The Best of Crystal Waters

Infobox Album
Name = The Best of Crystal Waters
Type = Compilation album
Artist = Crystal Waters


Released = August 11, 1998
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Genre = Pop/Urban/Dance
Length =
Label = Universal/Polygram
Producer =
Reviews =
Last album = "Crystal Waters"
(1997)
This album = "The Best of Crystal Waters"
(1998)
Next album = "Gypsy Woman - The Collection
(2001)

"The Best of Crystal Waters" is the first official compilation of Crystal Waters's music output. It was released on August 11, 1998, on Universal/Polygram. It includes most of the singles taken from her three full-length studio releases; Surprise (1991), Storyteller (1994) and Crystal Waters (1997). Also included are the non-LP tracks "The Boy From Ipanema" (an international single taken from the various artists Red Hot + Rio compilation) and "In De Ghetto" (a 1996 re-release of a 1994 Bad Yard Club single featuring then-new additional vocal contributions by Crystal Waters).

Controversially, The Best Of Crystal Waters release features all but one of the singles in original LP Version form instead of the often dramatically different single remixes. Minor hits "Surprise" and "Relax" suffer most from this oversight, but this also affects all three of her Billboard Hot 100 Top 40 hit singles ("Gypsy Woman (She's Homeless)," "100% Pure Love" and "Say...If You Feel Alright") which were radio and video hits with alternate edited and subtly remixed versions not included on this compilation.

Track listings

# "Gypsy Woman (She's Homeless)" (Radio Mix aka Surprise LP Version)
# "100% Pure Love" (Storyteller LP Version)
# "Say... If You Feel Alright" (Crystal Waters LP Version)
# "In de Ghetto" (1996 Radio Mix) - Bad Yard Club featuring Crystal Waters
# "Makin' Happy" (Hurley's Happy House 12") - CD mistakenly lists Hurley's Happy House 7"
# "Ghetto Day" (Storyteller LP Version)
# "Just a Freak" (Crystal Waters LP Version)
# "Spin Me" (Crystal Waters LP Version)
# "Relax" (Storyteller LP Version)
# "Surprise" (Surprise LP Version)
# "The Boy from Ipanema" (Red Hot + Rio LP Version)
# "Gypsy Woman (She's Homeless)" (Strip to the Bone Mix) - also included on the album Surprise, an edit of this version (Strip To The Bone Radio Edit) is the hit single and video version- "Gypsy Woman (She's Homeless)" (1998 Remix) (Hidden track. Plays after a few minutes of silence at the conclusion of track 12)