Following the first
Celine Dion
collection,
All the Way: A Decade of Song
, by roughly a decade,
My Love: Ultimate Essential Collection
doubles almost everything about the initial collection: it covers two decades instead of one, has two discs, not one, and falls just short of having the double the songs. It's almost an overcompensation for how
All the Way
concentrated on newer recordings at the expense of hits, but then again
Celine
has had more hits in the ten years since
, so it makes sense that
My Love
is a bigger, grander collection. The problem is, apart from her cover of
Roy Orbison
's
"I Drove All Night,"
almost none of her new-millennium hits are as memorable as her singles from the '90s, so this double CD doesn't offer too much of an enticement for fans to replace 1999's single-disc set. But for those listeners who are looking for an overview of
's two decades as an international superstar,
fits the bill well as it has all her big adult contemporary hits --
"Where Does My Heart Beat Now,"
"Beauty and the Beast,"
"If You Asked Me To,"
"Because You Loved Me,"
"It's All Coming Back to Me Now,"
and
"My Heart Will Go On"
-- all sequenced chronologically. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine