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Track Listings
| 1. Simple Life |
| 2. The One |
| 3. Sweat It Out |
| 4. Runaway Train - Elton John, Eric Clapton |
| 5. Whitewash Country |
| 6. The North |
| 7. When A Woman Doesn't Want You |
| 8. Emily |
| 9. On Dark Street |
| 10. Understanding Women |
| 11. The Last Song |
| 12. Suit Of Wolves |
| 13. Fat Boys And Ugly Girls |
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CD Digitally Remastered W/Bonus Tracks
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
By "satyrist"
Format:Audio CD
Following on from "Sleeping With The Past" was always going to be tricky. The album that gave us 'Sacrifice' was a great work that in terms of quality went far beyond just that one track. However, "The One" does very well as a follow-up, and is far too often overlooked. From start to finish, this album is actually filled with many gems.
Most notable are the beautiful 'Simple Life', which leads us into the album; the beautiful top ten hit 'The One', with its simplistic yet brilliant piano solo at the end; the rocking 'Runaway Train', performed with Eric Clapton; the strange yet compelling 'Understanding Women'; and the hauntingly beautiful and very sad 'The Last Song', a song all about a man dying from AIDS-related diseases.
My only real criticism of this album is the inclusion of 'When A Woman Doesn't Want You', which sounds like it's on the wrong album completely and gives "The One" a slight feel of having a "Sleeping With The Past" hangover.
On the whole, though, a great album and well worth a listen.
3 of 4 people found the following review helpful
By Miracle
Format:Audio CD
"The One" is a pretty decent long player, and represented an early Nineties return to form for Elton after a decade that yielded a half-dozen or so great singles, but mostly substandard albums. However, as always with Elton, where there is good news, there is also some bad. So let's deal with the bad first. The album contains a number of tracks that can only be described as fillers. "The North", "Whitewash County" and "Emily" fall squarely into the "inoffensive but bland" category; "Understanding Women" is a synth-based curiosity that is a little out of place with the rest of the work; and "Sweat It Out" is an odd attempt at funk-pop (or something) that doesn't quite come off. On the positive side, "Simple Life" gets things going with an assured panache; the title track is an excellent ballad with a catchy piano riff; "On Dark Street" is a delightful slice of disposable soul; and, for once on an Elton CD re-issue, there is a superior bonus track in the form of the trojan "Suit Of Wolves". The highlights on the album are "When A Woman Doesn't Want You", an outstanding power-ballad with fine straightforward lyrics; and "The Last Song", an emotive tune that recounts the tale of a father and son reunited by the son's AIDS-related illness. The muscular production maintains an excellent sonic quality throughout, raising even the weaker tracks to a standard above their station. We can never expect perfection from the Watford Warbler, but "The One" is a fairly good effort.
By S J Buck
TOP 500 REVIEWER
Format:Audio CD
This is not quite 4 stars in my view, but its a better album than Elton had produced for a long time with stronger songs and arrangements than anything since "Two Low for Zero". It is still over-produced but there are hints here of the gradual return to his classic sound of the early 70's that would occur so dramatically on "Songs for the West Coast".
'Simple Life' and 'The One' are fine starters to the album. 'The One' in particular shows off Elton's melodic gift as well any track I can think of through his use of an extended chord sequence. Its sad that the track is over-produced, but this can't detract from a great melody. 'Emily' is classic Elton John. Starting with a verse that really doesn't seem to be going anywhere, but then he hooks with another of those amazing choruses. "On Dark Street" is a soulful track, which is one of the few tracks that benefits from its contemporary production. If you want a comparison with classic period its 'Philadelphia Freedom (ish)'. Eltons insistent electric Piano underpins the whole song, and a synthesised string arrangement adds to the soulful arrangement.
'The Last Song' is the last track of the album and is a great song both lyrically and melodically. Its a shame that Elton didn't do this with just Piano and Vocal as the track really doesn't need the other keyboards. However its a fine way to finsh the album.
Its really only the production and overall sound that separates this album from say 'Songs fron the West Coast'. Elton showed with this album that having recovered from the drugs and alcohol problems he could write good songs again and this is well worth getting.
'Simple Life' and 'The One' are fine starters to the album. 'The One' in particular shows off Elton's melodic gift as well any track I can think of through his use of an extended chord sequence. Its sad that the track is over-produced, but this can't detract from a great melody. 'Emily' is classic Elton John. Starting with a verse that really doesn't seem to be going anywhere, but then he hooks with another of those amazing choruses. "On Dark Street" is a soulful track, which is one of the few tracks that benefits from its contemporary production. If you want a comparison with classic period its 'Philadelphia Freedom (ish)'. Eltons insistent electric Piano underpins the whole song, and a synthesised string arrangement adds to the soulful arrangement.
'The Last Song' is the last track of the album and is a great song both lyrically and melodically. Its a shame that Elton didn't do this with just Piano and Vocal as the track really doesn't need the other keyboards. However its a fine way to finsh the album.
Its really only the production and overall sound that separates this album from say 'Songs fron the West Coast'. Elton showed with this album that having recovered from the drugs and alcohol problems he could write good songs again and this is well worth getting.
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Elton John - The One
After a plethora of average albums in the 80s, 1992's The One and it's predecessor, 1989's Sleeping With the Past, returned Elton and Bernie to a respectable level of artistic... Read more
Published on 22 Mar 2009 by David Jones
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The underdog of all elton john albums
I didn't think THE ONE would be as good as they made it out to be, but when i found that the title track had reached the top 10, i was surprised. Read more
Published on 15 Nov 2003 by "aefevans"
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