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Entertainment Weekly: Greatest Hits 1990

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This is a good overview of 1990. it showcases many top ten songs but I felt it should have included all number 1 songs and not just top ten hits. This is a good album but try to find number one songs instead.

When I found out that Entertaiment Weekly was putting out a compliation of greatest hits of different decades, I couldn't wait to get them. When I saw this one at my local K-mart and saw that a song that I really wanted on CD("No Myth") was on here, I bought it immediately and was not disappointed. Sure, I have half the songs on this CD on other CDs, but I still like it. Hey, it even has "Ice Ice Baby" on it...a cult classic(HA HA)!

Wow! Now THIS is what I call an all-around great compilation of hits from a year of music. I was in the store and I saw a couple of songs that I couldn't wait to own on CD, so I picked this one up right away. Upon getting home and looking over the entire track list, I didn't recognize (from the names of the songs) much more than half of the twelve songs. Little did I know that I was in for a big surprise.

After I listened to the whole CD, I found out that it has a bunch of songs that I haven't heard in years, but that I used to like listening to on the radio back in the early 90's. And I recognized every single song on the album after hearing them, and the best part of that is, most of them are great songs.

Entertainment Weekly: Greatest Hits 1990 has all kinds of songs from the year of 1990. There are good ballads ("Release Me"), some good old school rap ("U Can't Touch This"), upbeat techno hits ("Pump Up The Jam"), and everything in-between ("Unskinny Bop"). In other words, this album is almost sure to have at least a few songs that appeal to any fan of any kind of pop music.

Not only is a spectacular compilation of songs included, but the booklet provides something extra for your money. That is, if you're really interested in facts about the artists on this CD, or the songs that they sang. For example: It tells you that "Ice Ice Baby" was the first rap song to ever reach #1 on the Pop Charts, that Paula Abdul was the first artist to ever have four #1 hits from a debut album, and so much more.

On the back of the CD, it also tells the exact date that each song first made its debut on the Pop Charts, and at what position it ultimately reached.

If you like some of the songs at first glance or at first listen that you see on this album's list, it would be a GREAT album to add to your collection!

I was checking out the dozen songs included on "Entertainment Weekly: The Greatest Hits 1990" and was surprised to find out that MC Hammer's "U Can't Touch This" was not a #1 song. Somebody could put together a pretty good album of songs that every one thinks was a #1 song that was not ("U Can't Touch This" made it to the top of the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Singles & Tracks Billboard list, but that really does not count). There are still four Billboard #1 songs on this CD: Paula Abdul's "Opposites Attract," Vanilla Ice's "Ice Ice Baby," Stephen Hill's "Because I Love You (The Postman Song)," and "Release Me" by Wilson Phillips. If you think that most of these artists, with one notable exception, are in the "Where Are They Know?" category, you would be correct.

There were a couple of songs I only knew from their being included in one of Weird Al Yankovic's polka medleys (Technotronic's "Pump up the Jam" and Billy Idol's "Cradle of Love"). But while this CD allowed me to fill a couple of holes in my music collection (my extremely limited rap collection consists entirely of female artists because I like their rhetorical perspective) there were a couple of surprise songs I was glad to have. Lisa Stansfield's "All Around the World," an interesting song that is in the style of Barry White and which actually ended up being a worldwide hit, and "No Myth" a very catch pop-rock tune by Michael Penn, Sean's brother. The song is a nice mix of acoustic guitar and vocal harmonies which puts it quite at odds against many of the other tracks on this album, but also explains why it is arguably the best track.

An utterly dreadful look at an admittedly horrid year for popular music. Michael Penn's magnificent hit "No Myth" is the only bright spot here and it makes much more sense to buy his album "March" (which contains that song) rather then this mess. At least there you will be guaranteed that there will be other songs you will listen to.