Love Collection

Love Collection
Love Collection
Compilation album by Mina
Released	May 2000
Recorded	1970–1993
Studio	La Basilica, Milan; ; Studi PDU, Lugano;
Genre	Pop; rock;
Length	116:48
Language	Italian
Label	EMI
Mina chronology

Love Collection is a compilation album by Italian singer Mina, released in 2000 by EMI. It features love-themed songs recorded between 1970 and 1993, but does not include the main hits of the singer. The album reached sixteen position on the Italian albums chart.^[3]

Critical reception[edit]

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	^[2]

Bradley Torreano from AllMusic gave a negative assessment of the album, stating that it is filled with featureless and faceless tracks, which sometimes are not even saved by Mina's beautiful voice. Summing up, he stated that he does not recommend this album to anyone, because it does not compare with the singer's previous achievements.^[2]

Track listing[edit]

Disc 1
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Una lunga storia d'amore"	Gino Paoli	3:29
2.	"Colori"	Andrea Lo Vecchio Simon Luca	5:15
3.	"Giuro di dirti la verità"	Cristiano Malgioglio Corrado Castellari	4:27
4.	"Una canzone" (feat. New Trolls)	Vittorio De Scalzi Nico Di Palo Gianni Belleno Ricky Belloni	4:13
5.	"La verità"	Sergio Bardotti Armando Trovajoli Carlo Pes	4:15
6.	"Noi due nel mondo e nell'anima"	Roby Facchinetti Valerio Negrini	4:25
7.	"Fortissimo"	Lina Wertmüller Bruno Canfora	4:23
8.	"Devo tornare a casa mia"	Luigi Clausetti	3:55
9.	"Non ti riconosco più"	Michele Anzoino Dario Baldan Bembo	4:18
10.	"Amore mio"	Gina Basso Bruno Canfora	3:40
11.	"La notte (La nuit)"	Nicola Salerno Salvatore Adamo	3:52
12.	"Scrivimi"	Giovanni Raimondo Enrico Frati	4:47
13.	"Amore, amore, amore mio"	Corrado Castellari Giacinto De Mitri	5:00
14.	"Come stai?" (feat. Massimiliano Pani)	Massimiliano Pani Giorgio Calabrese Claudia Ferrandi	4:35
Total length:			60:34

Disc 2
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Lui, lui, lui"	Paolo Limiti Massimiliano Pani	4:16
2.	"L'altra metà di me"	Piergiorgio Benda	3:19
3.	"E tu come stai?"	Claudio Baglioni	5:09
4.	"Traditore"	Giorgio Faletti	4:33
5.	"Chitarra suona più piano" (feat. Ángel "Pato" García)	Franca Evangelisti Marcello Marrocchi Nicola Di Bari	3:18
6.	"Nessuno al mondo (No Arms Can Ever Hold You)"	Nino Rastelli Art Crafer Jimmy Nebb	2:38
7.	"Che male fa"	Piero Cassano Aldo Stellita Carlo Marrale	4:20
8.	"La vita goccia a goccia"	Franco Califano Carlo Pes	4:34
9.	"Magia"	Andrea Lo Vecchio Gino Mescoli	4:20
10.	"Adagio"	Paolo Limiti Vittorio Buffoli Mario Nobile	3:32
11.	"Distanze"	Luigi Albertelli Roberto Soffici	4:39
12.	"Oroscopo"	Cristiano Malgioglio Corrado Castellari	3:50
13.	"Da capo"	Marco Luberti Riccardo Cocciante	3:21
14.	"Un'ora"	Antonio Amurri Bruno Canfora	3:27
Total length:			55:16

Charts[edit]

Chart performance for *Love Collection*
Chart (2000)	Peak position
Italian Albums (FIMI)^[4]	16

References[edit]

^ "La Basilica" (in Italian). minamazzini.it. 3 September 2020. Retrieved 27 June 2023.
^ ^a ^b ^c Torreano, Bradley. Love Collection - Una Lunga Storia d'Amore Review at AllMusic. Retrieved 27 June 2023.
^ "Hits of the World". Billboard. Vol. 112, no. 22. 27 May 2000. p. 64. ISSN 0006-2510.
^ "Italiancharts.com – Mina – Love Collection". Hung Medien. Retrieved 27 June 2023.

External links[edit]

Love Collection at Discogs (list of releases)

[1] "La Basilica" (in Italian). minamazzini.it. 3 September 2020. Retrieved 27 June 2023.

[AllMusic-2] Torreano, Bradley. Love Collection - Una Lunga Storia d'Amore Review at AllMusic. Retrieved 27 June 2023.

[3] "Hits of the World". Billboard. Vol. 112, no. 22. 27 May 2000. p. 64. ISSN 0006-2510.

[ac_Italy_Mina-4] "Italiancharts.com – Mina – Love Collection". Hung Medien. Retrieved 27 June 2023.

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