Totally Hits 2

Various Artists (Artist) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (May 30, 2000)
• Original Release Date: May 30, 2000
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Elektra / Wea
• ASIN: B00004TCQ0
• Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (26 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #98,616 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Maria, Maria - Santana

2. Genie in a Bottle - Christina Aguilera

3. Never Let You Go - Third Eye Blind

4. Falls Apart - Sugar Ray

5. Amazed - Lonestar

6. Mambo No. 5 (A Little Bit of...) - Lou Bega

7. Beautiful Stranger - Madonna

8. My Love Is Your Love [Jonathan Peter's Radio Mix] - Whitney Houston

9. Take a Picture - Filter

10. Dear Lie - TLC

11. Hot Boyz - Missy Elliott

12. Natural Blues - Moby

13. Girl on TV - LFO

14. I Drive Myself Crazy - 'N Sync

15. U Know What's Up - Donell Jones

16. Right Here Waiting - Monica

17. The Great Beyond - R.E.M.

18. I Will Remember You - Sarah McLachlan

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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Now this is what radio should sound like!, June 2, 2000

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Pat Kelly (Here, There & Everywhere) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Totally Hits 2 (Audio CD)

Let's start off with the track listing, since it seems to be missing:

01. Maria Maria - Santana (Featuring The Product G&B) 02. Genie In A Bottle - Christine Aguilera 03. Never Let You Go - Third Eye Blind 04. Falls Apart - Sugar Ray 05. Amazed - Lonestar 06. Mambo No. 5 - Lou Bega 07. Beautiful Dreamer - Madonna 08. My Love Is Your Love (Jonathan Peters' Radio Mix) - Whitney Houston 09. Take A Picture - Filter 10. Dear Lie - TLC 11. Hot Boyz - Missy Elliot 12. Natural Blues - Moby 13. Girls On TV - LFO 14. I Drive Myself Crazy - 'N Sync 15. U Know What's Up - Donell Jones 16. Right Here Waiting - Monica Feauturing 112 17. The Great Beyond - R.E.M. 18. I Will Remember You (Live) - Sarah McLachlan

If there was a single radio station that played this variety, I'd listen to it all the time! I've never supported the virtual apartheid of American radio where music is limited to narrow and exclusive genres. It's like eating nothing but mashed potatoes - very quickly boring.

This is a smorgasbord of music: a touch of country (Lonestar genuinely sweet ballad, which, if it hadn't crossed over, would eventually have been a BSB hit), MOR (Sarah McLaughlan's best song, originally released on the obscure "Brothers McMullan" soundtrack), rap (Missy Elliot's set the record for most weeks at #1 on the rap chart with this track), smooth soul (Donell Jones, + Monica's faithful adaptation of the Richard Marx hit from the 80's), then a move into heavier rock (REM from the Andy Kaufman biopic, Filter's anthemic "take A Picture", and Moby's trance-meets-gospel on "Natural Blues") and fill it in with the pure pop of some of last year's biggest tracks from Madonna, Christina, NSync, and the only Lou Bega track you'll ever hear.

This is a top notch combination of popular and critical favorites, and I'd have a hard time dropping any track on the CD. (Although, if pressed, that Santana track is getting reeeallly overexposed.)

This is the album you'll go back to in five or ten years from now and think, boy that was a great time for music.

And you'll be right.

[Odd piece of trivia: Lisa "Left-Eye" Lopez of TLC is on 3 of the tracks -- Donell, Missy, and TLC, naturally]

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great compilation!, May 30, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Totally Hits 2 (Audio CD)

I purchased "Totally Hits 1" several months back when it came out. I was so pleased with that one, that I had to purchase this CD, as well. You get some of the biggest songs of the past year including a few which are still current releases.

Of course, there are a few songs which, although not bad songs, could have been left off in return for the inclusion of more popular songs. I question the inclusion of, let's say, R.E.M. or Donell Jones. I think Destiny's Child or Macy Gray would have provided a little more punch.

All this considered, however, it is still a great CD for the person who likes to listen to nothing but today's biggest hits without any of those annoying radio commercials. I recommend this CD as well as the "Totally Hits 1" and "Now, That's What I Call Music" (volumes 1, 2, and 3) CDs.

11 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Rescuing Great Singles from Not--So-Great Albums, May 31, 2000

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T. C Lane (Marina, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Totally Hits 2 (Audio CD)

This collection works best when it retrieves great singles from albums that aren't that great. That's what the initial Totally Hits did. Volume 1's choice of "Believe", "Summer Girls", "This Kiss" and "One Week" were a good reminder of why these collections sell. Why spend [money] for one good song on a CD, when you can get 18 tracks for the same price? Volume 2 does an equally good job of getting the best singles out of ho-hum albums: Missy, Third Eye Blind, Lou Bega, LFO (again), the Madonna Austin Powers song, Lonestar, "Genie In A Bottle" and Donell Jones. A good investment and a decent compilation. This is a good mix tape that you don't have the time to make.