It's hard to imagine that a decent collection of ballads could be squeezed out of a band with only seven charting singles to its credit. Regardless,
Share Your Love: The Ballad Collection sticks to its guns, compiling a dozen slow jams from
Club Nouveau. It's hardly a fitting representation of the group -- none of the charting singles are here. But it does show that
Club Nouveau had a lot more depth than most people give them credit for. Just about every song here is steamy and memorable. In fact, it's mind-boggling that a few of the cuts didn't scale the top of the charts and become staples on weeknight call-in shows across the U.S. This makes a perfect companion to Greatest Hits, released in 2001 by Thump. Remarkably, the discs have only two songs in common. ~ Andy Kellman