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- Summary: Produced by T-Bone Burnett, the first solo album in over seven years for the pop singer-songwriter is a return to the more stripped down sound of his earlier career built around a piano, bass and drums.
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- Record Label: Capitol
- Genre(s): Singer/Songwriter, Adult Contemporary, Pop/Rock, Adult Alternative Pop/Rock, Contemporary Pop/Rock, Album Rock, Rock & Roll, Soft Rock
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Oceans Away | |
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I hung out with the old folks In the hope that I'd get wise I was trying to the gap Between the great divide Hung on every recollection In the... | See the rest of the song lyrics |
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Positive: 17 out of 24
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Mixed: 6 out of 24
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Negative: 1 out of 24
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Sep 13, 2013The singer has matched Bernie Taupin's best crop of lyrics for years with his own most emotively apt melodies to produce a collection that both harks back to the intrigues and interests of his earliest recordings, yet manages to break new ground, quite an achievement for an artist in his sixth decade.
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Entertainment WeeklySep 27, 2013It's slightly overlong and noodly in spots. [4 Oct 2013, p.64]
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Sep 24, 2013The Diving Board succeeds where the others did not. It does so by putting John’s piano and voice front and center, offering memorable melodies, and scraping off the production glop to reveal again the musician, the vocalist, the emotional artist still alive under John’s shiny shell of professional fabulousness.
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Sep 12, 2013The Diving Board is an adult affair, but impressive enough to explore, and reinforces Elton’s continuing creative renaissance.
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Classic Rock MagazineOct 23, 2013Yes aging is difficult but Elton and Bernie seem to be making a good job of it. [Oct 2013, p.91]
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Sep 23, 2013He's no Marcel Proust, but full credit for producing what's an unusually thoughtful album in contemporary pop music terms. Even if it is a bit morbid.
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Sep 24, 2013The Diving Board feels like an album made by somebody who’s spent the last few years performing the same set list night after night in Vegas.
Score distribution:
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Positive: 4 out of 5
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Mixed: 0 out of 5
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Negative: 1 out of 5
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Nov 15, 2013
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Feb 13, 2019Elton John is better here than in Peachtree Road or The Captain & The Kid, his best album since Songs From The West Coast!!!
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Dec 15, 2013
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Apr 3, 2016
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