, I have never seen swinging sixties Paris Sisters. I always think of them looking like this:

http://www.history-of-rock.com/Paris_Sisters.jpg

I don't really like "Back In Black" but for a year or 2 I thought it was a greatest hits album.

Turns out "Singles Going Steady" is a comp. I wasn't sure until just now.

I keep second guessing that one too

There's alot of overlap between this and "all killer, no filler" albums, but there's a difference between something like the first Cars or Pretenders albums that were all great songs but still were obviously the work of the same band recorded around the same time. Some albums are full of great songs but have tracks that sound much older or newer than they are, or barely sound like they're all the work of the same band. Those have a 25 year retrospective greatest-hits feel and multi-artist compilation vibe respectively, and are much more rare and interesting.

It's craziness that "Excitable Boy" hasn't already been posted to this thread.

Electric Six have, unbelievably, got on to have 14 more albums that the one you've heard something.