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20th Century Masters: Millennium Collection

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This second repackaging of Jody Watlety's hits is a fairly complete collection. With her smooth voice, Jody shoes she can still keep up with the R & B stars of today. Like her "Greatest Hits" album, it includes the key tracks, "Everything", "I'm The One You Need", and "Don't You Want Me". This disc however includes her neglected track "Off The Hook", but leaves out some of her better songs like "I Want You", and the sultry "When A Man Loves A Woman". If you are into dance/pop/R & B, this is a great album to have. If you are a Jody fan but don't have any of her stuff, stick with the more-complete "Greatest Hits".

20th Century Masters collections are infamous for always leaving out at least one or two vital songs from an artist, but Jody watley's collection is actually pretty complete. The only other one i can think of is Diana Ross's.

All of Ms Watley's top 10 hits are here which are "Looking For A New Love", "Real Love", "Everything" "Some Kind of Lover", "Don't You Want Me", and "Friends." Plus, it includes "Most of All" which i think is her best song but it never cracked the top 40. The only gripe is that the charting single "Still A Thrill" from her debut is not here, but its forgivable. If you want A Jody album with all of her biggest hits, this is your best bet. Her 1996 "Greatest Hits" is for some reason out of print. It's superior, but if you can't find it, this will do.

This is a nice collection of memorable dance-pop from Jody Watley, who had her fifteen minutes back in the mid to late 80's as a member of Shalamar, followed by a short run of singles that scampered up the charts.

If you are at all familiar with the 80's, you'll know most of these songs, and the remastering sounds just fine here.

"Lookin' For A New Love", "Don't You Want Me" and "Some Kind of Lover" are all stellar examples of that post-Madonna/Janet Jackson sound that gave us people like Karyn White, Paula Abdul, Pebbles and Miss Watley.

"Most of All" is an unjustly ignored gem, as sunny today as it was twenty years ago. Supreme pop.

Her second album (the first songs are all from her debut) didn't have the killer tunes, but "Real Love" , "Friends" and "Everything" made enough of an impact that you'll recognize them right away, even of you haven't heard the songs in two decades.

The rest of the collection falls flat...like many of the other minor chanteuses of the time, they couldn't "grow up" well, and the remaining songs are kinda boring. If you want some smoky, jazzy melodies, you are gonna put on Anita Baker, not Jody Watley.

Nevertheless, if you are interested in this, it's because you have fond memories of her initial success, and in that respect, this is a worthy purchase...

The "20th Century Masters" line from Universal Music is minimal to begin with. They strive to present a bear bones,"essential" picture of an artist's musical output. Regrettably, this "20th Century Masters..." collection fails to provide a concise and respectable overview of Ms. Watley's groundbreaking MCA run. Watley deserves one of the newer two-disc "Gold" collections!

The collection includes most of her mainstream pop hits -- "Looking for a New Love", "Don't You Want Me", "Some Kind of Lover" -- but unfortunately these only appear in their minimal album forms. The label would've been more well-served to provide Watley with an extensive double-album set, highlighting more of her 12-inch extended versions and remixes -- as well as iconic Watley gems like "Still a Thrill", "Precious Love" and "L.O.V.E.R.". Indeed, the extended versions of "Friends", "Most of All", "Some Kind of Lover" and "I'm the One You Need" remain highly sought after to this day. Universal should really consider releasing an extensive two-disc set of Watley's MCA years -- or at the very least reissue "Greatest Hits" -- a better reading of the multi-talented Watley's Universal run.

This is a good compliation of Watley's hits from the late 1980s and early 1990s, but does skimp on some popular songs, such as "Still a Thrill" and "I Want You". Also, it has the radio edit versions of the songs that are best known by her fans. A great buy for those being introduced to Watley for the first time.

jody watly's 20th cenury masters has the hits you love. i lik this album a lot. looking for anew love,don't you want me, some kind of lover,real love, friends(with eric b.and rakim.),everything,i'm the one you need and off the hook are some of my favorite songs. thank you jody,and good luck. ed wilson

The Greatest Hits released by MCA in 1996, it's way better than this collection!, the only good thing about this, is that they included the"Off The Hook" track, wich is not available on the previous Greatest Hits cuz it came later.

Jody Watley had a vibe about her that worked, and this CD gives you most of her great songs. My personal favorite is "Everything", which had girls with big hair and even bigger shoulder pads singing it in front of mirrors in 1989. I love this song because it reminds me of first-loves that got away. Even though Jody's best work was from the 70's, 80's and early 90's, she will always be my everything!

I like the Jams that Jody Watley&Andre Cymone did together&many of them here are featured.however I think that there are better overall Greatest Hits Packages out on Her.but this One Covers Her Main Jams.Jody had a vibe about Her that worked back in the day&you can't go wrong if you are just learning about Her work.