If I Could Turn Back Time - Cher's Greatest Hits

Album Review

This greatest-hits collection was released at a time when Cher was enjoying a massive musical comeback with her hit song and album Believe. Cher is one of those artists who, like Diana Ross, seems to have countless greatest-hits collections, both in the U.S. and abroad. This set offers one previously unreleased song, "Don't Come Cryin' to Me," written by Diane Warren, and the focus is mainly on the hits from her Geffen era, between 1987 and 1992. This album features her '80s comeback hit "I Found Someone," the massive "If I Could Turn Back Time," and her duet with Peter Cetera, "After All." Other notables include her hit from the Mermaids soundtrack, "The Shoop Shoop Song (It's in His Kiss)" (which was a number one hit overseas), and the single remix of "Heart of Stone." To touch on her '70s hits, this album includes her three signature "story songs," "Half-Breed," "Dark Lady," and "Gypsies, Tramps & Thieves," as well as two other Top Ten hits, 1972's "The Way of Love" and 1979's disco hit "Take Me Home." For good measure, "I Got You Babe" closes out the album. This collection touches upon different eras of Cher's recording career, with emphasis on the Geffen years, but is by no means all-inclusive, and certainly doesn't touch on any of her hits from Believe, or even her last Geffen hit, "One By One." One would need a box set to collect all those songs. ~ Jose F. Promis, Rovi