Elton John

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Rocket Man and Philadelphia Freedom
are my personal favorites by Sir Elton of John.

I love just about everything up to Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy...after that, he got rid of his entire band, and eventually even Bernie Taupin left, and there's only a handful of songs from that era that I enjoy.

His latest few albums are okay I guess...he got most of his original band back (sans the guy who died), but it's really weird hearing him sing with such a low, low voice, especially when the other guys still have their soaring falsettos.

Don't know what it is about The Elton John Band that I like, I guess mostly just growing up with the stuff. One of my favorite songs is Funeral for a Friend/Love Lies Bleeding, and I can't help but wonder what it would've sounded like if Elton's King Crimson audition lead to him actually joining the band.

He actually did write one or two songs before Bernie came along, he wrote Here's to the Next Time, you can hear it on his Rare Masters album.

Pretty sure there's another song he wrote too, but I don't know it off the top of my head.

And as I said above, Bernie left for a while sometime around 1978, Gary Osborne wrote the lyrics for A Single Man. Dunno when Bernie came back, but I know he's on the new stuff (Songs from the West Coast onward).

On a seperate note, 11-17-70 is one of my favorite live albums. It's just Elton singing and playing piano, Nigel on drums, and Dee on bass, and they seriously jam everything out. It even gave me a greater appreciation for a few songs that I hadn't cared much for in their studio incarnations.

Elton is a bit dull by today's standards but when he started he was radically different.

He's also been continuously in the game for a long time - much longer than the Beatles or Elvis - or most bands of his era. His music therefore has much greater influence.

The same will probably be said of Madonna soon. I can't believe how long she's been around. I remember when she first started and they were refusing to play her stuff on the radio and saying that she was a passing fad. How wrong they were.

I clicked ,i do not like him.purely because he isnt very nice to other people.
Musically ,he is excellent.
I like pinball wizard especially

gbollard wrote:

That's because he's writing his own lyrics now. He's not the same without Bernie Taupin.

I like several of his songs, but I wouldn't say I'm a fan of his, per se. I'm more of a song person and generally only consider myself a fan of an artist when I consistently like most of their work. I also tend to gravitate more towards lyrics in songs. I do tend to like his older material better, though.

My friend once nearly brought me to tears with an Elton John song. She had just moved and sent me an e-mail saying she missed me. Her signature was the first couple of lines from the chorus of "I Guess That's Why They Call It the Blues":

"I guess that's why they call it the blues
Time on my hands could be time spent with you."

A little cheesy, but still really nice to read.