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ELTON JOHN
Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
Released - October 1973, MCA Records. Produced by Gus
Dudgeon
Elton John - Lead & Backing Vocals, Piano, Organ, Mellotron
Davey Johnstone - Lead, Rhythm & Slide Guitars, Synthesizer,
Backing Vocals
Dee Murray - Bass Guitar and Backing Vocals
Nigel Olsson - Drums, Percussion and Backing Vocals
Ray Cooper - Percussion
Additional Personnel - Kiki Dee, Leroy Gomez, David Hentschel
All songs written by Elton John and Berine
Taupin
| SONG | RATING |
| Funeral For A Friend | 10.0 |
| Love Lies Bleeding | 10.0 |
| Candle In The Wind | 10.0 |
| Bennie And The Jets | 8.5 |
| Goodbye Yellow Brick Road | 8.5 |
| This Song Has No Title | 6.9 |
| Grey Seal | 6.6 |
| Jamaica Jerk-Off | 8.4 |
| I've Seen That Movie Too | 5.8 |
| Sweet Painted Lady | 8.0 |
| Ballad Of Danny Bailey (1909-34) | 8.0 |
| Dirty Little Girl | 7.7 |
| All The Girls Love Alice | 9.0 |
| Your Sister Can't Twist (But She Can Rock n Roll) | 7.7 |
| Saturday Night's Alright For Fighting | 10.0 |
| Roy Rogers | 10.0 |
| Social Disease | 8.8 |
| Harmony | 6.5 |
| Ave. | 8.36 |
REVIEW
Another masterpiece put out by Elton John. This was the album that propelled him into the superstar that he became. Considering that it's a double album, with maybe just one throw away song ("I've Seen That Movie Too"), just adds to why this album scores big with me anyway.
Goodbye Yellow Brick Road opens strong with "Funeral For A Friend/Love Lies Bleeding" and takes off from there. Hard to say which song is the best one to be found on here. Guess when it came out I would have picked the hard rocker "Saturday Night's Alright For Fighting", which is just loaded with energy. There are two great ballads on this album. One is "Roy Rogers", which brings back memories of the old TV days. The other is "Candle In The Wind", a song written about Marilyn Monroe, beautifully done with true feeling (but I hate the remake done of it for Princess Di).
The thing about this album is all the songs play together so fine. Songs like "Bennie And The Jets", "Sweet Painted Lady ", "Ballad Of Danny Bailey", "All The Girls Love Alice" and the title cut, just mix together great! About the only bummer to this album, if only a small bummer, is the the closing song "Harmony". Not a bad song but it never should have been the closer. It would have fit in better next to "This Song Has No Title". Should had closed it out with "Social Disease", that would have been a great ending to this great album.
- Keno 2000
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