Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen: Greatest Hits

Mary Kate and Ashley Olsen | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (February 1, 2000)
• Original Release Date: February 1, 2000
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Lightyear
• ASIN: B00003ZL3R
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (16 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #189,963 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Dancing Your Dreams

2. Ice Cream Crazy

3. Meet You at the Mall

4. Makeover Machine

5. Pool Party

6. The Bare Necessities

7. Pullin' an All Nighter

8. I'd Rather Be Surfing

9. Dare to Dance

10. I Am the Cute One

11. No One Tells the President What to Do

12. Brother for Sale

13. I'm Still Me [*]

14. Fashion Jr. High [*]

15. We're Gonna Start Something New [*]

16. It's Not Me, It's You [*]

Customer Reviews

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31 of 36 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Ingenious Idiosyncrasies Enveloped In Enigmatic Engineering, May 22, 2001

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Steven T Delahoyde (Iowa City, IA United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen: Greatest Hits (Audio CD)

In this "Greatest Hits" album, we rediscover some of the earlier hits of these young twins. From the opening track, "Your Heartless Void", we hear a very early four track demo recorded before the girls were picked up by a major label. A truly telling song, we hear honest sincerity as Mary-Kate croons about the emptiness of modern romance and the delicate lines we all must walk to avoid a muddled, worthless existence. With Ashley-Olsen's gentle, yet telling classical guitar wafting in the background, we hear a sound eerily reminiscent of the early minimalist work of Lou Reed.

On the next two songs, "Stabbing and Punching" and "Toothless Rookie," we are treated to the twins brief foray into the punk scene. Despite the repetitious brutal power chords and simplistic bridge-solos, the lyrics carry these songs onto a level formerly reserved only for the likes of The Ramones or even The Clash. "Stabbing" particularly stands out, with it's powerful ending of Mary-Kate screaming, "You can rip out my heart, but you'll never take my soul you filthy [expletive]!" It just doesn't get more meaningful than that, folks.

The next five tracks should be skipped as they are the weakest of the album. Mostly all of them are about riding ponies or how cute ponies are or where is a good place to watch ponies. Contextually these tracks are quite funny as they seem to be mocking the music of popular children's recording artists, but, unfortunately, they do seem to drone on a bit. We got the joke, okay?

The last three songs on the disc are certainly what made the girls the musical powerhouse they are today, as the production levels were greatly improved upon with the addition of Nigel Goodrich at the helms of these pop-classics. With, "I Wanna Dance All Night," we hear Mary-Kate's club anthem about dancing at all-night raves and meeting men with money, power, and guile by the truckload. In the duo's, "4 All My Posse," we see a different side of these girls as they share their take on gangsta rap. From what you hear, you could almost swear that they invented the style ("I always frontin' on them packin' muthas"/"Get my piece out, then we see who got more druthas"). The last track, a country song about a missing cat is simplicity, yet with such subtle sonic brilliance you might fall over and bump your head on a nearby chair.

Certainly the best compilation in the last several years.

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars MK&A RULE!, June 21, 2000

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crazygurl (USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen: Greatest Hits (Audio CD)

Okay, this music is a little corny...well duh! they recorded most if it under the age of 10! besides its ment to be a children's cd! Im 14 and have followed the twins since full house, us that grew up with them surely will enjoy this! its really good!

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Cd!, December 13, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen: Greatest Hits (Audio CD)

I think this Cd is great! You can like listen to the songs from diff. cds at one go. Their songs are all so cool. I like fashion jr. high best.