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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.

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.