from wikipedia...

The Ballads" is a compilation album by American pop/R&B singer Mariah Carey.[1][2] No new song or promotional single to promote this compilation was made.The album was released in Italy on October 17, 2008, in the UK and Ireland on October 20, 2008, and in South Korea on October 21, 2008[citation needed].It will be released in Australia on November 3, 2008, in Japan on November 26, 2008, and in the United States and Canada in January 2009.

The Ballads Deluxe Edition includes


1. Hero
2. Vision of Love
3. Without You
4. Always Be My Baby
5. My All
6. How Much
7. Dreamlover
8 Thank God I Found You - Make It Last Remix Nas & Joe
9. The Roof
10. One Sweet Day
11. Anytime You Need A Friend
12. I'll Be There
13. I Still Believe
14. Reflections (Care Enough)
15. Open Arms
16. Against All Odds (Take A Look At Me Now) with Westlife
17. Endless Love
18. All I Want For Christmas Is You




I wish a full set of David Morales Mixes will come out. I think Sony just trying to cash in and bought 1 of the songs for the set from Virgin

the set list of this versin is rubbish, it misses out some great ballads in favour of some mid tempo crap (How much anyone?)

the Japanese version is far better, though even that isn't really complete.

paisleypark4 said:

so much for a ballads release, Sony

Babydubistzuschnell said:

and its not the fact that its not a ballad, its just, i mean, HOW AND WHY did they go for that particular song for cryin' out loud

ALl I Want For Christmas Is You is a ballad?

"The Roof"? "All I Want For Christmas"? That's just absurd! Sony just need some money!

Pretty safe Christmas gift idea though.

paisleypark4 said:

Hello and thank you.

PricelessHo said:

probably because it has Usher on it.

the Japan version is more the ballad version.-they cut out

dreamlover
the Roof
how much
Against All Odds

and add

never too far
cant let go
love takes time
butterfly
Can't Take That Away

paisleypark4 said:

Well I am not too keen on Mariah, I haven't listened to any of her albums except "Music Box" (I wasn't very impressed) just the singles and based on those she was great in the first half of the 90s lost me in the middle of the 90s, had her best singles from the "Emancipation Of Mimi" album and now she seems to be going down again...I am not very impressed from the compilation. "Hero", "Anytime You Need A Friend" and "Vision Of Love" are all-time classics."My All" is OK. "I'll Be There" is superb much better than the original, "I Still Believe" is almost as good as the original too."Thank God I Found You" had a great non-ballad remix (it had a video too is this the version included?), "The Roof" and "All I Want For Christmas" are great too but definitely not ballads. "Dreamlover" and "Always Be My Babe" are alright but also not ballads. Well "Without You", "Open Arms", "Against All Odds" and "Endless Love" are some of the worst and most needless cover versions ever made by anyone, "One Sweet Day" is my definition of crap music and I don't know about the rest. By the way where is "Can't Let Go" "When You Believe" and "Love Takes Time" and since this compilation uses such a wide definition of the word "ballad" where are my favourite Mariah "ballads":Someday, Make It Happen and Honey?
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!!!

marian said:

paisleypark4 said:

agree

i wonder if MC puts out a msg not 2 buy it
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AlexdeParis said:

what? I like it lol

marian said:

my favorite remake from her

missmad said:

actually it seems like she's going to promote it very soon in the UK.

PricelessHo said:

I wonder why? she must still owe something to Sony and care where this release will land. Then again i think overseas this will do well and help build her sales back up over there which were very poor for the last album

that is a pretty crappy set list. along with a few of the others already mentioned, "I don't Wanna Cry" isn't there.

At least they didn't include her whacked-out version of "The Beautiful Ones."

all of them are NOT ballads, she's full of shit! I guess she needs to make money she didn't make with that latest flop of hers

alphastreet said:

It's from Sony. Not her choice. The list makes no sense.

They're not all ballads but it is all her mellow shit.

That's what it shoulda been called;

MARIAH CAREY - MELLOW SHIT

Cinnie said:

PricelessHo said:

ah

lastdecember said:

she must . maybe. didn't she get out of her contact with sony still owing them an album? maybe it was just an album she owes them and not an original album where more than half are new records.

I figured it was a dumb sony thing, but mellow shit is a better name for it for sure!

Even though I have all her albums and like a lot of her nonsingles, she really gets on my nerves overall and tries too hard

1sexymf said:

Well it was released again on Mariahs Greatest Hits...This collection should have included much better tho. At least with previously unreleased demo versions
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missmad said:

She's not going to be over here to promote "The Ballads".
She's going on x-factor this saturday to promote "I Stay In Love".
On the Sow she's gunna be singing 2 songs. One as the first act on the actual show, and the other on the results show.
This week is also Mariah week, so all the contestants will be singing Mariah songs.

My guess is that she'll sing "I Stay in Love" and "Hero" - As it's the X-factor charity single which is currently number 1 here in the U.K