Leann Rimes - Greatest Hits

Not many artists can boast a greatest-hits album by their 21st birthday, but then not everybody logs a Lolita-ish hit at age 13, as the precocious Rimes did with the retro "Blue" in 1996. In many ways, that auspicious debut was her finest hour, full of hypnotic, yodel-laced magic and savant-like promise. Since then, she's recorded a fair amount of bankable pop ("One Way Ticket," "Can't Fight the Moonlight") and a seemingly bottomless well of tripe ("You Light Up My Life," "Written in the Stars" with Elton John). It all sits back-to-back on this collection of 16 familiar tunes, braced with a second DVD disc and three new audio recordings: "This Love," "Last Thing on My Mind" (a duet with Ronan Keating), and the holiday favorite, "O Holy Night." Alas, of the new songs, the first two point up the weakness of much of Rimes's career--her connect-the-dots emotionality. That leaves the heralded Christmas classic, on which she attempts some nervous Whitney Houston canoodling. Best advice: Put the player on "repeat," and enjoy the royal "Blue" treat that got this career rolling, before the aerobicized videos and the embarrassing lawsuit with Daddy. --Alanna Nash Amazon.com

Nice CD

Came quickly. Works fine. Only has about 3 songs I like. That's about normal for any CD. October 3, 2008

leann rimes...greatest hits

LeAnn Rimes is one of my favorite country artists from the 90s. This cd is a good collection of her greatest hits from that time period. If you buy it in stores, there is also a bonus DVD that has a few of her music videos. August 26, 2008

A Fan

This compendium of hits gives me Ms Rimes' marvelous voice singing in my room and it can't get much better than that. Lots of young women sing, and some sing well. LeAnn Rimes crowds the angels. February 9, 2008

Greatest Hits by Leann Rimes

FANTASTIC ALBUM! She has a voice that is perfect and so are the songs....super great album...MY FAV...JS November 10, 2007

4 and half stars for LeAnn Rimes: Greatest Hits

I personally love so many of LeAnn Rimes' songs, that a greatest hits compilation would be useless for me. But I purchased this because I wanted to own a bit of her music opposed to just borrowing my sister's CDs. Funny thing is, I've been a fan as long as my sister has (or longer), but thought that since she owned the CDs, I didn't need to waste my money on them. But LeAnn is one of those rare artists whose music is actually worthy of being purchased. In the future I plan to finally complete my collection of her music, but to start it off, I bought her greatest hits album because I was certain it would be a good buy. And it was. Nearly everything she released between '97 and '03 is on the main disc (except for But I Do Love You and Looking Through Your Eyes), and the second disc has a few videos available. From what I remember of the videos is Blue, One Way Ticket, How Do I Live and a live performance of Can't Fight the Moonlight. There may have been more, but I honestly can not remember. I feel the video disc left a lot to be desired, but it's forgivable when the actual compilation is so impressive. I do love the remix to Can't Fight the Moonlight, but the original would have made more sense to include in the greatest hits collection - that's of course unless the remix version of a song is what becomes the actual hit. I do remember the remix for CFTM playing on the radio more than the original song - however, the original song is what became popular. It's confusing, so I suppose simply including either version of the song was acceptable. The only other minor problem with this collection was the actual sequence of the songs. In my opinion, they should have gone in order of how they were released. Throwing CFTM in the middle of How Do I Live and One Way Ticket was weird, but also the fact that How Do I Live is listed before OWT is also odd. The sequence is wrong all around, but I guess just the point of hearing the songs is all that should matter. I considered that the sequence was done this way to cause the largest "hits" to be accessible first and foremost. For a true fan, however, LeAnn does an equal job on all of her songs, so placing hits first is not really necessary. I also considered that greatest hits albums are usually bought by people trying to get an overall feel for an artist's talent. And so it is a good idea to place the songs most people have heard first. Believe me, there are some really lazy, thrown-together greatest hits albums out there (the kind that leave off half the songs you love so that the label can make more money by releasing a second greatest hits CD later on) - but this is not one of them. I definitely recommend it if you are a newer LeAnn Rimes fan.

(I thought I was finished but after checking out this tracklisting again, I thought I'd mention that the last few unreleased songs are pretty much forgettable.)
September 14, 2007

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