The Collector's Series, Vol. 1

1	The Power of the Dream 4:32
2	Where Does My Heart Beat Now 4:32
3	Us 5:46
4	The Reason 5:02
5	Seduces Me 3:47
6	With This Tear 4:14
7	Falling into You 4:20
8	Pour Que Tu M'Aimes Encore 4:14
9	Un Garcon Pas Comme Les Autres (Ziggy) 2:59
10	Be the Man (On This Night) 4:41
11	Tell Him 4:52
12	The Prayer / Andrea Bocelli 4:30
13	All by Myself previously unreleased / Spanish Version 5:11
14	Amar Haciendo el Amor previously unreleased 4:11
15	Only One Road 4:49
16	That's the Way It Is 4:01

Barnes & Noble

Celine Dion's first Collector's Series is just that -- a coveted jewel for die-hard fans. Coming just a year after 1999's greatest-hits-plus collection All the Way -- A Decade in Song, which combined seven new songs with nine previous hits, The Collector's Series Volume One is a more thorough compilation and a nice complement to the earlier set. Missing are All the Way's hits (including "My Heart Will Go On (Love Theme from Titanic)" and "Beauty and the Beast"), but in their place are such selections as "Where Does My Heart Beat Now," Dion's American breakthrough hit; "Tell Him," the yearning ballad on which she and Barbra Streisand play dueling divas; "Pour Que Tu M'Aimes Encore," from her French-language album; and "The Prayer," her saintly duet with Andrea Bocelli. The new anthology also includes a few tracks that are available for the first time in the U.S. Dion capably goes flamenco on "Amar Haciendo El Amor," but as her Spanish version proves, Eric Carmen's syrupy soft-rocker "All By Myself" es muy mal in any language. Keeping with the international theme is the up-with-the-people ballad "The Power of the Dream," which she performed at the opening ceremony of the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta. The Collector's Series Volume One isn't for everybody, but it's essential listening for those whose Titanic hearts must go on. Bill Crandall

All Music Guide

The title of The Collector's Series, Vol. 1 makes the compilation seem as if it's filled with Celine Dion rarities, but that's not entirely true. There are some oddities here, such as "The Power of the Dream" from the opening ceremony of the 1996 Olympics, but the album is really a way to fill gaps left by Dion's hits collection, All the Way: A Decade of Song -- the many duets, French and Spanish songs, and previously unheard in the U.S. tracks are here to pad out the running time. As such, it's a real hodgepodge, with singles like "Where Does My Heart Beat Now" and "Falling Into You" overshadowing the rest of the album. Perhaps casual fans will want this as a way of getting the glaring omissions from the hits collection, but it has too many inconsequential obscurities to make it easy listening for them. So, it does wind up being more for the collectors -- but even they will probably wonder why it couldn't be nothing but rarities, which would have served them better. A real mixed bag, then. Stephen Thomas Erlewine