Track Listing

1. THE ROSE
2. TOTAL ECLIPSE OF THE HEART
3. ALL OUT OF LOVE (FEAT DELTA GOODREM)
4. YOU LIGHT UP MY LIFE
5. EASY
6. YOUR ARE SO BEAUTIFUL (TO ME)
7. HAVE YOU EVER BEEN IN LOVE?
8. LOVE CAN BUILD A BRIDGE
9. THE DANCE
10. ALL OR NOTHING
11. YOU�VE LOST THAT LOVING FEELING

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1113 in Music
• Released on: 2006-11-20
• Number of discs: 1
• Dimensions: .19 pounds

Amazon.co.uk Review
Far from collapsing after the departure of founder member Brian McFadden, Irish boy-band Westlife have gone from strength to strength. In the last two years they've undertaken successful tours, delivered top-notch singles and albums and generally behaved like the optimistic, non-stop pop sensations they are. Having recently inked a new five-album deal with Sony, this trend looks set to continue well into the future too. The Love Album, their eighth studio LP, sees the band offer something a little different. Covering 11 of what they consider to be the greatest love songs of all time, it presents a mix of classics and less obvious choices. The album begins with lead single, "The Rose", a reworking of Bette Midler's 80s smash hit, and proceeds idiosyncratically but smoothly through Bonnie Tyler's "Total Eclipse of the Heart", The Commodores' languorous "Easy" and evergreen ballads such as Kasey Cisyk's "You Light Up My Life" and Joe Cocker's "You Are So Beautiful (To Me)". There's also a sterling collaboration with Aussie pop princess Delta Goodrem - a cover of Air Supply's "All Out Of Love" - and a rousing rendition of the Righteous Brothers hit "You've Lost That Loving Feeling" to wrap things up nicely. Along with mistletoe and candlelight, this is an Xmas must-have for all incurable romantics.--Danny McKenna

CD Description
'The Love Album' is the seventh studio album from Westlife.A collection of classic love songs from the past few decades, the album sees the boys re-interpret them in their own unique way - a mix of soaring choruses and epic arrangements -a sound with which the foursome have now become synonymous.Guest vocals also come from Australian songstress Delta Goodrem.

Customer Reviews

SIMPLY THE BEST.WESTLIFE.
I have to apologise first for being so late to buy this Album.I said it's better late than never.
Exactly what I ever want to listen to.These amazing vocals and especially Mark.How does he make that?I tell U if U fans fail to buy this Album and listen to ``The Total Eclipse, The Dance, and You have lost that Love feeling''to mention but a few,U don't know what you'll be missing.Whenever I play this CD I feel Marks'presence in the house and it brings another cool Atmosphere.You are so adorable Lads,not only the way you look but also the way you sing.Whatever song U choose to play or cover I will always listen coz listening to U brings me a feeling of hope,I don't know how to explain this!!!But it really gives me alot of strength in Life.BELEIVE IT OR NOT.
Another point.I read some negative reviews earlier and I'd wonder what some of these people do in Westlife sites.For me if I didn't like an Artist,I'd never go to his site!For which Interest!!I think they are either paid to do so, or Jealous of our attractive,disciplined,modern and styled Boys.
I love them Westlife.

Pure Love without the mess
At last my friends an album to rival all the greats, after listening to this album I decided to release a dove in my local park as a sign to mankind that love conquers all. I couldn't find a dove so I released my granny's budgie...she wasn't happy but the budgie was over the moon. I'd like to take you through a breakdown of what must be the most fantastic collection of musical notes ever to appear on one CD.

1) The Rose - I understand that to capture the full majesty of the original the guys decided to record this in the Amazon Basin, no not the one in Brazil but an MFI bathroom display with the same name. The result though is phenomenal.

2) Total Eclipse of the Heart - The guys from Westlife are such perfectionists that Kian had a bag of concrete poured down his throat in order to replicate Bonny Tyler's rasping voice. Though it didn't work his vocals have never sounded better.

3) All out of love - I'm all out of love myself after listening to this song, it's completely drained me and now I'll probably need a love transplant. Does anyone have Bono's phone number?

4) You light up my life - Accompanied by the Estonian philharmonic and the Gumbay dance band this piece is given a classical lilt and if Mozart were alive today he would probably cry into his porridge wishing that he was capable of producing such a masterpiece. They have truly rewritten the history books.

5) Easy - let's face it who liked the commodores anyway? Ok they made a good computer in the 80's and Lionel Richie was a member but what have they done since? The lads from the Emerald Isle made short work of this little number and re-vamped it into a modern disco classic. With a thumping bassline and some rapping over the guitar solo courtesy of Eminem this version is the one people will be singing for years to come.

6) You are so beautiful (to me) - I serenaded my wife with this very song when we were courting but I couldn't do it justice the way Westlife have. Those are the very words she said to me before she left the country with my uncle Frank. You would think that hearing this would now hold bitter memories but I can't help but smile and think that although I have lost the love of my life I will always have this song to remind me of the good times, fill your boots Frank.

7) Have you ever been in Love? - Apparently while singing Falsetto on this track Mark discovered some new musical notes which means every piece of sheet music will now have to be rewritten to incorporate them. A small price to pay I think you'll agree.

8) Love can build a bridge - If love did build a bridge then I would be listening to this track as I drove over it in my Nissan Micra with the windows open and the roof down. Ok the top doesn't come down but I could open the sunroof

9) The dance- This is a clever cover of the Bucks Fizz classic "making your mind up" that the guys have chosen to rename to keep us guessing. It has all the heart wrenching emotion of the original and with Cheryl Baker on backing vocals tips a hat to the original but still manages to sound fresh and exciting, how the hell do they do it!

10) All or nothing - The small Faces did this originally and made a right pigs ear of it, if only they had taken away all that noisy guitar and screaming vocals and just stripped it down to four lads dressed in cotton suits and sitting on barstools throwing forlorn looks into the camera and singing over an orchestral backing track then they too may have had a hit on their hands. Great work boys!

11) You've lost that loving feeling - A Reggae version of the old classic that tips you upside down until your money falls out of your pockets. When Kian takes the lead and starts skanking you'll feel like your sitting in bar in old Kingston town and toking on a fat one, pure genius.

Wonderful
I love this cd. I loved all of these songs by the original artists and I think that Westlife has done an excellent job of making them their own. There isn't a bad song on the cd.
Listening to "The Rose" gives me chills, it is so beautiful. I don't think I have ever heard anyone cover Garth Brooks "The Dance". Garth wrote the song and it has been associated with him so much that I doubt most artists felt they could do it justice, but Westlife has done just that. While I still like Garth's version best, I really enjoy this one too.
I have been a Westlife fan since I first heard them about 4 yrs ago, I have all their cds and they just keep getting better and better. I just wish their music was stocked in the music stores in my area of the U.S. I hate waiting for my orders from the U.K.