Born To Be With You

I don't know why this is on the list....really meh to me. 1.5 for the Phil Spector production, but rounding down because I was just bored.

Melodramatic drivel. Worst of Spector and 70s impulses. I miss runaround sue. I’m sorry this happened to you, Dion

An hour-and-twenty-minute endurance test of terrible saccharine 70s singing, sappy instrumentation. Hated this from the first song (Born to Be with You, a totally unnecessary seven minutes long) and each track was worse than the last. Painful, awful. I have said to myself that I am going to listen to every album on this list fully, but when I saw that one of the top-rated reviews for this album said that only the first 8 tracks were actually on Born To Be With You I grabbed it with both hands. Thank you, that reviewer.

A hidden gem this album is not. Dion himself does not like this album and Phil Spector did an awful job on this one. The voice recording sounds like its 20 years behind and the production manages to be the worst and most undercooked of 70's bargain bin music. Want a good later career Dion album? Listen to his 1968 self titled album instead, a beautiful underappreciated piece of music that is everything this wishes it could be.

Not a terrible album but not something I’d listen to as a whole again. A few songs initially stood out to me enough to save them in my liked songs, namely “if I can just get through tonight,” “more to you” and “oh the night” but I’ve not listened to them since so.

How did this guy get a recording contract? Bin dare done dat, same old crap

How did he manage to make "(He's Got) The Whole World In His Hands" bad?? Honestly thought this was probably going to be a 2 for the first half but then it just kept going and getting more painful. "Your Own Backyard" entertained me for a bit at least. Spotify combined two of his albums but I only listened to the songs listed on the Wikipedia track listing. Not my style musically. Boring instrumentals and uninspired vocals. No thanks.

Made me want to blow my brains out

Was looking forward to a bit of traditional Rock'n'Roll here to break monotony of 2's we've had recently. Unfortunately didn't get it. What we did get was someone trying to re-launch their career unsuccessfully. It has broken the run of 2's though. 1

Nothing remarkable, in fact quite unremarkable.

Not for me. Won't be revisiting. 1/5

Not a fan

This is not me. It's my mom. And nothing against her musical taste but I've had quite enough soft rock/easy listening/ whatever it is is not for me. These songs could all be the 2nd song played over the credits of a film that was a solid 3/10. No thank you. Glad it's out there but it didn't land in this camp

Absolutely not.

I am not able to understand why this album is on the list. It has nothing interesting. It has nothing new. It is not a first album of some kind of subgenre. It is simply one of several albums which a few people like. Well, Dion is not an unknown musician. But his peak was in the 60s. "Runaround Sue" was a big album at the time. Although I am not fond of the music I would perfectly understand why it is on this list. But "Born To Be With You"? What? No? It's simply not possible.

What the hell is this? One more album that really doesn't make any sense on this list...

The lyrics are pathetic, the music is boring and thousand light years away from any feeling. What the hell is this doing here?

While listening to this, I honestly thought that I would rather be listening to Barry Manilow if I was forced to listen to a 70s romance crooner. That should say enough. On a production note, the decision to release this album Frankensteined together with another lacklustre Dion album - 1976’s Streetheart - just makes me loathe it all the more for a running time of 80 minutes.

I wanted to like this, I wanted to give this a chance, but for the life of me I could not give a shit about any of it.

Soft flavourless cheese.

The only reason this soft shit is on here is because the Primal Scream guy liked it. This is like a worse Barry Manilow. Except I get why people wanna fuck Barry Manilow. This makes me wanna die

Born to Be with You

Is this one of the worst things I've ever listened too?....well yes actually it is. I am listening to this while in a waiting room in essex to check if I have broken my foot, and honestly I wasn't sure the experience could be much worse I thought I'd put this on too "pass the time". Reader, this was a mistake

I didn’t get more than 4 sounds in but can tell this is not the album for me. Listen again: no Purchase for my collection: no Favourite Song: none

Not my jam...a little too boring. 1.5/5

Didn’t I Only Nut Man, I just wasnt feelin this one 2/10

Cannot figure out why this album is on the list. It is really poor

This was really not my thing, didn’t grt through the album

Never in my life would I put something like this on voluntarily. This album was just so bland and unappealing.

2791 - Is this a joke? I like these genres, but this guy has terrible vocals. This is like a Soulless Otis Redding. If this came out today, people would ask what headset microphone he used. This has such a high budget, yet Marvin Gaye's bathroom trips probably have a better production value than this.

Shallow wearing terrible vocals awful production boring instrumentation 3.8

This sounds like if Prince was white and played music in a church. And then it did the boring 60s folk thing.

Was this included in the list because Phil Spector produced it? Production to be fair is nice in parts, sounds crap in others, it's just bloody dull. Ballad after ballad of boring music. I'd rather not.

Not for me 1/5

Annoying vocals, utterly predictable lyrics, basic guitars, and cheesy sounding "new age" drumming accented with inexplicable honking that might be saxophone.

How this is one of the 1001 albums is baffling.

Somebody mixed up the list of albums you must hear before you die with the list of records they found at a garage sale that nobody bought.

Het begin is veelbelovend, door de typerende warme 'wall of sound' waar Phil Spector bekend om staat. Maar helaas doet ene Dion er geen zak aan om de kwaliteit ook maar een beetje hoog te houden. Wat een inspiratieloos gezever, wat niet zou misstaan voor een 'zangertje in een voetbalkantine'. En by the way, het wordt ook al snel duidelijk dat de betere jaren van Spector achter zich liggen, en dat de viespeuk rond deze tijd wel andere dingen aan z'n hoofd had. Please gun ons weer eens een banger, het is hoog tijd. 3,5/10

Niet slecht, wel saai. Afgehaakt bij Hey My Love, dat echt precies begon als een Nick en Simon nummer. 4,5/10

No.

Music for cults. 1/5

Hold nu op det var kedeligt 😬 Når jubel-gospel kan laves så kedeligt som her, så kan det ikke blive meget være

Pretty forgettable and one wonders why this album which was irrelevant when it came out made it to this list.

I think any decent artist should reflect on why they are presenting their art to the public and think "what am I adding to the medium"? Because of Dion or Phil Spector did they would have not released this boring overproduced shite on the world. Awful 1*

boring sappy waste thought this would be Celine dion for a full 5 seconds

Utterly wretched. I think I would have preferred Celine Dion to this.

This is the first 1001 Albums listen that I'm rating a 1. I'm not really sure what makes this notable and it doesn't feel like its inclusion on the list is really justified. Although, "Your Own Back Yard" is kind of interesting for being maybe the most drugs-forward song I've ever heard ("I can quit; let me finish what I got / After all, this stuff sure costs a lot"). The streaming service where I listened to Born To Be With You had it and Dion's next album, Streetheart, combined onto one. The Streetheart tracks seemed more interesting.

"Dion effectively disowned the record" and so should you.

Annoying voice , dreadful songs. couldn’t get into it

WTF is this country twanging bullshit coming from a boy from Belmont Avenue? This is terrible. There’s a good dose of Christian rock. How TF did Phil Spector produce Christian music? This is really schmaltzy and unsettling. It’s the kind of music you might hear at, what you later find out is, a cult. Stopping before I get converted and join a commune. 1/5

Oh how I wish he was born to shut the fuck up instead. Always funny to see someone's 14th album on this list. Do you mean to tell me that this was so groundbreakingly better than his first 13? Very bland and boring. Nothing music.

Absolutely awful. Completely terrible. A complete waste.

I can't really find anything redeeming about this. Soulless, boring music.

Boring, repetitive, and the lyrics are kinda icky

Artiste inconnu. Les chorus de sax du premier morceau sont une bonne surprise, mais ... la surprise s'arrête malheureusement au premier morceau, je regrette d'être allé au bout pour le vérifier. =>1/5

This is total shit, and there is a lot of it. The fact that this is the 14th record by this guy is wild to me. His artist bio in Spotify and his 2.7 Million monthly listeners is baffling to me. Who the fuck is listening to soulless garbage pop from the 70's?

as it was mentioned in the wiki page of this album, it really sounds a bit like a "funeral music".

No thanks.

When I question some of the glaring omissions of this list, it's useful to have reference points: How did [Discovery / Blue Album / In the Aeroplane Over The Sea] not make the book when Dion did? So bland and generic it's actually offensive.

Always a bad time to be confronted with the era of songwriting where you're incessantly and exclusively calling the object of your lust "Little Girl," and goes double for something like this where the goal doesn't seem to have been getting sleazy in the first place

Pure shite

Yeah not for me...

This album sucks. A few songs have bits that I enjoy but the overall product just isn't for me. I feel like there's so many better listening choices. Also, why is there 20 songs? 1hr 18mins is way too long for an album. I doubt I'll ever listen to anything from this album again.

Overall inoffensive and fine. Unremarkable and easy listen. Nothing really stood out, but nothing was that bad. Just an album that is not for me.

Quite annoying whining

Dion was right, this is funeral music.

Kangol hat wearing ass

Horrendous

A mushy, boring and almost unlistenable mess. What is this turkey doing on the list? Dion made some timeless music in his day. This ain't it, chief.

An interesting curio. Producer Phil Spector's trademark "wall of sound" is so murky and echoey on this one it's as if said wall was made out of fog, goo or radioactive material. Quite a decadent atmosphere, probably explaining why the album was revisited again during the nineties, and somewhat put to the spotlight. Two tracks were not recorded by Spector by the way, and it's easy to spot which ones they are given that they stick out like blasted thumbs within the track list. And the album feels "weird" because of that as well. It's not even as cohesive as it could have been. Worse, the songs--whether originals or covers--are lengthy and often quite boring. Appropriately moody, off-kilter sonic aesthetics are one thing. But genuinelly interesting or thrilling compositions and arrangements are another. Plus, Dion's vocal performance sounds stilited or borderline hackneyed most of the time, as spotless as this performance is on a "technical" level. Waiting for the release of the book "The 1001 *Long-Format Curios* You Need To Listen To Before You Die" to finally revisit this record one day. Or not. In the meantime... 1.5/5 for the purposes of this list, rounded DOWN to a 1/5 grade, because... you know... Phil Spector, his conviction for murder, his lifetime of abuse of the ones living close to him and everything... Of couse, Dion has nothing to do with this. But still... Spector's ghost looms over this record so much. That 1.5/5 grade translates to a 6.5/10 grade for more general purposes, by the way.ther way for me to say that I still consider *Born To Be With You* as a Dion album. Number of albums left to review: 228 Number of albums from the list I find relevant enough to be mandatory listens: 332 Albums from the list I *might* include in mine later on: 197 Albums from the list I won't include in mine: 250 (including this one)

Uninspired pop ballads. Another one of those listen-once-and-forget-it-immediately albums.

Awful. Was this added to the list as a joke? 1/5

Meh it's fine it just doesn't really do much for me. Solid but unremarkable soft rock arrangements and pleasant but generic vocals. Unoriginal platitudes.

A dude known for some teen bops in 1961 has collaborated with Phil Spector to make a lame 70s pop rock record with a sound that too closely imitates George Harrison or Van Morrison. It's slow and atmospheric with gospel and country touches, which has influenced the likes of Spiritualized and Primal Scream. No songs that stuck out to me in any way. Most of it was trash, and a few had a couple interesting things about it. The only redeemable aspects were Phil Spector's high-quality production, consistency, short album length, and some varied ideas. But what good is all that when there isn't a single good song? Dude can't write, sing, or play for shit. Bearable: In and out of the shadows, Runaway Man

Ooh no. This is very boring.

Meh

⭐️ I just couldn’t get through it - too slow, uninteresting lyrics. Not a fan.

I was interested to see what Dion had done after the do-wop songs he's famous for. And this was pleasant, but I just couldn't make it all the way through it. Too much ... pretty boring ... just a no ... thank-you

I understand that Phil Spector was a important guy on the music industry, but the (way better) Christmas album was good, I didn't need to listen to this one too. I'll check if Dion has any other of his albums on the list, because this is just anoying.

Never heard of him, looks like Snape. First song, starts melancholic, it's a minute instrumental. It's jazzy now. He has a basic voice. Not the vibe yet. I like his use of voice, but it's not necessarily satisfying. The sounds are different in ears, a plus. It's one of those boring slow songs, which you have to know the artist first to actually like the song yk. Nothing was good in this song, sorry, it's easy listening, which means it should be more than just basic. Second song, again slow, had ABBA vibe for a second. It's annoyingly slow and nothing to have fun with. It has a karaoke vibe though. He has vocals, which I love in songs, but he has to be Whitney to make up for this kind of song. It's permanent wave too, no bridge or chorus, which I can stand when it's like Adele. Long ass outro. Third song, and it's still slow(no prob with them, I liked velvet underground's slow songs more for example, just Dion isn't good with them). Okaay some slight beat change, still uninteresting sadly. 4th song, the woman choir came in, I liked the violin(not the main part, sad). I skipped it, which I usually never do, it's just totally bad for me. 5th song sound much better, the beat is perfect, as I knew, this song has the most streams, It's the best one I've heard from him so. This one doesn't have a karaoke vibe, and it's not a vocal one. It's so repetitive I get bored half way. 6th song, starting mellow. The Worst vocal start, I mean I expected more. It's not bad, it just gives nothing, a background music one would put somewhere where music is not the main attraction. 7th song, I took off my headphones, not gonna ruin my ears even by 1% by this album. Same sound, same everything, don't even know how to criticise this anymore. And 20 songs? 8 would be enough. This is apparently doo-wop, hate it, at least him. 8th song, finally it's an upbeat one, this is listenable because of the instruments, but it's the same shit still. I'm not his negative about albums, but this really disappointed me. 9th song, this has a rolling stones "let's spend the night together" vibe, it's a sample? Just because of that it's the best song of the album, otherwise it's the worst sample, it's like slowed+reverbed remix, which sucks with most of the songs. The claps are fun. 10th song, also they have no cultural or historical meaning, like Bob Dylan may not be fun, but at least he talked something, also I low key got into him with the last album. He should have made all his songs samples, at least it would be nostalgic in a way. 11th song, I can't even... It just gets worse and worse. I so want to get the vibe, but it's ugh. At least he said "I'm a runway man" in a good way. The only good part basically. Nope. 12th song, weird name. This is torture, it got a little better when best slightly changed, otherwise it's another level of bad, even temptations was better than this. 13th song, my face has an unchanged disappointment, no wonder this was met with indifference I mean.. 14th song, why did he keep going?! Background music to sum up. There's nothing to talk about, it's literally same, only lyrics change. 15th song is upbeat, but I'm so disgusted by his voice I don't want to hear it. Why is this album here, the ultimate worst one so far. 16th song, Snape would have a better music career. Lyrics are probably basic too, they're not synced so I don't know exactly. I thought I would like him more because I've been listening to this for a long time, but no, it's still bad. 17th song, much better jazzy start. This has the, if Elton John had the worst vibe ever, vibe. Because he sounds like him, but Elton has spark. Also this genre is full of bands that are plural iykyk. If you like this, Dion is very good at it lol. 18th song, fully different start, and obviously uninteresting lyrical start. This is killing me. So not it. 19th song, I'm gonna cry about how horrible this is. I may not be objective right now, but this is exactly what the other songs sounded like. 20th song, my goodness a last fucking song, if someone is reading this I'm sorry you also had to listen to this album. He "baramaba"-ed the song at the end, not good. FINALLY, will never listen to this, one less artist to be unaware of though. I forced myself to listen to it, because I thought I would find a gem, I didn't. If it's not obvious enough, I'm gonna rate this 1 star. Just realised you see the rating first, oh well, you know the process too now. Gotta cleanse my ears.

Yikes

Really???

One song in and I'm not keen - references to "little girl" just don't fly these days.

Dross

Hey Johnny! Gimme an album with Nothin! Nothin?????????

Why did i listen to this? Generic bollox

So very, very bland.

The backstory was more interesting than the album, a Phil Spector shitshow. The album itself, "met with indifference".

BUSTED OUT "HES GOT THE WHOLE WORLD IN HIS HANDS".....IMMEDIATE THUMBS DOWN

He's got a nice voice, the instruments are fine. There's nothing specifically wrong with this album. But I'm not a slow love song type of person and the first 7 songs are pretty slow. 8 and on starts to get more of a drum beat, waking up a little bit. They're all still love songs though. I don't see myself listening to any of these songs again, I couldn't get through most of them. I don't feel bad rating it a 1 since "Dion effectively disowned the record, stating that the production made it sound like "funeral music.""

Sounds like the music that would be part of the soundtrack for the types of movies my grandmother liked in the 80s. To use less words, everything about this infinitely sucks. And there’s somehow so much of this album… I was wishing for an aneurysm halfway through the second song. The better songs sounds like c-tier James Taylor, and I am not a James Taylor fan. Most of these songs feature the lyrical prowess one would expect from a very repetitive mushroom of below average intelligence. Layer that on top of music best described as “existing to be a cheap facsimile of other popular artists within the last 20 years of when this was made” and you have something that is just so bland, it is actually exceptional in its own excruciating way.

Was ein schnulziger Schrott! Kein Bock mehr!

Extremely tedious to get through. The production is way too Spectoresque and the lyrics are preachy and condescending with many mentions of little girls and how they should be listening more to the very smart men in their lives.

Blues, which puts you to sleep.

Didn’t enjoy listening. Lyrics are a cheese ball.

Questionable lyrics aside, this record doesnt provide anything of value to the listener. Its boring, strum alongs that are very repetitive.

Dreary!

Tripe

Hate to say it, but Dion should have just stuck with his doo-op, greaser rock songs. This is like a worse version of Van Morrison.

Voor oude mensjes

So cheesey and not in a good way

Not very good

way too easy listening, soft rock, don't like it

A well-made album, but just not my thing to listen to

Not very good

I only wish it was shorter.

I like Dion and the Belmonts, they had a fun, cute sound, and Phil Spector’s wall as sound is admittedly awesome too listen to, notwithstanding his douchey character. So putting them together on this album probably seemed like a good idea at the time, but man was this ever schmaltzy. Simply dreadful dreck.

It's a no from me. The music isn't even bad when I focus on one snippet at a time, but the full product is just the wrong fit for me. This feeling was consistent across the entire album.

Not my cup of tea

This was so insipid that I don't even remember listening to it.

Enkel dit album geluisterd, en niet het andere deel van het dubbelalbum. Vond het nog somber en saai

More like DI-OFF, amirite? I know nothing about this album and wish that it could still be so after today. Sorry.

Terrible. Boring. He so desperately wants to be Jackson Browne but falls short in every way. There have to be 1000 better albums than this one. He mumbles to boot.

“New York City Song” is decent 70’s singer-songwriter fare, and the rare moments when Dion’s Wanderer-era ‘pretend bravado’ shines through are good. Most of the album, though, is just melodrama dialed up to eleven, one squeezebox away from being Schlager. At least it’s short.

Couldn't hack an hour of Dion. Just not my jam. Slow roll late 70's country/rock/gospel twang sound and he was kinda all over the place. Oh well.

Folk crap

Klares „Nein“.

No me ha gustado nada

Absolute snoozer.

Nothing interesting here

Ég var ekki viss hverju ég ætti von á þegar ég sá umslagið. Bjóst við einhverju listaspíru-french-induced-sjitti, en svo er bara alls ekki. Best að leyfa Dion sjálfum að eiga síðasta orðið hérna. "Dion disowned the record, stating that the production made it sound like "funeral music"

Crypto-gospel shite

There could be some good songs under here but this sounds terrible.

Easy listening that is easy to listen to, but I won’t again.

Not that great at all, the folksy- guitars and yodel like singing really does nothing for me. No surprise that my "Best" song is a cover. Best: (He's Got) The Whole World in His Hands Worst: Make the Woman Love Me

Not great