Box
Artist: Sam Brown
Community Score: 7.00

When she delivered Box, Sam Brown had long since disappeared from the pop spotlight. It was nearly ten years since the hit single "Stop," and while she had continued to tour and record, her audience had shrunk substantially. That's too bad, because Box is arguably her best effort yet. Brown has always been a fine vocalist, but her material can... Read More

Let's Talk About Love - AUSTRALIA
Artist: Celine Dion
Community Score: 6.00

Falling Into You finally established Celine Dion as a superstar in America, so its sequel, Let's Talk About Love, was designed to consolidate her position as a newly-minted star. The album was constructed as a blockbuster, featuring Dion's trademark melodramatic ballads, some carefully-tailored dance-pop, a bevy of duets with the likes of Barbra... Read More

Between the Days
Artist: Merril Bainbridge

Reading the lyric sheet to Between the Days, Bainbridge's follow-up to the successful Garden, one wonders how the singer will turn such trite words into clever songs. Yet, from the first notes of the title track Bainbridge's little-girl voice hits all the peaks and valleys of the melody like an old pro, pulling nuances that you never knew... Read More

Arival
Artist: Alannah Myles

By the time Alannah Myles recorded her fourth album, Arival, she had faded completely from the pop spotlight. Neither Rockinghorse or Alannah made much of an impression, so Arival, in some ways, was a make-or-break album -- it would either jump-start her career or grind it to a halt. Since so much was at stake, Myles did something she never had... Read More

My Heart Will Go On: Love Theme from Titanic
Artist: Celine Dion
Community Score: 8.41
Titanic - ORIGINAL SCORE
Artist: James Horner
Community Score: 6.83

James Horner's score for James Cameron's epic romance Titanic is much like the film itself -- against all expectations, it delivers exactly what it promises. His score is grand, without falling into typical melodrama, and delicately romantic, without being sickly sentimental; it offers genuine emotion and excitement, with the haunting vocals of... Read More

Let's Talk About Love
Artist: Celine Dion
Community Score: 7.33

Falling Into You finally established Celine Dion as a superstar in America, so its sequel, Let's Talk About Love, was designed to consolidate her position as a newly minted star. The album was constructed as a blockbuster, featuring Dion's trademark melodramatic ballads, some carefully tailored dance-pop, a bevy of duets with the likes of Barbra... Read More

Greatest Hits
Artist: Richard Marx
Community Score: 9.45

Richard Marx's Greatest Hits performs a valuable service for his fans, collecting all of his hit singles -- "Don't Mean Nothing," "Should've Known Better," "Endless Summer Nights," "Hold on to the Nights," "Satisfied," "Right Here Waiting," "Angela," "Children of the Night," "Keep Coming Back," "Hazard," "Take This Heart," "Now and Forever" --... Read More

My Time: The Anthology (1969-1997)
Artist: Boz Scaggs

In his liner notes to the double-disc, two-and-a-half-hour Boz Scaggs compilation My Time: The Anthology (1969-1997), Ben Fong-Torres writes, "There are those who, charting Boz's career, identify specific phases: rock and roll with [Steve] Miller; the early solo albums, which were as much country and blues, and pop and jazz, as they were rock;... Read More

By 7:30
Artist: Vonda Shepard
Community Score: 6.00

Vonda Shepard is a perfect example of how radically one's luck can change for the better. Given the boot by Reprise in 1992, the singer/songwriter lacked either a record deal or a manager for several years -- from 1992 to 1996, the last thing one expected from her was a platinum album. But in the late 1990s, Shepard's frequent appearances on... Read More