Greatest Hits (1985-1995)

For a greatest hits package, Bolton serves up a healthy dose of new tunes: the country-tinged "I Promise You," the atmospheric "This River," and the aptly-titled "A Love So Beautiful" are lush ballads to treasure, and "I Found Someone" finds him cleverly remaking his own tune a la "How Am I Supposed to Live Without You?" (the songs, both written by Bolton, were originally made hits by Cher and Laura Branigan, respectively). But a real surprise is found in the eyebrow-raiser "Can I Touch You...There?," as Michael lays down a sensual vocal over a sparse, hip-hop flavored track laced with pan flutes and ethereal keyboards. The dark, moody cut proves once and for all that even a middle-of-the-road pop artist can't be completely pigeonholed. In fact, the album as a whole proves that notion, as it becomes unavoidably obvious that even though Michael Bolton may have had the hair and vocal register to invite criticism, he also had the songwriting technique and pure honest passion to silence it. Fans of mature pop music can't do much better.

Greatest Hits (1985-1995)

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