The British double-disc collection The Love Album: Classics devotes a disc apiece to contemporary and time-tested love songs. Each disc is surprisingly eclectic -- the first one kicks off with Robbie Williams and Nicole Kidman s charming mega-hit Somethin Stupid and Kate Winslet s treacly What If. It also includes predictable choices like Toni Braxton s Un-Break My Heart and the Corrs Breathless, but tracks like Coldplay s Trouble, Sinead O Connor s Nothing Compares 2 U, and George Michael and Elton John s Don t Let the Sun Go Down on Me offer a refreshing change of pace.
However, disc two is almost worth the price of admission alone for its mix of 50s, 60s, and 70s love songs. Ranging from weepy classics like Nilsson s Without You, Percy Sledge s When a Man Loves a Woman, and Samantha Sang s Emotions to smoldering declarations of passion like Marvin Gaye s Sexual Healing and Al Green s How Can You Mend a Broken Heart?, the second disc includes enough classics to nearly make up for disc one s uneven quality. Overall, The Love Album: Classics is entertaining and romantic enough for the casual pop fan, even if it is a somewhat unbalanced collection.

Tracklist:

CD1

01 Robbie Willliams Nicole Kidman - Something Stupid
02 Kate Winslet - What If
03 Atomic Kitten - Whole Again
04 Blue - If You Come Back
05 Marcy Gray - I Try
06 Robbie Williams - Angels
07 Coldplay - Trouble
08 George Michael And Elton John - Don t Let The Sun Go Down On Me
09 Bangles - Eternal Flame
10 Sinead O Connor - Nothing Compares 2 U
11 Phil Collins - One More Night
12 Eva Cassidy - Fields of Gold
13 Toni Braxton - Un - Break My Heart
14 Spandau Ballet - True
15 Martine McCutcheon - Perfect Moment
16 Lisa Stanfield - All Around the World
17 Leanne Rimes - Can t Fight the Moonlight
18 Emma Bunton - What Took You So Long
19 The Corrs - Breathless

CD2

01 John Lennon - Woman
02 Nilsson - Without you
03 Ben E King - Stand by me
04 Bill Withers - Ain t no sunshine
05 Percy Sledge - When a man loves a woman
06 Harold Melvin the Blue Notes - If you don t know me by now
07 Al Green - How can you mend a broken hard
08 Minnie Riperton - Loving you
09 Phyllis Nelson - Move Closer
10 Randy Crawford - One day I ll fly away
11 Tina Turner - Let s stay together
12 Hot Chocolate - It started with a kiss
13 Marvin Gaye - Sexual healing
14 Emotion - Samantha Sang
15 Dionne Warwick - All the love in the world
16 Nat king Cole - On the street where you live
17 Julie London - Cry me a river
18 Don McClean - Crying
19 Dolly Parton - I will always love you
20 Elvis Costello - Alison
21 Bobby Gentry - I ll never fall in love again
22 Dean Martin - Gentle on my mind