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05-13-2007, 07:48 PM
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So I've been checking out some Elton John lately.
My main genre is kinda in the groove, funk, urban, soul realm but i'm really into most forms of music. anyway the point is the main bulk of elton's stuff doesn't fit my tastes but i've found like 6 songs that I LOVE of his so far. And 30 or so that I really would never listen to again.
Rocket Man
Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
Social Disease
Bennie and the Jets ( i once saw a local funk band cover this. it killed)
Tiny Dancer
Painted Lady
are GREAT tunes in my opinion. any ideas of his stuff i should check out????
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05-13-2007, 07:59 PM
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Checkin' him out? Check this out!
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05-13-2007, 07:59 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Bay Area, CA | | | hmmm. with an unnamed list of 30 songs you'd never listen to again, it seems a little like a loaded question. but I'd risk proposing these songs, in addition to your list of 6, as quintessential elton, in my tastes:
-- Simple Life
-- Don't Let the Sun Go Down (live version with George Michael)
-- Sacrifice (ballad)
-- Philadelphia Freedom
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05-13-2007, 07:59 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2000 Location: Poulsbo,Wa | | | Goodbye Yellowbrick Road is a very good album. His first greatest hits album is very good as well. Dee Murray is a very under-appreciated player. Over the years I his tone, note choices and discretion in his playing have really grown on me. His current bassist, Bob Birch is also an excellent player.
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05-13-2007, 08:20 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Duncan, Okla. | | | I like Goodbye Yellow Brick Road and everything before that. There's only a handfull I like since then, especially ones w/o Bernie.
Mona Lisa and Madhatters
Madman Across the Water
Burn Down the Mission
Levon
Razorface
Take me to the Pilot
Elderberry Wine
Holy Moses
Goodbye Yellow Brick Road, the whole album is a masterpiece.
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05-14-2007, 04:45 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Melbourne, Aus | | | Man I love Tiny Dancer.
Frusciante from Chili's covered it when I went as well, sounded sweet.
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05-14-2007, 08:04 AM
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The synth intro sounds a bit dated IMO, but the rest of it brings chills to me like it first did back in the '70s. Plus, listen to that bass tone!
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05-14-2007, 08:27 AM
|  | Yeah, I've got the moves like Jagger. | | Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: G.R. MI | | | Tiny Dancer is so much better if you sing the chorus: "Hold me closer Tony Danza". |
05-14-2007, 08:31 AM
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05-14-2007, 11:49 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Los Angeles | | | many great songs mentioned. choice ones not IMHO:
Grey Seal, from Goodbye Yellow Brick Road, 1970
Come Down In Time, from Tumbleweed Connection, 1971
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05-14-2007, 11:58 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Sac Area | | | Rocket Man, especially the Kate Bush cover
Blue Eyes
Saturday Night's Allright
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05-14-2007, 12:32 PM
|  | My favorite songs were never heard on the radio | | Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Tulsa, OK | | | +1 on "Grey Seal" and "Madman Across the Water" |
05-14-2007, 01:00 PM
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05-14-2007, 01:37 PM
|  | Registered User | | | | | I'm doing Rocket Man these days and it's a lot of fun.
Benny and the jets is a blast.
So is Candle in the wind if you have the keys and singers to pull it off and...you can keep the guitards shut up.
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05-14-2007, 02:59 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Scotland, UK & NYC | | Are You Ready For Love? - just a mega aold-school r&B track - wonderful stuff. Actually, this was re-released in the UK a coupl of years ago and hit the no.1 spot on the charts!! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asE75Gy0RHw
As for Elton John not being cool - the guy is fantastic, and has paid his dues - his is great - the topic is not open for discussion!!!
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05-14-2007, 04:00 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Earth | | | A great one not mentioned yet is Bad Side of the Moon.
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05-14-2007, 06:53 PM
|  | Deteriorating faster than I can lower my standards | | Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Frederick MD USA | | Quote:
Originally Posted by LarryR many great songs mentioned. choice ones not IMHO:
Grey Seal, from Goodbye Yellow Brick Road, 1970
Come Down In Time, from Tumbleweed Connection, 1971 | According to Amazon, Yellow Brick Road wasn't released until 1973. But before Road, before Tumbleweed Connection, before "Your Song", Elton did a concert on radio with just Dee Murray and Nigel Olsson. It became a brilliant live album called 11/17/70. That was the first place I ever heard him. It was 1970, the summer I turned 15 and got my first job. My friend and I wore the grooves off that LP! All three of them rock like crazy on that album! Check it out. I'm ordering it from Amazon tonight!
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12-27-2007, 03:23 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: Independence, OR | | | Since we're not limiting to just cool bass songs...
EJ had a ton of cool songs in the 70's...when he began getting SO eccentric I kind of put him on a back burner - that was about the time he started doing his greatest hits volume #7 (or whatever).
Pretty much ALL of his old stuff was killer, and a big part of it was how damned well it was all recorded. When you listen to that stuff, it just sounds...great. I could listen to most any of his old stuff, but tonight I was listening to one of his more underrated albums, Blue Moves. The first two songs "A Starter For..." and "Tonight" are just flat out well written songs. A couple more that I really dig are "Bite Your Lip (Get Up and Dance!)" and "Boogie Pilgrim". Both of them are just cool grooves, and I'm still scratching my head to figure out how to cop that crazy, synth-like tone he got in Boogie Pilgrim. Is that HEAVY compression that he's using to flatten his tone like that?
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12-27-2007, 12:53 PM
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Originally Posted by HooBass Funeral for a Friend
The synth intro sounds a bit dated IMO, but the rest of it brings chills to me like it first did back in the '70s. Plus, listen to that bass tone!
HooBass | +1
We recently added "Saturday Night's Allright" to our list.
Most anything Dee Murray played on is VERY fun to play up to the eccentric era(as it was called above).
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12-27-2007, 01:01 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Austin, TX | | | don't know why, but "My Father's Gun" has really grown on me.
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