re: Best Elton John song?

Posted by IonaTiger

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Posted on 4/11/12 at 5:00 pm to shuke33

I don't know about the best, but these are among my favorites that I have been listening to lately:

I Feel Like A Bullet (In The Gun Of Robert Ford)

Burn Down The Mission

Teacher, I Need You

Live Like Horses

I think I'm Gonna Kill Myself

The One

Love's Got A Lot To Answer For

Tonight

60 Years On

Something About the Way You Look Tonight

No Valentines

And from "Duets" with P.M. Dawn:

When I Think About Love

Posted by TDswah

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Posted on 4/11/12 at 8:06 pm to shuke33

Tiny Dancer has to be the most popular I would think. I'm going to go with Border Song. It's just a well written song IMO. Real bluesy and he plays some really nice progressions.Heck, even Aretha Franklin covered it. If that doesn't have any weight to it..

EJ Doing BS

Posted by VOR

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Posted on 4/11/12 at 9:35 pm to OldTigahFot

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Where to now, St. Peter

Great song. I'm a sucker for a guitar being amped through a Leslie.

Posted by East Coast Band

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Posted on 4/11/12 at 11:27 pm to shuke33

Too many to name and sometimes it depends on the mood I'm in.

Of the popular ones:
Don't Let the Sun Go Down on Me
Someone Saved My Life Tonight
then I really like Funeral For a Friend/Love Lies Bleeding And those songs are nowhere near alike.
Plenty of others I should list, just a quick list above. I do like all those mentioned already, although I think I've heard Bennie and the Jets too many times. And that was before that Katherine Heigl movie came out.

Posted by Jamede4

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Posted on 4/12/12 at 8:03 am to CocoLoco

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I've always loved Rocket Man. Your Song is also excellent.

Posted by TT9

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Posted on 4/12/12 at 8:10 am to East Coast Band

Goodbye yellow brick road...

Posted by blueslover

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Posted on 4/12/12 at 9:41 am to TT9

difficult choice with that kind of library, then the difficulty of discerning best from favorite...

I'll go Your Song & Candle In The Wind. I think people will still be singing those fifty years from now.

Posted by Cdawg

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Posted on 4/12/12 at 9:51 am to blueslover

Today I'd add Empty Garden to my list.

Posted by LSUfan0420

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Posted on 4/12/12 at 9:58 am to OldTigahFot

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quote:quote: Burn Down the Mission Take Me to the Pilot Levon For best album - Tumbleweed Connection which has held up very well over the years. A greatly under-appreciated album.

In fact, after Madman Across the Water, I think he strayed away from his best work even though his newer songs became even more popular. His earliest work was probably his best from a musical standpoint. Where to now, St. Peter Sixty Years On etc.

anything mentioned above is the correct answer...

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It's funny, but Benny and the Jets, imho, is representative of the point at which Elton decided to go pure pop and commercial

let me fix this for you...Bennie and the Jets gargles balls and is one of the absolute worst songs of all time...that is all.

This post was edited on 4/12/12 at 10:00 am

Posted by LSUTygerFan

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Posted on 4/12/12 at 10:09 am to LSUfan0420

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...Bennie and the Jets gargles balls and is one of the absolute worst songs of all time...that is all.

Posted by dukke v

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Posted on 4/12/12 at 11:09 am to Dandy Lion

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Funeral for a Friend, Love Lies Bleeding

/THREAD!!!!!!!! And its not even close.

Posted by H-Town Tiger

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Posted on 4/12/12 at 4:03 pm to dukke v

all of Goodbye Yellow Brick Road is awesome, except for Candle in the Wind, I really can't stand that song anymore and it wasn't that great to begin with.

This post was edited on 4/12/12 at 4:10 pm

Posted by DrVinnyBoombatz

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Posted on 4/12/12 at 4:06 pm to shuke33

No one has any love for this one?

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Posted by H-Town Tiger

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Posted on 4/12/12 at 4:10 pm to DrVinnyBoombatz

great song

Posted by pussywillows

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Posted on 4/12/12 at 4:10 pm to shuke33

for me, the answer (my favorite, not necessarily the "best") would probably change at least on a daily basis...depends upon a lot of things.

a few that i always seem to be in the mood for:

ego
white lady white powder
social disease
i feel like a bullet (in the gun of robert ford)
blue eyes

This post was edited on 4/12/12 at 4:28 pm

Posted by DrVinnyBoombatz

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Posted on 4/12/12 at 4:10 pm to H-Town Tiger

For some reason this is my favorite song by him.

Posted by Dandy Lion

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Posted on 4/12/12 at 4:51 pm to DrVinnyBoombatz

Honky Cat.

Wow, great blast from the past.

Posted by CrimsonRain

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Posted on 4/12/12 at 5:22 pm to shuke33

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Has to be tiny dancer,right?

Feels like that is what most people would gravitate to.

ETA: just read posts. maybe not on the MB, but i feel like that would be the one most peeps would think of first.

This post was edited on 4/12/12 at 5:25 pm