Paul Young - Love Songs

Paul Young's Love Songs collection gathers 14 romantic ballads spanning his entire career, including early hits like "Come Back and Stay," and "Everytime You Go Away" -- one of the '80s most perfect love songs -- as well as material from his more straightforwardly soul-based '90s albums. Though most of his work fuses soulful vocals and song structures with synths and polished productions, Young takes this formula in very different directions on each of his albums, lending an almost new romantic bent to No Parlez material like the lovely, elegiac "Broken Man," and his misguided but interesting cover of Joy Division's "Love Will Tear Us Apart." Young's voice is simply too warm and happy-sounding to really fit Ian Curtis' dour classic about doomed love, but the cover isn't a train wreck -- actually, it resembles something that could've appeared on Sting's Dream Of The Blue Turtles. Read More