JULIO IGLESIAS — Julio (Columbia):: Menudo por las madres. In the romance languages, Iglesias projects a sleek sincerity and calculated intimacy (the female breathing that punctuates De Nina A Mujer" makes you wonder just what aspects of the child-to-woman transformation Julio is investigating), and this compilation of multi-lingual intl hits has such choice numbers as Amor," Nostalgie" and Ou Est Passee Ma Boheme?" (Ou indeed?). German (Wo Bist Du"), however is best left to Hannah Schygulla, or Falco. Tip to Richard Perry, whos producing Iglesias official Anglicized debut: every song should have the word accidental" thrown in somewhere. His pronunciation of those polysyllables on Hey" is a breathtaking moment. Actually, accidentally" would be even better.

M.C.

MICHAEL BOLTON (Columbia):: Yet another grizzled rock n roll vet in a black leather jacket, singing from the gut and aiming for a mainstream thats receding slowly into the distance. The kind of guy who would put together a sound sorta like Eddie Money fronting Toto. And mean it. The kind of guy would want Aldo Nova to play on his record. This kind of once-dangerous species now haunts the Grammys; can a place at your local museum be far behind? M.D.