Brandy Album: “The Best Of Brandy”

Brandy has never been one of your typical soul belters nor has she been a pretty all dancing/some singing r'n'b puppet princess. What this retrospective shows is that over the last 10 years, she has used her warm, husky voice with subtelty and to excellent effect. Production on all of her albums has been sympathetic allowing her voice to almost "float" over the music at times giving it an ethereal quality. This is top notch contemporary pop/r'n'b that plays well to Brandy's strengths particularly on tracks like The Boy Is Mine, Sittin' Up In My Room and Talk About Our Love. Having said all this, for some reason Warner has released a different Best of Brandy in this part of the world. According to the track list here on Amazon the US release is missing Top Of The World, Missing You, Sittin' Up In My Room and Talk About Our Love while my version doesn't have Angel In Disguise, Brokenhearted, Best Friend and He Is. I think I got the better deal.

I was very happy with the selection of Brandy songs that were put on this album. All of these songs are my absolute favorites from Brandy. They all show her growth and her range from the first single "Baby" to her most current work "Afrodisiac". This is one of the best "greatest hits" or "best of" albums that I have purchased in a while. Some of my favorites on this CD are "Baby", "Best Friend", "I Wanna Be Down", "Angel In Disguise", "Sittin Up In My Room", "Talk About Our Love", and "Almost Doesn't Count". I recommend this album for any Brandy fan or R&B fan. BKLYNBABYLON signing off...

There is no song called "He Is" on this album. And "Sittin' up in my room" is on this album but is not on this list.

The Album is great!!!!! I love both songs that were remade: Rock With You and Paradise. They were great.

I love me some Brandy Rayanna Norwood. I don't know there is something about the chick that keeps me wanting more and more. She is so beautiful, talented and just incredibly hot!!! I am so pleased with this compilation from her. My favorites include Angel In Disguise, Full Moon, Another Day In Paradise wiv the fine Ray-J, ECT. As you listen to each song you can really appreciate her growth over the years both artistically and vocally.

Upon listening to the album people should finally stop hating on her, and understand that she is only human and she deals with the same insecurities and problems that we all face. She is a living Legend in the R&B genre and the industry would never be the same without her. I'm so happy that she has bounced back from the disappointing sales of her last album (the amazing "Afrodisiac" *see my review) and is still going. It's okay Bran Bran, we all know you were going through a lot of shiznit last year. Please go cop this album it's totally hot . Keep going B-Rocka do yo thang, we love you girl!!!!

I love this album. Brandy is great and very talented. I didn't enter a fifth star, becuase Sitting Up In My Room isn't on here. That would have made this absolutely the best. All the other songs are great though and you'll love this.