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1.Border Song – Eric Clapton 04:18
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2.Rocket Man (I Think It's Going to Be a Long, Long Time) – Kate Bush 04:58
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3.Come Down in Time – Sting 03:43
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4.Saturday Night's Alright for Fighting – The Who 04:32
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5.Crocodile Rock – The Beach Boys 04:22
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6.Daniel – Wilson Phillips 04:01
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7.Sorry Seems to Be the Hardest Word – Joe Cocker 03:57
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8.Levon – Jon Bon Jovi 05:05
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9.The ****** Is Back – Tina Turner 03:37
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10.Philadelphia Freedom – Daryl Hall & John Oates 05:11
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11.Your Song – Rod Stewart 04:48
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12.Don't Let the Sun Go Down on Me – Oleta Adams 05:53
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13.Madman Across the Water – Bruce Hornsby 06:10
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14.Sacrifice – Sinéad O'Connor 05:08
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15.Burn Down the Mission – Phil Collins 06:09
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16.Tonight – George Michael 07:02
Two Rooms is a wildly uneven star-studded tribute to a wildly uneven superstar songwriting team. Though Elton John and Bernie Taupin wrote many of the best pop songs of the '70s and '80s, they have written more than their fair share of clunkers as well. Some of them were chosen for this collection. Tina Turner, for example, tackles the ludicrously juvenile "The ****** Is Back" and somehow manages to make it even worse. Daryl Hall and John Oates don't fare any better with the embarrassingly outdated disco anthem "Philadelphia Freedom." But most of the songs on Two Rooms are drawn from Elton and Bernie's A-list and some of them really illustrate the depth of their songwriting abilities. Sinéad O'Connor finds the tortured soul of the 1989 divorce song "Sacrifice" in a way that the original recording never did. George Michael's radiant tenor lights a fire under "Tonight," another song about a disintegrating relationship. Sting gives the album's most memorable performance, bringing haunted melancholy to the seldom heard "Come Down in Time." Unfortunately, many of the artists are not that sensitive to their chosen songs. Wilson Phillips makes a chipper dentist's office ballad out of the heart-rending elegy "Daniel," while Jon Bon Jovi brings unwanted screech rock bluster to "Levon" and Rod Stewart turns the gentle, charming sap of "Your Song" into noxious, gooey sap. The record succeeds in conveying the enormous influence and productivity of the collaboration between John and Taupin. But it sometimes makes you think they've been just a bit too prolific and that their influence might not always be a good one. Evan Cater, Rovi
- Genre: Rock, R&B, Blues, Religious
- Category Urban, Blues-Rock, College Rock, Hard Rock, Alternative Pop/Rock, Album Rock, Singer/Songwriter, Soul, Heartland Rock
- Label: POLYDOR / UMGD
- Release Date: October 22, 1991
- Artist: Two Rooms: Celebrating the Songs of Elton John
- Additional Artist: John Oates (Vocals), Wilson Phillips (Performer), John Oates (Performer), Eric Clapton (Performer), Daryl Hall (Performer), Various artists collection, Phil Collins (Vocals), Bruce Hornsby (Vocals), Tina Turner (Vocals), Daryl Hall (Vocals), Mike Love (Vocals), Carl Wilson (Vocals), Bruce Johnson (Vocals), Adrian Baker (Vocals), Gene Black (Vocals), Timmy Cappello (Vocals), Eric Clapton (Vocals), Al Jardine (Vocals), Carol Kenyon (Vocals), Billy Nicholls (Vocals), Tessa Niles (Vocals), Jon Bon Jovi (Vocals), Kate Bush (Vocals), Oleta Adams (Vocals), Roland Orzabal (Vocals), Jeff Peters (Vocals), Ian Wilson (Vocals), Ollie Marland (Vocals), Bob Feit (Vocals), Kenny Moore (Vocals), Nancy Treadlight (Vocals), Oleta Adams (Performer), The Beach Boys (Performer), Jon Bon Jovi (Performer), Kate Bush (Performer), Joe Cocker (Performer), Phil Collins (Performer), Hall & Oates (Performer), Bruce Hornsby (Performer), George Michael (Performer), Rod Stewart (Performer), Sting (Performer), Tina Turner (Performer), The Who (Performer), Sinéad O'Connor (Performer), Sinéad O'Connor (Vocals)