- rock
- 46 min
- 10 tracks
- Mercury Records
The Captain & the Kid is the twenty-eighth studio album by British musician Elton John, released in 2006. It is his second autobiographical album with lyricist Bernie Taupin, picking up where Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy (1975) left off. The Captain & the Kid chronicles the events in their lives over the intervening three decades.
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Grave, classical in form, spare and earnest.
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- sparerichly built
- earnestironic
- character-ledplot-driven
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Metacritic 69/100
- AllMusic3.5/5 ★
- The Encyclopedia of Popular Music3/5 ★
- Entertainment WeeklyA−
- The Independent4/5 ★
- Los Angeles Times3/4 ★
- PopMatters4/10
- Rolling Stone4/5 ★
- This Is London4/5 ★
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Tracks
- 1Postcards From Richard Nixon5:15
- 2Just Like Noah’s Ark5:33
- 3Wouldn’t Have You Any Other Way (NYC)4:39
- 4Tinderbox4:26
- 5And the House Fell Down4:49
- 6Blues Never Fade Away4:45
- 7The Bridge3:38
- 8I Must Have Lost It on the Wind3:53
- 9Old ’674:01
- 10The Captain and the Kid5:02
10 tracks, 46 minutes.
About the album
- Artist
- Elton John
- Label
- Mercury Records
- Released
- 2006
- Type
- Album
- Format
- CD
- Country
- CA
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