Celine Dion Music:

Editorial Review:
1997 BR Music release featuring 28 of her best early Frenchrecordings on two CDs in a double jewel case. IncludesCeline's 1988 Eurovision song contest winner 'Ne Partez PasSans Moi', plus 'Visa Pour Les Beaux Jours', 'Les Oiseaux DuBonheur' and 'Tellement J'ai D'amour Pour Toi'.

Collection 1982-1988 Reviews:
Celine Dion-1982-1988 Collection
2008-10-31 - I love this album,Celine's youthful voice is the most beautiful,smooth & powerful of all.The type of music suits her best as it relays her life story.I love them all from the mellow to tempo.Eddy Marnay was heaven-sent for Celine for creating these songs.I play this CD all the time.I purchased some as a gift.

Super!
2002-08-02 - Let me just start by saying that I love the entire collection. Celine had really nice songs during that decade, and I think she deserves more recognition for them. Perhaps those songs should be put with all the hits she had in the 90s (English and French) together to form a box set. If it does happen, let's hope the collection includes "Ce N'était Qu'un Rêve" and "Incognito". I ordered it used, however, and I'm afraid I made a big mistake in choosing to do so because one of the CDs is all scratch up causing me to have to skip three songs on it, so I am going to reorder the collection under another title: "French Collection". Since I love all the songs anyway, I will still give the compilation all the stars. For the amazon.com customer who purchased it and said that the album was bland, I guess he wasted his money. Maybe I should have bought it from him.

Let's be realistic...
2000-07-10 - Celine is a great vocalist, and this was evident already when she was a teenager. I grew up in Canada, and I remember her from the very beginning, and even then she was dazzling. But let's be realistic, these are 80s pop songs, sung by a teenager. While there is a lot of talent in the collection, the substance is not always there. As in all "the best of..." collections, many of these songs were never played on the radio and were just plugged in to fill the 2 disks. In addition, all of the mega-hits from the "Incognito" album are mysteriously not included in this collection. If it was just for that, I would give it only 3 stars. However, since her songs bring back so many memories for me, since they accompanied me all through my teenage years, I have to give it an extra star, just for the emotions they bring up. Whenever I hear her sing to her mother in "Tellement j'ai d'amour, pour toi", I cannot help but shed a tear...

The Best Collection of Céline's Early Work You'll Find!
2000-03-27 - This is one of the best collection of her early French songs that you will find. I've always thought that Celine sings best in her native French language. Of course it's hard to say that she doesn't sing as well in English, because she's also one of the best singers we've ever had in the English speaking world as well, but there's something about when she sings in French that's just different. Her emotions, voice, and spirit while singing in the French language are stronger. Although you could say her talent did mature in years after the songs on this album were recorded, (I highly recommend her "D'eux"/ "The French Album," "Dion chante Plamondon" and "S'il suffisait d'aimer" albums) her voice is still as beautiful as ever in this collection. The songs are wonderful as well, each with its own personality. You should easily be able to enjoy them even if you don't understand French. Many compilations of her earlier songs only contain half- even a quarter- of the material on this CD set, a good reason to choose this collection over others. I should also mention the fact that this CD includes the prestigious Eurovision award winning song, Ne Partez Pas Sans Moi. It is one of her best early songs.

Limp
1999-12-15 - It amazes me that people have rated this CD so highly. It is bland, bland, bland. Celine may have a "smooth" voice, but the songs are so vacuous, they cloy.