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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
Personally, I liked the album very much but I'm an Elton fan, so my opinions one sided.
This album isn't one of the greatest from Elton. It lacks the catchy tunes of old but does have several songs that you can take a liking to. 'Something About the Way You Look Tonight' may be remembered as being one of the songs on Princess Diana's single, and deserving of it to, and its one of Elton's better love songs on this album. The album version offers a Davey Johnstone guitar solo midway through to boot as well. 'Recover Your Soul' is another good love song with a cathcy melody. 'Live Like Horses' is the third of the better songs on offer with this album. Its a powerful sounding song with emotion.
It's a well produced piece with several good songs. An album for Elton fans but no necessarily one for the non-Elton fan.
This album isn't one of the greatest from Elton. It lacks the catchy tunes of old but does have several songs that you can take a liking to. 'Something About the Way You Look Tonight' may be remembered as being one of the songs on Princess Diana's single, and deserving of it to, and its one of Elton's better love songs on this album. The album version offers a Davey Johnstone guitar solo midway through to boot as well. 'Recover Your Soul' is another good love song with a cathcy melody. 'Live Like Horses' is the third of the better songs on offer with this album. Its a powerful sounding song with emotion.
It's a well produced piece with several good songs. An album for Elton fans but no necessarily one for the non-Elton fan.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
This is the album released on the back of `Candle In The Wind 97`. It's not a great album (The End Will Come and I Can't Steer My Heart Clear Of You` are breathtakingly forgettable) but a handful of good tracks make it worthwhile. `Long Way From Happiness` has a powerful chrous (And there's no second guess/ We take the second best/ Chances are we're a long way from happiness), `Recover Your Soul` gave Elton a catchy top twenty single and `Wicked Dreams` is a return to more upbeat fare.....
4 of 5 people found the following review helpful
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After the release of 1995's "Made In England", a tidy album which Elton and Bernie bravely attempted to hone in on the songwriting craft, along with a major world tour and the subsequent "Tantrums" and "Audiences with..." tv shows, came the recording sessions for what became "The Big Picture" album.
In the midst of this came the shocking news that his friend, Gianni Versace had been murdered outside his home, which had obviously resonated onto this album. A short time later, as he was about to release the lead-off single "Something About The Way You Look Tonight", Princess Diana was killed. With arrangements being made for Elton to perform at the requiem, the single was withdrawn and reassembled with the addition of "Candle In the Wind" which became the biggest selling single in UK chart history. Such events caused a significant benchmark in Elton's career and one that's still,unfortunately, almost always drawn back to, for whenever there is need for an emotional musical touchstone, Elton seems to be at the top of the list. At least he now seems to realise that this could be his albatross which he's successfully escaping from.
The album is lush, dark, yet somewhat directionless and bland. The surprising choice for the opening track, a quiet introspective piece, represents the overall mood of the album.
The rather beautiful, though slightly overcooked "Live Like Horses", minus Pavarotti, is one of the highlights of the album and contains one of the best Taupin lyrics in recent years, which, with its allusions to mortality and spiritualism, lost all its emotional impact on the operatic single release.
"If The River Can Bend" is excellent rock-gospel, with plenty of key-changes and chord progressions to keep you interested.
One other highlight is the title track...strongly evocative of the songs on "Madman Across The Water" it prefigures Elton's creative shift into Ryan Adams-style alt.country that became "Songs From The West Coast" four years later.
"Something About The Way You Look Tonight" is worthy of its single release, though its representative of the standard Elton John love song he can easily churn out.
The rest lacks sparkle and sounds complacent and uninspired. Its interesting to note that during the subsequent tour to promote the album, he hardly touched on the album at all. To top it off the cover painting by the otherwise brilliant artist Julian Schnabel is dismal. Shame.
In the midst of this came the shocking news that his friend, Gianni Versace had been murdered outside his home, which had obviously resonated onto this album. A short time later, as he was about to release the lead-off single "Something About The Way You Look Tonight", Princess Diana was killed. With arrangements being made for Elton to perform at the requiem, the single was withdrawn and reassembled with the addition of "Candle In the Wind" which became the biggest selling single in UK chart history. Such events caused a significant benchmark in Elton's career and one that's still,unfortunately, almost always drawn back to, for whenever there is need for an emotional musical touchstone, Elton seems to be at the top of the list. At least he now seems to realise that this could be his albatross which he's successfully escaping from.
The album is lush, dark, yet somewhat directionless and bland. The surprising choice for the opening track, a quiet introspective piece, represents the overall mood of the album.
The rather beautiful, though slightly overcooked "Live Like Horses", minus Pavarotti, is one of the highlights of the album and contains one of the best Taupin lyrics in recent years, which, with its allusions to mortality and spiritualism, lost all its emotional impact on the operatic single release.
"If The River Can Bend" is excellent rock-gospel, with plenty of key-changes and chord progressions to keep you interested.
One other highlight is the title track...strongly evocative of the songs on "Madman Across The Water" it prefigures Elton's creative shift into Ryan Adams-style alt.country that became "Songs From The West Coast" four years later.
"Something About The Way You Look Tonight" is worthy of its single release, though its representative of the standard Elton John love song he can easily churn out.
The rest lacks sparkle and sounds complacent and uninspired. Its interesting to note that during the subsequent tour to promote the album, he hardly touched on the album at all. To top it off the cover painting by the otherwise brilliant artist Julian Schnabel is dismal. Shame.
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