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List Price: $6.98 | | Label: Mca Special Products
Salesrank: 10301
Released: January 1, 1995 |
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| Media: Audio CD |
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Victim of Love Track Listing:
1. Johnny B. Goode
2. Warm Love in a Cold World
3. Born Bad
4. Thunder in the Night
5. Spotlight
6. Street Boogie
7. Victim of Love
Victim of Love Reviews:
Lighten up! 
2007-02-22 - I really doubt if this was made to be taken so seriously folks, every artist has had their low periods and after being so hot in the early to mid seventies, a fall was bound to take place! I agree it was certainly NOT even close to his former albums, but give the guy a break, he came back strong in the eighties didn't he?? I liked Johnny B Goode on the album, not much else but heck, play it an enjoy it for the fun it was supposed to be, if not, throw your copy away!
why elton why?
2006-09-08 - if elton john wanted to piss off any of his beloved fans this album could do it.there is nothing here to even talk about its disco at its worst possible form.i think this was one of those contractually obligation type of things.either that or a last ditch effort to try to have a top 40 hit.
Zero Stars. Simply Dreadful. 
2006-06-03 - 1979 was not a good year to be listening to commercial radio. Discomania hit its peak that year and while great much was being made by the likes of Elvis Costello, XTC, etc. Every major artist was trying to cash in on the disco craze.
But what makes Elton John's "Victim of Love" so, well, horrible, isn't just that the music is atrocious (which it is) but that it was so desperate. The heyday of his mid 70's zenith had come to a crashing halt with the dull, whiny and bloated, two album "Blue Moves" which was a commercial disappointment in 1976 and its follow-up, 1978's "A Single Man" was largely greeted by a once adoring public with a big collective shrug. "Victim of Love" thus represented an obvious attempt to regain "relevance" and, to top it off, was released in the fall of 1979 when the disco backlash was in full force, thus being a case of too little and way too late, and a disco version of "Johnnie B Good?" Eegads!
Elton John would eventually gain the commercial comeback he was seeking with this album. In fact he has had several in the years since and has also earned critic acclaim with recent work like "Songs From The West Coast." But "Victim of Love" is mercifully forgotten. Then again that might not be such a good thing. Those who don't remember history are condemned to repeat it.
Fans can never be objective...
2006-05-05 - From the OBJECTIVE reviewer...this probably wins the prize amnong fans and critics as the low point of Elton's career, but the proper disco production makes it a decent disco project, it just doesn't fit Elton. Nevertheless, it is fun to listen to his discoed version of Johnny B. Goode.
Pete Bellotte is Giorgio Moroder right arm man
2006-01-18 - Granted this album is not a classic by any standards but really Are you kidding Pete Bellotte is a quintessential figure of the disco era, he help produce some Donna Summers biggest hits in the information age we live in it doesn't take much effort to know or learn this. As for the music I've heard worse. A commercial flop doesn't mean necessarily mean the music is horrible.
