Whether it's pop or rock, no one does it better than Céline! Although her rock side is rarely heard in her English songs, she is truly amazing...Des Mots Qui Sonnent and Le Blues du Businessman are easily my favorites on this album, and I don't even fully understand French! Her vocals transcend language barriers, and you have to hear her French albums to really appreciate Céline. I especially love the way her French albums are mostly written by one person each, making them sound more complete. Eddy Marnay, Jean-Jacques Goldman, and Luc Plamondon contribute that special something that her English albums, no matter how good, seem to lack. I'd learn French just because of Céline after listening to this.

The beauty of song transcends any communication barriers. Yes, I do comprehend this album in its French tongue. But even if I didn't I would be at a loss if I didn't include this album in my collection. Celine evokes an emotional aura that is beautiful in any language. This is proven by her immense success not only in France, Canada, but in her new home, the United States. My personal favorites, "Le Monde est Stone" and "L'amour Existe Encore" are drenched in the vocalist's emotion. She makes the listener simultaneously cry and laugh at the beauty of music and her talent. If you are a fan, or just aroused by the eroticness of the French language, get this one. Nobody does it better than Celine.

No matter what language you speak, this album is Celine's finest work ever. It's far more interesting, more artistic and less middle-of-the-road than any of her other work. Dion Chante Plamondon truly shows off what marvelous things this woman can do with her voice. The music is a little dark at times, but it's great to hear her do something different than her cookie-cutter English hits. If you've always thought that Celine had a great voice but found her English music too mainstream, give this album a shot. It will literally take your breath away...no matter what language you speak.

I've heard everything that Celine has put out, and this ranks among the best she's done. There's an honesty to her singing in French that was missing from her earlier English language albums, only because she's singing in her native tongue, and she knows the nuances of that language intimately.

Generally CŽline gets lost in translation. Her English recordings vary from classic to awful, but too often feature middle-of-the-road, saccharine pop pablum (I love pop, but good pop). And for the first 10 years or so she recorded in French the same was largely true. Songs about Mum and Dad and God and teenage crushes on boys. Though to be fair she started recording when she was 12...and never really had a childhood as a result.

This is the album that made teh francophone world take notice of CŽline as a chanteuese. The range of songs is impressive (rock, pop, dance, ballads). She takes artistic risks too: Le Blues du Businessman is a song written for a man to sing, and Le Monde est Stone has traditionally been recorded as a more airy, ethereal paen to confusion in modern times--CŽline rips it with passion and gusto. And it works.

With Dion Chante Plamondon we got our first glimpse that CŽline is perhaps the greatest song interpreter of her generation. Her next album en fran�ais, D'eux, is the one that made her an artistic force in the French speaking world. It's a shame she can't sing the sorts of songs here and on D'eux in English--but English record buyers don't seem to be very open to songs about waitresses confused by her weed-whacked customers (Le Monde est stone here), or the obsessive rants of a rejected lover (Pour que tu m'aimes encore, on D'eux). Buy these records