Essential R&B - The Very Best Of R&B Summer 2004 - Various Artists

Advantages: Light, easy listening, well known tunes
Disadvantages: Some dodgy songs on there

Essential R&B.... let's see shall we... The first song on this album is Eamon's F*** it. Pretty good way to start the album, admittedly its an old tune now but it probably was the most popular and most played (well one of the) of 2004. Who didn't hear that song? It includes a lot of the most popular chart songs of 2004 and before, such as 50 Cent's In Da Club, R Kelly's Ignition Remix, another classic, and Usher's You got it Bad. The songs on ...
...hop type songs, a few slower songs that are more love songs than anything, and of course, a lot of R&B. The second disk starts with Outkast's Hey Ya, which gets the disk off to a good start! No Scrubs and Hot in Herre are also present, as well as, strangely, Natasha Bedingfield's Single? I found that pretty strange. I believe this CD was around £13 when I purchased it, but you'll probably be able to pick it up for a couple of quid now, as it's quite ... Read review

i love this product, i love r&b and will carry on listening to the type of music. i love every aspect of the music.

Advantages: this is a great summer time album a real feel good c.d. a great gift
Disadvantages: some of the tracks have been played a lot on the radio over the last couple of years

I first brought this cd in 2004 and i used to play this a lot in the car its a real feel good summertime album, this album has a wide variety of styles, from older tracks such as qtip - breathe and stop, swv - right here, 2pac and dr dre - california love, but also more funkier tracks such as outkast - hey ya! and dj jazzy jeff and the fresh prince - summertime it also moves slightly towards garage with tracks such as dizzy rascal - i love u, wiley ... Read review

Advantages: very good listing
Disadvantages: some bad songs

If your a r&b person you will love this cd i was amased by how good this cd is. this cd only as a few dodgy songs on it but i must say if you have it in the back grond of a party this is a great cd. when im doing work or board i put this cd on and it pulls me straight away. when i let my gf borrow it she was amased hhow great it was all put togeather. so i would highly recamend this cd to ant one who luvs R & B. even the dodgy songs are easy to listen ... Read review