Alone

[Davey84]

cos the Album thread is getting toward 220 pages and 1000 different discussions, I thought that I'd make a real review thread of the songs, cos they are now (being) posted on TC and the D'Elles songs had them too! And we can talk in the album thread about the album.. alone

 

Alone is the second track on the album, and of course the cover of Heart, the lyrics from Hearts Alone:

 

I hear the ticking of the clock

I'm lying here, the room's pitch dark

I wonder where you are tonight

No answer on the telephone

And the night goes by so very slow

Oh I hope that it won't end though

Alone

 

Til now I always got by on my own

I never really cared until I met you

And now it chills me to the bone

How do I get you alone

How do I get you alone

 

You don't know how long i have wanted

to touch your lips and hold you tight

You don't know how long I have waited

and I was going to tell you tonight

But the secret is still my own

and my love for you is still unknown

Alone

 

Til now I always got by on my own

I never really cared until I met you

And now it chills me to the bone

How do I get you alone

How do I get you alone

Alone

Alone

 

When I heard it on the making of, I didn't really care for it, but now hearing it in better quality on TC, I find it more special, a song that will grow on me... and a great song to sing/shout along with! I'm really curious how the whole song will sound... I didn't listen to the mp3 of the making of

[Tal]

Ok, here's what I think...

 

This song was always going to be 'damned if she does, damned if she dont' for me. Alone is one of my most favorite songs of all time.....ever. I've loved it since it came out and it came out when I was a child, so its basically been my entire life; before I even knew who Celine was. Its always been on my list of songs I'd love to hear Celine sing (tied at #1 with Roxette's It Must Have Been Love). I just think I would have preferred if she had done it as a live performance rather then a song on an album.

 

I think for the most part Ben Moody did a great job giving this song a new sound and atmosphere. The music box at the beginning and end of the track is a fantastic touch, and gives the song a nice dark mood. I didn't like that he cut the small musical break before she screams out that "oooh". Maybe I feel that way because I'm so used to the original version, but to me it just seems like that scream comes out of no where.

 

Vocally speaking, it falls short for me on the emotional level. Obviously those last two "aloooone" belts are ridiculously powerful and send shivers up your spine. But in the beginning, when she should sound vunerable and broken, she instead sounds more mechanical and detached. The entire part where she's singing "no answer on the telephone. and the night goes by so very slow. oh i hope that it wont end though. alone...." Its all sung on the same level...no cracks in the voice, no color, no vunerability in the voice. I wish she would have delivered this vocal the way she delivered 'Us' with a bit of the sadness from OSEAAC.

 

I still love this song, because Celine definitely has the power to pull this off and sound amazing and I also love the music box arrangement. But emotionally, it falls short, especially considering what an amazing job Ann did.

[Thomas]

I like the song, apart from some parts when she sounds really shrill. Like when she sings the first chorus of "Till now, I always got by..." and "...and now it chills me to the bone..." it's a bit piercing and screamy. I really don't like it when she sings this way, I'd rather she was nasal and goaty than shrill like a banshee.

[Céline's Blues]

banshee goat shrill

 

BELAMMY

 

ban these words!

 

 

NOW

[Marta1414]

I love it but not as much as Taking Chances

[tcherno]

it is a beautiful song and didnt know it before i heard it from celine. good for live concert but not as a single cause she might be criticized.... ok new celine but where is the new... definitely she will release a Ben Moody's song as a single in the radio & video, but please not Alone Edited October 22, 2007 at 09:19 PM by tcherno

[celinefan1985]

Ok, here's what I think...

 

This song was always going to be 'damned if she does, damned if she dont' for me. Alone is one of my most favorite songs of all time.....ever. I've loved it since it came out and it came out when I was a child, so its basically been my entire life; before I even knew who Celine was. Its always been on my list of songs I'd love to hear Celine sing (tied at #1 with Roxette's It Must Have Been Love). I just think I would have preferred if she had done it as a live performance rather then a song on an album.

 

I think for the most part Ben Moody did a great job giving this song a new sound and atmosphere. The music box at the beginning and end of the track is a fantastic touch, and gives the song a nice dark mood. I didn't like that he cut the small musical break before she screams out that "oooh". Maybe I feel that way because I'm so used to the original version, but to me it just seems like that scream comes out of no where.

 

Vocally speaking, it falls short for me on the emotional level. Obviously those last two "aloooone" belts are ridiculously powerful and send shivers up your spine. But in the beginning, when she should sound vunerable and broken, she instead sounds more mechanical and detached. The entire part where she's singing "no answer on the telephone. and the night goes by so very slow. oh i hope that it wont end though. alone...." Its all sung on the same level...no cracks in the voice, no color, no vunerability in the voice. I wish she would have delivered this vocal the way she delivered 'Us' with a bit of the sadness from OSEAAC.

 

I still love this song, because Celine definitely has the power to pull this off and sound amazing and I also love the music box arrangement. But emotionally, it falls short, especially considering what an amazing job Ann did.

 

 

So eloquent. What's left to say besides RIGHT ON POINT. Had she sung it with the vulnerability of OSAAC ("...dont on est revenu, comme Adam et comme Eve du paradis perdu"...) it would have been amazing. Despite the fact that Celine's English has gotten so much better over the years, the footage of the recording sessions brought to light to me, for the first time, that Celine doesn't always get the phrasing. Like in This Time when she sings "You call this love", she sings it so mechanically rather than signing "you call this LOVE?". I too have always loved Alone and I really feel that it should be left Alone and not be released as a single.

[Kerry Elizabeth]

I adore this song. I liked it when Heart sang it, and I like it with Celine. It could possibly be my favorite new song right now by Celine. I don't kow why, I just ADORE this song

[Tal]

I'd rather she was nasal and goaty than shrill like a banshee.

 

THOMAS!! Don't dare speak these words!!

 

 

Had she sung it with the vulnerability of OSAAC ("...dont on est revenu, comme Adam et comme Eve du paradis perdu"...) it would have been amazing.

 

Yes! That part kills me every time! The whole song is just so emotional.

 

I totally get what you mean about not completely understanding the phrasing. But you'd think the producer would tell her to do a retake and be a bit more vunerable. Maybe he was too afraid to say anything. Unlike Kara

[Alex_Incognito]

I've never heard the Heart version and never care to hear it! lol I really love it. It's so very much where I am in life right now , too, it's scary! Not everyone has heard it. This will definately be the ALL BY MYSELF of the album, and she worked wonders on that song.

[fred]

What I think about this song?

 

Well the original is superb and Céline really was heading for deep water by deciding to cover it. I was so looking forward to hear those marvellous pudel glamm rock guitarr arrangements.

 

Instead we got a rather cheap pop rock electric mainstream sound to it. Making me think of the instrumentations which goes for debuing artists who does a cover of a well known song as their first and only hit. Céline's vocals diserved so much more than that. The instrumentals should had been fuller, more real - BIGGER. The orchestra sounds too synthetic and so does sadly the music box which is this tracks only really new feature.

 

Sure Céline carried up the song vocally. She passed the test, and can't be bached for that. But she didn't bring anything new to it, didn't approach it in differently, didn't claim it, and for that she will be bashed if this song is released as a single.

 

This song is as I have said earlier very fine, high quality as album fill out. But as single material, I would really think twice...

 

And that is a shame, coz there are many other tracks on the album which you really don't have to think twice aout releasing as a single. Why wanna risk everything releasing Alone? I seriously don't get that. It's clear Céline and Réné wanna release this and the yessayers around them don't have the gutsto question it - we all see example onthat on the recording session when Céline comes up with the supposed title for the album (The Woman In Me)....

 

/fred

[PrincesseJen]

I do like this cover though I'm a tad bit partical to the orginial. The orginial was way more ROCK! This version isn't bad but I think it should NOT be a single. If Celine wants to take chances she needs to do a song that hasn't been heard before.I just don't think that many people will be impressed with another cover.

[fred]

They surely wont, Jennifer. They surely wont.

 

Over to you Seb?

 

/fred

[fab]

i think the clip is not the true version that we will have on the album i don't think that is the complete song i think we will have a better long version with instrument

[PrincesseJen]

They surely wont, Jennifer. They surely wont.

 

Over to you Seb?

 

/fred

 

The fact is this album is suppose to be a new direction but if Alone is a single people are gonna be like: "Oh, Celine has changed!! She's soo different...she's....oh wait we've heard this song before!"

[Céline's Blues]

Never believe what Céline is saying about certain album. It's not really a new Céline on it and I really really really would love to see how "Eyes On Me" would show off a different Céline if "Alone" can't? It's easy to criticize Alone cuzz it's a well known cover and all signs in the sky are pointing to a single release so I would be really supportive on this one. Its dark sounds, music box and celinized feel to it make it worthwhile. As long as she will promote the second single it's really not a grave issue for me concerning the choice. Cuzz this time around she will have to do it alooooooooooooooooooooone. Without any support from Sony. Only her and fans. And I happen to support her in every way if she happens to think against the hate wave that Alone is a right choice for a single.

[bluestar]

Alone is definetely a good song. But it won't be a hit for Celine. The album si suppoed to be more rock then why Ben Moody made it softer?

With Taking Chances people will see a different side of Celine, that only fans knows, and Alone si not the right single to do it.

It's a really nice song but nothing so different from the old Celine's songs and plus is a cover of a very famous hit, and this not helps.

 

I'm glad we have it on this album anyway!

[Javier_Natalio]

Why would they be paying so much if they didn't plan to release it as a single? people first and foremost, Celine and Rene are business people! They are paying royalties to Heart just to record the song, then they paid through the nose to have Ben Moody produce it- you think they intend it to be album fill out? hum, think again. Edited October 23, 2007 at 07:07 AM by wacko.javo

[speedy]

Alone is definetely a good song. But it won't be a hit for Celine. The album si suppoed to be more rock then why Ben Moody made it softer?

 

I agree with that.

I love this song, but not as single

[dj4celine]

They should have changed the arrangements a bit more. But I am happy with it

[pepillo90]

When I heard it on the recording sessions I didn't like it at all... Now it's growing up on me

[stevo]

http://www.myspace.com/celinedion

 

ADDED FULL HQ SONG ALONE

 

 

ALONE IS f****** AMAZING!!!! I LOVE THE LONGER INSTRUMENTAL BIT- NOW I REALLY THINK IT'S BETTER THAN HEART'S!!!

[Loup_garou]

The song in full is absolutely AMAZING!!!!

[incognito]

The full song is beyond amazing.

[Thecolourofmylove]

http://www.myspace.com/celinedion

 

ADDED FULL HQ SONG ALONE

 

 

ALONE IS f****** AMAZING!!!! I LOVE THE LONGER INSTRUMENTAL BIT- NOW I REALLY THINK IT'S BETTER THAN HEART'S!!!

 

 

Can someone PLEASE make an MP3 of it??

[fred]

What the crackers are you guys babbeling about??! Add a few seconds solo and all of a sudden it's "totally different", gee, it's nice but no it ain't better than the original.

 

/fred

[Céline's Blues]

It's 100% better than the original. Great song.

[fred]

It's 100% better than the original. Great song.

 

/fred

[Tal]

Yup, sorry, I dont like the new instrumental part. The guitar solo in Heart's version destroys this one. Thats the lamest musical interlude I've ever heard.

[changepas39]

i think that just because Celine sings it, the song is perfect...