1) I'd imagine just about everybody. The second edition was a cheapo effort. They didn't bother to sort out the spacing between the tracks after jumbling them up, hence some songs have no gap between them and others have a fair bit of silence.
2) iTunes is shit.
3) The problem with doing a Very Best Of from Bat 3 onwards is that the songs needing to be included are not necessarily the best songs. Either you stick to album tracks and some people will wonder where the singles are, or you stick to the singles and people will compare the new stuff unfavourably to the old stuff. Do Cry Over Me and Los Angeloser really belong on a Very Best Of album?
To answer the question I would go for:
Hot Patootie
Bat Out Of Hell
Took The Words
Two Out Of Three
Paradise
I'm Gonna Love Her For Both Of Us
Read 'Em And Weep
Dead Ringer
Midnight
Modern Girl
Anything For Love
Rock And Roll Dreams
Objects
I'd Lie For You
Not A Dry Eye
Is Nothing Sacred? (duet version)
Couldn't Have Said It Better
Blind As A Bat
Land Of The Pig
All Of Me
Giving Tree
Going All The Way
Speaking In Tongues
All that would fit nicely on two CDs.
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