Westlife Album: “Turnaround [Bonus Track]”

While I was hoping for a few more up-beat tunes, the CD is true Westlife...beautiful songs, sung by beautiful men with beautiful voices. A must have CD!!

This is one of the ultimate best Westlife CD's. It contains everything that Westlife is good at. It has beautiful ballads and catchy quick songs. It's wonderful to Westlife put out another CD and it's great that Westlife has proved that they are more than the average boy band because in times like now where pop is no longer mainstream, but rather hip hop and R&B are considered more in mainstream, Westlife was able to overcome that and become one of the longest surviving boybands. Cheers to Westlife.

My favorite songs on this C.D. are Turn Around (a great, upbeat song) and When a Woman Loves a Man (a beautiful ballad). I also like Mandy (I was skeptical of it at first because it's a Barry Manilow song, but it's nicely done and grows on you). I'm starting to like Obvious.

Some songs are in a different style. Hey Whatever sounds something like To Be With You. Not a typical Westlife sound. I think there are other songs in that style, too. I don't like that many songs on this album, so I'd recommend Face to Face or Unbreakable for better Westlife music. They are a really wonderful group and I plan on getting more of their C.D.'s such as Coast to Coast and World of Our Own because I have listened to samples on this web site and they seem promising. A lot of times samples of import C.D.'s are not available on Amazon, but they are available at Barnes & Noble and Borders Books if you go to the C.D. section and put on the headphones. Borders has snippets from their new one, The Love Album. This makes things easier because you do not want to potentially waste money on an import C.D. when you have never heard the music.

Who ever thought that the last four Westlife albums could have been improved upon. Well Tha lads of westlife told us that this album was going to be there best yet, and when I furst listened to it I whole heartedly agreed with them. The Ballad Kings, Westlife did not disappoint with their heart felt ballads such as the cover of Barry Manilow's Brandy- "Mandy," "Obvious," "Heal" and "What Do They Know?" The ballads were more heartfelt than ever (due to the then pending wedding of member Shane Filan and the likewise recently hitched Nicky Byrne?).

Newer songs such as "Hey Whatever," "Turnaround," and "Thank You" introduced the listener to a more upbeat/updated sound the lads had not presented us with before. While Westlife is in no danger of ridding themselves totally of their staple ballads, and going it the "Hey Whatever" direction anytime soon, these three newer style songs were a definant step towards slowly altering their sound so they can evolve and change as the public's tastes change as well ...

"Obvious" is most definantly the best song on the whole album, however, and was the second single they released from this album. It was also the last single they released before member Bryan McFadden left Westlife and the spotlight to devote himself to his family and to watch his little children grow.

The maturity of this album, in comparisson to their last four, is astounding. Gone is the bubblegum pop sound, and I even dare say that this world famous pop group is boardering more on adult contemporary now than the teen pop genre where they began. Whatever your opinion, Westlife has proved in "Turnaround" that they are no longer a boyband ... with three of the five happily married, and them all in their mid 20's, they have evolved and are now a bonified, full-fledged vocal group.

If Westlife (now a four sum) continues to put out albums such as this one, of this quality, they will be around for a very very long time. Good at ya lads, and brilliant work.

This album's really different from Westlife's other albums. It's more uptempo but there still are quite a no. of their signature ballards!!!!.... anyway, my favourite songs on this album are: hey whatever, mandy, obvious, heal, i did it for you(nice lyrics... no wonder it was written by diane warren). thank you's nice too... turnaround's really quite of a turnaround for them. kinda funky which is so unlike Westlife but still good. This's cd's stuck in my cd player now... and i gurantee it'll be stuck on yours if you buy it....