Backstreet Boys/Backstreet's Back
02/18/2003
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All Music Guide Review
The Backstreet Boys finally achieved American success with their second album, Backstreet's Back. The reason for the sudden success had more to do with good marketing than the music itself, since Backstreet's Back is nearly identical to Backstreet Boys. Loaded with dance-pop and ballads, the album is as glossy as mainstream pop can possibly be. That slick production adds luster to the singles "Quit Playin' Games (With My Heart)" and "As Long as You Love Me," making them as irresistible as teen pop can be. There isn't anything else that really matches those twin peaks, but there's enough craft, hooks, and fun on the rest of the album to make it quite entertaining. [There is also a French version that includes the bonus cuts "All I Have to Give, Pt. 2 [the Conversation Mix]" and "If I Don't Have You."] ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Music Guide
Backstreet Boys/Backstreet's Back Track Listing
Credits of Backstreet Boys/Backstreet's Back
- Kermit Moore
- Cello
- P.M. Dawn
- Producer
- Walter Pfell
- Harp
- Susan Poliacik
- Cello
- Denniz Pop
- Producer
- Tony Posk
- Violin
- Sue Pray
- Viola
- Matthew Raimondi
- Violin
- Fitzgerald Scott
- Piano, Producer
- Arthur Stoppe
- Engineer
- Mark Suozzo
- Copyist
- Marilyn Wright
- Violin
- Dana Cornock
- Engineer
- Patricia Daniels
- Cello
- Robin Mayforth
- Violin
- Hakan Wollgard
- Engineer
- Stephen George
- Engineer, Mixing, Mixing Engineer
- David Krueger
- Producer
- Michael Gilbert
- Engineer
- Dennis Williams
- String Arrangements
- Backstreet Boys
- Vocal Arrangement
- Tom Coyne
- Mastering
- Charles Parker
- Violin
- Charles McCrorey
- Assistant Engineer
- Gordon Rice
- Assistant
- Tim Donovan
- Engineer
- Chris Brickley
- Engineer
- Max Martin
- Producer, Engineer
- Mookie
- Arranger, Vocal Arrangement, Mixing, Instrumentation, Producer, Drums
- Rob Degroff
- Assistant Engineer
- Julia Ann Di Gaetani
- Viola
- Sharon Kearney
- Assistant Engineer
- Elizabeth Kirschen
- Violin
- Olga Konopelsky
- Violin
- Emma Kummrow
- Violin
- Charlene Kwas
- Violin
- Esbjörn Öhrwall
- Guitar
- Veit Renn
- Producer, Instrumentation
- Mark Ward
- Cello
- David Winslow
- Assistant Engineer
- Chaz Harper
- Digital Editing
- Adam Barber
- Engineer, Assistant Engineer
- Bülent Aris
- Programming, Producer
- Per Magnusson
- Keyboards, Producer
- Toni Cottura
- Programming, Producer
- José Diamante
- Violin
- Alice Poulson
- Violin
- Adam Cerda
- Assistant Engineer
- Parc Studio Posse
- Assistant
- Lou Pearlman
- Executive Director
- Angelo Jannotti
- Guitar (Electric)
- Tommie Hicks, Jr.
- Assistant Engineer
- Rick Behrens
- Engineer
- Battery Studio Soldiers
- Assistant
- Kristian Lundin
- Producer
- S.N.Y.K.O.
- Strings
- Steve Hammond
- Engineer
- Paul Reiser
- Violin
- Lenny Mollings
- Arranger
- Paul Rosenberg
- French Horn
- Full Force
- Arranger, Producer, Vocal Arrangement, Musician, Mixing
- Mr. Lee
- Producer, Remixing, Instrumentation
- Michael Aharon
- Guitar (Acoustic), Programming, Keyboards
- Timmy Allen
- Producer, Instrumentation, Mixing, Vocal Arrangement
- Chuck Anthony
- Guitar
- Pat Armstrong
- Assistant
- Seymour Barab
- Cello
- Julien Barber
- Violin
- David Barnett
- Viola
- Diane Barnett
- Violin
- Tony Battaglia
- Guitar
- James Biondolillo
- Conductor, String Arrangements
- Jeff Bova
- Programming
- Alfred Brown
- Violin
- Fritz Cadet
- Guitar
- Larry Campbell
- Producer, Instrumentation, Mixing
- Peter Dimitriades
- Violin
- John Faith
- Flute
- Winterton Garvey
- Violin
- Nigel Green
- Mixing
- Juliet Haffner
- Violin
- Henrik Janson
- String Arrangements
- Ulf Janson
- String Arrangements
- Richard Kerber
- Trumpet, Flugelhorn
- Kathryn Kienke
- Violin
- Harold Kohon
- Violin
- Helen Kwalwasser
- Violin
- Robert John "Mutt" Lange
- Producer
- Tommy Smith
- Arranger





























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