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Elton John - Duets Audio CD

A fair review of the Elton John "Duets" Audio CD. Please note that the below review is the views of the authors, and authors only. You can get a complete list of all Elton John reviews here, or go back to the Elton John tabs.

Elton John Band: Elton John
Title: Duets
Rating:
Release Date: 1993-11-23
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: Teardrops - Elton John, 2: When I Think About Love (I Think About You) - Elton John 3: Power - Elton John, Little Richard 4: Shakey Ground - Don Henley, Elton John 5: True Love - Kiki Dee, Elton John 6: If You Were Me - Elton John, Chris Rea 7: Woman's Needs - Elton John, Tammy Wynette 8: Old Friend - Elton John, Nik Kershaw 9: Go on and On - Elton John, Gladys Knight 10: Don't Go Breaking My Heart - Elton John, RuPaul 11: Ain't Nothing Like the Real Thing - Marcella Detroit, Elton John 12: I'm Your Puppet - Elton John, Paul Young 13: Love Letters - Elton John, Bonnie Raitt 14: Born to Lose - Leonard Cohen, Elton John 15: Don't Let the Sun Go Down on Me - Elton John, George Michael 16: Duets for One - Elton John

Nice album... Great music and Vocals!!!!
At least, no beyond that great song with Kiki Dee ("Don't Go Breaking My Heart"). I feel reluctant to consider that some music Megastars with a quite defined 'level' within the world of Pop & Rock music like Elton John, could make a nice "Duets" album. . . However, this album is the exception that breaks the rule!

Will you please take note: RuPaul, K. D. Lang, Kiki Dee (again), Paul Young, Tammy Wynette, Nik Kershaw, Gladys Knight, P. M. Dawn, Little Richard, Chris Rea, Don Henley, Marcella Detroit, Leonard Cohen, George Michael, the wonderful Bonnie Raitt. . . WOW!!! All these guys and gals have performed a tune in this album with the great "unshottable" Piano Player.

I bought the CD just by listening the beautiful "True Love" with Kiki Dee. . . But the whole album is worth the effort to get it! A great one certainly! .


fine assortment of Elton John's duets
The quality of the sound is excellent, too. Elton John always does things big; and this CD gives us a whopping sixteen duets he performs with various artists.

The CD track set begins with Elton and k. d. lang singing "Teardrops. " The musical arrangement has that '80s pop flavor to it with good percussion and drums. Elton and k. d. sound terrific and this duet really rocks! The strings enhance the natural beauty of this number. "The Power" has a strong beat for this soul type ballad; and the background choir harmonizes well. Elton sounds great as he sings this with Little Richard. Elton and Little Richard bat this one straight out of the ballpark for a grand slam home run---it's THAT good. In addition, Elton sings a passionate rendition of "A Woman's Needs" with Tammy Wynette. The piano adds to the beauty of this number; and Tammy Wynette sounds great!

Elton also does a disco/dance music rendition of "Don't Go Breaking My Heart" with RuPaul. Together Elton and RuPaul sound better than I thought they would; and they do a fine version of "Don't Go Breaking My Heart. " The mixing on "Don't Go Breaking My Heart" is excellent; and the female backup vocalists help this very well.

"Born To Lose" gives us Elton doing a duet with Leonard Cohen. Leonard's deep voice works well for this number and he complements Elton's vocals perfectly. The musical arrangement makes great use of the piano and strings. Wow! Listen also for a fantastic live duet when Elton teams up with George Michael to do "Don't Let The Sun Go Down On Me. "

The CD track set ends with Elton performing "Duets For One;" this '80s type of pop number has some great percussion, guitar and piano. The mixing creates the illusion that Elton is doing a duet with himself--we hear two Eltons, not one, at numerous points throughout this number. "Duets For One" makes a strong ending for this fine album.

The liner notes give us some pretty fine artwork and we get the song credits, too. We even get the photos of the people who performed the duets with Elton on this album.

Elton John gives us a great album of duets with his peers; and this truly impresses me. I like the sound and flavor of this album; and I recommend it for fans of pop and rock from the '80s. Naturally, Elton's fans will want this one in their collections!
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Uninspiring choice of songs...


I agree with other reviewers, that this is worth having for the sake of completeness or if you can get it used/cheaply, but what could have been a stunning album, flounders amid an outrageous waste of many talented artists. When it's good it's good, as with KD on Teardrops, but I was very disappointed with the choice of songs.

Fifty percent of this is entirely disposable.

Don't get me wrong, Elton still rules, but this was not his finest hour.


Fans can never be objective...
From the OBJECTIVE reviewer. . sadly, the best song on the CD is the one NON-duet song, "Duets For One. " This just doesn't work.


Duets
Take a bunch of hits and sing them in duet form and it should be able to strike gold right away? Well it is not exactly "rocks" that one is presented with rather it feels like a goldplated item. Duets~ Elton John should have been a great idea. It sure looks nice on the outside but dig a bit deeper and there is like nothing golden about it. Some of the duets are great like P. M. Dawn, Tammy Wynette (the best of the lot), Little Richard and Kershaw. Then again we get real underachievements like the duet with k. d. lang (she sounds like an old man) and the last track is strange. I was quite disapointed since this album has massive potential to be good but he wastes on picking questionable singers like k. d. lang and it seems like instead of a golden experience we are left with a gold plated experience. What a shame.


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