The Captain & the Kid
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Publication |
September 18, 2006 |
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| Label (s) | Universal Music Group | |||
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CD |
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Title (number) |
10 |
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running time |
45:58 |
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Elton John, Mat Still |
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The Captain & the Kid (English for: " The Captain and the Child ") is the 29th studio album by British musician Elton John , which was released on September 18, 2006.
background
On May 23, 1975 Elton John's album Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy was released . The album was seen as a musical biography of the lives of Elton John and Bernie Taupin .
Since 2001 Elton John tried to get back to his roots. To this end, he sought contact with Taupin, with whom he had been successful as a songwriter duo in the 1970s. The Captain & the Kid is conceptually the follow-up album to Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy and again contains autobiographical texts. Recursions can also be recognized musically, above all through a particularly intensive piano accompaniment and simpler, more accessible song structures that contrast with the use of string and wind instruments as well as synthesizers on previous albums.
Overall, this album is a compilation of happy and soulful songs, although ballads are especially in the foreground. Thematically, the album mainly draws on American motifs, they are supposed to describe the American dream to the listener . Wouldn't Have You Any Other Way (NYC) reports on Elton John's relationship with the city of New York . In the song Postcards from Richard Nixon , Elton John describes what it was like when he first visited America.
Track list
- Postcards from Richard Nixon (Elton John, Bernie Taupin) - 5:14
- Just Like Noah's Ark (Elton John, Bernie Taupin) - 5:33
- Wouldn't Have You Any Other Way (NYC) (Elton John, Bernie Taupin) - 4:39
- Tinderbox (Elton John, Bernie Taupin) - 4:26
- And the House Fell Down (Elton John, Bernie Taupin) - 4:49
- Blues Never Fade Away (Elton John, Bernie Taupin) - 4:45
- The Bridge (Elton John, Bernie Taupin) - 3:38
- I Must Have Lost It on the Wind (Elton John, Bernie Taupin) - 3:53
- Old '67 (Elton John, Bernie Taupin) - 4:01
- The Captain and the Kid (Elton John, Bernie Taupin) - 5:01
reception
The album earned Elton John benevolent criticism. The album is "EJ's best since the Carter years". Joachim Gauger praises on laut.de that Elton John "skillfully balances on the fine line between kitsch and sweetish-beautiful melancholy".
However, several critics complained about the poor quality compared to Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy . Mat Snow writes for the Guardian, for example, that the titles are based less on inspiration and thus authenticity, but rather came from a “song maker”. Tim O'Neil also emphasizes that the album does not live up to the claim to follow Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy : “It's obvious they want to recapture what once came so easily to them, it's obvious they're hungry for the energy and motivation that once came so easily, but wishing for something and having it be so are two different things. ”For Stephen Thomas Erlewine from Allmusic, however, this is not a negative criterion - he emphasizes that the work is rather seen as a continuation of the previous album muss: "It might not quite seem like what a Fantastic sequel should be - in fact, it seems more like a sequel to its direct predecessor, 2004's Peachtree Road - but that's hardly a bad thing."
Commercial success
The album peaked in the UK charts place 6. In the US Billboard -charts it reached number 18 in Germany 25th place as a single was The Bridge decoupled, but had no significant success.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.laut.de/Elton-John/The-Captain-And-The-Kid-%28Album%29
- ↑ http://www.cnn.com/2006/SHOWBIZ/Music/09/19/ew.mus.elton/
- ↑ http://www.laut.de/Elton-John/The-Captain-And-The-Kid-%28Album%29
- ↑ https://www.theguardian.com/music/2006/sep/15/popandrock.shopping3
- ↑ http://www.popmatters.com/pm/review/elton-john-the-captain-the-kid/
- ↑ http://www.popmatters.com/pm/review/elton-john-the-captain-the-kid/
- ↑ http://www.everyhit.com/
- ↑ http://www.allmusic.com/album/the-captain-the-kid-mw0000442734/awards
- ↑ http://www.charts-surfer.de/musiksuche.php