Nostalgie Les Plus Grands Slows

Some stations chase new releases. This one knows exactly what it is: a wall-to-wall slow-jam service from the Nostalgie network, built for the three-minute ballads that French radio perfected in the '80s and '90s. You'll get Francis Cabrel's quieter side, Jean-Jacques Goldman at his most sentimental, Céline Dion before Vegas got hold of her. Add Scorpions, Foreigner, Lionel Richie: the power ballads that somehow crossed every border in Europe. It's sentimental. Unapologetically so. That's the point. It plays what French radio has always done well: big choruses, strings, and a singer who means…