Number 1's (Destiny's Child album) pure product and not feel wrong for doing so". Despite classifying its title as "misleading" and criticizing the new material, "Houston Chronicle"s editor Michael D. Clark wrote the album was "dolled up as beautiful and immaculate as" the members of the group and included their best singles from their four studio albums. John A. Hanson of Sputnikmusic felt that the greatest hits album was released "at the perfect time" as many of the songs were released a long time ago and "they've lost the overplayedness, but its soon enough that they still have some sort of relevance". He concluded for
The Folk Singer in 1970, the song reached a wider audience from these versions. "The Folk Singer" was recorded by Australian post-punk group Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds in 1985, with a slightly altered lyric, under the title "The Singer." First released as a single in June 1986, the song later appeared on the band's third studio album, "Kicking Against the Pricks", which was composed entirely of cover versions. "The Singer" was performed live on all of the band's following tour dates throughout 1986—1989 and on a number of other occasions up until 2005. The Folk Singer "The Folk Singer" is a