New Edition - Greatest Hits, Vol. 1
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Artist: New EditionEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1991-10-01
Music Label: Mca
Soundtracks:
- Boys To Men (Remixed Version)
- If It Isn't Love
- Can You Stand The Rain
- Count Me Out
- A Little Bit Of Love (Is All It Takes)
- Cool It Now
- Mr. Telephone Man
- Lost In Love
- Candy Girl
- Popcorn Love
- Is This The End
Free Music Notes for Greatest Hits, Vol. 1
Free Music Review: Eleven lovely hits (4.5/5)
Hit: 5 Stars
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.
Greatest Hits, Vol. 1 Poster
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 WallworkDance & DJ Music CDs
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