MTV Compilation: 20 Years of Pop Music

Various Artists (Artist) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (July 3, 2001)
• Original Release Date: 2001
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Maverick
• ASIN: B00005LNIL
• Average Customer Review: 2.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #360,010 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Borderline - Madonna

2. No Sleep Till Brooklyn - Beastie Boys

3. I Wanna Dance With Somebody - Whitney Houston

4. Higher Ground - Red Hot Chili Peppers

5. Losing My Religion - REM

6. Free Your Mind - En Vogue

7. That's The Way Love Goes - Janet Jackson

8. Waterfalls - TLC

9. Buddy Holly - Weezer

10. Don't Speak - No Doubt

11. You Oughta Know - Alanis Morissette

12. 3 AM - Matchbox 20

13. Slide - Goo Goo Dolls

14. I Want It That Way - Backstreet Boys

15. Genie in a Bottle - Christina Aguilera

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Twenty years?? Try ten plus two extra!, August 9, 2001

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Scott D. Andrews (CT) - See all my reviews

This review is from: MTV Compilation: 20 Years of Pop Music (Audio CD)

This is supposed to represent 20 years of Pop music?? Almost all of these are from the past decade. The CD is full of TRL junk, not traditional pop! Typical of MTV to cater to their 13 year old audience and only include recent stuff. Where's all the 80's stuff that really made MTV popular to begin with? MTV has done a disservice to all the artists who came before Christina who actually have talent besides having a prtty face! Of course since MTV now plays videos about a whole 2 hours a day and fills the rest of their programming with terrible shows (like the Really Fake World), the whole thing seems rather pointless anyway.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars One star is GENEROUS, November 21, 2001

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Nadine L. Monn "hey_monn" (Philadelphia) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: MTV Compilation: 20 Years of Pop Music (Audio CD)

How to describe what's wrong with this cd. In a word, everything. Although MTV took on the uneviable task of trying to jam 20 years' worth of pop onto a 15 track cd, and on sheer song value they do an okay job, it's just not what I expected. Leaving out key artists, which have been mentioned in other reviews, essentially forgetting about 80s music (I know the fashion was bad, but I have some great childhood memories of the songs), and playing up too much to certain genres (what ever happened to the rock performers of the early to mid-80s??) ruined all chance of me actually buying this "compilation" after listening to a friend's copy for two weeks (hey, I gave it more than one spin, okay?). I guess it just goes to show how far MTV is falling from the station that once played videos 24/7 and revolutionized the music world, to something that panders only to specific groups at certain times and has the attention span of gnat.

Maybe a better idea would have been to release a cd of the performances from the 20th anniversary special that aired on TV-I would have appreciated it, and bought it, since it did have such a great diversity of acts. At least then I would have Billy Idol's fantastic performance of "Rebel Yell" with Steve Stevens, one of the songs that defined pop/rock/new wave music in the early 80s and got great play. (This, in my opinion, was the best performance of the night--the 40 year old showed the kiddies how to truly *rock* the house).

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars god help mtv, August 4, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: MTV Compilation: 20 Years of Pop Music (Audio CD)

i thought 20 years of mtv would inculde such artists as prince, nirvana, pearl jam, guns and roses, cyndi lauper, but instead i got fluff, full of very forgetable songs, these artists isn't what mtv was built on, its what mtv's down fall lies in.