Why does Whitney have almost as many compilation CD's as original studio recordings? ...She has another compilation coming out this month. Whitney has a beautiful voice and has made some of the greatest pop music of my generation. I really hope she cleans up her act and reclaims her prior standing.

This is a greatest hits collection on 2 discs and the good news is that everything you love from Whitney is here. The only downside is that particularly on disc #2 there are a lot of non-hits and the whole thing could probably have been fit on one disc. Nevertheless...at the price, you eveything you hoped for with beautiful sound quality and the memory of what a beautiful and talented singer Whitney once was.

I enjoy Whitney but I am not a huge fan so I was looking for a collection of greatest hits. Well most of the collection consists of songs I have never heard and don't really care much for and the ones that I would call hits are all, in my opinion, very bad remixes rather than original releases. If you are like me and just looking for a nice collection representative of a great artist's work, this is not the collection for you.

Even though Whitney has been in the news in recent years about her several downfalls, including drugs, and her biggest downfall to date, "Bobby Brown", you have to give credit where credit is due, the woman has a God given gift. The cd begins with her biggest hits, "SAVING ALL MY LOVE FOR YOU" to later jams "HEART BREAK HOTEL". Disc 2 is bascially "the remix" some better than others, and some you wish she would have just kept the same; "I'M YOUR BABY TONIGHT!". Overall, the cd is great, its a whole lot better than most of today's music. I have always admire Whitney. She will forever remain one of the best in my book.

Need I say more! This is a collection of the greatest voice ever! Her phrasing, vibrato and POWERHOUSE vocals still go unmatched. This is the perfect collection for anyone who wants to own the best of the best!

You should buy this Greatest Hits set only if you don't mind Whitney's up-tempo tracks being disguised in new forms of remixes. I'm definitely not a fan of remixed versions so I never pop disc 2 into my stereo. Disc 1 on the other hand is a bulky collection of top 40 hits that actually saves this release. It's a shame Whitney doesn't put out songs like these anymore; I have a feeling this will be the only Greatest Hits that she'll release during her career. With her current state I'm not sure there will be need for another one. Maybe I'm wrong. Nonetheless, no one can deny the pure charm of classics such as "Saving All My Love For You", "I Will Always Love You", "I Hav Nothing" and my personal favorite, "The Greatest Love Of All". Whitney's voice soars through every note so effortlessly that you wish for more. I'm hearing she has a new album coming out sometime this year so let's hope for a sleeper hit, she will sure need one. Good luck Whitney.

It's an OK set of songs. there are songs that are sang by someone else too, didnt like that. A lot of remixes, which i did not like.

This Collection of Whitney's talent is well worth an addition to any music collection. There have only been three female vocalist in my lifetime (and I am 57) who have rated top in my opinion. Patsy Cline, Whitney Houston, and Celine Dion. Each of their own style, each with an amazing talent. I purchased this collection from Best Buy at a cheaper price than Amazon (sad) but I am extremely pleased with past purchases.

Whitney Houston's Greatest Hits came out in 2000 (originally supposed to have been released in the late '90s). I bought it hoping it would have the songs of hers that I love. Some of these songs of hers are the originals that are found on Disc 1 and her previous albums, such as: You Give Good Love, Saving All My Love For You, Where Do Broken Hearts Go, and I Will Always Love You. I was really disappointed to find that some of her other songs that I love have been wrongfully remixed to where they are almost unrecognizable. These ones are: I'm Your Baby Tonight, How Will I Know, I Wanna Dance With Somebody, My Love is Your Love, and I think a couple of others (??). In my opinion, it was a crucial mistake for the manufacturers to give these latter songs the remix job. I thought those were the originals, but boy was I wrong!!! The original versions of those latter songs from Disc 2 should have been put on there as is, but not with a totally different sound to them. I was horribly disappointed about that. I have never listened to it since then, as I have made my own GH collection of Whitney's. I don't know what people have been thinking, but I don't think that this is a great album of hers (nothing personal to Whitney, don't get me wrong). This Greatest Hits title would have been an even better one if the originals of the songs from Disc 2 that I mentioned had not have been butchered up. If you want the originals of those several songs, buy the individual albums that they were on before; forget about this title!! The only thing I give credit to regarding this album is the front cover image of Whitney with a drill. WOW!! My final note to all Whitney fans: If you have a CD burner, some blank CDs, and have these albums of hers on CD: Whitney Houston (1985), Whitney (1987), I'm Your Baby Tonight (1990), The Bodyguard Sdtrk. (1992), Waiting To Exhale Sdtrk. (1995), The Preacher's Wife Sdtrk. (1996), and My Love Is Your Love (1998), you can make your own greatest hits or boxset choosing whatever song titles of hers you like from those albums (if you want to), and put this butchered collection to shame. My grade for this album: D- My grade for the picture: A. But my 1 star rating for this album and D- grade for it stand as is.

The CD contained the collection of Whitney Houston favourites I have been chasing.

Whitney Houston is a nice-looking woman, has a beautiful voice, a good selection of songs... Why her producers have issued this crappy edition of her "Greatest" Hits???... The first disc is OK, almost all of her best romantic hits ("Didn't We Almost Have It All" and "Saving All My Love For You" plus the main theme for "The Bodyguard" originally from Dolly Parton) are included. The second disc however, is purely another attempt to promote these modern (and weird) DJs that "mix" dancing themes, whose original versions are far better than the mixed versions!

I think this is a great greatest hits. There are not too many greatest hits collections that are greatest hits. In fact, most should be called the worst. Lucky,the producers knew what they were doing. I wanna dance with somebody, How will I know, the songs have been updated to a modern beat. which is good for the people who are starting out on listening to Whitney. I love putting the songs on my ipod. Whitney deserves to have a greatest hits. Buy it!

Yes!!It was about time Whitney Houston released a greatest hits collection...No!! not this type of greatest hits! She left out all of the orignial hit songs. I wanted the original version of I Wanna Dance With Somebody,How Will I Know,and I'm Your Baby Tonight. Those are timeless classics. Skip the second disc. It's not good at all besides for the "The Star Spangled Banner" & "One Moment In Time". As for the first disc. The Whitney songs you never get tired of!!.....Didn't We Almost Have It All,Greatest Love Of All,Saving All My Love For You,Exhale(Shoop Shoop),I Will Always Love You etc. There all great tracks!

This CD is brilliantly put together with all of her memorable hits and singles. I am proud to own this collection and would not sell or trade it for anything in the world. If you are a true fan of Whitney Houston, you will not be disappointed!

Kenneth Palmer

Long dismissing Whitney's muzak as watered down R&B for Caucasians, her pre-hits collection 'My Love Is Your Love' burst like kinetic energy - voice full, grooves in abundance and at-the-core-emotion, plus, unusual for a Houston album, songs you actually wanted to remember [even the Diane Warren ones! Shocking!]. She owed us the soul we've craved for years and finally delivered it. It was her first and only totally listenable collection. The problem we find with the 'Greatest Hits' collection is it's generally soporific first disc. Sub-titled 'Cool Down', it's slathered with much of the mucky, wan balladry she's [in]famous for. With only occasional glimpses of brilliance [e.g. 'Exhale', 'My Love Is Your Love'], sleep your way through disc one, and prepare for the boogie - Disc two is a gay man's Mothership. Subtitled 'Throw Down', it employs today's hottest mixers/producers [e.g. Hex Hector] and squeezes life back into the artistically dead [e.g. Junior Vasquez], resurrecting Whitney's hidden dance diva muse. One major misstep on disc two is the pretentious, overblown 'Star Spangled Banner' from Super Bowl XXI, a dirge that should have been banished to disc one, and it remains the squalor that keeps disc two from the B+ it almost deserves. My grade: Cool Down: C; Throw Down: B; Overall: B-

I liked the Disc 1 more since it has a lot of sentimental songs. The 2nd Disc however contains all her fast tracks. Since I have a thing for slow songs I will be a bit biased here. Disc one contains a line of slow love songs like Saving all my love for you, I will always love you, Greatest love of all. All at once was the first time I heard this song I must tell you that I loved the song so much that I heard it again and again and again. Disc 2 contains one song that I loved the most and it is One moment in time (never included in her previous albums though). A good deal altogether. If you are Whitney Houtson fan I say go ahead.

If you read the linear notes to this CD, you will discover that Whitney is very proud of this compilation and feels they got it 'just right'. I don't think so. I have the UK version which is supposed to be better but like so many other reviewers, cannot believe the rubbish on CD 2. It is full of remixes instead of the original versions we are used to. I mainly bought this hoping to get the original version of "I'm your baby tonight" but it was not there, nor did it state that it was the remix. There are two versions of this song on this CD and they are both remixes - only one of these versions is mentioned as being a remix. "Queen of the Night" is also a different version to what was released back in 1992. Also missing is her duet with Maria Carey (When you Believe). My advice is to buy it and burn your own single CD with the songs you like and throw out the shocking Disc 2. Better still, just buy her first album which is by far, her very best. Has anybody else noticed that the original version of "The Greatest Love of All" was remixed before being released as a single in 1986? Listen to the better version on her first album and you will see what I mean (it has beautiful piano at the beginning).

SUMMARY: A double CD compilation which contains a good snapshot of her hits, except some of these hits have been replaced by inferior remixes (and not always noted on the linear notes). Disc 2 mainly focuses on additional remixes and should be avoided at all costs. Only buy this compilation if you can pick it up for less than $10 (which I did). Best advice is to buy her individual albums and then wonder how a woman who had it all, could throw it all away with a bum husband and drugs.

The first CD in the package is a "Greatest Hits" CD. The second CD in the package was nothing but unheard hip hop stuff and a couple of her hits with the hip hop rythm added to it.
Wished I hadn't bought the CD and spent extra money on it.

I bought this cd many years ago and just now feel the urge to write a review. I was so disappointed. I mean the original versions of these songs are good but after listened to half a disc I felt remixed out. The remixes become boring and just left me thirsty for the original versions. Also did not like the way the songs were broken out. One disc is supposed to be mellow and the other is supposed to be jamming but after listening to the disc I wondered why songs appeared on the wrong disc. There is no flow on these cds. I am still waiting for the proper greatest hits while this one gathers dust. Not recommended.

Not as great as I had hoped. Too much of her later stuff, which is when she got worse.

I absolutely miss this strong powerful voice. All the hits are here and therefore you'll definitely get your money's worth. Meanwhile, I'll wait and see if Whitney will be the next comeback Queen. Hey, Mariah did it.

Ok where is she now??? I want to hear her again, that strong belting, that attitude and her emotions on stage!!! This CD contains her biggest hits in one package. No regrets for this one..
Buy It !!!!

Whitney Houston...another good album has been sold. I have to say that even though this CD can be expensive, it is worth the cost. You'll hear many fantastic songs in here that will make you want to slow dance or either get up and dance around a little for the remixes. Best songs are "I Will Always Love You", "I Believe In You And Me", "Exhale(Shoop, Shoop)" and the rest of the album! For those of you who dislike Whitney Houston, three words... I DON'T UNDERSTAND!!! These songs in these two discs will definitely change your mind! One last sentence for you to read with three more words to read... BUY THIS CD!!!!!

I have to be honest, I have never been a big Whitney Houston fan. Growing up gay, I met so many other gay men who loved her, yet I would fawn over Madonna, Kylie or Diana Ross. Although I bought Whitney's albums, I never appreciated her the way I did other artists.

Now as the pop music scene has changed, or in my opinion, debased itself, I realize how much Whitney brought to the music scene. First of all, that voice. Nobody can sing like Whitney - not Celine, not Madonna, not Diana Ross. She has a full-bodied gospel voice that is versatile: one moment it can be light and sexy; the next, strong and powerful. It is definitely missed on radio in an age where many voices sound processed. Secondly, Whitney has adapted well to the changing music sounds, thus, her music has been consistently good.

This collection covers the years from 1985 to 2000 (I am referring to the UK edition). The ballad CD: some of the 80s songs are dated and mechanical, yet Whitney always brought her own style and emotion to these songs. The sad thing is that Whitney's live versions of these songs were always superior, particularly her performance of "One Moment In Time" at the Grammys in the late 80s, and her performance of "I Have Nothing" in South Africa during the Bodyguard-era. The newly discovered "If You Say My Eyes are Beautiful" is a real treat; it would have been a big hit if it had been released in 1986. It was a perfect ballad for the time period, and Whitney and Jermaine Jackson made a fine pairing. The new duets with Deborah Cox and Enrique Iglaesias are less interesting. Whitney's voice is not at its peak in these songs.

The dance CD is excellent, featuring mostly all the original versions of her popular up-tempo tracks including some bonus remixes. Whitney could always deliver on the dance floor, particularly her version of Chaka Khan's "I'm Every Woman" and the beloved remix of "It's Not Right But It's Ok", a perfect song to show Whitney's sassy side.

This is a generous compilation, topped off with that fabulous cover photo of Whitney adorning her walls with her own gold records. Highly recommended (particularly the UK edition).

Disc one is a good slow jam greatest hit's CD with all of the best slow songs and theyre all great. But disc two Why Whitney!? Why!? I mean that disc sucks to death all of the dance song all been horibly remastered and have these crappy techno beats that completely ruins the songs completely. If you buy this CD try to just get the first disk and burn the second disc.

There are 2 CD's in this album. The first CD is wonderful and her songs are just the same as when I heard them on the radio - GREAT. But the second CD are remix versions of other great songs. Although the constant "beep", "beep" of remixes takes away your desire to continue listening. I would give it a 2.5 stars, but since this option isn't available, I'm obligated to give it 3 stars. I was disappointed.

I love Whitney Houston and have loved her music since the 80's when I heard How Will I Know playing all the time! I bought the studio albums of Whitney Houston, Whitney, I'm Your Baby Tonight and The Bodyguard Soundtrack and love them all! I bought this American version of The Greatest Hits because I already have the album/radio versions of songs like How Will I Know, So Emotional, I Wanna Dance With Somebody (Who Loves Me), I'm Your Baby Tonight, and Love Will Save The Day! Why would I want to buy a greatest hits with album versions that I already own on CD instead of rare dance mixes? I actually listen to club mixes while working out so it's cool to have these dance mixes! Now, if you don't own any of Whitney's studio albums and just love the album/radio versions of the song, then buy the U.K. version. But for me, I have a variety.

My favorite all time song from Whitney is How Will I Know!! It's just such an amazing song to dance to!! And I love the music video that went along with it also!! I also love Saving All My Love For You, Greatest Love Of All, So Emotional which is an awesome upbeat song, I Wanna Dance With Somebody (Who Loves Me) which is another favorite upbeat song, If You Say My Eyes Are Beautiful which is such a breathtakingly beautiful ballad with Jermaine Jackson and it's SO romantic, I Love it!!! I am so happy that One Moment In Time and The Star Spangled Banner are here too because they are so beautiful as well! Run To You, I Have Nothing, and I Will Always Love You are ballads from The Bodyguard Soundtrack that I love a lot and love singing along to. The song Same Script, Different Cast which I love also, samples Beethoven's Fur Elise which isn't mentioned in the CD booklet but really SHOULD HAVE been because you HAVE to give credit to the person who composed the music! I don't mind artists sampling another person's music, AS LONG AS they give proper credit!!!

All At Once, You Give Good Love, Where Do Broken Hearts Go, All The Man That I Need, and My Love Is Your Love are more favorites of mine. I love all the upbeat songs and dance mixes on CD 2! If I Told You That features George Michael and it's really cool. This is a perfect CD to listen to in the car when your driving!

I recommend this CD to anyone who already has Whitney's studio albums and would like the club mixes. If you just like the radio versions and couldn't care less about club mixes, then just get the U.K. version. This is definitely an awesome collection of Whitney's hits and for me, the song If You Say My Eyes Are Beautiful, is a definite reason that I love this CD because since I already owned 99% of the ballads on here, it's such a beautiful addition that I didn't have!

And I have to recommend the Music Video DVD for Whitney Houston's Greatest Hits! I own the DVD that has ALMOST ALL of Whitney's videos that were shown on MTV and VH1, A MUST HAVE for Whitney fans!!!!

Whitney Houston has a amazing voice and a great collection of all of our favorites with this greatest hits!!!!!!! I feel bad for Whitney,because her career has been not so good,but i hope she will deliever us with more great hits like this one and who knows maybe another greatest hits collection with the talented and amazing Whitney Houston!!!!

all i can say is i love that woman with all my HEART, and no 1 will ever touch her cause she's so so well u know wat i mean, she a greaT SINGER AND I LOVE HER DEARLY

NAME:PATRICK CHARLES NARI MIAMI SHORES, FLORIDA
NICKNAME: REV. DR. LOVERBOY

To start off with I must say that Whitney Houston can really sing! Better than celine, much better than Mariah. Since I have so much respect for Whitney I have decided to write a detailed review for most of her albums which are featured on this site.

As with most Greatest Hits collections this one features 2 discs. Disc 1 contains all of the heavy ballads and Love songs that Whitney has sung in her career - lots - about 18 to be exact. (spanning 20 years) Disc 2 contains her more edgier songs which are more up tempo and dance numbers from the 80s and 90s - and 2000. Looking at the sonlist on the back cover of this CD, when you look at all the songs on it you really realise all at once just how many hits whitney has had over the years! I counted about 20 songs from this 2cd set that were known to be #1 hits! Quite amazing.

Disk 1:
SAVING ALL MY LOVE FOR YOU: This song was Whitneys debut ballad and she sounded so young! Her voice sounds a bit boring in this song but it is still worth listening to.

THE GREATEST LOVE OF ALL: The Greatest Love of all was Whitneys 1st propper powerhouse ballad and as she reaches for those high notes easilly there isn't even any sound of an effort. It is as if her voice just pours out without a huge struggle to hit the highest notes imaginable.

ONE MOMENT IN TIME: By the time you get to this song you are really aware of how beutiful Whitneys voice really is. In this one she sounds very silky and when she gets to the high bit it hits your spine like a thousand knives and when you think it's over she lets loose again!

I HAVE NOTHING: Whitneys voice is so spectacular she sounds the best! It really shows in this classic song. In the beginning she sounds so beautiful and then her voice soars and then in the end part of the song it soars even higher sounding more powerfull and richer than I have ever heard any other woman on this planet sing.

I WILL ALWAYS LOVE YOU: This song is Whitneys biggest hit and one of the biggest hits of all time staying at number 1 on the charts for almost 15 weeks! Spine chilling madness! When she does the 1st chorus it sounds so emotional that it almost makes me feel like crying! And When the last chorus comes whoa what a voice!

RUN TO YOU: Whitneys most beautiful love song, this song is so emotional she sounds so good that you can just imagine how hot she looks in the film clip for it. If you have ever seen the film clip to this you would've noticed how breath takinh Whitney
looks.

The music in the middle of this disk is some of Whitneys 80s ballads but I'm not very inspired to write anything about them even though they are great.

END OF DISK 1:
EXHALE (shoop shoop): This song was Whitneys return song which accomponied the soundtrack of her 'Waiting to Exhale' movie. Her voice sound much more mature and soulful. She really starts pumping it out towards the end and she sound great!

I BELEIVE IN YOU AND ME: Wow! Whitney recorded this in 1996 and she sound just as good (if not better) than she did when she recorded 'I will always love' you in 1992, the same power remains in her voice but with much more soul.

COUNT ON ME feat. CECEWINANS: This song is great Whitneys power and emotion is so strong and she really steals the song from cece.

I LEARNED FROM THE BEST: This song is so powerfull! This song is derived from the 1998 my love is your love album. In the song whitney sounds very edgy and powerfull. This is an excellent song.

SAME SCRIPT DIFFERENT PAST WITH DEB COX: Unfortunately in this song Whitneys voice was not very impressive this is because at the time of recording this she was recovering from trouble in her life (drugs?)

COULD I HAVE THIS KISS FOREVER? with Enrique Inglesias: Whitney is truely back on form and soaring high in this song! Her voice had returned to its former glory.

DISK 2:
IF I TOLD YOU THAT with George Michael: Good
FINE: Great!
ITS NOT RIGHT BUT ITS O.K: This one is breath taking whitney sounds amazing!
MY LOVE IS YOUR LOVE: This one is pretty laid bak.
HEARTBREAK HOTEL: This is one of Whit's best songs.
STEP BY STEP: Timeless
QUEEN OF THE NIGHT: Great beat.
I'M EVERY WOMAN: Whinteys voice soars.
oops forgot which songs go hear! dont have the disk with me!
SO EMOTIONAL: Very 80s!
I WANNA DANCE WITH SOMBODY: This is one of Whitneys best performances ever!
HOW WILL I KNOW: One of Whitneys 1st pop tunes. She pulls it off well.
I WILL ALWAYS LOVE YOU (HEX HECTOR REMIX): Good remix.
GREATEST LOVE OF ALL remix: This is much better than the original. Its pratically the same but a bit more jazzed up.
ITS NOT RIGHT BUT ITS O.K remix: This one is AMAZING! well worth listening to.
IM YOUR BABY TONIGHT remix: Garbage, never have liked this one!

Over all this album is proof of how excellent Whitney Houston is. SHE IS THE BEST! NOT CELINE, NOT MARIAH! They don't have anywhere near the amount of stage presence that Whitney has. I am only 15 and I know that Whitney is the best. Always has been, always will be. peace ya'll

Whitney Houston is the finest vocalist in history, she kicks Mariah Carey's flabby butt. Disc 1 of this chronicle of her magnificent career is "Cool Down-The Ballads". My fav Whitney ballads are "Greatest Love of All", "Run To You", "I Have Nothing", "Exhale (Shoop Shoop)" and, of course, the incomparable "I Will Always Love You". On Disc 2, "Throw Down", my fav songs are "How Will I Know" and "I Wanna Dance With Somebody". All hail Ms. Houston, the golden diva!

YOU FIRST HEARD HER IN 1985.AND LOVED THE MISIC!
NOW IT IS 2005 TWENTY YEARS LATER AND STILL LOVE THE MUSIC!
YOU LOVED THE SONG'S TO THE SOUNDTRACKS OF HER MOVIE'S!
And million's of people have great memories to these song's.
And the memories will never fade as long as the music plays.
The only problem is people don't have memories to the remix song's.
It seem's kind of strange to turn a love song into a dance song.
what she shoud have done is what. MARIAH CAREY did make a 2-disk regular greatest hit's.and a 2-disk remix version.
But the fact remains is that she has a pile of number 1 hits.
And that alone will make her music be played on radio until the end if time. [A FAN OF R&B AND HIP-HOP]/SYRACUSE,NEWYORK/

But only if you promise not to sing.

The UK version also has crap, but much less than the US version. I'd suggest you buy the UK, then create your own custom CD on your PC. All of the good stuff neatly fits on 1 CD. Imagine that, just 1 CD.

This greatest Hits C.D is definitely one for the collection. All of Whitney's best and most famous songs all rolled into one. From 80's to Naughties. Including some remix's I have never heard...I'm your baby tonight mixed with a house style. (so very impressed, and I dont really like House music). Double C.D with 32 songs all together... However, it does not include "When you Believe" The duet with Mariah Carey, which would be the only way to make this C.D 5 Stars. All in all, great purchase. x p.s... If the worst comes to worst and you hate the C.D, at least you will have the cover, photographed by the incredible David LaChapelle.