Jeezeeeeus what a song

and
the fruit juice flowing slowly slowly slowly down the bronze of your body...

my 2 favorites from Tumbleweed Connection

There aren't two songs of his I can stand, and of those, only parts....

Although I could choose from at least a dozen Taupin/John songs I would deem unassailably great ... I have to say, in particular, I cannot truck w/anyone who denies the greatness that is this song ...

'Saturday Night' and 'The Bitch Is Back' are worth a listen now and then. For the rest --- if you mean to exalt him, you might as well go whole hog and talk up Cat Stevens, or Electric Light Orchestra.

My tastes in that decade were fairly eclectic, running from Champion Jack Dupree to The Velvet Underground, by way of The Grateful Dead and Country Joe and the Fish, Cream, Traffic, Steely Dan, and quite a few others.

Just to get it out of the way, note the absence of Led Zeppelin....

Still, your group, and I am not a regular. If that hadn't been at the top of the Latest when I hauled out of bed concluding I was not going to fall asleep, I would not have intruded. That always leaves me in an irascible mood. I stand by the statement, though.

But also including, and in particular, Led Zeppelin.

Okay, I admit I've never heard (or even heard of) Jack Dupree ... but the others? All solid.

Saturday Night's Alright for Fighting is a corker of a song, love the guitar licks ... it wouldn't make my top 10 Elton tunes, but possibly (probably) top 20. Bitch is Back ... eh. I don't hate it, it's not a bad song, but it's not one of his best IMHO.

Everyone's welcome in our group good sir ... thanks for dropping by

That said, I'm likely to give anyone a hard time if they pop in and rubbish a Legend like Sir Elton.

BTW, ELO had a handful of excellent songs. As did Cat. But nowhere near the quantity of excellent tunes Sir Elton put out in his heyday. I'd never 'talk them up', put it like that.

I cannot find a video of 'Stick Out Your Can', which is a seriously raunchy exercise in double entendre centered on a garbage man doing his morning rounds, but this should give some idea of the flavor:

Asking for a friend...

Which could ruin even such gems as "Pride of Man' or 'All My Love's In Vain' or 'Watching the Detectives', in explaining that it would be necessary to descend to questions of personal taste, on which no real agreement is likely possible, people differing as they do. To me the song is mawkish, over-wrought, rooted in a sentimentality so sweet as to cloy the tongue. I prefer things with some edge. By stating my taste, I have no intention of disparaging yours. I would never tell you not to play the song, but I might find your doing so a convenient moment to leave the room on some errand or other....

Excellent point about the frequency of play, too.

Anyone and everyone is welcome. Although if you're a classical music/opera aficionado, there is a forum dedicated to that

I understand getting burned out on hit songs especially songs from the 70s and 80s when radio beat the same playlists to death.

Some artists and songs are off my list entirely, but others have recovered from the overexposure.

I stil won't listen to Rumours or the Wall but Fleerwood Mac and Pink Floyd both have spots in my playlists.

As for Elton John, Benny and theJets is gone. It was overplayed to the point that I still won't play it.

But to each his own.

They make smooth and crunchy because folks can't even agree 100% about peanut butter.

Cheers

As I said, it was more a moment's irascibility than anything else, but a man says something, he ought to stand by it, and it really is my view.

Not too much of an aficionado of the classical, though the womenfolk here are, and I do like some of it. I am quite partial to Erik Satie. Of course, put a harpischord and or a lute in something and I will follow you just about anywhere, even to 'Love Is Blue'....

I had never thought of it quite that way, but see instantly it is true, and must be true.

I am NOT much of an Elton fan, but that song is a killer.
His partner Bernie was a fine lyricist, but I never thought much of his piano work.
My list of rock & pop piano players from that era that were better than Elton is 2 pages long. I find him very pedestrian.
But those first 2 songs on Yellow Brick, (Funeral for A Friend & Loves Lies Bleeding) are wonderful.
I also like Rocket Man, but the synth work makes that song.

Yes, he changed the world.
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