Ultimate Aaliyah
05/10/2005
Lyrics from Ultimate Aaliyah
All Music Guide Review
Ultimate Aaliyah was released in the U.K., but it has a lot to offer U.S. fans of any degree, especially if they have a region-free DVD player. Between the two audio discs in the set -- the first is a greatest hits, the second is a helpful grab-bag set -- all but three of Aaliyah's chart entries are included ("Age Ain't Nothing But a Number," "I Refuse," and "Come Over" are missing), and a DVD contains an hour-long documentary that features interviews and promo clips. Disc two contains the remainder of her tracks from the Romeo Must Die soundtrack as well as material from the Timbaland and Timbaland & Magoo albums she guested on. As of 2005, this was the most thorough Aaliyah best-of available, since 2002's I Care 4 U was split between past hits and new material. From the delightful "Back and Forth" through the all-too-sobering "Miss You," Ultimate Aaliyah adequately represents the shortened career of a tremendous talent who benefited from some of the best songwriting and production work by Timbaland, Missy Elliott, and R. Kelly. Casual fans will get most of the hits; collectors will be pleased to plug some gaps and get the documentary as a bonus. ~ Andy Kellman, All Music Guide
Ultimate Aaliyah Track Listing
Credits of Ultimate Aaliyah
- Peter Mokran
- Engineer, Mixing
- Chuck Nice
- Engineer
- Daryl Simmons
- Keyboards, Drum Programming, Producer
- Ken Ifill
- Mixing
- Glen Marchese
- Engineer
- Ivy Skoff
- Production Coordination
- Missy Elliott
- Vocals (Background), Vocal Ad-Libs, Producer, Vocal Arrangement
- Michael Fuller
- Mastering
- Timbaland
- Vocals, Executive Producer, Mixing, Vocal Ad-Libs, Creative Input, Producer
- Jim Caruana
- Studio Assistant
- Barry Hankerson
- Executive Producer, Music Supervisor
- Craig Kallman
- Executive Producer
- Doug Frank
- Executive in Charge of Music
- Irv Gotti
- Producer, Mixing
- Jomo Hankerson
- Executive Producer, Music Supervisor
- Lawrence Manchester
- Studio Assistant
- J-Dub
- Creative Input
- Devon Kirkpatrick
- Studio Assistant
- Drew Coleman
- Assistant Engineer, Studio Assistant
- Todd Wachsmuth
- Studio Assistant
- Nisan Stewart
- Drums
- Tann
- Vocals (Background)
- Flent Coleman
- Executive Producer
- Jimmy Henchmen
- Associate Producer
- Donnie Scantz
- Producer
- Budda
- Creative Input
- Halsey Quemere
- Mixing Assistant
- Eric Seats
- Producer, Instrumentation
- Demacio Castellon
- Engineer
- Joe "Bledsoe" Brown
- Studio Assistant
- Sebastian Monk
- Editing
- Gary LeMel
- Executive in Charge of Music
- Mr. Lee
- Mixing
- Aaliyah
- Vocals, Vocals (Background), Vocal Arrangement, Executive Producer
- R. Kelly
- Producer, Mixing
- Carlton Batts
- Mastering
- Ted Bishop
- Producer
- Rob Chiarelli
- Mixing
- Paulinho Da Costa
- Percussion
- Jimmy Douglass
- Engineer, Mixing
- Ronnie Garrett
- Bass
- Ben Garrison
- Engineer, Mixing
- Chris Gehringer
- Mastering
- Bernie Grundman
- Mastering
- Acar S. Key
- Engineer, Mixing
- Thom "TK" Kidd
- Engineer, Mixing
- Craig King
- Producer, Vocal Arrangement
- Slick Rick
- Rap, Vocal Ad-Libs





















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