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Entertainment Weekly: Greatest Hits 1989

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For reasons I STILL don't know, I am a huge fan of songs that came out/peaked in 1989 and I immediately bought this when I saw it in the store. I actually give it four 1/2 stars because I already have five of the songs on CD(it seems EVERY 1989 CD I own has "Right Here Waiting" or "Heaven"(Warrant)on there). Nevertheless, I still like the CD.

Also love the fact that the remake of "Kiss" with Tom Jones is on there: they NEVER play that song anywhere anymore!

This 1989 collection kicks off with two fabulous R&B/dance grooves that smoke like nobody's business in Soul II Soul's "Back to Life," and Fine Young Cannibals' "She Drives Me Crazy." From there things begin to fall apart pretty alarmingly although they do perk up a bit with "So Alive" by Love and Rockets (and one is tempted to give the collection credit for adding the utterly surreal cover of Prince's "Kiss" by The Art of Noise and Tom Jones) but by then it is too little too late and the collection, which could have benefited from 1989 songs like Tom Petty's "Free Fallin," The B-52's "Love Shack," or Simply Red's cover of Harold Melvin and the Bluenotes's "If You Don't Know Me By Now" (top ten hits all) sinks under the weight of too much filler. Oh well, at least they didn't include any Milli Vanilli.