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| Elton John - Goodbye Yellow Brick Road Band: Elton John Tracks: - Funeral for a Friend/Love Lies Bleeding - Candle in the Wind - Bennie and the Jets - Goodbye Yellow Brick Road - This Song Has No Title - Grey Seal - Jamaica Jerk Off - I've Seen That Movie Too - Sweet Painted Lady - Ballad of Danny Bailey (1909-34) - Dirty Little Girl - All the Girls Love Alice - Your Sister Can't Twist (But She Can Rock & Roll) - Saturday Night's Alright for Fighting - Roy Rogers - Social Disease - Harmony One Of The Best '70s' Rock Albums "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road" is not only Elton John's masterpiece, but is one of the best '70s' rock albums ranking up there with The Rolling Stones' "Sticky Fingers" and "Some Girls".<BR>All the songs on this album are classics. Bernie Taupin's masterful lyrics and Elton's Lush melodies never blended more perfectly together than they did here. 29 years later, they still hit close to home. "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road" has some of Elton's best and most popular works. On songs like "Saturday Night's Alright For Fighting" and "Your Sister Can't Twist (But She Can Rock 'N' Roll)", he delivers some of his best rock. And on songs like "Candle In The Wind", the title track and the prostitute ode "Sweet Painted Lady", Elton delivers some of his most beautiful ballads. "Funeral For A Friend/Love Lies Bleeding" made synthesizers sound good long before the 1980s', and "Bennie And The Jets" is one of the best rock songs of the '70s'. Elton also delivers some of his most overlooked gems with "The Ballad Of Danny Bailey" and "All The Girls Love Alice". The former, with its somber piano introduction by Elton and Nigel Olsson's gunshot-like drum pounding, Elton creates a beautiful and morbid portrait of a Kentucky town mourning the Death of their town's heroe, who was killed in the lobby of a downtown motel by John Dillenger. "All The Girls Love Alice" is one of Elton's greatest rockers, with a crunching opening riff by Davey Johnstone. There are so many other great tracks on this album, yet I can't mention them all. So I leave you with these words of advice : buy this album and Love it. One Of Rock's Greatest Albums Goodbye Yellow Brick Road has to be the most quintessential Elton John album. It's the one mentioned and talked about the most. It should be. It is the best Double album. Although, in today's world, this 17 song collection probably wouldn't be considered a Double album. It starts off with one of the greatest album openers ever, "Funeral For A Friend/Love Lies Bleeding". A classic all the way. This album has a number of Elton's most recognized hits - "Bennie And The Jets", The great "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road", "Saturday Night's Alright For Fighting", and the original, and still best, version of "Candle In The Wind". There are more great tracks here that are just as good. You get "Sweet Painted Lady", which is about prostitutes. Then you have the storysong "The Ballad Of Danny Bailey", which you wish Elton would play in concert. You get a number of great rockers like "Dirty Little Girl", "All The Young Girls Love Alice", and "Your Sister Can't Twist(But She Can Rock And Roll)", among others. But, the crowning jewel, is the highly underrated and horribly overlooked gem, "Harmony". It's the closing track and, without a doubt, the greatest Elton John song that was never a single. That's a crime if ever there was one. It's a great piece of music. The album also includes the rousing up tempo number "Grey Seal". The silliest track is a song called "Jamaica Jerk Off". It's fun and catchy, but silly. There you have it. The perfect Elton John album. The perfect rock album. This is Elton's Sgt. Pepper. A classic in every sense of the word. One of the Best Albums from One of The Best Musicians Ever Before I became a die-hard Elton John fan a few years ago, I had always heard that this was his best album ever. I didn't pay much attention then, since I wasn't listening to Elton's work much. Now that I have heard it, I agree that it's some of his best work. It's not quite the best, Tumbleweed Connection takes that honor in my book, but it's definitely way up there, certainly a must-have for any Elton John fan (it's also one of those albums you should get if you're just slightly interested in his work). This album is nothing short of phenomenal, and not just because it's jam-packed with hits. Bernie's lyrics and Elton's vocals & music are in perfect sync, and the sheer diversity of styles of music is amazing. This album has everything: great pop ballads ("Candle In The Wind", "Harmony"), rock (the "Love Lies Bleeding" half of the opening medley, "Bennie & The Jets", "Dirty Little Girl", "All the Girls Love Alice", "Your Sister Can't Twist", "Grey Seal", "Saturday Night's Alright"), reggae (the enjoyable, amusing "Jamaica Jerk-Off"), country ("Roy Rogers" and the very funny "Social Disease"), and old-fashioned 1930's & 1940's nightclub music ("I've Seen That Movie Too" and "Sweet Painted Lady"). The poetic quality of some of Bernie's lyrics is great, as evidenced in songs like "Candle In The Wind", the title track, "This Song Has No Title" (yes, that is really the title), "Grey Seal", and "Sweet Painted Lady" (the only Elton John album that has more poetic lyrics than this one is Captain Fantastic). This album also has some great "story songs", those being "The Ballad Of Danny Bailey", "All The Girls Love Alice", and to a lesser extent, "Candle In The Wind". I could probably write Page after Page about how great this album is, but since Space is limited, suffice it to say that it's absolutely essential for an Elton John collection. Buy Elton John Goodbye Yellow Brick Road at Amazon.com Buy posters at Allposters.comJamster - the latest ringtones for your phone! |
