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...production and emotion. The main problem with Let's Talk About Love is that Dion's sense of dynamics is only a trifle more refined than Saddam Hussein's sense of international protocol. She doesn't build songs, she demolishes them, she overruns them, like Caesar conquering Gaul. Oh, she tries to rein herself in, but to no avail. The song The Reason starts off gently, then, out of nowhere, Dion starts to shriek. The reason? Because...
...Dowd 1-1 1-2 3; Kmiec 3-5 4-5 10; D'Agostino 1-2 0-0 2; McNeice 0-3 1-2 1; Pare 0 0 2-3 2; Boudway 2-2 0-0 5; Kowalski 1-1 0-0 3; Monroe 0-1 0-0 0; Gaul 2-3 1-1 5; Lynch 0-0 0-0 0. TOTALS...
...gave depth and beauty to white lyrics at a time when there wasn't even a pretense of racial justice. She sang these songs, including their little known verses, with feeling and a sensitive comprehension of the articulation and melody of the famous craftsmen who created them. EDWARD W. GAUL Hightstown, New Jersey...
...Shimmering in the heat of the sun was an earth-and-wood fortress ringed by pillboxes. But for the greenness, A Shau had a French Foreign Legion quality, Beau Geste without the sand. I stood there asking myself the question I am sure Roman legionnaires must have asked in Gaul-What the hell am I doing here...
...music on this disc, like ancient Gaul, is easily divided into three separate parts, although they have been craftily interwoven by those folks at Island Records. First, and beyond criticism, are four great songs roughly from the period when the movie is set: "Voodoo Child" by Jimi Hendrix, "A Dedicated Follower of Fashion" by the Kinks, "Is This Love" by Bob Marley, and "Whiskey In A Jar" by Thin Lizzy. These songs are just fantastic, though you probably don't need this disc to listen to them, and it doesn't particularly add to their brilliance to hear them together...