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Celine Dion: All the Way... A Decade of Song

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Label: Epic Records
Released: 1999.11.12
Time:
 73:08
Category: Pop/Rock
Producer(s): Walter Afanasieff, René Angélil, Roy Bittan, David Foster, Simon Franglen, Humberto Gatica, James Horner, R. Kelly, Robert John "Mutt" Lange, Kristian Lundin, Max Martin, Christopher Neil, Aldo Nova, Rick Nowels, Steven Rinkoff, Guy Roche, Matt Serletic, Billy Steinberg, Jim Steinman, Ric Wake
Rating: *****..... (5/10)
Media type: CD
Web address: www.celinedion.com
Appears with:
Purchase date: 2013
Price in €: 1,00





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[1] The Power of Love [Radio Edit] (C.DeRouge/G.Mende/M.S.Applegate/J.Rush) - 4:48
[2] If You Asked Me To (D.Warren) - 3:55
[3] Beauty and the Beast [Duet with Peabo Bryson] (A.Menken/H.Ashman) - 4:04
[4] Because You Loved Me (D.Warren) - 4:35
[5] It's All Coming Back to Me Now [Radio Edit] (J.Steinman) - 5:32
[6] Love Can Move Mountains [Radio Edit] (D.Warren) - 4:01
[7] To Love You More [Radio Edit] (D.Foster/J.Miles) - 4:41
[8] My Heart Will Go On (J.Horner/W.Jennings) - 4:42
[9] I'm Your Angel [duet with R. Kelly] (R.Kelly) - 5:31
[10] That's the Way It Is (K.Lundin/M.Martin/A.Carlsson) - 4:03
[11] If Walls Could Talk (R.J.Lange) - 5:19
[12] The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face (E.MacColl) - 4:09
[13] All the Way [duet with Frank Sinatra] (J.van Heusen/S.Cahn) - 3:53
[14] Then You Look at Me (J.Horner/W.Jennings) - 4:11
[15] I Want You to Need Me (D.Warren) - 4:36
[16] Live [for the One I Love] (R.Cocciante/L.Plamondon/W.Jennings) - 3:58

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Celine Dion – Liner Notes, Vocals

David Foster – Arranger, Keyboards, Producer, Vocal Arrangement, Background Vocals
Simon Franglen – Arranger, Engineer, Keyboards, Producer, Synclavier, Synclavier Programming, Synthesizer, Synthesizer Programming
Kristian Lundin – Engineer, Keyboards, Mixing, Producer, Programming
Max Martin – Engineer, Keyboards, Mixing, Producer, Programming, Background Vocals
John Gilutin – Keyboards, Piano
Esbjörn Öhrwall – Guitar
Dean Parks – Guitar, Acoustic Guitar
Michael Thompson – Guitar, Electric Guitar
Jacques Saugy – Guitar
Leland Sklar – Bass
Tomas Lindberg – Bass
John Robinson – Drums
Kenny Aronoff – Drums
Luis Conte – Percussion

Robert John "Mutt" Lange – Producer, Background Vocals
Humberto Gatica – Engineer, Mixing, Vocal Engineer, Vocals
Andreas Carlsson – Background Vocals
Leah Haywood – Background Vocals
Nana Hedin – Background Vocals
Shania Twain – Background Vocals

Suzie Katayama – Conductor
Jesse Levy – Orchestra Manager
James Horner – Arranger, Orchestration, Producer
Jeremy Lubbock – String Arrangements
William Ross – Arranger, Conductor, Orchestral Arrangements, String Arrangements
Matt Serletic – Arranger, Orchestration, Producer

René Angélil – Producer
Felipe Elgueta – Engineer, Producer, Programming, Synthesizer Programming
Vito Luprano – Executive Producer
John Doelp – Executive Producer
David Ashton – Engineer
Simon Rhodes – Engineer
David Thoener – Engineer
Frank Filipetti – Engineer
Andy Haller – Engineer, Second Engineer
John Herman – Engineer, Engineering Consultant
Danny Schneider – Technical Engineer
Ron Last – Assistant Engineer, Assistant Vocal Engineer, Mixing
Chris Brooke – Assistant Engineer, Assistant Vocal Engineer, Mixing, Mixing Assistant
Vladimir Meller – Mastering
Mark Dobson – Digital Editing, Pro-Tools
Matthew Freeman – Production Coordination
Will Rogers – Assistant Vocal Engineer
Michel Gallone – Assistant Engineer, Assistant Vocal Engineer
Jack Hersca – Transfers
Richard Meyer – Programming
Olle Romo – Programming
Valerie Pack – Production Coordination
Terry Chiazza – A&R
Maya Panvell – A&R

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1999 CD Columbia COL 496094 2



All the Way… A Decade of Song is the first English-language greatest hits album by Canadian recording artist Celine Dion. Released by Sony Music Entertainment on November 12, 1999, it features nine previously released and seven new recordings. Dion worked on new songs mainly with David Foster, other producers include: Max Martin, Kristian Lundin, Robert John "Mutt" Lange, James Horner and Matt Serletic.

All the Way... A Decade of Song garnered positive reviews from music critics. They praised the first uptempo single "That's the Way It Is" and a ballad "If Walls Could Talk." Some criticism was directed towards including a small number of hits and many new recordings. Despite that, the album became a commercial success throughout the world and peaked at number one in every major music market around the globe. All the Way... A Decade of Song has sold 8,000,000 copies in the United States, according to Nielsen SoundScan. It has also sold five million copies in Europe and shipped two million copies in Japan and one million in Canada. During the first two years of its release, the album had sold over seventeen million copies worldwide.

The lead single, "That's the Way It Is" was well received by critics and became a commercial success around the world. The following singles were released in selected countries only and without any promotion from Dion, who was on her two-years break from the music industry, they performed moderately on the charts.

All the Way... A Decade of Song garnered generally positive reviews from music critics. Michael Paoletta from Billboard gave it a very positive review, calling the album a reminder of why the decade has been Dion's signature era – and why the future looks bright for her. According to him, regarding seven new songs, All the Way... A Decade of Song is Dion's most focused album yet, drawing on a team of collaborators that understands this artists's strengths. Among the highlights Paoletta mentioned: the first single "That's the Way It Is", a welcone uptempo number; "I Want You to Need Me", a consummate love song ripe for a second single; "If Walls Could Talk;" "Then You Look at Me", a characteristically "roof-raising, fan-stoking" Dion anthem; her "beyond-the-pale" duet with Frank Sinatra on "All the Way"; and "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face", a remake that "affirms Dion's ability to lay low and still scintillate."

Chuck Taylor from Billboard also praised "That's the Way It Is." He wrote that Dion at last "ups the tempo with the irresistible" first single. According to Taylor, this new track, a joyful ode to holding the faith but allowing love to take its course when it's ready, matches Dion with a new team of collaborators, consistent hitmakers: Max Martin, Kristian Lundin and Andreas Carlsson. "Replete with a festive mandolin and a midtempo beat to bring new heights to her as-ever splendid vocal," this song is "destined to enrapture" top forty and AC the first time through, at last stripping away mainstream radio's gripe that Dion is "too adult." He said that, youthful and yet elegant, and glowing brightly with warmth, the song also represents a bold step forward for Martin, who is best known for his work with chart-topping youth acts. All in all, "That's the Way It Is" is "one of the most compelling radio releases yet" from "one of the core voices of the decade."

Chuck Taylor also reviewed "I Want You to Need Me" and wrote that linking Dion and Diane Warren has always been about "as fine a fit as a trusty pair of Thom McAn's." Between Warren's "heart-drenched" words and dramatic melody writing and Dion's "potent vocals straight from soulside, divadom has never sounded so mighty." According to him, for fans of Dion's "high-caliber" power ballads, this is truly among the best ever and a highlight on All the Way... A Decade of Song. Longing for romantic attention, Dion sings, "I want you to need me, like the air you breathe/I want you to feel me, in everything/I want you to see me, in your every dream/The way that I taste you, feel you, breathe you, need you." Taylor stated that Warren's trusty melody is wholly natural and free-flowing, while production from the usually rock-oriented Matt Serletic is "sheer perfection." It all peaks from the glorious midsection through to the end, where Dion delivers exactly what we've come to expect: a crescendo as "spine-tingling" as those first few times we heard "My Heart Will Go On."

Although Stephen Thomas Erlewine of AllMusic gave the album four out of five stars, he criticized it for including seven new songs and just nine hits. According to him, if it had been a straight hits collection, with "That's the Way It Is" and "If Walls Could Talk" added to the end, it would have been fine, but padding it with nearly a full album worth of new material hurts it. He also noticed that Dion's first American hit, "Where Does My Heart Beat Now", isn't here, nor is her duet with Barbra Streisand, "Tell Him." Erlewine stated that the best of the hits, like the Meat Loaf-ian epic "It's All Coming Back to Me Now" and "My Heart Will Go On," are certainly among the best adult contemporary songs of the decade. In comparison to the new material, he felt that the danceable "That's the Way It Is" and the "pretty" ballad "If Walls Could Talk," work, but he did not like "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face" and "All the Way." According to him, the remaining three new songs "aren't bad," but they're not particularly memorable, especially compared to the hits.

All the Way... A Decade of Song received the 2000 Japan Gold Disc Award for International Pop Album of the Year and "All the Way", duet with Frank Sinatra, was nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals at the 43rd Grammy Awards.

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Ein Treffen von zwei Pop-Überfliegern hätte stattgefunden, so munkelte man vor einigen Jahren. Wäre die Arbeit zwischen der Balladensängerin und Superlunge Celine Dion und der exzentrischen Produzentenlegende Phil Spector nicht schon in einem frühen Stadium abgebrochen worden, die Fans des kanadischen Superstars wären womöglich in den Genuß ihrer besten und interessantesten Musik gekommen. Wie auch immer, Dion hat den Mut zum Wechsel gezeigt, insbesondere in der Zusammenarbeit mit Jim Steinman, dem Macher von Meat Loaf, auf dem ausgefallenen Opus "It's All Coming Back To Me Now".

All the Way enthält exakt, was man von einer Greatest-Hits-Sammlung dieser Millionenseller-Lady erwartet hätte, bietet darüber hinaus aber noch mehr. In einer großzügigen Geste ihren Fans gegenüber wählte Dion neun ihrer wichtigsten Singles aus ("My Heart Will Go On", "Because You Loved Me" und "Beauty And The Beast"). Der Rest der CD besteht dann jedoch aus sieben neuen Titeln, wo normalerweise einer oder zwei zum Verkaufserfolg durchaus gereicht hätten. Die meisten davon entsprechen dem, was Fans und Kritiker wohl erwartet hätten, Sinatra-Liebhaber allerdings werden inständig hoffen, daß mit dem Titelstück "All the Way" die Sinatra-Familie zum letzten Mal ihre Genehmigung gegeben hat, Frank mit "irgendeinem" Star in einem künstlichen Duett singen zu lassen. Songs wie "I Want You To Need Me" und "Live" sind besser strukturiert -- zwar nicht weniger zurückhaltend, aber mit mehr Bedacht aufgenommen. Sie lassen hoffen, daß Dion irgendwann einmal eine wirklich künstlerische Plattform erklimmt und trotzdem ihre Breitenwirkung bei ihren Millionen von Fans behält.

Rickey Wright - Amazon.de



A meeting of two over-the-top pop minds was said a few years ago to have happened. If work between chest-pounding pop balladeer Celine Dion and legendarily eccentric producer Phil Spector hadn't been aborted in its early stages, fans of the Canadian superstar might have heard her best, most interesting music. As it is, Dion has shown herself game for a challenge, notably in a collaboration with Meat Loaf svengali Jim Steinman on the offbeat opus "It's All Coming Back to Me Now." All the Way... A Decade of Song is just what you'd expect of a multiplatinum seller's greatest-hits package, but it's also more. Displaying a generosity toward her fans, Dion cherry picks nine signature singles ("My Heart Will Go On," "Because You Loved Me," "Beauty and the Beast"), then fills the rest of the CD with seven new cuts when one or two would have done the commercial trick. Most of these are just what admirers and detractors would expect, and Sinatra lovers will hope that All the Way's title track is the last time his family allows an invented Frank-and-random-celebrity duet to take place. But the textures of "I Want You to Need Me" and "Live," while hardly understated, are more measured. They give hope that Dion may yet take herself to a higher artistic plateau, while still pleasing her millions of listeners.

Rickey Wright - Amazon.com



There aren't a lot of greatest-hits albums with seven new songs, which is exactly what All the Way: A Decade of Song is. There are just nine hits on this hits collection, and of those, only a handful -- "If You Asked Me To," "Beauty and the Beast," "The Power of Love," "Because You Loved Me," "It's All Coming Back to Me Now," and "My Heart Will Go On" -- were huge hits in the U.S. Her first American hit, "Where Does My Heart Beat Now," isn't here, nor is her duet with Barbra Streisand, "Tell Him." Naturally, this means it's not a definitive collection, but rather an unsatisfying album that feels suspiciously like a piece of product. The best of the hits, like the Meat Loaf-ian epic "It's All Coming Back to Me Now" and "My Heart Will Go On," are certainly among the best adult contemporary songs of the decade, and the new stuff would pale in comparison, even if it was very good -- which, by and large, it is not. Two numbers, the danceable "That's the Way it Is" and the pretty ballad "If Walls Could Talk," work, but the cover of "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face" falls flat and "All the Way," complete with old vocals from Sinatra, is a disaster. The remaining three aren't bad, but they're not particularly memorable, especially compared to the hits. And that's the problem with All the Way -- if it had been a straight hits collection, with "That's the Way it Is" and "If Walls Could Talk" added to the end, it would have been fine, but padding it with nearly a full album worth of new material hurts it.

Stephen Thomas Erlewine - AllMusic.com



"Dieser Sampler bietet alles, was der Fan braucht: die großen Hits, hübsche Video- Clips mit großer Gestik, Duette mit R. Kelly oder Frank Sinatras Stimme - und Abwechslung."

J. Seibold - Audio 4/2002
 

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