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Hot Tracks: The Best of Samantha Fox

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THIS IS PERFECT FOR PEOPLE ON A BUDGET OR PEOPLE THAT DON'T WANT TO BUY THE ALMOST [price] " GREATSEST HITS " UNTIL YOU KNOW WHAT TYPE OF SONGS ARE THERE . THIS IS THE PERFECT AFFORDABLE INTRODUCTION FOR SAMANTHA FANS AND R & B , DANCE - POP , HOUSE , POP - ROCK FANS. THIS IS ALSO A GREAT COMPILATION BECAUSE THIS CD HAS TWO TRACKS NOT ON THE OTHER COMPILATIONS : TRACKS 3 & 4. BUY THIS CD . I ALSO RECOMMEND THE EXCELLENT SAMANTHA FOX- " 21 CENTURY FOX "CD , KARYN WHITE- " MAKE HIM DO RIGHT ", PEBBLES- " GERATEST HITS " and JODY WATLEY- " AFFAIRS OF THE HEART ".

I was aghast that the most popular song SF has ever made was offered on this compilation as a whittled-down version. Two bridges were cut out of the song! The bridges were the charming, quirky parts whereupon SF was "speaking"- once the bridges were edited out, what was left? The version on this album is a disappointing phantom of the original song, and there is absolutely nothing on the album jacket to indicate that the song has been edited.

Also, SF's cover version of "I Only Wanna Be with You" is inexplicably missing from this compilation.

That's it- butcher the most popular song and leave out one of the three major hits she's ever had (other than "I Wanna Have Some Fun"), and you've got this album.. whatever it is. Save your money.

This compilation is not as well thought out as her Greatest Hits one. But I like the dance theme here and how they selected overlooked songs from the albums. TOuch ME, Naughty Girls, I Wanna Have Some Fun, and Do Ya are still solid songs. Her willingness to be diverse with urban sounds and rock heavy songs worked for her. The cassette version has only 8 (!) songs--wished that BMG could have put 10 on it.

you were 17 and went cruising with your dudes? You were probably blasting old Metallica or Guns-n-Roses, smoking cheap cigarettes and passing around a bottle of Boone's Farm. Well there were other nights too. You were probably in the back seat of your girlfriend's car, parked in some dark hidden place. If you were lucky she had Samantha Fox on the tape deck. She'd be singing along to 'Touch Me' as you were copping a feel. Well those days are long gone, and that old girlfriend is somebody's wife now with a couple of kids. But the memories remain. Samantha Fox was queen of the hip-hop eighties. These teeny-bobber girl singers of today should take a lesson from Sam. She didn't write her own songs either, but her sexuality could be felt through the speakers. C'mon you know you couldn't walk down a record store ailse without looking at her album covers. She was great, she was the 80's. Oh I miss those days...............

Hot Tracks: The Best of Samantha Fox is forty-two minutes and two seconds and was released on March 7, 2000. I do admit that I own a couple of her albums. You know those big round things that you put on a stereo; if you remember what one is. I like this CD; but, I was not head over heals about it. There were only two songs that I liked: Touch Me (I Want Your Body) and I Surrender. Hot Tracks: The Best of Samantha Fox gets a B-.

Touch Me (I Want Your Body)
#4 U.S. Billboard Hot 100 Singles
#27 U.S. Billboard Hot Dance Music/Maxi-Singles Sales
#41 U.S. Billboard Hot Dance Club Play
Naughty Girls (Need Love Too)
#3 U.S. Billboard Hot 100 Singles
That Sensation
If Music be the Food of Love
I Wanna Have Some Fun
#8 U.S. Billboard Hot 100 Singles
#1 U.S. Billboard Hot Dance Music/Maxi-Singles Sales
#19 U.S. Billboard Hot Rhythm &Blues/Hip-Hop Singles & Tracks
#2 U.S. Billboard Hot Dance Club Play
Do Ya Do Ya (Wanna Please Me)
#87 U.S. Billboard Hot 100 Singles
One In A Million
I Surrender (To The Spirit of the Night)
Your House or My House
Just One Night