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Music CD - New Edition: Greatest Hits, Vol. 1
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Music CD: Greatest Hits, Vol. 1
Artist: New Edition
List Price: $11.98
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Manufacturer: Mca
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1. Boys To Men (Remixed Version)
2. If It Isn't Love
3. Can You Stand The Rain
4. Count Me Out
5. A Little Bit Of Love (Is All It Takes)
6. Cool It Now
7. Mr. Telephone Man
8. Lost In Love
9. Candy Girl
10. Popcorn Love
11. Is This The End
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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0008811043421
Label: Mca
Manufacturer: Mca
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: Mca
Release Date: 1991-10-01
Studio: Mca
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Summary: Eleven lovely hits (4.5/5)
Comment: New Edition's "Greatest Hits Vol. 1" is an album I purchased many years ago and still love today. Many collections have chronicled the careers of Ralph, Ronny, Ricky, Bobby, and Michael (and later Johnny), but in 1991 this was the first. Spanning the group's early years before their first breakup, selections are included from 1983's Candy Girl, 1984's New Edition, 1985's All for Love, and 1988's Heart Break.
A listener unfamiliar with the group can watch the Boston boys progress from teenaged Jackson 5 followers to seasoned crooners. While their style shifts from bubble-gum pop to mature, soulful R&B, the appeal of the singers, unique talent, and great production remains a constant. In their younger days, they were mere teenagers singing such inescapably catchy tunes as "Popcorn Love," "Candy Girl," "Cool It Now," and "Mr. Telephone Man," with Bobby Brown evoking a young Michael Jackson on the slow jams "Is This the End" and "Lost in Love." By 1988, Johnny Gill had replaced Brown in the lineup, and the group displayed greater talent than ever on their finest songs, the phenomenal ballad "Can You Stand the Rain" and the new jack swing number "If It Isn't Love." While the production on these songs was the finest they ever had, the singers also put together their best performances. At this point in their career, New Edition was a joy to listen to; it seemed like each verse just one-upped the previous one in terms of impressiveness, and their harmonies were perfect.
My complaints on this collection are that the music isn't listed chronologically, and that the version of "Boys to Men" isn't the original, but a remix. With eleven tracks, it's concise. However, the tracks are all wonderful, and it's easy to make a fan out of anyone with this collection. This certainly isn't their most encompassing or complete hits compilation, because no music after 1988 is included, so there is no material from solo albums, subsequent group efforts, or Bel Biv Devoe. In that respect, I'd definitely recommend their more complete collections Hits or All the Number Ones. However, this one should be pretty cheap, so if you're a casual NE fan, it'd be nice to add to the collection.
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Summary: Bubble gum music you don't have to be ashamed to love
Comment: Okay, okay, so we all know that the Jackson Five were the original "Boy Band" trendsetters.
Singing teeny-bop songs and breakin' it down with cool dance moves would be a formula New Edition pimped and passed along to Boyz II Men, New Kids On the Block, N-Sync, Backstreet Boys, 98 Degrees and any other boy-band I missed.
I can honestly say, however, it's still cool 2 say you liked New Edition (which I'm sure ain't being said about all of the aforementioned groups, LOL).
This LP is the one to own because it really does have all of their greatest hits.
The love ballad "Can You Stand the Rain" is a classic, classic jam I think still sums up what real men are looking for in wifey material (among other things, LOL).
"Boys to Men," "Mr. Telephone Man," "Candy Girl" and "Popcorn Love" all sound dated, but if you're into this kind of R&B music you'll still enjoy hearing oldies but goodies one more time.
Recommended purchase.
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Summary: Beware of the "Boys To Men" remix version on this CD
Comment: I think this CD has a good collection of New Edition's hits but as a big fan of the song "Boys To Men," I was unpleasantly surprised and disappointed to find that the CD contains a remixed version of this song. The remixed version sounds awful in my opinion--this song did not need the addition of electric drums--but maybe that's because I really love the original. If you're also a fan of this song, you may want to listen to the remixed version before purchasing.
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Summary: Don't waste your money
Comment: I'm a huge NE fan, so when I purchased this album I was so excited but after listening to it, I could've played better music myself. You can tell that the cd was done with keyboard programming. The sax was the only instrument that was played by an actual person, and the rest of the programming was horrible. If you have the rest of NE's albums, you don't need this CD, unless you just want to add it to your collection.
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Summary: New Edition's Best Greatest Hits CD
Comment: "New Edition's Greatest Hits, Vol. 1" is an extroardinary R&B CD that definitely proved why New Edition was one of the greatest R&B acts around in the 1980's. My most favorite hits of all time on this CD was "If It Isn't Love", "Can You Stand The Rain", "Count Me Out", "Candy Girl", "Cool It Now", and my all-time favorite "Mr. Telephone Man" which was written by none other than Mr. Ray Parker Jr. If you are a true fan of New Edition and if you truly know the history of this group that paved the way for other boy bands in the 90's and 21st century, I would recommend this CD.
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Editorial Reviews:
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Yes, the 1996 reunion album Home Again rocked, but it wasn't quite the tour de force everyone was expecting. That's because what was so great about New Edition was their irresistible blend of bubblegum pop and sweet soul, the kind responsible for hits like "Popcorn Love" and "Candy Girl" (guided, of course, by the hand of producer Maurice Starr, who went on to recycle these songs for white-bread clones New Kids on the Block). Included here is also the song that inspired Boyz II Men's name, and one of the prototypical new-soul ballads, "Can You Stand the Rain." "Count Me Out" and "Cool it Now" are bundles of fun, but not nearly as fun as simply hearing those voices at their tender beginnings. Who could have known they would go on to dominate the world of hip-hop and R&B in the '90s? --Rebecca Wallwork
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