...by Request - Boyzone

After the sad news about the death of Stephen Gately from Boyzone I wanted to listen to and write about their best of album called By Request. The front album cover shows the boys walking along a street. The first song is called I Love The Way You Love Me and is a typical slow ballad. This song reached number 2 in the charts in 1998. Number 2 song is No Matter What which was written by Andrew Lloyd Webber for the musical Whistle Down the Wind. This was their 12th consecutive hit and it reached number 1 also in 1998. It was the 4th best selling single for that year. Number 3 is called All That I Need. It was another hit from 1998 ...  Read the complete review

*Introduction* This is in effect the greatest hits collection from Boyzone, which was released before they disappeared from the music scene (and then came back last year). It contains pretty much every single that they have released in the UK, plus a few tracks towards the end that I presume are new bonus tracks as I was not previously familiar with them. *My Favourite Tracks* I Love The Way You Love Me This is a slow ballad which alternates between Ronan and Stephen in terms of vocals. I have a bit of difficulty understanding Stephen's vocals at times and have had to look the lyrics up on the Internet. I really like this track even ...  Read the complete review

Boyzone - By request For me this takes me back to my teenage years and I have taken it out of my long lost selection of music CD's to have a listen. I have to admit its a lot more relaxing that I thought it would be. I am going to describe and rate each track out of 5. I will also give the length of each song in minutes and seconds. 1. I love the way you love me (3.49) 5/5 It starts off with a fluttery magical orchestra playing. Ronan and Stephen sing in the song and their voices sound soft. It's a romantic type of song. I have to admit I'm biased though as it was the first song I danced to on my wedding day. The orchestra plays ...  Read the complete review

OK OK, so we have loads of boy band's out there, but have we not had them for years, although most people won't think of it like this but what were "The Beatles" and "The Rolling Stones" believe it or not they were boy band's in their days!! So we move on a few decades, we have a completly different style in music from all those years ago, but why does that mean we should not have serious boy band's, Beatlemania was all to do with good looks and good tunes, I would say Boyzone are just the same!! By Request is their Greatest hits album that covers all three of their massive selling albums, with 8 number one's and ...  Read the complete review

I always thought a “best of” album, was a compilation of some of your greatest hits, not just a collection of every song you have released to date. I always think that releasing a “best of” album is a signal that the artist(es) will not be releasing anymore material (i.e they are splitting up). In this case it appears the latter is indeed true, it seems Boyzone have split, and I can’t say I am sad. The band have previously released only 3 albeit successful albums, but surely this is not enough material for a greatest hits. They had 8 numbers ones, and they are all on here, along with most of the other songs they released in their ...  Read the complete review