TRACK LIST:
1. DESTINY’S CHILD – Emotions
2. RICKY MARTIN – She’s All I Ever Had
3. MANDY MOORE – I Wanna Be With You
4. GEORGE MICHAEL & ELTON JOHN – Don’t Let the Sun Go Down On Me
5. MARVIN GAYE – Sexual Healing
6. MACY GRAY – I Try
7. CYNDI LAUPER – True Colors
8. BILLY JOEL – She’s Always a Woman
9. BANGLES – Eternal Flame
10. SADE – No Ordinary Love
11. BOB DYLAN – To Make You Feel My Love
12. BERLIN – Take My Breath Away
13. JESSICA SIMPSON – I Wanna Love You Forever
14. BAD ENGLISH – When I See You Smile
15. REO SPEEDWAGON – Can’t Fight This Feeling
16. JOURNEY – Open Arms
17. MEATLOAF – Two Out of Three Ain’t Bad
18. GROVER WASHINGTON, JR. & BILL WITHERS Just the Two of Us
You would have to put a gun to my head to make me listen to most of this. I like the Marvin Gaye and Cyndi Lauper. Not one of Dylan’s best. A couple I don’t know. But Jessica Simpson, Ricky Martin, Reo, Destinys Child, Billy Joel, Meatloaf-all songs I want to avoid at all costs.
Steve, these are some of the songs that dominated the airwaves years ago. Marvin Gaye and Cyndi Lauper were favorites of mine back then.
In general, I’m on Steve’s side with this one, though I never get tired of the Marvin Gaye.
Jeff, Marvin Gaye had a string of hits throughout the Sixties and Seventies. He came to a sad end.
I feel the same – though I don’t know all of the artists!
Meatloaf’s “I would do anything for love” however is a classic!
PS:
What’s the common motif vor this collection – I don’t get it. 🙂
Wolf, I’m guessing SONY owned the rights to these songs and just packaged them up for the Mass Market. Cobbling together CD anthologies wasn’t Rocket Science.
Wolf—obviously this is supposed to be background music for sexy-fun-times. If the guy on the cover had more defined abs, that picture could be the cover of a contemporary romance novel!
Of all the songs here, my favorite is Sade’s “No Ordinary Love”. I’m afraid an Elton John-George Michael duet would not be “mood music” for moi…but to each his/her own.
Not that there’s anything wrong with that, of course, Deb.
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Deb, I’m guessing the Elton John-George Michael song might have been included for listeners with alternative life-styles.
You mean like people who prefer to stay home and read a book?
Rick, exactly!
Not much here to get excited about. Even the few artists I like (Dylan, Billy Joel, Marvin Gaye, and Elton John) aren’t represented by songs I’d really care about ever hearing again. Even by the standards of these kitchen sink compilations, this one’s pretty weak.
Michael, I think I bought this CD in Canada sometime in the 1990s. Many of these performers have slipped in the Ratings.
Noting a few exceptions, these deserve to be forgotten!