Looking for... the Best

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Looking For ... the Best
Looking For the Best of David Hasselhoff.jpg
Compilation album by
Released9 October 1995 (Germany)
Genre Easy Listening
Label BMG Music
David Hasselhoff chronology
For You
(1995)
Looking For ... the Best
(1995)
Hooked on a Feeling
(1997)

Looking for... the Best of David Hasselhoff is a greatest hits album released by David Hasselhoff in Germany in October 1995. [1]

Contents

Internet meme

Looking for has become the center of an Internet meme, in what Mashable described as a "review bomb": [2] participants leaving humorous reviews on Amazon.com, many of which state that the song "Hot Shot City" is "particularly good". [3] [4]

Track listing

  1. "Looking for Freedom"
  2. "Wir Zwei Allein"
  3. "Crazy for You"
  4. "Do the Limbo Dance"
  5. "Flying on the Wings of Tenderness"
  6. "Hot Shot City"
  7. "Save the World"
  8. "These Lovin' Eyes"
  9. "Du"
  10. "Fallin' in Love"
  11. "Is Everybody Happy"
  12. "Best Is Yet to Come"
  13. "Freedom for the World"
  14. "Je T'Aime Means I Love You"
  15. "Do You Believe in Love"
  16. "Danice Dance d'Amour"
  17. "Everybody Sunshine"
  18. "I Believe" (duet with Laura Branigan)

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References

  1. "Looking for... the Best of David Hasselhoff Remastered". amazon.de. Retrieved 12 June 2017.
  2. 10 Hilarious Amazon Review Bombs, at Mashable; published February 15, 2013; retrieved December 14, 2017
  3. "Tiny Pineapple - Hot Shot City is particularly good". Tiny Pineapple. Retrieved 2014-01-18.
  4. Music Appreciation: Hasselhoff's high notes, by Julian Champkin, at the Guardian ; published January 20, 2003; retrieved December 14, 2017