Product Description

This 'Greatest Hits' compilation brings together some of the finest moments from soul singer Alexander O'Neal's career.Featuring two UK top ten hits, 'Criticize' and 'Saturday Love', the album serves as a great introduction to the smooth and soulful sound that made O'Neal popular throughout the end of the eighties and into the nineties.

Track Listing

1. Never Knew Love Like This (w/Cherrelle)
2. Innocent/Alex 9000/Innocent II
3. Fake
4. All True Man
5. Criticize
6. Saturday Love (w/Cherrelle)
7. If You Were Here Tonight
8. Hearsay '89
9. (What Can I Say) To Make You Love Me
10. The Lovers
11. What's Missing
12. A Broken Heart Can Mend
13. What Is This Thing Called Love?
14. You Were Meant To Be My Lady (Not My Girl)
15. Love Makes No Sense

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #14829 in Music
• Released on: 2004-08-23
• Number of discs: 1
• Format: Original recording remastered

Amazon.co.uk Review
Alexander O'Neal, along with Luther Vandross, was the public face of male soul in the 1980s. This Greatest Hits compilation, produced mainly by longtime collaborators Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis charts the hits predominantly from his first two albums and a handful of songs from subsequent releases.

The intro song, "Never Knew Love like This", with label mate Cherrelle epitomises his mid-tempo style, awash with overly slick MIDI instruments and catchy choruses. The big songs here are undoubtedly "Fake" and "Criticise" from the acclaimed second album Hearsay, slightly rougher and more macho than say, "The Lovers" but just as crammed with heartfelt sentiment and soulful tales of love. A welcome inclusion is the duet from Cherrelle's High Priority album, "Saturday Love", a classic of the "Minneapolis sound" that sits more than comfortably with O'Neal's own work. Greatest Hits may seem heavily packed with older material but it was these songs on the Tabu label that made him a latter day soul legend and with the all new remastering, this collection is just as valid now as it was almost twenty years ago. --Georgina Collins

Album Description
From the early days in the seventies as lead singer with Flyte Tyme, through the headiest days of his solo career in the eighties, Alexander O'Neal showed ceaseless ability and talent. This comprehensive Best Of collection includes the tracks famous for their synthesizers, sequencers, and drum machines that were used on his Tabu/Epic albums of the '80s and early '90s, plus the best of his later R&B and soul-tinged material. But the standouts here are his finest uptempo and ballad singles, on such cuts as "Fake" and "Criticise", plus his range and passion on those such as "Never Knew Love Like This".

Customer Reviews

Classic songs
I love Alexander O'Neal. His voice is brilliant and distinctive, and combined with 80s style of R&B production pioneered by the likes of Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis, what you get is a flawless collection of brilliant songs.

I went to see him about 2 months ago at the Victoria Theatre in Halifax. He was superb, didn't drop a note.

Do yourself a favour and buy this.

A timeless collection
A superb collection of songs from the 1980s and 1990s. Many treasured favourites here, including "Fake", "Criticize", "Saturday Love", "(What Can I Say) To Make You Love Me" and the 1989 remix of "Hearsay". They don't make 'em like this anymore.