100 Hits Volume 23 Album Songs

[Tina Popielarczyk]

GreatestHits Volume II, also known as Greatest Hits Volume II... and Some Other Stuff is the third compilation album by American country music artist Alan Jackson. The original version of this album was only available through December, 2003 and contained two discs: the first disc has 16 hits and two new cuts, while the second disc has eight album tracks. Subsequent releases contained only the first disc.

Greatest Hits Volume II is a compilation album of songs by "Weird Al" Yankovic, featuring his best known songs that did not appear on "Weird Al" Yankovic's Greatest Hits, plus the new single "Headline News" which had first appeared on the box set Permanent Record: Al In The Box, released a month prior. The compilation album was met with mostly positive critical reviews, and it managed to chart on the Billboard 200 at number 198. However, it ranks as one of Yankovic's least-selling records.

Roch Parisien of AllMusic noted, "Sure, he can be corny, but when "Weird Al" Yankovic hits the target, he can also be one pointed satirist." He highlighted "Smells Like Nirvana", "Headline News", and "Jurassic Park" as stand-outs, calling them "rib-ticklers".[9] Nathan Brackett and Christian Hoard, in The Rolling Stone Album Guide, awarded the album three-and-a-half stars out of five, denoting that the album averaged between good and excellent.[10]

The album was released on October 25, 1994, about a month after the release of the previous compilation, Permanent Record: Al in the Box. Upon its release, it charted and peaked at number 198 on the Billboard 200, making it his first compilation album to chart.[11] In January 1997, the album was one of Yankovic's lowest-selling records, although it ranked above several other albums such as The Food Album, the soundtrack album to his 1989 film "UHF", The TV Album, and the Permanent Record box set in terms of sales.[12]

This familiar double CD is back available after a year of deletion. This set includes Paul Kelly's original 7 times platinum Songs From The South and the second volume: Songs From The South Vol. 2. Disc 1 includes Dumb Things, Sweet Guy, How To Make Gravy, Before Too Long, To Her Door and many more Disc 2 delves into Paul's catalogue from 1998-2008 including acclaimed albums such as Words And Music, Nothing But A Dream, Ways & Means and Stolen Apples as well as some of his more interesting collaborative efforts such as Stardust Five and Professor Ratbaggy Of particular interest to long-time fans will be the crowd favourite Every Fucking City from the long-deleted Roll On Summer EP as well as 2 tracks previously unreleased on CD, Thoughts In The Middle Of The Night and his tribute to the 'Sheikh of Tweak' Shane Warne.

Greatest Hits Volume Two is the second compilation album by George Strait and is certified triple platinum by the RIAA. Seven of the ten cuts on this CD were #1 songs. It is widely considered to be one of the best collections of George Strait classics with cuts like "Does Fort Worth Ever Cross Your Mind", "The Cowboy Rides Away", "The Fireman", "The Chair", "Nobody in His Right Mind Would've Left Her" and "Ocean Front Property".

Well, thank you, could I drink you a buy?

Oh, listen to me, what I mean is can I buy you a drink?

Anything you please.

Oh, you're welcome, well, I don't think I caught your name.

Are you waiting for someone to meet you here?

Well, that makes two of us glad you came.

No, I don't know the name of the band, but they're good.

Aren't they, would you like to dance?

Yeah, I like this song too, it reminds me of you and me.

Well, baby do you think there's a chance

That later on I could drive you home?

No, I don't mind at all.

I burn with desire each time my heart fans the fire

To that old flame that burns inside of me.

She cried when I left her, now I cry to forget her.

Oh, how foolish I was to ever want to leave.

It ain't cool to be crazy about you

It ain't suave or debonair to let you know I care, like I do

It ain't smart to be so reckless with my heart

I should've known right from the start I'd end up like a fool

Believe me, it ain't cool

It ain't cool to be crazy about you

It ain't suave or debonair to let you know I care, like I do

It ain't smart to be so reckless with my heart

Should've known right from the start I'd end up like a fool

Believe me, it ain't cool

On November 13, 2001 (in some territories on the 9th or the 12th), Madonna released her second greatest hits album, simply called GHV2, short for Greatest Hits Volume 2. While The Immaculate Collection - released exactly 11 years earlier - contained her 80s classics, this album features her biggest hits of the 90s, ranging from 1992's Erotica to 2001's What It Feels Like For A Girl. But unlike its predecessor it doesn't offer any new tracks.

The coverwork doesn't offer much new either; the picture is from a picture shoot for the Drowned World Tour, in November 2000 by Regan Cameron. The logo in the right corner says 'Madonna' and 'GHV2'. The Japanese letters spell out 'Madonna' as well, though the word doesn't have a real significance in Japanese. You can also see the word 'GHV2' in her eye. Kevin Reagan gave the album some extra value with great inside art work.

During the months prior to the release there was a lot of speculation about the tracklisting. Rumour had it that the album would contain two new tracks. For a short while, the titles 'Veronica Electronica' and 'Sex Makes The World Go Round', but these rumours were obviously false, as the first title referred to an abandoned remix project of Madonna and William Orbit, while the latter seems to be a parody of 1986's Love Makes The World Go Round. Later it was said that the new tracks would be live versions of Holiday and Music, but that also was later denied. For a while Amazon displayed different tracklistings for the UK and Japan (including an unknown bonustrack), but this also seemed untrue.

The real tracklisting consisted of two singles from Erotica, four singles from Bedtime Stories, four singles from Ray Of Light, three singles from Music, plus Beautiful Stranger and Don't Cry For Me Argentina. For some tracks the album version was included, for others they used the radio edit; notice the disgraceful butchering of Ray Of Light! To avoid an 'explicit lyrics'-sticker they used a clean version of Human Nature, that cuts out the line 'I'm not your bitch, don't hang your shit on me'.

Some singles were surprisingly left off, like This Used To Be My Playground, I'll Remember, You'll See and You Must Love Me (all of which were certified gold in the US). Or what about Fever, Bad Girl, Rain and more recently Nothing Really Matters? Some, like This Used To Be My Playground, I'll Remember, You'll See and Rain of course did already appear on the ballads collection Something To Remember.

In an interview with BBC's Jo Whiley Madonna said about the selection of the GHV2 tracks: "I only wanted songs that I could listen to 5 times in a row". American Pie was excluded as a 'punishment' because Madonna regretted putting it on the Music album. "It was something a certain record company executive twisted my arm into doing, but it didn't belong on the album so now it's being punished". The original tracklist of GHV2 showed a more random order of the songs and it included You'll See instead of Drowned World/Substitute For Love.

The name was another subject of rumour for a long time. First everyone spoke about 'The Immaculate Collection 2'. Later names as 'Second Coming' and 'Hit Lady' were mentioned. In the end it would just turn out to be 'Greatest Hits Volume 2' or 'GHV2'.

Despite many speculations in advance, there were no singles released from this album. However, there's a Madonna megamix that was brought to clubs and radio to promote the album. There are three versions of this megamix, made by Thunderpuss: the original (4'52), an extended version for the clubs (12'36), and a radio edit (3'30). None of these are commercially released. Thunderpuss mixed Don't Tell Me, Erotica, Secret, Frozen, What It Feels Like For A Girl, Take A Bow, Deeper And Deeper, Music and Ray of Light (in that order). The original version has some spoken words at the beginning of Deeper And Deeper: this was a recorded message used on the (early) Internet to promote Bedtime Stories. On music channels the Thunderpuss megamix was accompanied by a video, compiled of images of live performances and 23 Madonna videos (can you spot them all?).

Thunderpuss wasn't the only remixer that was asked to make a GHV2 megamix. Later, other GHV2 megamixes appeared, among others one from Tracey Young and one called 'the GHV2 Johnny Rocks & Mac Quayle Megamix'.

The most successful pop compilations in New Zealand, the huge selling, TV-promoted '20 Solid Gold Hits' series ran for nearly 20 years, through the 1970s to early 80s. These LPs featured hits of the time, providing a unique collection of popular songs all on one record!

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