- pop, pop rock, adult contemporary
- 64 min
- 14 tracks
- The Rocket Record Company
Reg Strikes Back is the twenty-first studio album by the British musician Elton John, released in 1988. It was his self-proclaimed comeback album, and his own way of fighting back against bad press. The "Reg" in Reg Strikes Back refers to John's birth name, Reginald Kenneth Dwight.
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Spare, classical in form, character-led and effortless.
- sparerichly built
- classical in formformally daring
- character-ledplot-driven
- effortlessdemanding
- gravecomic
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- AllMusic2/5 ★
- Chicago Tribune(mixed)
- The Encyclopedia of Popular Music3/5 ★
- Los Angeles Times3/4 ★
- The New York Times(unfavourable)
- Record Mirror4/5 ★
- Rolling Stone3/5 ★
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Tracks
- 1Town of Plenty3:41
- 2A Word in Spanish4:39
- 3Mona Lisas and Mad Hatters (Part Two)4:13
- 4I Don’t Wanna Go On With You Like That4:35
- 5Japanese Hands4:41
- 6Goodbye Marlon Brando3:31
- 7The Camera Never Lies4:36
- 8Heavy Traffic3:30
- 9Poor Cow3:51
- 10Since God Invented Girls4:54
- 11Rope Around a Fool3:48
- 12I Don’t Wanna Go On With You Like That (Shep Pettibone mix)7:17
- 13I Don’t Wanna Go On With You Like That (Just Elton and His Piano mix)4:38
- 14Mona Lisas and Mad Hatters (Part 2) (The Renaissance mix)6:19
14 tracks, 64 minutes.
About the album
- Artist
- Elton John
- Label
- The Rocket Record Company
- Type
- Album
- Format
- CD
- Country
- XE
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