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 BoyzoneBy Request Release Date 1999 08 03 Label Universal Distribution Rating:  The title By Request was chosen from many entries submitted through a Boyzone fan contest. The songs themselves were chosen from Boyzone's three albums with several new ones added for good measure. By Request reminds one of how quickly the group shot to the top and how many hits they achieved in only four years. Every song here will ring a bell with pop listeners from Europe and Asia, though Americans will only recognize one or two if they are lucky. For much of the world, the album nearly plays as a Top 40 soundtrack to the latter half of the '90s. With each album it is clear that the quality in voice, production, and choice of song has increased. Beginning with &"Key to My Life" from the first album to the group's anthem &"Different Beat" to the exceptional Andrew Lloyd Webber song &"No Matter What," the group has remained focused on good old-fashioned "music." They have stripped down to the essentials, using sincere lyrics, simple melodies and no heavy synthetic distractions. Their decision to sound more like a band and less like a pop fabrication is admirable and probably the reason why their fellow Dublin band U2 used them on backup for the song and video &"Sweetest Thing" (which does not appear on this album). [The Australian edition is missing the song &"So They Told Me"] Peter Fawthrop, Rovi |
Tracks:
| Title | Composer | Time | |
| 1 | I Love the Way You Love Me | Cannon, Shaw | 3:46 |
| 2 | No Matter What | Lloyd Webber, Steinman | 4:34 |
| 3 | All That I Need | Rogers, Sturken | 3:42 |
| 4 | Baby Can I Hold You | Chapman | 3:15 |
| 5 | Picture of You | Kennedy, Watkins, Keating, Wilson | 3:29 |
| 6 | Isn't It a Wonder [Album Version] | Keating, Brannigan | 3:45 |
| 7 | Different Beat | Lynch, Keating, Gately, Duffy, Hedges, Brannigan | 4:15 |
| 8 | Words | Gibb, Gibb, Gibb | 4:04 |
| 9 | Father and Son | Stevens | 2:46 |
| 10 | So Good | Keating, Gately, Duffy, Lynch, Hedges, Graham, Brannigan | 3:03 |
| 11 | Coming Home Now | Lynch, Keating, Gately, Duffy, Hedges, Graham, Brannigan | 3:45 |
| 12 | Key to My Life | Keating, Gately, Hedges, Graham, Brannigan | 3:45 |
| 13 | Love Me for a Reason | Jones, Bristol, Brown | 3:39 |
| 14 | When the Going Gets Tough | Eastmond, Ocean, Braithwaite, Lange | 3:37 |
| 15 | You Needed Me | Goodrum | 3:29 |
| 16 | When You Say Nothing at All | Overstreet, Schlitz | 4:18 |
| 17 | All the Time in the World | Child, Robbins, Stephenson | 4:14 |
| 18 | I'll Never Not Need You | Warren | 4:09 |
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