Track Listing

1. Just For You
2. I Still Believe
3. Just To Be With You Again
4. She's Amazing
5. Ball And Chain
6. The World Is A Party
7. Time Of Our Life
8. Outrageous
9. Road To Heaven
10. Dance For The World
11. Do Ya (duet with Daniel Beddingfield)
12. In My Dreams
13. One World
14. If You Belong To Me

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #71815 in Music
• Released on: 2004-03-08
• Number of discs: 1
• Dimensions: .24 pounds
• Running time: 58 minutes

CD Description
Tenth studio album from perennial MOR soul man. On this album he brings his sound bang up to date, adopting a mix of contemporary musical styles. Mainstream pop nestles up alongside contributions from Daniel Bedingfield and Lenny Kravitz as well as Richie's trademark soulful ballads. Includes the title-track single.

Customer Reviews

A Must Have CD
"Just For You" see Lionel Richie once again at his very best, this album is just full of gems. The 1st track & title song just sets the standard for the rest of the album. Lionel has his ear very much to the ground for the current sound yet manages to incorporate his own sound and style. Tracks that really stand out are. Just for you, Still Believe, She's Amazing, Outrageous, Road to heaven, Dance for the world, Do Ya (with Danial Bedingfield) & Time of our life (with Lenny Kravitz).

With a world tour just annouced Lionel Richie is very much keeping his loyal & new fans very happy.

Hugely diverse, uttrely brilliant..... a hit for sure!!
Just in case you have neither the time nor the inclanation to read the rest of the review (ok, so it is pretty long...), heres a quick summary:
Brilliant - emotive - BUY IT - upbeat - addictive - YOU WON'T REGRET IT - foot-tapping - masterpiece - melodic
Lionel has done himself proud for this one, releasing an album with as many different styles and expressions as a bean-bag has beans. NOT one to be missed at all, if this year hadn't only just started I would go as far as to say its the best album this year, so I'll have to make do with saying 'so far...'

And for those of you still with me (thanks!), more detail is below:

Track 1 - Just for you
A refreshingly different song to those that are about at the moment, with subtle differences to the version that was released. Lionel sings the words with true meaning, this song doens't lack in the emotion department!!

Track 2 - I still beieve.
A positive, "get your lighters out for the chorus" song. Guarenteed to cheer you up!

Track 3 - Just to be with you again
Its only a matter of time before this song becomes part of the soundtrack to a love film. Not a cheesy-cheesy-cheese-cheese in the slightest, just a soppy and romantic one!

Track 4 - She's amazing.
After an almost Disney-esque start, this track becomes upbeat and very addictive. Go on, shake a few moves and sing along (you know you want to!!) Possibly a single in the future?

Track 5 - Ball and chain
An excellent song, one of my favourite on the album. Strangely depressing after the last track...

Track 6 - The world is a party
... but followed by this! A little repetitive for my liking, but an upbeat track nevertheless.

Track 7 - Time of our life (feat. Lenny Kravitz)
A simple start with minimalistic piano chords. Kravitz has an understated part, on background vocals, accoustic + electric guitars, bass, piano adn drums. A huge contribution, but relativly unnoticed, which is a shame. Still a good song though, you know Kravitz is there and his presence takes a great song into the realms of brilliance.

Track 8 - outrageous
Lionel sounds so much like Eagle-Eye Cherry in this track, its scary! Catchy lyrics to a foot-tapping tune.

Track 9 - Road to heaven
From quite a lively tune to this slower track, its quite a difference! But a welcome one for sure. Another one in the running for a place in the singles charts?

Track 10 - dance for the world
The chants and continuing beats at the start of this track make it stand out from the others and emphasise the title.

Track 11 - Do ya (feat. Daniel Bedingfield)
Quite a plunky beat, and more of a Bedingfield song than a Richie one. The joint effort on vocals pays off to create an unusual mix - in the form of an argument!!

Track 12 - In my dreams
As if theres a theme a-brewing, the start of this song is like the Beegees! This continues throughout, but is less noticable later on and more focused around the chorus.

Track 13 - One world

A relaxing end to what has been a fantastic album. But wait, is thre more...?

BONUS TRACK - if you belong to me
It just keeps getting better and better! Soothing and melodic, one to put on loop I think.

And just in case you were still in any doubt, GO OUT AND BUY IT (or better still, buy it from amazon, you're here already so why not?) This is a great album whether you're an old fan or just discovering the delights of Lionel Richie for the first time. So what are you waiting for...?!?!?!

a bit disappointing
not the kind of music and songs we were used to get from Lionel Richie. Apart from Just For You, there is nothing attractive in this album, most of the other songs are boring and somhow bizzare and the kind of songs you listen to once and then forget. There is some variety of styles in this album but it does not compensate for the poor lyrics sometimes and the poor music most of the time. pretty disappointing album and hope to get better music from Lionel next time.