Interesting, but flawed, collection

It's been a long time coming for LeAnn Rimes to release a GREATEST HITS. After all she had her first hit in 1996 at the age of 13 with "Blue". Now she's 21 and I guess it's a good time to look back on your career, and look ahead to where you want to go. Let's talk about the new tracks. "Last Thing On My Mind", a duet with Ronan Keating, is not really a good song and shouldn't be on here. "This Love", if there's any justice, will get her back on country radio as its a beautiful ballad that shows her great vocals, and is one of the best songs she's done in a while. Also included is "O Holy Night", to tide fans over until next year when her Christmas album is released. That one could have been left out too. Another complaint is that instead of the original version of "Can't Fight The Moonlight", one of her biggest hits, they include the Graham Stack Radio edit, which is already available on the 2002 version of the I NEED YOU album. Why not let fans have the original on an actual LeAnn album, instead of having to dig out the COYOTE UGLY SOUNDTRACK every time we want to hear the original? Otherwise, the collection is pretty good. I've never liked her cover of "Unchained Melody", but it makes an appearance nonetheless as it was a hit on the country charts. Each of her albums is covered pretty well, except 2002's TWISTED ANGEL which only "Life Goes On" makes the cut from. Other hits include the mega hit "How Do I Live", "Commitment", "I Need You", "On The Side of Angels", "We Can", "Written In The Stars", and many more.

Great Voice/ Wide Variety Of Material

Leann Rimes has ang a huge variety of music over the last seven years and this collection captures it nicely. She had huge success in ther late 90's but unfortunately, her last release didn't do so hot. Still, her "Greatest Hits" captures the highlights of her career thus far.

The first few tracks are the ones casual radio listeners will be the most familair with. "Blue" and "One Way Ticket" were the #1 country radio smashes that made her a star. "How Do I Live" was huge pop and adult contemporary hit. Lastly, "Can't Fight the Moonlight" has been her last big hit to date when it rose to #11 on the pop charts back in early 2002. The rest of the songs were mainly minor hits at some genre or other. "I Need You" and "Wriiten In the Stars" are very nice ballads and were AC staples. You also get her well done covers of "You Light Up My Life", "Cazy" and "Unchained Melody." "Life Goes On" was taken from her ill-fated "Twisted Angel" and is a pleasant pop tune as is the more recent, minor adult contemporary hit "We Can."

In conclusion, decent collection sums up Leann Rimes pretty well. Hopefully, she will have even more success in the future. She has the potential as the late 90's showed. I think she'll make a comeback.

Good collection, but missing "Damn"

Leann Rimes has always been able to impress me with her voice. At such a young age she has already achieved what a lot of singers twice her age can only hint at. She is a unique talent. This Greatest Hits album is definitely a worthy addition to one's collection if they're a fan of Leann. What I like most about it is that it gives a nice blend of her "old-school" Country songs as well as her newer songs in the Pop genre, which IMO are just as good. I do have one complaint though: where is "Damn" from her Twisted Angel album?! That's easily one of her best songs, and it's inexcusable that it's not included here. I don't care that it was never considered an official "hit" of hers: include it anyway! After all, many Greatest Hits albums out there have songs that weren't necessarily hits. But aside from that complaint, this collection is great. Highly recommended. And if you can still find it, get the limited edition version with a bonus DVD of some of Leann's music videos. It's worth the extra money.