Three Dog Night

Weighing it at a generous 20 tracks, The Best of Three Dog Night may be a little much for some casual listeners, yet it's unquestionably the definitive collection, featuring all of their hits, plus a nice selection of album tracks. There isn't anything major missing, and while some of the non-singles material isn't particularly strong, there are enough worthwhile moments to make this a fairly consistent, enjoyable listen, in addition to being the one Three Dog Night album most fans will need.

A very long disc of Three Dog Night's greatest hits re-recorded with, as you might expect, the London Symphony Orchestra. The results are surprisingly upbeat Muzak adaptations that actually work well with the classical combination, in spite of occasionally sounding like something Randy Newman might have thought up.

It's taken close to 20 years into the CD era to get decent remasterings of Three Dog Night's catalog, and it says something about Universal Music, which owns that catalog, that none of the upgrades have come from them – rather, Gottdiscs and now Edsel have brought these improved versions to the public.