Samantha Fox Album: «Greatest Hits»

- Customers rating: (4.2 of 5)
- Title:Greatest Hits
- Release date:2009-03-24
- Type:Audio CD
- Label:Sony Uk/Zoom
- UPC:828765357722
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- 1 Touch Me (I Want Your Body)img 3:48
- 2 Do Ya Do Ya (Wanna Please Me)img 3:57
- 3 Nothing's Gonna Stop Me Nowimg 3:44
- 4I Only Want to Be With You
- 5 I Surrender (To the Spirit of the Night)img 3:44
- 6 I Wanna Have Some Funimg 4:43
- 7 Hold On Tightimg 3:49
- 8 Just One Nightimg 5:54
- 9 Naughty Girls (Need Love Too)img 4:26
- 10I Promise You (Get Ready)3:53
- 11 (I Can't Get No) Satisfactionimg 5:38
- 12 Love Houseimg 3:39
- 13Another Woman (Too Many People)
- 14 Spirit Of Americaimg 4:49
- 15Hot Lovin'
- 16 Giving Me A Hard Timeimg 2:44
- 17 Even In The Darkest Hoursimg 5:26
- 18 UK Megamiximg 9:45
It is a sacrilege that Samantha Fox is regarded as a joke, a topless model who had a bunch of hits. She did more than that. First of all only a couple of her huge hits were produced by Stock Aitken and Waterman, and obviously have not stood the test of time very well, they were very much a thing of their time. All the rest are respectable music tracks. He first album "Touch Me (I Want Your Body)" spawned 4 hit singles (Touch Me, Do Ya Do Ya, Hold On Tight, I'm All You Need) , and only "Hold On Tight" is a bit cheesy pop.
Then she teamed up with SAW and did "Samatha Fox" (hits: Nothing's Gonna Stop Me Now, I Surrender, Naughty Girls), a great album, then "I Wanna Have Some Fun" which is already more in that urban dance from the US that was becoming popular in the late late 80s, (hits: I Wanna Have Some Fun, Love House -very good-, I Only Wanna Be With You). Then she kinda went off to the US and did "Just One Night" which is really a more r&b album, very us-influenced and I never got into it much. After many collections she has done an album she recorded in her own studio, called "21st Century Fox" in like 1997, repackaged a couple of years later as "Watching Me, Watching You". This last one is a bit eurodiscotrash, as the songs sound not very professional, you can hear they are not big-budget stuff, but yet it's a very good album and if you like Sammy you have to get it. Late October 2005 sees the Canadian-only release (apparently) of her new album "Angel With An Attitude" and I can't wait to see what it sounds like.
PS to that reviewer. Trash music is at the core of the us music biz too, just take a look at britney baby ok? that's just one example. Oh, and Sammy is still singing, just for you I bet ;)
you were 17 and went cruising with your dudes? You were probably blasting old Metallica or Guns-n-Roses, smoking cheap cigarettes and passing around a bottle of Boone's Farm. Well there were other nights too. You were probably in the back seat of your girlfriend's car, parked in some dark hidden place. If you were lucky she had Samantha Fox on the tape deck. She'd be singing along to 'Touch Me' as you were copping a feel. Well those days are long gone, and that old girlfriend is somebody's wife now with a couple of kids. But the memories remain. Samantha Fox was queen of the hip-hop eighties. These teeny-bobber girl singers of today should take a lesson from Sam. She didn't write her own songs either, but her sexuality could be felt through the speakers. C'mon you know you couldn't walk down a record store ailse without looking at her album covers. She was great, she was the 80's. Oh I miss those days...............
I am a huge Sam Fox fan and when I saw this album, I was overjoyed! There are some of her less-than-stellar tracks (Just One Night, which *is* funny at the end, Hold On Tight, and in my opinion, her worst song - Spirit of America), but there are also some great Sam tunes. You get the rare radio edits of "Naughty Girls," "I Wanna Have Some Fun," and "Love House." You also get the brilliant video version of "Another Woman (Too Many People)." Along with those gems comes three rare b-sides "Hot Lovin'" (from the "Hurt Me" single), "Giving Me A Hard Time," & "Even In The Darkest Hours" (from a rare Japanese remix CD). And even more fun - there's a hidden 18th track - the Sam Fox UK Megamix. Although it's only four and a half minutes, it's very cool to have and a true rarity. Don't miss this CD if you're a Foxy fan!
I'm a fan of sam since she started singing. The greatest hits album gives you an idea hows sams singing improves with every album she has made. There are the know songs on the album and some great unkown songs of her. I have seen and heard sam live and yes she can sing and preform like a real artist.
A big fan of sam's music
Any real fans of Samantha Fox will already own these songs. But for casual fans or those just looking to add some 80s hits to their music collection, prepare for disappointment. The songs are catchy, but the first time I played this disc I was caught off-guard: the most popular U.S. single, "Naughty Girls (Need Love Too)" is a poorly edited version, not one that any radio stations played. I can't figure out why they'd decide to make the edits. On top of that, I can't figure out who decided that the edits actually sound good... when I heard them, I was convinced that my CD was scratched. They were THAT noticeable.
The short story: If you want "Naughty Girls", find it on another compilation.


