Your top 10 Elton John Songs?

Discussion in 'Music Corner' started by Matthew Tate, Mar 5, 2017.

  1. Uncle Miles

    Uncle Miles Wafting in and out of Forum

    Location:
    Phoenix, AZ USA
    Tiny Dancer
    Where To Now Saint Peter
    Love Song
    Ballad of a Well-Known Gun
    Mona Lisas And Mad Hatters
    Bennie And The Jets
    Rocket Man
    Grey Seal
    Love Lies Bleeding
    Goodbye
     
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  2. rlp

    rlp Forum Resident

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    North Carolina
    FRIENDS! What a score by Paul Buckmaster!!! The tracks "Honey Roll", "Can I Put You On" and "Michelle's Song" were likewise personal faves from that OST.
     
  3. jeffgt14

    jeffgt14 Forum Resident

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    Mt. Juliet, TN
    Nice to see another #1 for Tower of Babel. I'm always surprised it doesn't get more love. Captain Fantastic is my favorite EJ album so perhaps I'm a bit biased.
     
  4. JL6161

    JL6161 Forum Resident

    Location:
    Michigan, USA
    Oh yeah, not only my favorite EJ song but one of my favorites by anybody. It usually shows up pretty regularly in threads like this, just not so much this particular time.
     
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  5. ranasakawa

    ranasakawa Forum Resident

    Someone Saved My Life Tonight (Should have they?)he he
    I Feel Like a Bullet (In The Gun of Robert Ford)
    Funeral For a Friend
    Grow some funk of your own
    We all fall in love sometimes
    Meal ticket
    Madman across the water (Original version with The Spiders)
     
  6. uffeolby

    uffeolby Senior Member

    Location:
    Västerås, Sweden
    Impossible task but I give it a try... being a die hard fan, it needs to be deep album cuts

    First Episode of Hienton
    Come Down in Time
    Goodbye
    Mona Lisas and Mad Hatters
    Harmony
    Tell Me when the Whistle Blows
    The Boy in the Red Shoes
    Birds
    Blues Never Fade Away
    Gone to Shiloh
     
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  7. George P

    George P Notable Member

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    NYC
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    Visited a pinball museum in Asbury Park yesterday. Saw this machine and thought of this thread.
     
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  8. tim_neely

    tim_neely Forum Hall Of Fame

    Location:
    Central VA
    1. Love Song
    2. I Don't Wanna Go On with You Like That
    3. I Guess That's Why They Call It the Blues
    4. Step Into Christmas
    5. Lady Samantha
    6. Someone Saved My Life Tonight
    7. Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
    8. Sorry Seems to Be the Hardest Word
    9. First Episode at Hienton
    10. I Feel Like a Bullet (In the Gun of Robert Ford)

    This is my best guess. My top 4 are pretty firm; the rest change often.

    Honorable mention:
    Can You Feel the Love Tonight
    Honky Cat
    Nobody Wins
    Part-Time Love
    Your Song
    The One
    Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds
    Pinball Wizard
    Skyline Pigeon (Empty Sky version)
    Bennie and the Jets
     
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  9. factory44

    factory44 Forum Resident

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    Pittsburgh, PA USA
    Dirty Little Girl ROCKS! As someone who lived and breathed EJ from 1972-1976 it's a song I go back to often these days. Back then we were completely spoiled by the riches of Elton's music, so some of the "lesser" songs occasionally slipped through the cracks. I liked DLG back then, but I LOVE it now. Elton's vocal and piano are stellar. Davy, Dee, and Nigel just NAIL their parts. Bernie's lyrics are witty and humorous. Total winner of a song.
     
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  10. factory44

    factory44 Forum Resident

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    Pittsburgh, PA USA
    Here are my top 10 songs that were not released as singles (in no particular order).

    60 Years On (11/17/70 version)
    Skyline Pigeon (Empty Sky version)
    Razor Face
    Mellow
    High Flying Bird
    Have Mercy On The Criminal
    Grey Seal (GYBR version)
    Ballad Of Danny Bailey
    Ticking
    Captain Fantastic

    ...and because 10 isn't near enough, here are 10 more!

    Tonight
    One Horse Town
    Medley (Yell Help, Weds. Night, Ugly)
    Amoreena
    Hercules
    Teacher I Need You
    I've Seen The Saucers
    Meal Ticket
    We All Fall In Love Sometimes/Curtains
    Goodbye
     
  11. Todd W.

    Todd W. It's a Puggle

    Location:
    Maryland
    Darn near impossible.............:D

    1. Sacrifice
    2. The Retreat
    3. Mona Lisas and Mad Hatters
    4. Ticking
    5. Funeral For A Friend/Love Lies Bleeding
    6. Roy Rogers
    7. Blues For My Baby and Me
    8. Amoreena
    9. Your Song
    10. Michelle's Song
     
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  12. tmwlng

    tmwlng Forum Resident

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    Denmark
    Stunning vocal performance here. One of many narrow misses from my top 10.

     
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  13. utopiarun

    utopiarun "on the road to Utopia"

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    Staten Island NY
    Absolutely impossible for me to pick just 10. I once made a cassette mix of my favorite EJ songs and it ended up being 3 90 minute tapes! So many great picks you guys have made. I'll try (in no particular order)

    Funeral For A Friend/Love Lies Bleeding
    Tiny Dancer
    Come Down In Time
    Michelle's Song
    Carla/Etude/Fanfare/Chloe
    Conquer The Sun
    Ballad Of Danny Bailey
    The King Must Die
    Paris
    Tinderbox
    The One

    that's 11 and I'm not close to being finished :(
     
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  14. Cipresso

    Cipresso Forum Resident

    Location:
    Italy
    Grow Some Funk (I like Elt tough and rough)
    Chameleon
    One Horse Town
    Pinky
    Goodbye Yellow Brick Road (listened to it a million times, always sounds fresh and moving)
    Sweet Painted Ladies
    Philadelphia Freedom (his best mega-hit)
    Levon (live versions in the last couple of years just shine)
    Nice and Slow (he should have completed the Thom Bell album and issue it instead of a Single Man)
    Crocodile Rock (why not? It's fun fun fun)...
    (Obviously not his best songs, but currently favourite s of mine)
     
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  15. Jason Pumphrey

    Jason Pumphrey Forum Resident

    As for his compilations, you really can't go wrong with the Your Songs compilation that are host mastered back in the 80s.

    Also that McDonald's compilation from 1994 was pretty good as well, it was called Classic Elton John, it had the longer, alternate Mick Ronson version of Madman Across the Water.

    Both of these CDs had 10 songs each, and can be found easily in the used bins
    cheap.
    Your Songs was also available on vinyl as well.
     
  16. Marvin

    Marvin Senior Member

    Funeral for a Friend is easily my favorite.

    Other than that, not sure I can name 10. Your Song, Levon, Island Girl, Rocket Man come to mind.
     
  17. johnnyyen

    johnnyyen Senior Member

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    Scotland
    01. Madman Across The Water
    02. Crazy Water
    03. Empty Sky
    04. Captain Fantastic And The Brown Dirt Cowboy
    05. Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
    06. Tiny Dancer
    07. Funeral For A Friend/Love Lies Bleeding
    08. Candle In The Wind
    09. Honky Cat
    10. Song For Guy
     
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  18. nlgbbbblth

    nlgbbbblth Senior Member

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    Ireland
  19. tonyc

    tonyc Forum Resident

    Location:
    United States
    Funeral For A Friend/Love Lies Bleeding
    Levon
    Someone Saved My Life Tonight
    Empty Garden
    I'm Still Standing
    Nikita
    Healing Hands
    The One
    Believe
     
  20. 86mets

    86mets Counting Crows #1 Fan

    In chronological order...

    Skyline Pigeon (B-side single of Daniel)
    Teacher I Need You
    Blues For Baby and Me
    Harmony
    We All Fall in Love Sometimes
    Sartorial Eloquence
    Chloe
    Empty Garden (Hey Hey Johnny)
    A Word in Spanish
    Something About the Way You Look Tonight

    Of course I would post another 25 or so...
     
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  21. kcjayhawk

    kcjayhawk Forum Resident

    Location:
    Kansas
    My Top 10

    Funeral For A Friend/Love Lies Bleeding
    Your Song
    Dont Let The Sun Go Down On Me
    Where To Now St. Peter
    Come Down In Time
    Tiny Dancer
    Rocket Man
    Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
    Harmony
    Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds (only Beatles cover I like better than the original)

    Funny, nothing after Caribou, no surprise!
     
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  22. Jamey K

    Jamey K Internet Sensation

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    Amarillo,Texas
    Rocket Man
    Teacher, I Need You
    High Flying Bird
    Croc Rock
    Don't Let The Sun Go Down On Me
    Tiny Dancer
    I'm Still Standing
    The Bitch Is Back
    Grey Seal
    Empty Garden
     
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  23. Hexwood

    Hexwood Forum Resident

    Location:
    UK
    1. Original Sin
    2. Tiny Dancer
    3. Candle in the Wind (the original version)
    4. Sacrifice
    5. Rocket Man
    6. I Guess That's Why They Call It the Blues
    7. Sad Songs (Say So Much)
    8. Crocodile Rock
    9. Cold as Christmas
    10. Runaway Train
     
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  24. driverdrummer

    driverdrummer Forum Resident

    Location:
    Irmo, SC
    Don't Let the Sun go Down on Me, Candle in the Wind, Sacrifice, Honky Cat, Philadelphia Freedom, Levon, A Good Heart, Cold as Christmas, Circle of Life, Original Sin
     
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  25. peteham

    peteham Senior Member

    Location:
    Simcoe County
    Today it's:

    Curtains
    Levon
    Ticking
    High Flying Bird
    Between Seventeen And Twenty
    Don't Let The Sun Go Down On Me
    Salvation
    I've Seen That Movie Too
    All The Nasties
    Indian Sunset
     
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