Michael Bolton - Michael Bolton - Greatest Hits 1985-1995
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Artist: Michael BoltonEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1995-09-19
Music Label: Sony
Soundtracks:
- That's What Love Is All About
- (Sittin' On) The Dock of the Bay
- Soul Provider
- How Am I Supposed to Live Without You
- How Can We Be Lovers
- When I'm Back on My Feet Again
- Georgia on My Mind
- Time, Love and Tenderness
- When a Man Loves a Woman
- Missing You Now
- Steel Bars
- Said I Loved You...But I Lied
- Can I Touch You...There?
- I Promise You
- I Found Someone
- A Love So Beautiful
- This River
Free Music Notes for Michael Bolton - Greatest Hits 1985-1995
Free Music Review: A Surprisingly Enjoyable Album
Hit: 5 Stars
Michael Bolton is like the Barry Manilow of the 1980s' and early 1990s': critics hated him, the public loved him. His songs were called dreck, yet he still managed to rack up an impressive 16 top 40 hits in a period of 14 years.
So what do all these points go to show? That Michael Bolton is a real musician who takes pride in his own work rather than caring about what other people think about him, the mark of a true artist, in my opinion.
"Greatest Hits 1985-1995" takes us through all the high points of Bolton's succeasful career in about 70 minutes.
Though he had been a fixture on the music scene since 1983, Bolton didn't break through commercially until 1987 with the release of "The Hunger". Buoyed by two hit singles, the hauntingly beautiful ballad "That's What Love Is All About" and faithful remake of Otis Redding's "(Sittin' On) The Dock Of The Bay", the album sold well and put Bolton on the map.
1989's "Soul Provider" proved to be an even greater success, yielding five top 40 hits. The first single, the title track (with awesome sax by Kenny G), climbed into the top twenty, but it was the next single that was the icing on the cake. "How Am I Supposed To Live Without You", a ballad written by Bolton that Laura Branigan had a hit with in 1983, climbed to number one and stayed there for three weeks. Add to that two additional top ten hits (the rockier "How Can We Be Lovers" and "When I'm Back On My Feet Again") and a soulful cover of Ray Charles' classic "Georgia On My Mind", Bolton was officially a superstar.
1991's "Time, Love And Tenderness" continued the hit streak, by going to number one and providing four top twenty hits. The first, "Love Is A Wonderful Thing", is not included because of a lawsuit by the Isley Brothers. Then there was the soulful title track, followed by a update of "When A Man Loves A Woman" that became Bolton's second number one hit. The fourth hit from the album, "Missing You Now", happens to be my favorite Bolton song. I love the mellowness of this song, especially Kenny G's sax. Beautiful song. Also included is the hard rocking "Steel Bars", co written with Bob Dylan.
1993's "The One Thing" yielded Bolton's last significant hit in the top ten smash "Said I Loved You...But I Lied", whose video became pretty famous and parodied.
When this album was released in 1995, Bolton added six new songs to the mix, but only three songs really stand out. "Can I Touch You...There?" provided Bolton with another top forty hit and is a major departure from all his other work, with heavy traces of hip hop backing it up. Very sensual song. "I Promise You" is a beautiful ballad whose bad lyrics are overshadowed by Bolton's passionate performance. And finally, "I Found Someone" is a new version of the Bolton penned 1987 Cher hit, which is nowhere near as good as Cher's but still good.
So, ignore the bad reviews and give this album a try. I was pleasnatly surprised with what I heard, and hopefully you will be, too.
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this a single, not 2, cd itemKnown for a terrifying rendition of Otis Redding's hit "(Sittin' On The) Dock of the Bay" (among others), Michael Bolton tears up every classic soul tune he can get his hands on. Ray Charles' "Georgia on My Mind" and Percy Sledge's "When a Man Loves a Woman" take on completely new meanings in the hands of this former hard rock singer. This 2 CD, 17-cut retrospective includes all the songs that catapulted him to mega-stardom and plenty of others that show him as just another sincere fool for love ("I Promise You" and "I Found Someone"). Just as Meatloaf turned up the juice on the histrionics of Bruce Springsteen, Bolton takes the soul singer out of the smoky nightclub and into the hockey arena for the whole world to hear. --Rob O'Connor
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