Excellent collection of Whitney's hits!

Almost five years since it came out, I still like Whitney Houston's greatest hits album! They packed a lot here on 2 CDs. The first disc smartly puts all the ballads together such as You Give Good Love, Saving, I Will Always Love You, Where Do Broken Hearts Go, I Have Nothing, Heartbreak Hotel, and the breezy Could I Have This Kiss Forever with Enrique Iglesias. I liked that she went with Mark Taylor and Brian Rawling to produce this Metro remix. The second disc is quite good, at least for 45 minutes of it. Sometimes, it seemed unnecessary to tackle all of those remixes on Disc 2. After the 45th minute, the dance sounds kind of drag, especially the Junior Vasquez,David Morales, HQ2, and Hex Hector remixes combined together. It would have been better to put some of the original versions from her albums on here. The patriotic song of Star Spangled Banner and the Olympics song One Moment of Time show her more stronger singing at the 2nd disc's end. Throughout the album, I noticed Whitney's growth as an artist, and the many hits she had,even though she did four albums and a series of hits from soundtrack albums. This compilation shows Whitney as a true diva in music and always willing to take chances!

Half And Half

I'm a huge fan of greatest hit's album, when they are done right. I'm also a big fan of classic Whitney Houston. So I was *really* excited when I found this. Except I should have read the reviews and the CD more carefully. Next time I'll know better.



The First Set:



I absolutely love. It has such favorites as Saving All My Love For You, Greatest Love Of All, Didn't We Have It All, Where Do Broken Hearts Go, Run To You, I Have Nothing, I Will Always Love You, Exhale, & Why Does It Hurt So Bad, plus more! I find myself listening to the first side more then disc two.



The Second Set:



This has some great classics as well such as: I'm Every Woman, Queen Of The Night, I Will Always Love You, I'm Your Baby Tonight, So Emotional, & my personal favorite I Wanna Dance With Somebody. So this side with the exception of ballad type (remix) songs is more dance where as the first one is just ballads. However, this is dance *remixes* which is the key word. It's fine to have them on a CD, but usually you expect them at the very end. There are no really original versions of the dance song's on disc 2.



That was the most disappointing part. I mean disc 2 isn't terrible, but you expect out of a Greatest Hit's album to have the 'original versions.' So now I have to go back and find the original songs on her other CD's. Or I'll have to wait till another Greatest Hit's album comes out. So if you don't mind dance remixes in general you will love this album. If I had to give it a grade though it would be a C+.

The Golden Diva

Another classic collect of some of the best songs in history from one of the best and most successful artist in history. The only complaint I have is that there are too many remixes on this album and not all of her greatest hits are present but other than that, this is an excellent album. I read one review that gave this album a 1 star and said her songs are shallow and meaningless. Well, I don't know if there was something in that person's ears that prevented them from listening to the lyrics or if that person is too young to understand this material, but this woman is true to the heart and very few people can sing with as much emotion as she can. Every single song on disc one is excellent from the more pop influenced songs like "Saving All My Love for You" and "Where Do Broken Hearts Go", to the more R&B influenced songs like "Exhale (Shoop, Shoop)" and "I Believe In You And Me". Some people say she can't sing anymore but I think they're just not use to the new Whitney, this girl still has it and on her most recent studio album Just Whitney, she proves she can still hit those high notes. She may not be able to hold the notes as long as she use to, like in "I Will Always Love You", but she can out sing Mariah Carey any day. My point is that Whitney can still sing and I recommend this fantastic album to every single person on this planet.