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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Good collection for a casual listener, November 23, 2006
Ginuwine has been in the R&B game for ten years now and he still has time to grow and secure a place in R&B given the right material. I think Ginuwine needs to hook up with Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis, Ne-Yo, The Underdogs and Sean Garret for his next album. The spread from Ginuwine's first five albums, released from 1996 through 2005, is fairly balanced. While another three or four songs could've been added to the program, it'll satisfy anyone with a moderate interest in one of the more successful male R&B vocalists of the late '90s and early 2000s -- one who handled the club tracks ("Pony," "Hell Yeah"), ballads ("So Anxious," "Differences" and None Of Your Friends Business"). Two blunder were made with the selections on Ginuwine's Greatest Hits. The first is that it doesn't contain "Love You More," a sweet ballad that received a fair amount of play on U.S. radio stations and scaled up to the Top 30 of the R&B chart. The second is the lack of un-released material , rare tracks or new tracks. The set could've easily included Candy Shop, Joy, Take Away and G's Got A Thang For You. Other than that the collection should satisfy.
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7 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
Sony Could've Done A Better Job With This CD!, December 7, 2006
Sorry, I like Ginuwine, but folks at Sony needs to take a drug test for releasing this 'mini' collection disc. After 10 Years, Ginuwine Deserves a BETTER compilation, and SONY funked this up BIG TIME...WITHOUT QUESTION! At any rate, it you own all of Ginuwine's CDs, turn your back on the sorry azz record company, and make a BETTER CD YOURSELF!! I created my 'Essential Ginuwine' CD during 2006, and here's the
TRACKLISTING -
1. Pony
2. Tell Me Do You Wanna
3. Holler
4. I'll Do Anything / I'm Sorry
5. I'm Feelin' You (fr.'Men In Black' SDTK)
6. What's So Different ?
7. So Anxious
8. Same Ol' G
9. Take Away (ft.Missy Elliott & Tweet)
10. There It Is
11. Differences
12. Tribute To A Woman
13. Hell Yeah (ft.Baby)
14. In Those Jeans
15. Love You More
16. Stingy
17. Excuses (fr.'Deliver Us From Eva' SDTK)
18. When Me Make Love
19. Oh Girl
There you have it, and you gotta wonder why they couldn't release
a collection like THIS! I Think they're smoking something BAD @ Sony,
and they did the same thing to Jagged Edge, which I reviewed earlier!
In closing, fans can & SHOULD make better collections at home!
They want $18.00 for this piece of sh**??? I can't help but L.O.L.!!!
Rating..I wanted to give 0 stars, but since it's the holiday season,
1 stars will have to do....NEXT!!!!
Peace, SD
(fr.'Chaka's World')
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
10 Years Of Ginuwine, November 21, 2006
Ginuwine is one of the greatest and most talented R&B singers of our time, he's had hits that both were Timbaland esque uptempo with catchy beats, midtempos and seductive ballads. He's also a fantastic dancer and it's alot of fun seing his videos. Ginuwine AKA Elkin Lumpkin debuted exactly 10 years ago with "The Bachelor", one of the most important R&B albums to come out in the whole decade and scored big with "Pony" that also reached a impressive #6 position on the billboard charts, and thanks to Timbaland who produced it and also would produce the second album "100% Ginuwine" which almost was as good, Ginuwine continued to be a top notch R&B artist. Third album "The Life" was more mature and showed a grown up and more responsible Ginuwine then ever before, but Timba would only produce one song and some fans would say he went downhill from there. However, the album was strong and gave him another huge hit with the confessional ballad "Differences", One of my favorite songs BTW. "The Senior" had it's fair share of hits and was a grower, but there were too many useless party jams. "Back to Basics" from last year was ok, but didn't give any hit singles at all. After 10 years in the biz, Ginuwine realized it was time for a greatest hits album. This is no essential collection and many songs are missing out, but his 13 biggest hits are included, those are all songs that reached the Billboard charts, However the album does not include European hits and a few others are also missing out. Songs like "Pony" "What's the Difference" "Differences" "Stingy" from Barbershop " So Anxious" "None of Ur Friends Business" "Hell Yeah" and "In Those Jeans" are obviously included, just like "Same Ol G" that wasn't a US hit for some reason but is an exellent song nonetheless. The Nas duet "You Owe Me" that doesn't appear on any Ginuwine album is also here, but no other combos are. Songs that are missing are his cover of Prince "When Doves Cry" a big hit in Europe but didn't chart in US. "Just Because" that wasn't released in US. "Tell Me Do You Wanna" from his first album and strangely the minor hit "Love You More" that actually was on the billboard isn't there either. The list of singles that aren't included here can be much longer, but all songs that charted on the Billboard are included other then "Love You More". The collection isn't for the huge Ginuwine fan, but if you're a casual fan that is interested in his biggest hits in the US this album is more then adequate.
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