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Breaking Hearts [Original recording remastered]

~ Elton John
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  • Audio CD (5 May 2003)
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Format: Original recording remastered
  • Label: Commercial Marketing
  • ASIN: B00008ZPDI
  • Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
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1. Restless
2. Slow Down Georgie (She's Poison)
3. Who Wears These Shoes?
4. Breaking Hearts (Ain't What It Used To Be)
5. Li'l 'Frigerator
6. Passengers
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9. Did He Shoot Her?
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In the early '80s, Elton John no longer dominated the singles and album charts the way he had during the previous decade. He was still hugely popular, but he was in the process ofredefining himself as an artist when he released BREAKING HEARTS in 1984. Gone were the 12-inch platform heels, the outrageous costumes and wild stage antics, but his music hadn'treally changed all that much. He still alternated chiefly between piano-based rock songs and melodic, emotional ballads, despite throwing in occasional new wave-sounding keyboardsand other slick touches of the era.
"Sad Songs (Say So Much)", the record's high-charting hit, sports a melody that is hard to dislodge from the mind, even after a single listen. The chugging opening track "Restless" has a gritty Rolling Stones feel, while "Who Wears These Shoes" has a soulful, springy backbeat that is reminiscent of Motown groups like the Supremes. On the title track, John demonstrates his ability to write simple, affecting ballads. Alternating between his low and high registers, he is accompanied only by piano and a few high, Beatle-esque background vocals. "Passengers" has a sea-shanty flavour, with its sing-song, call-and-response chorus.

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8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars below par album. face saved by beautiful title track!, 28 Oct 2003
By Martin R. Taylor "mrtpiano" (UK) - See all my reviews
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With the commercial success of the previous year's "Too Low For Zero" which spawned a return to form, a return to his classic band, and a return to the sole lyricism of Bernie Taupin, Elton went back with producer Chris Thomas to Air studios in Montserrat and cut "Breaking Hearts"....effectively "Too Low For Zero: Part 2"!! The two popular songs here, "Sad Songs" and "Passengers" reached the UK Top10 during the hot summer of '84 whilst Elton was performing successful shows at Wembley.
Whilst containing some fairly ok songs, the overall feel of this album lacked the cool detachment and cohesiveness of its predecessor. The impression here is Elton treading water, being fairly complacent and concentrating on quantity rather than quality. That said, it is by far a much better effort than "Jump Up" and "21 at 33".
The jewel here is the title track, a dark brooding early 50s style ballad with an instant memorable melody, it benefits greatly by the fact that its just piano and vocal (no overblown orchestration here thankfully!) with The Platters-type harmonies of Davey, Dee and Nigel which harks back to the Yellow Brick Road era. This song has long been forgotten and deserves its place on any compilation or love song collection. That it should lead into the silly "Li'L'Frigerator" is a major fall from grace. There are other interesting moments: "In Neon" is a pleasant countryish song with lyrics, perhaps a paen to the trappings of fame -or the lack of it- in the shimmering city of Hollywood:
"Lipstick and Lashes, the traces of stardom
Lit up on a billboard so everyone see's them in neon"
"Slow Down Georgie" describes the situation of a friend who's in love with the wrong kind. Its let down by some hackneyed lyrics but is saved by a certain joie de vivre. The same applies to "Who Wears These Shoes", another pastiche of 50s pop which, at the time, was undergoing a musical resurgance.
So that's pretty much it. An below average Elton John album of the calibre he was releasing in the 1980s. The remastered sound has improved, but again sadly, no bonus songs to encourage any further interest.
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2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars A jolly good album, 17 Jan 2004
It's funny how an album with 2 top ten singles included, one of which also got to the top 5, isn't an entry album for the remastered label: 'Elton John-The Classic Years'. However, this does not marr the quality of the album.

With a medium speed ballad like Sad Songs, an African-style rock song like Passengers or a shunting rock beat like Restless, it has to be of some good.

Passengers is my favorite track on the album, and my second favourite song by Elton John in general. Although it peaked in at number 5 in the charts, it hasn't seemed popular as it did back then, but if you want a rock album to keep you singing and dancing, this one's for you.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Another fine effort from Elton, 28 May 2009
By Peter Durward Harris "Pete the music fan" (Leicester England) - See all my reviews
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It was always going to be hard to follow his hugely successful 1983 album, Too low for zero, which is regarded as something a comeback album. Not that Elton had ever been away, but his albums during the period 1977 to 1982 aren't generally held in such high regard as most of his early albums released between 1970 and 1976. Actually, Elton's albums from that period aren't all as bad as some would have you believe. I enjoy some of them, particularly Blue moves and 21 at 33, but it would be fair to say that Elton made some mistakes during that period, the biggest by far being the album Victim of love. So the 1983 comeback (if that's what it was) surprised a lot of people who had written Elton off as a has-been. But with this album, Elton proved that Too low for zero was no fluke. While Breaking hearts doesn't quite match the brilliance of its predecessor, it comes close. With basically the same people involved, and the same recording studio in Montserrat (some years before the volcanic eruption that devastated the island), the sound and style is similar to Too low for zero, the difference being in the songs.

Four of the songs here became British hits (though only two were big hits), while there were three hits in America, although only two hits were the same songs in both countries. The standout track on the album is Sad songs say so much. It made the American top five and the British top ten. The second and biggest British hit (where it made the top five) from the album was Passengers. The lyrics are difficult to understand, but the liner notes to this re-mastered CD suggest that it is actually about South African apartheid, so the train and its would-be passengers are metaphorical. Passengers never became an American single, for whatever reason. The third British single and the second American single was Who wears these shoes?. It made the top twenty in America but was only a minor British hit, perhaps because most people who wanted the song bought the album. The third American single, In neon, became a top forty hit there. In Britain, that song was relegated to the B-side, with the A-side being the album's title track, but it was only a minor hit. Again, any Brits who wanted it probably already had the album.

The five tracks already mentioned provide reasons enough to buy the album, but the other five tracks (Restless, Slow down Georgie she`s poison, Li'l 'frigate, Burning bridges, Did he shoot her?) are all worth a listen. Perhaps the pick of them is Burning bridges, but there's not a lot to choose between them quality-wise.

Buying this album shouldn't take precedence over Too low for zero or Elton's classic albums of the early to mid-seventies. Nevertheless, every self-respecting committed Elton John fan should buy this album eventually.
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