Whitney Houston
The Greatest Hits

Our Review:

With all the bad press Houston's been getting lately, this 36-track, two-CD retrospective focusing on the glory days of her 15-year solo career couldn't have come at a better time. Flashback to why she's the queen of R&B divas with glass-shattering ballads and hip-hop-flavored hits like "Saving All My Love for You," "Didn't We Almost Have It All" and "Exhale (Shoop Shoop)." Or jump to her forays in clubland, including last summer's drag-queen standard "It's Not Right but It's Okay" and enough previously unreleased remixes to make your groove thang sting. Hard-core fans will cling to newly recorded duets with Deborah Cox, George Michael and Enrique Iglesias; the Grammy winner's hard-to-find '91 Super Bowl "Star-Spangled Banner"; the '88 Olympic theme; and the summer-ready single "Fine" (spiced up by producers Q-Tip, DJ Quik and Raphael Saadiq). Houston, you may be in trouble now, be we have no problems with this smartly arranged compilation.