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Title: Goodbye, Yellow Brick Road - hello Shlocksville!
Review: "El Dorado" fails on all levels. Truly, this is a CD to avoid. Elton's fans should avoid it for the lackluster rhythms, simple chromatic melodies (if you can call them that)and banal Tim Rice lyrics and forced rhymes. Disney film fans - this is NOT Lion King of the Central American Jungle! There is no grand opening melodic sweep like "Circle of Light" - instead you've got the moronic repetition of "El Dorado." There are no ballads like "Can you hear the love" - so there's nothing to compare it to. And the comic songs isn't very clever, although "It's Tough to be a God" comes close. One last comment, I could buy the Spanish rhythms - after all the main characters are Spanish - but where the hell did the country/western sound come into the picture at all? Dreamworks, if you want to rival Disney, get Phil Collins to do your music next time.
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