Very Best of [Import]

Michael Bolton | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (April 28, 2008)
• Original Release Date: 2008
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Sony Uk/Zoom
• ASIN: B000M2E43K
• In-Print Editions: Audio CD
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #84,224 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. How Am I Supposed to Live Without You

2. Soul Provider

3. How Can We Be Lovers

4. When a Man Loves a Woman [Album Version]

5. Said I Loved You... But I Lied

6. The Best of Love [Album Version]

7. Lean on Me [Album Version]

8. To Love Somebody

9. Can I Touch You... There?

10. Drift Away [Album Version]

11. When I'm Back on My Feet Again

12. (Sittin' On) The Dock of the Bay

13. Missing You Now [Album Version]

14. A Love So Beautiful [Album Version]

15. Steel Bars [Album Version]

16. Soul of My Soul

17. Time, Love and Tenderness [Album Version]

Editorial Reviews

Slide-pack edition of this release, a no-frills CD packaging featuring an outer slipcase with the original cover artwork and an inner 'slider' including a CD. There is no CD booklet in this package. The Very Best Of Michael Bolton is exactly what the title suggests and features the absolute best by this Rock/Pop crooner. 17 tracks including 'Soul Provider', 'How Am I Supposed To Live Without You', 'When A Man Loves A Woman' and more.. Sony/BMG. 2007.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

3.0 out of 5 stars Average Compilation. In Need Of Revision., August 19, 2011

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Nicholas Bucicchia (NY) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Michael Bolton the Very Best (Audio CD)

Now, i am an extremely avid Michael Bolton fan, and this compilation is worthy of a review. The cd does indeed have some big hits on it ("how am i supposed to live without you", "when a man loves a woman", "time, love, and tenderness", "how can we be lovers", "soul provider", and "steel bars"), along with other very good songs ("when i'm back on my feet again", "missing you now", and "sittin' on the dock of the bay"). However, some of the songs on the cd ("drift away", "the best of love", "a love so beautiful", "soul of my soul", "can i touch you... there?", and "lean on me")the compilation could do without. In the place of those songs they may put other, more worthy songs. For example, "the hunger", "ain't got nothing if you ain't got love", "forever isn't long enough", "wait on love", "that's what love is all about", "i found someone", "i promise you", "only a woman like you", "fool's game", "go the distance", or "desperate heart" would've been good choices. Any of those songs could've made this disc a better buy. They neglect to put any songs on here that were part of his career prior to 1987 when, in fact, he had six other albums with some good songs on here that should've made it. If you're looking for an ideal compilation of Bolton's hit's, i suggest either his famous "greatest hits 1985-1995" or the compilation "playlist: the very best of michael bolton". Both are better summaries of his career than this one.

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4.0 out of 5 stars I Like Michael Bolton's Music And I Am Not Gay!, December 19, 2008

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The Amazin' Amazon Guy "Help Me I'm Too Cool!" (Turnersville, NJ) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Very Best of (Audio CD)

For the record, let me just state that I prefer women and always have. I have not ever been attracted to another man in even a Biblical way. Now, OFF the record...just kidding. I can joke confidently because I am fully heterosexual despite the supposed contradiction of my liking Michael Bolton's music.

As I have said, this has nothing whatever to do with any kind of speed bumps in my sexual confidence, nor is it related to any kind of quirk in my attraction for and from females. I am quite definitely attracted to women only, and I still like Michael Bolton's music. One does not necessarily exclude the other. "When A Man Loves A Woman" is not some sort of metaphor for suppressed homosexuality as one of my friends insisted when I said I liked Michael Bolton's version of the song. Come on with that.

To reiterate, Michael Bolton's music is likable even by the standards of a male who has zero desire to sleep with other males, a distinction I fall into with complete confidence. I am NOT gay, or bi or even bi-curious. Not that there's anything wrong with that. Liking Michael Bolton's music does not prove anything in the tiniest form otherwise despite what some less enlightened people may think.