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79 of 80 people found the following review helpful:
A little something for everyone on this disc!, November 22, 2002
There is little doubt now that David Husselshaft is a major force in the music business these days. I've already been a fan for many years, but an amazing thing happened recently which I have to share. The doctor said my dog Cherish had only days to live. Desperate for any sign of recovery, I played this CD in the garage for him 24/7, and not only did my dog die, but so did 2 cats and all of my plants. My neighbor came down with a rare form of stomach virus, the one causes massive cramping and explosive diarrhea. Boy did I prove that doctor wrong!The song "Hot Shot City" is particularly good.
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86 of 88 people found the following review helpful:
The very epitome of musical godliness., June 20, 2001
By A Customer
Twice the ruggedness of mortal man, ten times the talent of any other artist, Hasselhoff dazzles on this CD. Every track has been plucked from the heavens and trembles with vigor and force. God Himself could not record as good a greatest hits album like this, and if He were to listen to all 17 tracks on this compilation, He would refrain from striking me down for blasphemy. The song "Hot Shot City" is particularly good.
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112 of 117 people found the following review helpful:
Achtung! Achtung! Der GENIUS of Herr Hasselhoff!!, December 31, 2002
Economic nationalists throughout the country shuddered when the Commerce Department announced a Q3 trade imbalance comfortably exceeding $100 billion, the highest on record. We buy our electronics from Japan, our confections from France, and our oil from the Persian Gulf. So why must we import the cream of our own culture from abroad? We don't store the Constitution in Germany. We don't launch the Space Shuttle from China. So why must we buy our Hasselhoff from distant foreign lands? Demand for this benchmark piece of Americana will surely send the trade economy reeling even closer to the abyss. Its pending stupefying popularity notwithstanding, this is not an album without flaws, as flaws are inevitable when one takes on the impossible task of distilling Hasselhoff to a single disk. This is, after all, akin to reducing Aristotle to a lone pamphlet - nay, a matchbook cover. Because while this CD does include every Hasselhoff song that topped the charts in ninety countries or more, it was really the deep album work that made Hasselhoff synonymous with underground edge, incendiary lyrics, and youthful angst the world over. The poets who found their calling in the deeply nuanced lyrics of 1984's "Night Rocker" will be crestfallen to see that album underrepresented beyond its touchstone hits. Jungle-based rebels from Columbia to Burma who viewed 1989's "Looking for Freedom" as a clarion call to arms will be outraged that the entire second side of that inflammatory album is absent (with the inevitable exception of "Flying on the Wings of Tenderness"). And lovers who exchanged their lifetime vows to the ballads of "Crazy For You" will be devastated to see that only two of them are included here (even "I Wanna Move to the Beat of Your Heart" is inexplicably omitted!). However, the wounds gouged into our souls by these countless omissions are salved by the sweet succor of the eighteen songs that are included. All told, despite the travesties that come from reducing Hasselfhoff to a single disc, this is clearly one of the finest works in the entire oeuvre of human expression.
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61 of 62 people found the following review helpful:
Really Really Rescellent!, April 7, 2003
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51 of 51 people found the following review helpful:
As moist and tender as brownies, May 26, 2002
What more could be said about David Hasselhoff's looks. Nothing. So it's only icing on the cake that he also has musical talent. And not just your average, Dave Grohl-can-sing kind of talent; Hasselhoff towers above the average singer with his rapid-style singsong rapping. The inflections he gives betray a profound understanding of subtlety, the restraint of a genius. He purposely, almost defiantly avoids hitting the "correct" notes on "Flying on the Wings of Tenderness," "Crazy For You," "I Believe," "Wir Zwei Allein," "Je T'aime Means I Love You," "Freedom For the World," and "Dance Dance D'amour," as well as on the rest of the songs on the CD. His mastery of the English language not enough to sate his hunger for lyrics, he crosses over into German, French and even Swahili in some of the songs, giving speakers of those languages something new to revile. Hasselhoff's contribution to musicdom is immeasurable, so you might as well put away whatever measuring devices you were about to use on him.The song 'Hot Shot City' is particularly good.
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69 of 71 people found the following review helpful:
A Tropical Storm in your trousers, November 28, 2002
By A Customer
Don't be mistaken, the instant this (exquisitely packaged, btw) disc leaps its way onto your Beat Box (mine's a multichanger) like a thrusting man-god in orange subdueing an Atlantic surf-storm (but this time without that plastic thing on a string), a tsunami of sheer lunatic artistry descends on one's fornicating worthlessness. On you jump, the elevator of higher understanding, accelerating towards & through each track ('floor'), until you stop at Lingerie & Ladies' Fashions that is 'Hot Shot City', which is particularly good. Meanwhile, outside Hafflehorse's carrot-hued universe, you don't notice that your tongue has been trapped in an egg whisk for some while as you become a floater, bobbing downstream in the undercurrent of sonic dysentery towards 'Je t'aime Means I Love You', a foreplay of toe-sucking banjo virtuoso, soaring then tumbling into the tender congress of harmonies between a rabid parrot and a peeled monkey. Leave well alone, if you feel shaving ferrets is life enough; otherwise be-<very>-ware, peer beyond the cover hewn from the rock of Olympus itself and forever stain your psyche with an indelible chalky-whiteness.
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44 of 44 people found the following review helpful:
The Bestest of David Hasselhoff, January 7, 2003
By A Customer
The Sex Pistols may have been the first British punk rock band, but David Hasselhoff was the definitive German punk rocker. Where the Pistols were nihlistic, David Hasselhoff was fiery and idealistic, charged with righteousness and a centrist political ideology. From the outset, he was more musically adventurous, expanding his smooth mellow rock & roll with reggae, dub, rap and rockabilly among other roots musics. Furthermore, he was blessed with exceptional songwriters each with a distinctive voice and style. Hasselhoff copped heavily from classic outlaw imagery, positioning himself as a rebel with a talking car. As a result, he won a passionately devoted following on both sides of the Atlantic. While he became a rock & roll hero in Europe, second only to the Culture Club in terms of popularity, it took him several years and multiple television series to break into the American market and when he finally did in 1991, he imploded several months later. Though Hasselholff never became the superstar he always threatened to become, he restored passion and protest to rock & roll. For a while, he really did seem like "the only singer that mattered." The Song "Hot Shot City" is particularly good.
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168 of 184 people found the following review helpful:
David is a pure genius, December 10, 2002
After hearing the sweet voice of David Hankipants, I felt like throwing my disgusted, lifeless body off a tall bridge and plummeting into the deep, freezing waters below. As I got to song 2, I began to vomit uncontrollably all over my floor. The torture continued until song 13, at which time I was rushed to the hospital because my ears had begun to bleed severely. My doctor's told me I had suffered a severe brain contusion, possibly from dangerous exposure to ultra-high gamma frequencies aka bad music. When I got home, Scruffy, my canine, was dead. He had been exposed to Song 4 and scrathed his own ears off. As he lay in a puddle of his own blood, I will never forgive myself for buying David Hankiman's CD...
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31 of 31 people found the following review helpful:
Dave pulls no punches on this emotional rollercoaster, July 30, 2002
...along came David, and suddenly everything changed.For a laugh - in those days it was always for a cheap laugh - I went out and bought Looking for - Best of David Hasselhoff. How ironic I thought I was being. How big, how clever of me to ridicule a recording artist shunned by so many of the "in crowd". What did I think it would achieve? I don't honestly know - but perhaps I thought my cynicism would make me popular and more attractive to women. Little did I know that within hours the small-minded man I had been would be all but dead, leaving behind a boy - yes a boy - full of hope, excitement and joy. From the moment I hit play and Looking for Freedom kicked in, I felt something melt inside me. Within minutes the black hole that had been my heart was no longer and I was on the floor crying tears of unashamed happiness. I won't bore you with all the details of my epiphany, but let's just say that by the time Hot Shot City was over the caterpillar had become a butterfly. Words cannot express how strongly I urge you to buy this album. I'm sure you too are a cynic, reading this webpage for a "big joke". But what have you got to lose, "big joker"? Buy it ironically, buy it mockingly or buy it with near religious zeal - but for heaven's sake buy it. One way or another it will change the way you think forever. Still not sure? Then ask yourself this: what is more important in your life - "cool" or "love"? Give love a chance - give David a chance.
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54 of 58 people found the following review helpful:
On the first day, God created David Hasselhoff, November 11, 2003
What can you say about David Hasselhoff that hasn't already been said one thousand times before? The man is quite simply a musical genius. Hasselhoff's entire arsenal of musical weaponry is on full display in this album, a collection of his biggest hits.At first I didn't really believe that David Hasselhoff, international star of television and cinema, could actually be a talented musician. I was skeptical to say the least. Then my friend played a few Hasselhoff songs for me and wow, I was hooked. The words flowed forth from Hasselhoff's tender lips like sweet nectar from the mouth of God himself. I found myself in a trance of pure joy and ecstacy as the soothing rhythms caressed my ear. Hasselhoff's hymns had brought me to the summit of human achievement and I was now free to look down at the wreckage and ruin that lie below. I stared into the distance and said, "Oh thine Hasselhoff, how thy music hath saved my immortal soul." To say that the beautiful music of David Hasselhoff is life-changing would be an insult; a disservice. Hasselhoff's music is life-making, and I can only hope that you too will experience its profound gifts.
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