Legacy: The Greatest Hits Collection＜タワーレコード限定/Purple Vinyl＞

2001年にリリースされたBoyz II Menのグレイテスト・ヒッツ・コレクション。
2LP限定パープル・カラー・ヴァイナル。

Released a decade into Boyz II Men's enormously successful career and a year after another best-of collection, Ballad Collection, Legacy: The Greatest Hits Collection puts all the quartet's hits on one disc. Songs like "Motownphilly" and "End of the Road" were phenomenons during their reign atop the Billboard charts, and many of the other songs here were nearly as ubiquitous at various points in the '90s. Boyz II Men's success simmered out a bit toward the latter end of the '90s, but that doesn't mean they weren't performing great songs. Even if singles like "Song for Mama" didn't dominate the airwaves like the group's early-'90s hits, they're still amazing. Not surprisingly, Legacy focuses on Boyz II Men's first two albums -- Cooleyhighharmony and II -- and not so much on Evolution and Nathan Michael Shawn Wanya. Overall, this best-of is a great place to get all of Boyz II Men's hits if you're not one of the millions of people who bought the original LPs. ~ Jason Birchmeier

そもそも過去4枚のオリジナル・アルバムからして〈グレイテスト・ヒッツ〉そのものなボーイズIIメンの初ベスト集。デビュー・ヒットの“Motownphilly”を筆頭に、“Song For Mama”、それに最新曲まで、思い当たるヒットはほとんど網羅された贅沢盤で、端正なコーラス・ワークを武器に90年代を駆け抜けた彼らのすべてが味わえる。特典として神秘的な未発表バラードも収録……と、ファン泣かせな一枚。もちろん入門者にも。
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