Greatest Hits

Greatest Hits may ignore some of his better album tracks, but it does contain what the title says -- Dan Fogelberg's biggest hits, prior to its release date of 1982. Really, that means only one big hit -- "The Language of Love" -- is missing, since his peak of popularity arrived in the early '80s, when "Longer," "Same Old Lang Syne," "Hard to Say," and "Leader of the Band" all made the Top Ten, and "Heart Hotels," "Run for the Roses," "Missing You," and "Make Love Stay" cracked the Top 40. All of those songs, along with his first hit, "Part of the Plan," are here, on a collection that remains the best, most concise chronicle of his hitmaking years yet assembled. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine