Browse Music
Rock & Pop
R&B & Hip-Hop
Country
Blues
Jazz
Classical
Latin
Christian
Soundtracks
Collections
Joan Osborne
The Best Of Joan Osborne - The Millennium Collection
Joan Osborne:  The Best Of Joan Osborne - The Millennium Collection

$6.99
Listen Greatest Hits

Album Review

Released: 2007
Label: Hip-O Records
Selection #: 171970
Top-Five One Of Us, plus Baby Love, Crazy Baby, Righteous Love, Son Of A Preacher Man (live), Love Is Alive, Make You Feel My Love, etc.
Listen RM WM
1 St. Teresa
2 One of Us
3 Right Hand Man
4 Spider Web
5 Crazy Baby
6 Spooky [#]
7 Baby Love
8 Love Is Alive
9 Righteous Love
10 Make You Feel My Love
11 Son of a Preacher Man [Live]
  
Download Player:    Real Media Real Media    Windows Media Windows Media
Album Review

Joan Osborne set the world on fire for a few minutes back in the '90s with her reading of Eric Bazilian's "One Of Us," a single that dominated the charts for the better part of a year and continues to get radio play. The album, "Relish", sold into the millions, making everybody and her brother (especially the folks at her label Interscope) think she was going to be a superstar. It didn't work out that way. Despite being one of the greatest R&B and soul singers around (before she played in the big leagues she issued a few independent recordings on her own Womanly Hips label that offer stellar proof of this), she got her rep as a pop singer; worse yet, as part of the '90s wave of female acts who dominated the charts for a little while and was a part of the first Lilith Fair, while singing pop songs at half power no less. She recorded one more album for Interscope (which is owned by Universal). Despite being an integral part of the film -- and soundtrack -- for "Standing in the Shadows of Motown", no tracks from that fine score are here. Instead, There are five cuts from "Relish", three from her sophomore effort "Righteous Love", her own awful "Baby Love," from the soundtrack "For The Love Of The Game" which was remixed a year later for "Righteous Love", and a pair of covers that offer solid proof of Osborne's great gift: an unreleased cover of "Spooky" (demo-sounding) cut in 1998, and a live version of the soul classic "Son Of A Preacher Man," from her own "Soul Show" disc that ended up being part of a hastily cribbed together compilation from her early records called "Early Recordings". "20th Century Masters -- Millennium Collection" is budget-cheap, but other than those looking for the hit, (which is available on any number of compilations not only by her, but in various-artists comps and hit singles sets galore) there is little reason to even consider this collection. ~ Thom Jurek, All Music Guide

Back To Top
Shipping Is Always Free
About This Artist
Biography


Other albums by: Joan Osborne
Joan Osborne:  Relish AMG Top Pick Listen Joan Osborne
Relish

$6.99

more
Related Artists
Blues Traveler
Sheryl Crow
Rod Stewart
Tracy Bonham
Meredith Brooks
Beth Orton
Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong
Ella Fitzgerald
Ella Fitzgerald & Duke Ellington
Billie Holiday
Etta James
Linda Ronstadt
more

Any reproduction, publication, further distribution, or public exhibition of materials provided at this site, in whole or in part, is strictly prohibited.
©2006 All Media Guide, LLC
Portions of content provided by All Music Guide®, a trademark of All Media Guide, LLC