

I’m incredibly excited about every aspect of this album: The performances, T Bone’s production, Bernie’s lyrics and the songs we’ve created. I needed to strip away the excesses and get back to the core of what I do as an artist. “Several years ago when beginning to work with T Bone and being in the studio with Leon Russell for The Union, I had to ask myself, ‘What kind of music do I really want to make?’ and I realized that I had to go back to go forward again. “In many ways, I feel like I’m starting again, making records,” said John in a statement. PHOTOS: Broadway Musicals That Have Sung Their Way to the Big Screen Produced by T Bone Burnett, the album is said to be a return to form and features 12 new songs written by the hit songwriting duo of John and longtime lyricist Bernie Taupin. The Diving Board will hit retailers on Tuesday, Sept. The Metallica Blacklist is fantastic for cherry-picking tracks from your favorite artists or listening in on the more outlandish interpretations of metal classics, but taken as a whole, it's daunting to the point of making even the highlights difficult to appreciate.Elton John is gearing up to release his first studio album in seven years. Goodnight, Texas' woodsy version of "Of Wolf and Man" and Rodrigo y Gabriela's precision acoustic instrumental take on "The Struggle Within" are the only songs on the collection not covered by any other artists. For this reason, the least-covered songs on The Metallica Blacklist stand out. Listening to all the versions of a single song in succession, let alone the entire compilation, requires a level of commitment probably beyond even the most devoted fanatics. The singles and better-known tracks were chosen most often, meaning the collection has six versions of "Enter Sandman," seven takes each on both "The Unforgiven" and "Sad But True," and a staggering 12 versions of "Nothing Else Matters" by everyone from Miley Cyrus (appearing along with Yo-Yo Ma, Elton John, and other friends) to My Morning Jacket to TRESOR to Darius Rucker and more. The design flaw in The Metallica Blacklist is the arrangement of the track listing, sequencing the cover songs in the original running order of the album. Vincent's hard-edged electro-rock version of "Sad But True" stand out), drum-n-bass remixes, and many, many other stylistic variations. The 53 different interpretations of Black Album tracks include faithful metal renditions ( White Reaper's chugging take on "Sad But True" is especially true to form), spiritual jazz ( Kamasi Washington's spacy grooves on "My Friend Misery"), indie rock reworkings ( Phoebe Bridgers' especially delicate reading of "Nothing Else Matters" and St. Nothing else matters except for Miley Cyrus ' new Metallica cover - and she didn't do the honors. The Metallica Blacklist is an ambitious tribute to Metallica's best-loved material, collecting four hours of a wide range of artists covering the songs that made up the album. Miley Cyrus Covers Metallica’s ‘Nothing Else Matters’ With Elton John, Yo-Yo Ma & More. The photograph is mounted on artboard and is stamped 'Ed Caraeff' on the verso and signed by Caraeff in the bottom right hand corner in black ink. The 12-song record represented a significant change in style for the band, from heady thrash to more commercially digestible forms of metal, and over the years it became one of the best-selling albums of all time. An original vintage black and white photographic print of Elton John captured by Ed Caraeff for the album cover of the Elton John album Honkey Chateau (1972).

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The following terms are supplemental to our Terms of Use and apply to Auctions conducted on the Service and offline by Julien's Auctions. In 1991, Metallica crashed into the mainstream with their fifth, self-titled album, sometimes known as The Black Album due to its sparse black album cover. An original vintage black and white photographic print of Elton John captured by Ed Caraeff for the album cover of the Elton John album Honkey Chateau (1972).
