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re: Least favorite Elton John song??
Posted on 2/3/17 at 7:25 am to Spock's Eyebrow
Posted on 2/3/17 at 7:25 am to Spock's Eyebrow
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treacly
Bringing some game. Had to look it up.
Bennie is my least favorite. That doesn't mean I think it is the worst. I recognize the elements that make it a good song.
Island Girl and some others are worse, but something about the Bennie sound grates on me.
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Posted on 2/3/17 at 9:07 am to Tigertown in ATL
Island Girl and Philadelphia Freedom are the worst for me.
Elton John always takes me back to 1990 Shanghai. There was one bar available for Westerners at the time. The bar was named Napoleon, and they played Elton John songs on a loop. It... was... awful, but there was no other option after dark. I bet I heard "Blue Eyes" 100 times over the space of a week.
On a side note, there was a girl at The Napoleon that had changed her name to Lethe. According to Greek mythology, if you ever bathed in the Lethe River, you came out a different person. She said that she grew up a dumb farm girl, changed her name to Lethe, and became a sophisticated society girl that was born with a silver spoon in her mouth.
Elton John always takes me back to 1990 Shanghai. There was one bar available for Westerners at the time. The bar was named Napoleon, and they played Elton John songs on a loop. It... was... awful, but there was no other option after dark. I bet I heard "Blue Eyes" 100 times over the space of a week.
On a side note, there was a girl at The Napoleon that had changed her name to Lethe. According to Greek mythology, if you ever bathed in the Lethe River, you came out a different person. She said that she grew up a dumb farm girl, changed her name to Lethe, and became a sophisticated society girl that was born with a silver spoon in her mouth.
Posted on 2/3/17 at 9:10 am to Tigertown in ATL
I'm not a huge Elton fan. I love his voice, at least the 70's version of it, and his piano playing, but so many of his hits leave me cold. It's mainly his hits I know. I haven't often put on an Elton record and listened to it.
Posted on 2/4/17 at 10:43 am to Tigertown in ATL
I'm surprised no one mentioned Elton's transmogrifaction of "Candle In The Wind", namely, "Goodbye English Rose". I know the latter title was immensely popular, but it's still cloyingly sentimental and rotten to the corps.
By the way, it seems as if Elton had an unnatural fondness for his composition "Candle In The Wind". It was first released in 1973 as a cut off the Goodbye Yellow Brick Road album, and then again in a live version in 1988, and again nine years later as the dreadful Princess Diana elegy. It was never a good song, but Elton John never realized that.
By the way, it seems as if Elton had an unnatural fondness for his composition "Candle In The Wind". It was first released in 1973 as a cut off the Goodbye Yellow Brick Road album, and then again in a live version in 1988, and again nine years later as the dreadful Princess Diana elegy. It was never a good song, but Elton John never realized that.
Posted on 2/4/17 at 6:51 pm to moock blackjack
Crocodile Rock
Posted on 2/4/17 at 6:57 pm to Rhio
Video is interesting, but you have to turn off the sound.
Posted on 2/4/17 at 9:49 pm to moock blackjack
anything after the early 70s
Posted on 2/11/17 at 2:15 pm to moock blackjack
I saw this thread the other day and couldn't really think of an Elton John song I didn't like. Saw him in concert at Caesar's last night, so now I have two - it was some song about Native Americans that he played right after something that sounded like an Irish folk song.
Aside from those two songs, the concert was incredible. He played for 2 hours - a virtual non-stop hit parade with a few several-minute piano embellishments at the end of a few songs. Simply an amazing performance. I thought he was going to die right there on stage. After a couple songs he got up and walked across stage to wave to the crowd, then when he got back by his piano he put his hands on his knees and bent over for a while. A couple people went over to check on him. A few songs later he did the same thing. I had my video camera ready to go so if he croaked on stage I could sell it to TMZ.
Aside from those two songs, the concert was incredible. He played for 2 hours - a virtual non-stop hit parade with a few several-minute piano embellishments at the end of a few songs. Simply an amazing performance. I thought he was going to die right there on stage. After a couple songs he got up and walked across stage to wave to the crowd, then when he got back by his piano he put his hands on his knees and bent over for a while. A couple people went over to check on him. A few songs later he did the same thing. I had my video camera ready to go so if he croaked on stage I could sell it to TMZ.
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