I also dislike stoneskin, and glibness only works if your DM is playing by the silly bluff rules in PHB. In which case he'll be playing like the silly Diplomacy rules in PHB as well, meaning you can just make a diplomancer and not need this spell. Mirror Image is pretty nifty.
But what's the deal with detect evil, I mean it's not a bad spell, but silent image is also a 1st level spell. And it's not a 1st level spell some classes get for free at will anyway, and almost anyone who is important to the plot, and evil is protected against this spell, so it merely helps as a seeker missile for smite evil.
And honestly, Fireball? Fireball AND magic missile AND scorching ray? If you want to rolls loads of D6s why not be a rogue or a druid with venomfire?
And what about nifty things like enervation and celerity are left out from those lists. And one of the lists has Mordenkainens Disjunction as a 9th level spell. Honestly you are gonna throw away all your lewts?
Sorry for the rant, but I just dislike whenever someone says they've got the "best" spell (this applies to anything were they have the best), many things could be useful in some circumstances, but so could other spells. If for example My opponent is about to chop my head off with a greatsword, having detect evil or glibness doesn't help much, but having grease, silent image or invisibility probably would. If I wanted to infiltrate the castle of the evil dr. Melburn (an avid undead creator), charm person, and ray of enfeeblement probably wouldn't help much, but command undead, alter self and disintegrate would be awesome to have.
The problem with comparing spells is that you compare the power, which is sort of moot, because in some situations, even Fireball can be useful, the situations where you'd not rather want some black tentacles or a nice fog are rare, but they do come up. In some situations haste is useful, in others, benign transposition is. All in all, it is too hard to judge spells in too few words. Spell lists should be chosen based on the notion that you can handle almost any situation at least twice a day, and avoid getting into it again that day.
/rant.
