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This album is perhaps one of Elton's lowest moments. An exercise in "what can i do now? Oh i know, i'll gather some of my showbiz chums and make a xmas-selling duets album just like ol Frank Sinatra!" Er...elton, no thanks! There are some good moments here though. "Teardrops" (Kd Lang hardly appears much sadly) and "If you were me". But...the best moment of all, and worth every penny, is the Cohen-duet "born to lose". Broken, sincere, cynical, with the killer ad-lib from Cohen's deadpan voice "and now Elton, i'm over you".The collaboration is perhaps Elton's more inspired choices of co-singersmore… in his career. For those who don't know who Leonard Cohen is, and shame on you, he is a pioneer in singersongwriting and poetry, of whom both Elton and Bernie are big fans. The "elton john" album from 1970 was mostly inspired by Cohen's work. For me, this album is only worth buying for this song alone.Wonderfully arranged, and well-delivered.A true gem.If its not to your taste then you either can't grasp the pathos or you're into the humdrum mediocrity of the sort of vocalists that "music fan from sheffield" (reveiwed here) likes to listen to. Not that Elton hasn't been mediocre...at times he's been wholly wretched. But this song just shows that he can pull off a sublime, inspired duet.

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Elton John - Duets (1993) Retail CD

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