Goodbye Yellow Brick Road

Good album. Great opener track! A few good highlights but quite long...

The last minute of Bennie and The Jets is one of the worst sounds I have ever heard in my life. Rest of the album was fine

Feels a little bloated and this is around the stage in his career where Elton and I part ways -- much prefer the earlier stuff

highlight of this album for me is the first song, the next 4 songs or so are pretty good then it becomes mediocre. also the reggae song is just bad

Genres: Pop rock Formed: London, England in 1967 Run time: 17 songs, 1 hour, 16 mins The seventh studio album by the English singer, pianist, and composer. Spotify: Least popular song: >2.8M Most popular song: >392M plays. I don’t really like Elton John’s stuff. There are a couple of tracks on this album that I like: “Bennie And The Jets” and “Saturday Night’s Alright (For Fighting)”. In general his work is well written, but for some years it’s been a bit “same old, same old”. I have to admit, I enjoyed more of this album than I thought I would. A lot of it is good old Rock ‘n’ Roll. Listen Again?: No My Rating: ***

Yeah not too bad, liked the songs i already knew

Some really great songs on here. Elton with a strong start, and a weak finish. This album is way too long.

Given how many unnecessary British albums are on this list, I am surprised it has taken this long to get an album by Elton John. This was a good album. Lots of great songs but really needed the fat cut off. Speaking of that, why is there a reggae song in the middle of an Elton John album?

A handful of classic great songs wrapped in a meh sandwich, and that sandwich is one of those fucking sandwiches made for a corporate function that's like 15ft long.

Elton John has very tight musicians and well produced, good variety of tunes, even some Caribbean(ish)

This goddam website won’t let me correct spelling mistakes in my previous reviews so now I look like a dumbass. Fuck autocorrect. But this album is pretty sick. The opening is grand and powerful, like an operatic overture; indeed, it feels like is Bellini had to write a pop/rock album. That being said, the interesting opening is kind of undercut by the Meatloaf adjacent sound of the music that follows it, which is just not my jam. But there are a few nice tracks I enjoy. If this were playing at a midnight diner it would be the perfect vibe, but I can’t envision listening to this on my own time. Superb craftsmanship, just not for me.

I was pretty impressed by this, which I know is a silly thing to say about such a well known album. A lot of the songs deal with some pretty dark subject matter, but always with wit and humor.

3-4

Nothing I was shocked by

Wish this was the album with "I'm still standing" He is really pushing it with the first track being 11 minutes long. Bennie and the Jets make up for it tho so I will allow it. The first half of the album is a better than the seccond half which is much slower. It's an alright album, but I got tired of it after a while a strong 3/5

Eh

Dobre, ale myślałem, że będzie trochę lepsze 3.5

Personal Enjoyability (out of 40): 16 Consistency of Quality (out of 25): 17 Keeps Interest (out of 25): 11 Album Flow (out of 10): 6 Overall 50/100 ★★★ Quick Review: Not my cup of tea - I enjoy some Elton John songs but they are much catchier than this selection. Usual issue with a double album too - too much filler.

I enjoyed this but didn’t love it.

We used to listen to Jo’s copy of this a lot. Early Elton is definitely better. 3*

Candle in the Wind slaps. I’m sure this album was huge and special at the time, but it didn’t do too much for me tbh.

I was a little underwhelmed... Some great stuff, but not all of it was

Surprisingly okay, a little too upbeat for my taste. First song had some really good parts.

I am glad that this album was suggested to me. I never really knew Elton John's works (except the Lion King's and Sorry Seems To Be the Hardest Word). My wife likes it tho - after she watched Rocketman. I enjoy listening to this. Good job lol. 3/5

Some really good tunes here but also quite a lot of filler songs

Always love Benny and the Jets and, hell, even the title track, but for me this pretty much fizzles out after that

Album was kinda carried by the hits and even those weren't Elton's best

never actually listened to this album but recognize a lot of timeless classics within it. Pretty solid

Overall a poor showing IMO, i knew a handful of songs off it and it turns out theres a reason why, none of the rest are particularly great

Started strong, loved funeral for a friend. Benny and the Jets is a classic. I feel I started falling off in the back half though. Very good overall.

Who knew I’d like Elton John? Not me. But this album had some banging tunes. Fav track: Bennie and the Jets.

The man is talented, I can’t deny him that. I just really don’t care for Elton John, save for a handful of songs. This was a long 75 minutes.

Wasn’t too crazy, a few good songs. 6/10

Not really a big Elton John fan and not at all a fan of double albums.

3.25/5 I enjoyed many more songs from this album than the first one. But one thing is clear: Elton is kinda obsessed with Cowboys and Indians. I wondered if the yellow brick road was a gay reference as in a Friend of Dorothy's. I'll revisit the hits probably.

Okay so not as bad as the first album I reviewed of his (and the very first album I reviewed for the project full stop) but I think it's safe to say I'm not an Elton John fan so much as a person who enjoys his hits or greatest hits albums. There WERE some of those on here which was nice - unlike the previously mentioned entry - but nothing that blew my socks off.

This was pretty fun, overly long and not very cohesive I feel. I think it would be a solid 4 at 40 minutes or so, but as is... I don't see a lot of this growing on me. This is the sorta thing I raid for the singles and probably never listen to front to back again. You never know, could change my mind on that, but for now it's a 3.

This is a decent album that starts very strong but I feel got a bit lost halfway through. Still a fun listen but besides the most known hits I don't think I'll revisit this one.

The songs are very well written and arranged. But I just really do not like his voice at all. Pretty difficult to make up that balance. The songs about women are especially funny though considering *gestures in his general direction*. Overall though, the talent is very apparent, and he's a legend for a reason. Just not for me. Favorite track: Saturday Night's Alright

7/10

Some funtunes.

Bra!

I like Elton John, but have never really listened to a full album of his, as much as I can remember anyway. This album is kind of hit or miss, some really great stuff, and some pretty mediocre stuff, it probably suffers from being too long with too many songs. But definitely a classic and a fun listen.

Some great songs

This is a difficult one to review. The first track is pretty good, but I cannot express in words how much I hate Candle in the Wind. All I can do to brighten my mood after the mere mention of that track is to picture a bunch of rugby lads trying to light their own farts. The rest of the album just seems like Elton John. I'm sure that many people really love this, but I do not. It's just meh, meh and thrice meh.

A classic album! Some great hits, but some forgettable songs as well.

Good solid 70s tunes, couple of serious bangers, but also quite indulgent. Enjoying the spotify post album shuffle more

3.7 - I like the big hits on here but I don’t think this album quite lives up to its hype. I feel ambivalent about deeper cuts like “Grey Seal.” As a whole this record probably works best as upbeat background music but it’s not one I’d give another close listen. Still love Elton John as a hit maker, though.

Great pop album

dorothy?

The good songs are really good, the mediocre songs are really mediocre and of course... It's. Just. Too. Damn. Long. Some trimming of the fat would've helped a lot because as stated before, their are some really good songs here.

I liked this better than I thought I would. I know some songs from this but overall I wouldn't say i'm too familiar with his body of work. Its a bit too long. If trimmed down, probably would be a a solid 4.

Elton kuulostaa nykyään coolimmalta, kuin ennen.

Alku oli hieno, mutta kävi tää vähän pitkäksi. 40 minuuttisena olisi neljä tähteä, nyt kolme.

I'm being generous by giving this 3 stars because I'm sure that Elton John is talented, I just find his music to be unpleasantly corny.

The number of hits on this album is outrageous. The Jamaica song was pretty odd though. I think I’m for Greatest Hits Elton more than album Elton.

Listened to this a few weeks ago as part of my album play through. The main memory I have is that Jamaica Jerk-Off did not age well. Otherwise it's Elton doing what Elton does best

Big opening! That bass guitar is in your face, man, love it! Aaaarghhh no, it's the Princess Di song!!!!! (I know it was originally about Marilyn Monroe). This version isn't quite the sentimental shite it turned into. The piano riff on Bennie and the Jets is really cool. Nice bit of flute on this one (I think). This album was mixed and mastered by a bass player, tell me I'm wrong!!! Elton can even reggae, he does the lot, haha. He's got a good voice, I wasn't too sure it fit quite right with the music, but it definitely grows on you and makes sense. Every song has been a banger so far, really strong songwriting. He did just say he hadn't had a bath in a year!! Elton goes Beach Boys now! SATURDAY. Well, that was marvellous, a bit too long, but what to cut? 3 / 5 stars.

Goodbye, Norma Jeane Though I never knew you at all You had the grace to hold yourself While those around you crawled They crawled out of the woodwork And they whispered into your brain They set you on the treadmill And they made you change your name You cant deny that there are some catchy tracks, but its not a 4 star album. 3/5

Some classics here but gets slightly repetitive after side two.

A lot of 5/5 songs and it’s all quality. But by the end of the album i was kinda fatigued of all the piano ballads that were starting to sound the same. If I listened in smaller chunks maybe that would’ve been better

ok album

Ein solides Album mit typischen Elton John Klang. Objektiv wohl eher eine 4, aber subjektiv 3,5 Sterne. "Goodbye Yellow Brick Board" und "All the Girls Love" sind meine Favourites.

A bit of a baffling record. The long tracks sound long - like the mammoth opener, which masks a really great rocker behind some extremely bad 70s synthesisers - but the short tracks start to sound even longer, especially towards the end. Definitely could have chopped this album down to one record, and to be honest the best/worst tracks are the ones you already know. “Saturday Night’s Alright For Fighting” is the only one I can tolerate. The rest is just the inconsequential banalities of a vapid pop star.

this is a 3.5 from me. some very interesting ideas shining through songs like Funeral for a Friend and I've seen that movie too. for others however, it's not offensively bad or anything just kinda forgettable.

Didn't love it as much as I thought I would, definitely some great songs but didn't love the album as a whole

Not my usual thing, but surprisingly good

1973.. Ensimmäiset minuutit. 5 Tähteä. Uskomatonta. Seuraavat 5 minuuttia (sama kappale edelleen) Uskomatonta. 5 Tähteä. Jumalauta. Työvitutus ja rappuset alkaa. Toinen biisi kuullostaa paskalta. Kriittinen kuuntelu paljastaa ettei todellakaan ollut. Neljänen biisin jälkeen tulee objektiivinen paska housuun. Tällöin albumi alkaa olemaan oikeasti paskaa. Albumi on neljännen biisin jälkeen toisteikas, tylsä ja kolmiportaisen luettelon kolmas. EN KEKSINYT TÄHÄN HÄTÄÄN!! Huonoin biisi Jamaica jerk off OMD - Enola gay ekat sekunnit.. Eka biisi funeral for a friend alku samanlaine ku wish u were here Kolmas biisi Pink Floyd animals Roger🗿, Oikeestaan parempi esimerkki: Bennia and the Jets 1:06 Have a Cigar 1:47 Pinkki bändi kopsannu niin vaan birusti näköjään.. https://www.google.com/amp/rockandrollgarage.com/elton-john-opinion-on-pink-floyd/amp/

Some massive tracks but also a heap of filler

Acho que esperava mais genialidade, mais músicas... Ainda que tenha duas musicas que gosto bastante, não foi nada de surreal.

It was ok. Not as good as people seem to make it out to me.

grovy

Decent tunes

Прослушано! Вообще мимо, скучный альбом.

Good

Heard it before?: No Enjoy it?: Yes, beautiful piano work and such elegant song writing Favourite song: Track 4 - Goodbye Yellow Brick Road

Listens: 2 Enjoyed: not really I appreciate this is a very good album but it really doesn't do a lot for me

Some great moments but like a lot of double albums would have made a superb single album

Pop, Rock, Grand, Versatile, Groovy, Eclectic

Un disco con el estilo propio del compositor. Piano a bordo y pop con ritmo. Canciones elegantes y con buen timbre de voz

11 minute opener with 5 minutes of intro instrumentals? Yes please! Delightful start to the album. Excited for the next hour. A lot of really great songs on this albums with a few duds (Jamaican Jerk Off is a weird song for the album).

Elton John’s magnum opus, as I’ve heard. I never really paid too much attention to Elton, but I respect his artistry in the pop music scene. This album has some great songs. It may be a bit long, but I was surprised that I enjoyed it.

I've never been a fan of EJ, though I respect his talent and influence - how could you not? I've probably been lazy in lumping his music in with other "70s big bands with too much going on at once". So I tried to give this album (which I'd never listened to, only knew the singles) a red-hot go. Amazing musicians (not least the superb Dee Murray on bass), singers, production crew. So much to admire in the details of each recording. No doubt an incredible live show. And yet, as far as my enjoyment goes...somehow the whole is still less than the sum of its parts. Shout outs for: All the girls love Alice (I wonder how this landed in 1973); Dirty Little Girl (not great, but I wonder whether it inspired Pink Floyd's "Young Lust", which I love); Candle in the Wind (which really is a great song, and which is spared some of the histrionics that plague many other songs); Goodbye Yellow Brick Road (so damn catchy)...and whoever remastered this in 2014 and left the massive dynamic range intact!

I'm embarrassed that I didn't know a few of these were Elton John songs but it was fun

Great recording. The novelty songs are kinda weird (what the hell is "Jamaica Jerk-Off"?) and the sappy songs ("Candle in the Wind") aren't my thing at all. More mid-70s pastiche. What was happening with pop music during this time? More than a few of the filler songs on this double record sound way older than the release date suggest. Billy Joel did it. Paul McCartney did it. But why?

I like Elton John but the album didn't capture me that much. Out if his hits, Benny and the Jets just isn't my favorite. The first track was lovely :) and the blues was fun.

My first real exposure to Elton John came in a fast food drive thru (I think it was Burger King?) in 1994. They were giving away copies of his Greatest Hits CD, and I quickly became infatuated with it. I listened to it on a loop as I drove from Arizona to Alaska that year. Good times. Goodbye, Yellow Brick Road.

Good

Prefer his upbeat tunes this was a bit bleh for me, but candle in the wind is a classic

Preferred the other one we had, the one with Tiny Dancer, but this was good.

I thought it would be better

Madman across the water is far better, not my preferred Elton john

I didn't give this album the listening time it deserved. Only listened to it once during a car trip. Didn't mind it.

this is one of his best albums. heard it many times. just not a huge fan

some great tunes but something about it just rubs me the wrong way

funeral for a friend / love lies bleeding - kinda sad. mild crescendo in middle and gets happier with lyrics. rock moment near the end. 7/10 social disease - very country-like. gets louder as you go on. probably one of my favourites. happy and upbeat. 8.5/10 grey seal - happy and upbeat. one of the faster ones in the album. love the instrumental at the end. 8/10 saturday night's alright ( for fighting ) - fast. postive and has a lot of electrical guitar. nothing special. 7.5/10 your sister can't twist ( but she can rock n roll ) - very fast and upbeat. danceable. loving the hype. 8/10 the ballad of danny bailey ( 1909-1934 ) - meh. variety of instruments. idk how to feel about this one. 6.5/10 i've seen that movie too - bluesy. think it's meant to be sad. love the classical instrumental. emotional. 8/10 roy rogers - very similar to "i've seen that movie too". sad but not very moving. 6.5/10 this song has no title - a lot of piano. it's alright ig. kinda like it. 7/10 sweet painted lady - nice laid back beat. 6/10. goodbye yellow brick road - one of my favs and the most memorable. really good ballad throughout. love it. 8.5/10 all the girls love alice - like the rock-y start. when it gets to the chorus it's soft and the rest is upbeat. love the vibe. 8.5/10 harmony - harmonious. quite slow but steady. 7/10 candle in the wind - kinda like a soft memorial song. i like the endings. 7.5/10 bennie and the jets - bit slow and repetitive. 7/10. jamaica jerk off - like the jamaican style. reminds me of "pass the douche pon the left hand side". 7.5/10 dirty little girl - steady. nothing special. 6/10

This album has some real gems, but also has some carnival music that gets a bit well, overexuberant. Elton is one of the highest grossing musicians of all times, but not all of it is great. Candle in the Wind, This Song has no Title, Goodbye Yellow Brick Road, and I've seen that Movie Too are all songs I can listen to fairly often. The rest I've got no patience for. Solid middle of the yellow brick road 3.

I can appreciate a fantastic album, and I do like a bit of Elton. Not something I’d choose to listen to often but when he’s good, he’s damn good.

p300. 1973. 3 stars All the evidence you need to prove that Elton John is best as a singles artist. When it's good, it's very good but... most of it is filler, and do we really need a 5 minute instrument as the opener? The production hasn't aged well - one listen and you know it was recorded in the early 70s. This could have been a stunning single album - just needs the fat trimming off.

Happy but hard to hear vocals sometimes with funky volume

A strong double album usually considered EJs best. Some massive singles and some weaker filler tracks... solid and bears a lot of repeated plays...I wonder if a double was too ambitious 3.5.

A lot of good songs but it was also quite long

3/5

Vasta viime vuosina oppinut kuuntelemaan Eltonia. Perushyvä levy vaikkakin vähän turhan pitkä.

Pop no piano fluiu bem mesmo sendo LP duplo.

Funeral For A Friend / Love Lies Bleeding is an incredible album opener. Candle In The Wind is what it is, Bennie And The Jets is good fun, along with Saturday Night's Alright (For Fighting), and I do enjoy Goodbye Yellow Brick Road. But there's some other songs on here that I just can't get onboard with so not a 5, but also not really high on my list of next in the queue, so 3 it is.

Not sure what makes thos must hear. Could have cut half the tunes and still not sure. There are a few good tunes but...

Meh

A few good songs with some filler. Not a cohesive album IMO

I appreciate many of these songs for the classics they are but in the end, with all due respect, I just don't enjoy Sir Elton John very much - at least I don't choose to listen to him, if someone else put's it on it's fine. 76 minutes of that.

Listen, I know this is an iconic album and 4-5 songs are classics. But, as an album it has too much. In terms of style it's not really my thing either. I could give it a 4 star if it was like half the length.

Too long (as all double albums are) and a little bland in places, but some amazing tunes on here. I could also live my life without hearing another string orchestra backing - musical space makes things interesting.

Plenty of familiar songs, always enjoy Elton, though opening track doesn't work for me, too long.Lots of unfamiliar tracks on this album too though, ends with a classic.

So more great songs, some competent rock n roll. If it were 20 minutes shorter I would have enjoyed it far more.

I love this album, and I love Alice

BENNIE AND THE JETS <333

It's okay, like funky tunes but not quite what I was after.

Grey Seal, a few hits

I like Benny, but the rest not so much. Deserves a few more listens though.

Bennie and the jets Saturday night alright All the girls love Alice sympa comme album mais bcp de chansons pas ouf aussi dedans!

I'm slightly torn with this one. It has some absolute classics on it, no question. But also a few that made me go meh. I feel slightly bad saying that.

see, the thing is...i just hate elton john. i mean, not as a person - i'm sure he's quite nice - it's just that i've never, ever been able to stand his music for very long. the big hits remain annoyingly overly familiar, even after not having heard them for decades - and probably never having *willingly* heard them. i will say jamaica jerk-off was pretty funny, though

Strangely I like Elton!

I liked quite a lot of it but some songs felt either quite filler or cringe (Jamaica jerk off)

ogni tanto Elton ci sta, però ogni tanto

Good solid album with well known hits from Sir Elton. Should've been a single disc, lots of tracks on this album follow John's signature sound and get repetative. 3.5

I enjoyed the album

Harmless, sad there weren't any Elton bangers on here.

Så där men 5+ för låt-titlarna!

Some filler, but the good stuff is great. I don't feel the need to ever hear it again, but I'll be happy if I do.

Man, I loved this album when I was a kid and it first came out. Granted, I didn't have much to compare it to, but I spent hours listening, staring at the cover, reading every word in the gatefold. I lost my interest in Elton John as I grew up, but there are a lot of great songs on this album, and the best of them still hold up.

6/10

This album spins just fine, most of the songs I've heard on the radio, the others I have not. Very adequate.

"Funeral for a Friend/Love Lies Bleeding" was an unexpectedly rockin' opener. I think of Elton John's music as very piano-centric. However, even "Candle in the Wind" had more guitar than the version in my head does. Following "Love Lies Bleeding" there are a short run of big hits that hold up very well, but it is still a slow but steady downward progression until the album hits the low point of "Jamaica Jerk-Off." Then rebounds a bit. "I’ve Seen That Movie Too" has a slow start, but picks up too little too late at the end, and then there is a decent little run that ends with "All the Girls Love Alice." Overall, the right songs were the hit singles with the exception of the opener. A 4/5 star album needs more consistency. This doesn’t have it.

I used to be somewhat of a Fuel (1990s - 2000s rock band) super fan. I went to their album release party for Something Like Human which started at midnight in Harrisburg just to give you an idea. Fuel’s most popular single, Hemorrhage (In My Hands), uses the line “love lies bleeding” several times, which happens to be half the title to the opening track here. I believe this is not a coincidence because Fuel used to cover Daniel quite a bit. So I know they have a thing for Elton John. Unfortunately, I love Fuel way more than the opening song, which feels like Elton’s attempt at an epic rock song a la Dylan’s Desolation Row, The Doors’ The End, or Pink Floyd’s Sine On You Crazy Diamond. Those examples are masterpieces while Funeral For A Friend/Love Lies Bleeding feels aimlessly over indulgent. There are some obvious classics here: Candle In The Wind, Bennie And The Jets, Goodbye Yellow Brick Road, and Saturday Night’s Alright For Fighting. I had heard all those before, knowing the greatest hits. Jamaica Jerk-Off is just weirdly out of place. All the rest of the songs are nice enough, but nothing I feel like I’ve been missing. It’s tough for a 76 minute album to carry excellence from beginning to end, especially having put out another album several months prior and another the next year. If Sir Elton had cut this down to a 40 minute album, I think he would have had something truly special. I’ll stick to the greatest hits.

Seeing Rocketman last year made me realize that there's more to Elton John than Nikita and the other schmaltz from the eighties I mainly know him from and made me eager to explore his earlier work. As a first step in that direction, this is a bit of a disappointment. Yes some of those punch-y songs from the movie are there - Bennie and the Jets, Saturday Night's Alright for Fighting - but also so much other stuff. A dramatic instrumental ouverture, seagull noises, a simplistic Beach Boys pastiche, a sort of ska-y(?) song and most of all too much florid piano playing for me to process on one day. 5/10

Primer disco de elton jhon que escucho, aunque es muy famoso nunca he escuchado nada suyo a propósito. Divertido pero creo que la clave de este tío está en las letras 🙃

Bloated? There's some great tracks here, like Saturday Night's Alright, Sweet Painted Lady, and Benny and The Jets, but at 1 hr 16 mins, it does drag on. What's more, bits of it feel a bit twee and contrived. The banjo on Social Disease sounds insincere to me, and Jamaican Jerk-Off feels borderline problematic. It's still Elton John, so it's still pretty damn good - the singing and performance is mostly on the money. But if you're looking for an Elton John album, in my opinion, you can do better.

3.5/5 some cool ones, rockier

Wreszcie udalo sie przesluchac plyte sir Eltona Johna, a z moim szczesciem trafilo na jego najbardziej zhajpowany album, co ja pisze podwojny album, ktory w godzine szesnacie serwuje siedemnascie kawalkow wszystich stworzonych w duecie John - Taupin, tak jak w przypadku wiekszosci popowo rokowych wydan w prace nad plyta zostala zangazowana potezna ilosc studyjnych muzykow i ludzi od produkcji, co niestety slychac, jak dla mnie niestety, bo najbardziej przypadly mi do gustu kawalki o prostej kompozycji skupiajacych sie na klawiszach eltonowych i na liryce bardziej niz na wodotryskach na kanalach, bo z kanalami i poziomami glosnosci mam osobny beef, na kawalkach jak seal sa momenty gdy gitarki sie wsciekaja, perkusja daje po talerzach, a do tego dojda jeszcze bongosy i czlowiek jest wrecz zmuszony zmniejszych poziom glosnosci, co jak dla mnie na materiale z szescioma kucharkami jest nie do pomyslenia, ale moze kawalki byly tworzone z myslia o radio plejach, a nie jakis sluchawkowych odsluchach, bo to jednak muzyka popularna, ktora ma leciec dla jak najszerszego grona sluchaczy, wiec przewazaja up beatowe kawalki czerpiace z brzmienia synthowego, ktore elton klika, cale szczescie ze jest to podwojna plyta i obok mocno popowych bangerow znajda sie odpowiedno wywazone blizej balladowe traki, nie wiem czy nazwac laczeniem stylow mozna nazwac traki jak jamaica jerk off, ale z pewnoscia celuje on w klimat wyznaczony tytulem z jakims skutkiem, jak dla mnie troche komicznym, ale moze taki byl zamysl, wiec przed tym poteznym odsluchem bylem pod wrazeniem eltonowego glosu, jak u goryli sie pojawil rok temu na ktoryms tam z kolei singu i nadal mial to cos, co tutaj rowniez czuc, wczesny eltonowy glos kojarzy mi sie z billym joelem, zwlaszcza na wolniejszych i powzniejszych kawalkach jak ihave seen that movie too czuje sie jakbym sluchal czegos z piano mana, a po odsluchu tej plyty nabralem rowniez szacunku do sira jako artysty potrafiacego stworzyc tak sluchalny podwojny album napisany wokol swoich klawiszy, z ktorego jest co wylowic na plejke, ogranicze sie do czterech kawalkow zeby dodac zarowno cos dynamicznie hitowego jak i cos co najbardziej mnie urzeklo podczas odsluchu, wiec social disease, sweet painted lady, candle in the wind, a z drugiej strony spektrum saturday night is alright (for fighting), cos czuje ze jeszcze nie jeden raz sie przewinie przez liste tworczosc Eltonowa, bo przeciez wyspiarstwo sie zgadza, rokowosc popularna sie zgadza, wiec czego chciec wiecej od pozycji listowej

From the get-go it's clear this is John's 70s album. Borrows influence from prog all the way through tropicana and injects them with his typical bombast to make each track uniquely its own. Whether the LP holds together as a cohesive whole is dubious, but each track is a great ride in and of itself even outside the well-known hits.

never been my thing, but that's not really the album's fault, is fine. though i could never hear "candle in the wind" again and it would be too soon :-P

Some real anthems, but also some duds. Not essential, but enjoyable.

More surprising and adventurous than I expected. The hits are gems.

2 liked songs - Funeral for a Friend/Love Lies Bleeding - This Song Has No Title

Genomgående bra. Även väldigt höga toppar där jag tycker man hör kvaliteten i hans röst och i andra låtar dras man med i det upptryckta tempot i hans pianospel. Tyckte även att öppningsspåret var väldigt intressant. "Funeral for a friend / Love lies bleeding". En 11a minuter lång resa som tar olika skepnader. Den typen av koncept är jag svag för. Bäst: "Goodbye yellow brick road"

Very pretty album with some great piano work, however it’s just a bit too long - boring at times

Some cuts could have been made, but an enjoyable listen overall.

Clearly a classic. Absolutely stacked album. Just not for me

*Alvin and the Chipmunks announcer voice* ELTONNNNNNNNNNNNN

So far I'm not blown from the songs and would give a 3/5.

Ach ... als Album echt nicht schlecht

Haven’t really liked Elton, and enjoyed this album more than expected. A few throwaway songs but some great ones too.

Tonnes of classic songs but I've never been a huge fan of Elton John. An undeniably great album, but not something I'd listen to often personally

It was designed to be a blockbuster and it was. Prior to Goodbye Yellow Brick Road, Elton John had hits -- his second album, Elton John, went Top 10 in the U.S. and U.K., and he had smash singles in "Crocodile Rock" and "Daniel" -- but this 1973 album was a statement of purpose spilling over two LPs, which was all the better to showcase every element of John's spangled personality.

Elton on a downbeat

Would listen again. Opening 5 minute instrumental was excellent.

Not bad

Standard Elton

On another day, this could easily have been a 4 or 5 star.

Few well known classics on this record with some great easy listening album fillers. Convinced myself this was a strong 4/5 album until I heard the song ‘Roy Rogers’ towards the end of the record. The country music vibe didn’t sit well with me and I then failed to listen to the remaining tracks. 3/5 stars. At a push.

Meh. I like a lot of Elton tunes but none were on here. First track was cool mind

Geen groot fan, maar mooi album en toffe nummers. Duurt wel een beetje lang.

Niks mis mee, maar toch ook weer net te bombastisch en theatraal aangezet om echt een snaar te raken. En wat een verschil tussen 'toen' en 'nu' qua aandachtsspanne van de luisteraar: op Spotify haalt het gemiddelde nieuwe nummer misschien 30 seconden speeltijd voordat er op NEXT geramd wordt. Toen Elton jong was zat je braaf 3 uur van zijn muziek uit. Zonder mokken.

Ik vind Elton een goede zanger.

That wasn't as bad as I feared, apart from "Bennie", which had an incredibly annoying vocal. Highly competent songwriting and musicianship, albeit a bit unadventurous for my tastes. Some big hits and enjoyable music, but also a lot of filler. 6.5/10

Tons of songs I know, pretty fun

Muy orquestado

Boring first half

Pop, rock suave. Bastante bastante bueno. Muy melódico.

classic

Listened to this (at least the first side) a lot when I was a kid. Never noticed how cooly trippy the cover was. Of course, It's a lot harder to see detail on a heat wrinkled 8-Track. I didn't remember anything between Grey Seal ("Tell-ell me gray sock" I used to say) and Harmony (except the hit). Maybe they put the last song on earlier because of the 8 track format. Or I just really liked the song and played it more.

It's alright

3a hans bästa skulle jag gissa på och en klassiker för dem som diggar piano rock. en 3a får den som bäst

A very nice album to listen to. It is not in the top of all the albums I like but very nice.

Pop dramático do Elton, não é ruim, mas tbm não é incrível.

Amazing first half of the album. The second one a bit less. I didn't know that pop sounded so prog back in the days.

It was a double album, so there is a lot of mediocre filler. There are definitely some all time classics in here. Bennie and the Jets is overrated though. The epic first combo track is the best

I never paid much attention to Elton John beyond the hits, but I should have.

Felt like a long musical soundtrack -- which I'm not really a huge fan of in abundance -- with weird (bad) genre side roads that seem to come out of nowhere. Lots of obvious classics but I have a hard time trying to figure out if I think these are great songs or if I have just heard them so many times that I've been conditioned to recognize the melodies and its tricking my brain into thinking I like them. Standout tracks: Funeral for a Friend / Love Lies Bleeding, Bennie and the Jets (but maybe just because Q-Tip made me like it when he sampled it so well), Goodby Yellow Brick Road, Saturday Night's Alright (for Fighting)

I enjoyed this more than I thought I would. The songs I'm less familiar with were the ones I liked most, which I think shows that my dislike of Elton John is more down to him being overplayed for decades than for the actual content. When forced to listen properly to the more popular tunes on this album even those fare well under my totally biased spotlight. Though, if I never hear Candle In The Wind again, it'll be too soon. It should be banned.

pretty solid album

Another Elton John album. Enjoyed "I've seen that movie too" and "Candle in the wind", but overall not as good as the previous one.

all the songs sound the same pretty much

Album started off strong with some classic hits, and I really enjoyed a new song for me, Love Lies Bleeding. Besides Saturday Night's Alright, the rest of the album was... fine.

3,5

Classic

Not my cup of tea

OK

2.75 - the classics are the classics, the jamaica one way strange but I liked Social Disease.

Not excited about it.

Jamaica Jerk-Off and Dirty Little Girl pissed me off.

Meeeh ça passe mais j'ai du mal avec Elton john juste l'intro est prime

no me lo terminé se me hizo bola

Se que no es mal disco objetivamente, pero el siempre me ha parecido abrumadoramente intenso (musicalmente hablando)

Some great hits on this album.

An album years ahead of its time as it pre-empted Spotify bulking up every other album with B-sides and throwaway tracks from the original sessions. What were they thinking actually releasing some of these songs on an actual album? Jamaica Jerk-Off shouldn't be anywhere near the finished product, and it's not the only stinker here. Hello, Sweet Painted Lady, I'm looking at you! A double album that really should be a single album. It would have been decent with a bit of quality control. Presumably Elton was surrounded by "yes men" at this point. Someone should have been brave enough to take out the scissors and have a right old snip. Four stars as a single album with the hits plus the best of the rest, loses two for wasting my time with some utter tripe.

knew this wasn't gonna be my cup of tea but didn't know it was a fucking double album... knock it OFF. "all the girls love alice" is a banger though

okay. its a good album but is sooo boring bc some musics sounds the same. fav track: bennie and the jets

nä inte min grej.

As a British person I feel obliged to enjoy a national treasure, he's an icon for so many reason. But his albums are not good, like a bad musical without the actual show. Bennie and the Jets is a 10/10 though

it sounded good

Fun!

There's an inherent flaw in being a big music fan. We're ever searching, looking for a new melody, a new riff, a new sample. During that search you pass over certain artists. I mean, you can't like EVERYTHING. Can you? No. That's where Elton John fits in. He has singles here and there that are really good. (This album in particular has an all timer in Benny and The Jets) But most of it just does nothing for me. (Pretty much the rest of the album)

I've always been obsessed with the titular track, but can take or leave the rest (even Bennie and the Jets and Candle in the Wind [sorry Princess Diana]). At least the songs I like best are front-loaded on the album (and as a sidebar: shout out to Saturday Night's Alright for Fighting for giving title inspo to one of the best episodes of Gilmore Girls)

nostamal, muy movido, musical, variado, no es mi estilo pero se deja escuchar, 2 o 3 de 5

Well know the hits; Benny, candle, Saturday night.

Awful. West-End mawkishness

Iconic

пис оф щит совершенно не зашло

Liked, but others albums are better sorry

#369 / 1089 Heard before? ❌ Revisit? ❌ I'm now starting to realise that the "eurovision sound" was out there way earlier and much more wider that I had anticipated. Not that all of this is that, but there is enough to make me notice. His other music on this record is kind of meh for me and kind of all over the place, from all pop artists playing the piano give me Tori Amos any time and even then it's not that amazing. Also, I hate Eurovision. Barely 2/5

I rolled my eyes when this album got recommended, and I gasped when I discovered that this is 1 hour and 15 minutes in length. I do not have any problems at all with Elton John as a person. My problem is with piano rock. This style to me has probably some of the corniest music to ever exist. I'll admit that this album had me quite optimistic with its first song, an progressive rock epic of 11 minutes with a nice energy and some glam rock influences. But from here, almost the rest of the track list is just piano rock that I dislike so much, and it can get incredibly tedious. There are a handful of moments l liked, like the very energetic "Grey Seal", the fun rockabilly inspired "Your Sister Can't Twist (But She Can Rock 'N Roll)", the playful "Saturday's Nights Alright for Fighting" and I even prefer the weird "Jamaica Jerk-Off" over some of the slowest cuts. The rest I think is decent at best. After listening to this about 4 times, I think I only disliked it more and more with each listen. Piano rock is absolutely not for me.

It's ok.

Very kitsch, from the iconic cover to the lyrics. I liked Goodbye Yellow Brick Road and Grey Seal, but not much more. 2.75 / 5

Elton John can write good songs but when they are spread out on an other wise terrible album, you gotta wonder if he just got lucky a few times. That Jamaica song was an abomination.

there's a lot here to like - some great vocal performances, strong songwriting, very good instrumental work, and a truly fantastic opener. unfortunately there's also a lot to dislike, with the middle of the album really sagging musically even without taking into account the racism. ultimately it very much overstays its welcome.

Some bangers but a slog. Big boring chunks.

Ett par bangers sen resten var... Elton John-musik.. dvs låtar med ett piano och sång som man glömmer direkt efter man hört.. Känns respektlöst att bara ge två.. men jag vet inte

top 3 - Goodbye Yellow Brick Road, Funeral for a Friend/Love Lies Bleeding, I've Seen That Movie Too. Wasn’t super into it unfortunately but a few songs were pretty good. Definitely deserves to be on this list though. I can see why he is so popular as well!

There are some good/classic songs on here but I don’t love the album as a collection. Bernie Taupin is a prolific lyricist but while there are some undeniable diamonds in his resume, like this album’s title track, I find a lot of his stuff clunky. Elton John’s voice is good, as ever, but musically this album is way less interesting than it seems to think it is, eg who on earth thought the opening track merited stretching out to 11 minutes (11!) in a swirl of wannabe Pink Floyd instrumentation?!

Eh. A little underwhelming especially with all the hype around it.

Continuing to be the populist rock and roller to Bowie’s envelope-pushing art rocker. But with about 1000% more sentiment and schmaltz. That sounds like a knock, which it is, but it’s an awfully impressive collection.

I know Elton is amazing, and when I'm in the right mood it might have been ok, but not today

This is the only Elton John album I like. I’ve never been a fan of his really but this one I like. There’s a lot more going on musically than in most of his catalog. But god is this album long. Not just time wise but the listening experience just feels long. By the end of disc 1 he’s pretty much said all he has to say, for the album and his career really. Then there’s a whole other album which includes the dreadful Saturday Night’s Alright For Fighting, possibly his worst song ever. Some self-editing would have made for a fine album.

Could not get into it for the life of me. Even though there's plenty to redeem it it's just too Elton John.

First song nearly sent me over the edge. Second song was okayish. Slow fucking start, but then it got vaguely interesting. Guitar part made me angry. I eventually hit skip. Third song is weird. Some kind of fake live track? I dunno. Skipped it after 45 seconds. Fourth song I liked pretty well. The whole woo-woo bit sounds nice. I think I must be in a pissy mood, though, I only made it to 90 seconds. Fifth song is a big no. Stupid title, stupid flute, stupid piano. Sixth song was promising until he opened his yap. I give up... Measured with the "How many stars better than Rufus Wainwright is this?", I came up 1 star better. Thus, Sir Elton John gets a 2.

Album is far to long, except for a few good tracks most of it is pretty boring.

Not a fan of Elton John but if I had to choose a favourite, it wouldn't be this album. 'Don't Shoot me, I'm the Piano Man' would get my vote as his best. Liberace meets Jerry Lee Lewis in places isn't my thing really.

Nah. A couple good songs, but I’m not an Elton John fan. Why does he keep talking about his sister looking good and 16-year-olds? Don’t doubt this was a big album when it came out, but it’s not for me.

Misogynist shit.

No matter how expertly performed, piano-based showtune rock is simply not for me. I'm really supposed to get excited about E yelling BENY 50 times in a row? Why, exactly? Or a Jimmy Buffet level slop song about Jamaica? I remember roller skating at Skateworld in the 1980s, and being confused when the DJ played Candle in the Wind for the slow song during couples skate. Oh cool...a showtune ballad about how the media exploited Marilyn Monroe...now watch me reverse skate so we can make out easier! Actually, in hindsight that kind of fits. I take that last part back.

Some fun songs, but most of them are too long.

Three deservedly-famous songs, some others reasonably catchy on first hearing, some tedious like middle of the road radio, and some with offensive lyrics/production: Jamaica Jerk-Off in particular, I also don't like Dirty Little Girl. Maybe 'Sir' 'Elton John' (and Taupin) are just smug gits who happen to have written some good songs. (At first I used past tense, but neither are dead yet - maybe one or both will apologise for these songs before they go? Taupin apparently told Rolling Stone he couldn't remember writing Jamaica Jerk-Off - did he say "gee it's embarassing, I apologise"? I can't tell because I don't subscribe to Rolling Stone ...) 3/10

Yuck

3/17 not really for me

- not my style

I hadn't heard this before. The hits are great but a lot of the rest of it seemed dull and weirdly misogynistic which I didn't expect at all.

mhhh, it was better than the last one but still kinda boring. Some songs were cool mbut most of them tired me out.

I really think I'm just an Elton John singles kind of guy

Well I didn't like Elton John before this and I still don't. Never so pleased as when it finished and Thunder Road by Bruuuce came on. 2 out of 5

I’m really not vibing with Reggie’s music, I’ve learned from this list. Even though all of my favorites of his are on this record (Funeral For a Friend, Bennie, Saturday Night etcetc), a ton of the tracks to me lay a static wall of generic rock to me that’s too focused on sounding grandiose in performance but not in actual musical diversity.

Some very good songs, but some were so boring.

It's alright but doesn't really need to be an hour and 16 minutes. Kind of overlong. Some good songs are balanced out by a lot of whatever tunes.

I’ve been meaning to get round to a deep dive into Elton John albums for a while. People always rave about his early 70s work but I’ve never really heard anything except the omnipresent hits. After this I’m still not convinced there’s a non-omnipresent hit worth listening to. Look I’m no different to anyone else we all like screeching Benn-ay at the top of larynxes and laughing at the weird squelchy 70s synth sounds but what else are people getting out of this? ‘Cos I’m not getting it. It’s vaguely interesting how even to my cloth-ears the opening instrumental is immediately recognizable as an Elton John song though. Not bad for a lyricist. Also, why does he repeatedly say I’m batshit during “Dirty Little Girl”. Also, do you think they had The Who in mind when they recorded Saturday Night’s Alright for Fighting because if so it’s a perfect pastiche, possibly even more than The Who’s version of it.

Goodish

Painfully overrated.

I just don’t really like this guy. Sue me.

Yeah I'm sure it's great and all, but holy fuck I ain't about to listen to 2 hours.

It's kind of peak Elton John, but I have trouble caring about Elton John. The music is good and everything is generally very competent, but it all slides right off me like a smooth goop. Bennie and the Jets is fun, but Candle in the Wind is just straight up bad (cringy, awkwardly paced, hard to listen to) most of the rest, even the hits, aren't really worth mentioning. The cover however, is great! It's also cheesy, but it's so extra I am willing to go with it, and the style is unique and appropriate, it's a 4/5.

If this is the epitome of Elton John then count me out. Wow, the three songs I've heard a thousand times were still heads and shoulders above the rest. 1 hour 16 minutes? No thanks. "Say one thing nice"... The opening track was at least provoking.

Ikke fantastisk, men super godt!!! Gotta love elton

I can hear the popularity of Elton, it is a nice album and some interesting tracks, even tho is not my cup of tea.

failed to catch my attention, will listen to again later

Elton John is the soda of music, bottled sunshine that HITS when it hits. Things get just a liiittle darker in the eighties, with I'm Still Standing and Who Wears These Shoes—and that is my preferred Elton. ?? Jamaica Jerk-Off ??

I think this album was intended to appeal to the American market. Fortunately I’m not American. One or two good track interspersed with dirge. If I had it as vinyl on my shelf I wouldn’t get out of my chair to put it on.

Não consigo me acostumar com a voz de Elton; tem algo nela que eu desgosto, mas não consigo apontar o que. Isso foi um dos principais motivos pelos quais eu não gostei do disco, mas, em geral, não é minha praia mesmo. Consigo reconhecer a qualidade da produção e da construção do cd, mas só não clica comigo.

I don't like Elton John. Benny And The Jets epitomizes my disgust for Elton John. Meanwhile, Saturday Night's Alright For Fighting it's probably my favorite EJ song, but that's not saying much, but it will bring the album up to 2 stars.

Went in expecting to enjoy this. Aside from a couple of classics I found the album pretty dull on the whole

Too long and too bluesy for me. But Yellow Brick Road is a Cotton family classic forever.

mid 2

Pop

Kind of boring but some hits. Couldn't really get through all of it

4/10

I find the cover more interesting than most of the songs on this album.

Je comprends pourquoi c'est culte, mais je trouve ça chiant. Et en plus ça dure une putain d'heure.

appreciate elton john but god damm the mf is just yapping too repititive for me

Some hits but not for me

Solo me gustaron dos canciones

Couple of good tracks, the rest is yuck

Noisy repetitive but some classics

Nah

There are very few double albums that turn out well. GYBR is no exception - this thing is bloated. Nonetheless, there are still some great album cuts (Grey Seal comes to mind). The three major singles to come from the album are not favorites either - I’d be fine never hearing Benny and the Jets ever again.

Mediocre music. Boring lyrics. Good voice. I don’t appreciate the gimmicky aspect of the the whole project, so I’m sure that creates a negative bias.

Look, Let's all just have a "Jamaica Jerk-Off" and move on okay?

It would have taken a lot for me to actually like this album. I've absorbed so much Elton John in my life with out intentionally looking for it. I have a negative reaction to just hearing his voice. I'd be fine never hearing Candle in the Wind, Benny and the Jets, or Goodbye Yellow Brick Road ever again. But there are moments of this album that I enjoyed. The synth sound on track one. The "Jamaica" song. I don't mind Saturday Nights Alright. But I don't ever have to listen to any Elton John again although I have a feeling this not his only album on here.

Enstaka delar är banbrytande välgjort med snygga arr o melodier jag inte visste kunde existera 1973 - men i helhet väldigt trött o jag förstår mig inte alls på detta tyvärr.

Right after the Bee Gees, I get Elton John. I hate the Bee Gees and I hate Elton John. Nothing worthy of reconsidering in this album, I still very much dislike Elton. Sorry.

Second album proposé par le générateur. Le premier morceau "Funeral for a Friend/Love Lies Bleeding" (+1) est une excellent surprise, avec une longue plage instrumentale. Le chant n'y apporte pas grand chose. Je pensais connaître Candle in the wind, en fait non, et je suis plutôt déçu (rien de musicalement marquant dans ce morceau). Je n'aime pas le chant sur le 3eme (voix de fausset). Grey Seal est plus intéressant (synthé). Mais Jamaica Jerk-Off et son inspiration reggae fait à nouveau retomber le soufflé. Globalement je n'ai pas retrouvé l'originalité du premier morceau dans la suite. Et la suite est interminable ! Je n'écouterais pas cet album une seconde fois. =>2/5

Perfectly fine genre music, but not a genre or style that is interesting to me.

Uhhhh…yeah. I’m just not big on Elton John. It’s the voice thing again. I feel like an idiot about it though!

A couple of songs that were enjoyable but didn't get my blood flowing. Don't think i'll be putting it on again anytime soon.

I think there's a problem when your lead instrument is a piano played how Elton John plays it. There isn't a lot of expression. So, everything kind of blends into a clangy mush. Despite that I recommend seeking out his John Peel radio session where he played pub piano, no singing. I do accept that it is wrong that I prefer The Scissor Sisters.

The impression I've developed of Elton John's output is an unending grapple between his personal flamboyance and Bernie Taupin's tortured, homely doggerel. Taupin will write about farmhands, but John will perform it in sequins. Of course, they recognised this conflict themselves in naming a later (and, in my outsider's opinion, probably their best) album: Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy. However, this grapple is not a creative tension or a compelling paradox, it is just a bar fight between a glam queen and a trucker: it couldn't happen without both participants, but it begs more questions than it answers. John's renowned facility for setting Taupin's lyrics in twenty minutes or less demonstrates his considerable musical ability, but also the insignificance of the words to the process - he doesn't have to (or doesn't bother to) assimilate them, consider them, draw out their meaning with his music. The words are only a vehicle by which to explore melody and, while some of the melodies here are gorgeous, the mismatch of word and tune is sometimes awful. Listen to the pained articulation of "blu-oo-ooze" or "row-ow-owed" in Goodbye Yellow Road. Those vowels can't withstand such contortions. So, despite the praise John gives his writing partner, it is obvious he doesn't care about the lyrics. Why should he when they are so laboured and unrelatable, so self-satisfied, but unsatisfying? The result is that John hollers lyrics that mean nothing to him (they certainly mean nothing to me), so there is nothing under the performance, no heart, no depth. He is a more than credible rock vocalist - a little McCartney and little Little Richard - but the performance is always one-dimensional singing Taupin's words, because it may as well be a page from the instruction manual for the synthesiser or a screenplay handed to him, hopefully, by his coke dealer. This double album is a lot of music, a natural consequence of churning out songs in a third of an hour. It is the second album he released in 1973. He released another album in 1974 and two more in 1975. However, each one is no more than a document of his coked-up productivity; they're not albums per se. Well, except the obscurely autobiographical Captain Fantastic. That's not to say that the coked-up Elton John and his excellent band didn't document some incredible musical product. The first six tracks here constitute a great half hour of music (if not song - the lyrics are no good!) and that's 75% of a reasonable compilation. Throw in I've Seen That Movie Too, Saturday Night's Alright, and Harmony and the musical experience would be pretty good. If he had spent more time in the songwriting - writing less, refining more, asking what does any of this crap mean, adding discernment to his obvious talents - he might have produced a distinct artistic statement, rather than another link in the glittery sausage of his early 70s output. An Elton John with self-control doesn't write Jamaica Jerk-Off, let alone put it on a record. 2.5 Elton John is a natural entertainer, in the way he writes music as well as the way he performs it. His melodies are lovely and he always creates a terrific sense of momentum in his piano playing. Elton could, as they say, sing the phonebook and it would be good but, unfortunately, he sings the lyrics of Bernie Taupin instead, so it’s bad. That’s about it. I don’t think anyone, Elton fan or not, argues that Bernie Taupin is a good lyricist. Perhaps some people think Elton John‘s music elevates Taupin‘s words. I think Elton John is a hack because he didn’t care enough to send these lyrics back for a second draft. It’s not good enough to say ‘I’m not a lyricist’ - words have sound and texture so in a song they are music. Verdi never wrote a libretto but he put his librettists through hell demanding redrafts, sometimes dozens of redrafts, over years. Elton received a lyric from Taupin, snorted a line of coke, and sat down at the piano to set it in stone. And there those lyrics are; rhythmically illiterate, brain-fart English from a transparently nasty little egotist. The best bits of this album are the bits where you can’t make out the words Elton is singing. 2/5

actually not a massive fan a bit samey

i may appreciate it if i had the opportunity

some good catchy tunes, some annoying ones (cough Saturday night's alright for fighting cough) overall solid but it's a little too long, overwrought and theatrical for my tastes

I’m starting to question if this experiment is for me. I’ve heard of most of these albums and I love the idea of digging deeper into to songs I haven’t heard from popular albums but I’m finding it really tough to be engaged in these older albums. This is probably the albums so far that I’d heard the most songs from and you can’t deny that they’re hits but I don’t know, some of this stuff is just not my vibe and i dont know if it’s because it’s ‘outdated’ or I’m just not feeling it, regardless of age. But I’m hopefully I’ll hear something on this journey that I really love. I’m curious how many of these albums are more recent, probably not many. Also what the hell is up with Jamaican Jerk-Off??

Prima muziek, maar niet heel bijzonder. **

Too long. Some decent stuff but overall it’s a nah.

I'm sorry I'm not an Elton John fan, as I tend to dislike piano-driven music, but there are at least four classic songs on this album. I'm just not into it. Liked Song Added: Bennie And The Jets

I kind of like Bennie and the Jets, Grey Seal; I almost like Your Sister Can’t Twist, Saturday Night’s Alright for Fighting

Overblown. Never been a big Elton fan, and this hasn’t changed that. Chas ‘n’ Dave without the humour, and with a few more synths. Which were the interesting bits.

oodbye Yellow Brick Road is the definition of excess being mistaken for greatness. It is big, glossy, and relentlessly confident, but that confidence often feels undeserved. As a double album, it sprawls without discipline, stacking style on top of style until individual songs blur into a parade of theatrical gestures rather than fully formed ideas. What is often praised as versatility comes across more like indecision, as if sheer variety alone is meant to justify the length. The biggest issue is how emotionally hollow much of it feels. Elton John’s melodies are undeniably polished, but they frequently lean toward melodrama without earning it, while Bernie Taupin’s lyrics veer into campy fantasy and vague nostalgia that rarely connect on a deeper level. Songs stretch on past their natural lifespan, repeating choruses and motifs until charm turns into irritation. Even the more celebrated tracks feel overworked, smothered in production and grandiosity rather than allowed to breathe. What makes Goodbye Yellow Brick Road frustrating is how untouchable its reputation seems compared to the actual listening experience. This is not a terrible album, but it is a bloated one, convinced that bigger automatically means better. There are moments of genuine craft scattered throughout, but they are buried under indulgence, filler, and a sense of self-importance that wears thin fast. I get why Elton John is respected as a songwriter, but I just couldn’t get into this. It’s like being shown a famous painting and thinking, “I'd rather look inside my fridge"

I had high hopes for this but I found it too long with too many filler songs. I absolutely love 'Benny and the Jets' but even that couldn't save this album for me.

Two minutes into the first track... "Maybe a better use of my time would be to listen to Jon Ronson's new series on BBC Sounds."

I was willing it to end. Never a good sign!

Geweldige muzikant, maar dit was teveel van het goede. Werd zelfs vermoeiend.

Meh album. Staan drie nummers op die ik aan mn playlist heb toegevoegd (yellow brick road, candle in the wind en gray seal). De rest is allemaal matig of slecht. Hele tweede deel kan me gestolen worden. Denk dat hij niet echt een albumartiest is, meer van de singles/hits. 2.5* naar beneden afgerond.

too much of an artist I don't like, some of it was musically pretty good, but overall I'll never listen to this album again