The song "Hot Shot City" is particularly good.


The very epitome of musical godliness.   June 20, 2001
86 out of 88 found this review helpful

Twice the ruggedness of mortal man, ten times the talent of any other artist, Hasselhoff dazzles on this CD. Every track has been plucked from the heavens and trembles with vigor and force. God Himself could not record as good a greatest hits album like this, and if He were to listen to all 17 tracks on this compilation, He would refrain from striking me down for blasphemy. The song "Hot Shot City" is particularly good.


Achtung! Achtung! Der GENIUS of Herr Hasselhoff!!   December 31, 2002
Charles Henry Higgensworth III (Boston, Massachusetts)
112 out of 117 found this review helpful

Economic nationalists throughout the country shuddered when the Commerce Department announced a Q3 trade imbalance comfortably exceeding $100 billion, the highest on record. We buy our electronics from Japan, our confections from France, and our oil from the Persian Gulf. So why must we import the cream of our own culture from abroad? We don't store the Constitution in Germany. We don't launch the Space Shuttle from China. So why must we buy our Hasselhoff from distant foreign lands? Demand for this benchmark piece of Americana will surely send the trade economy reeling even closer to the abyss.

Its pending stupefying popularity notwithstanding, this is not an album without flaws, as flaws are inevitable when one takes on the impossible task of distilling Hasselhoff to a single disk. This is, after all, akin to reducing Aristotle to a lone pamphlet - nay, a matchbook cover. Because while this CD does include every Hasselhoff song that topped the charts in ninety countries or more, it was really the deep album work that made Hasselhoff synonymous with underground edge, incendiary lyrics, and youthful angst the world over. The poets who found their calling in the deeply nuanced lyrics of 1984's "Night Rocker" will be crestfallen to see that album underrepresented beyond its touchstone hits. Jungle-based rebels from Columbia to Burma who viewed 1989's "Looking for Freedom" as a clarion call to arms will be outraged that the entire second side of that inflammatory album is absent (with the inevitable exception of "Flying on the Wings of Tenderness"). And lovers who exchanged their lifetime vows to the ballads of "Crazy For You" will be devastated to see that only two of them are included here (even "I Wanna Move to the Beat of Your Heart" is inexplicably omitted!). However, the wounds gouged into our souls by these countless omissions are salved by the sweet succor of the eighteen songs that are included. All told, despite the travesties that come from reducing Hasselfhoff to a single disc, this is clearly one of the finest works in the entire oeuvre of human expression.


Really Really Rescellent!   April 7, 2003
Scooby-Doo (Raghdad, Riraq)
61 out of 62 found this review helpful

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As moist and tender as brownies   May 27, 2002
Ursula Sedenberry (Second Cloning Station, Kamino)
51 out of 51 found this review helpful

What more could be said about David Hasselhoff's looks. Nothing. So it's only icing on the cake that he also has musical talent. And not just your average, Dave Grohl-can-sing kind of talent; Hasselhoff towers above the average singer with his rapid-style singsong rapping. The inflections he gives betray a profound understanding of subtlety, the restraint of a genius. He purposely, almost defiantly avoids hitting the "correct" notes on "Flying on the Wings of Tenderness," "Crazy For You," "I Believe," "Wir Zwei Allein," "Je T'aime Means I Love You," "Freedom For the World," and "Dance Dance D'amour," as well as on the rest of the songs on the CD. His mastery of the English language not enough to sate his hunger for lyrics, he crosses over into German, French and even Swahili in some of the songs, giving speakers of those languages something new to revile. Hasselhoff's contribution to musicdom is immeasurable, so you might as well put away whatever measuring devices you were about to use on him.

The song 'Hot Shot City' is particularly good.