Elton John Top 3

My wife is a huge Elton John fan... She appreciated the Pork Wad reference!

 

Empty Garden..gorgeous coda which it would have loved twice as long with more of a buildup. Not because it's about Lennon, but melodically it's my favorite post 70's Elton John song.

 

I so need to hear Elderberry wine again...not on sacd

 

"Someone Saved My Life Tonight"
"Sorry Seems to Be the Hardest Word"
"Elton's Song"

My favourite songs seem to share a feel or a mood. Another feel and another day might have made it "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road," "Harmony," and "Blues for My Baby and Me." Some songs are inseparable from the artist and others are the kind I imagine will live on even the day the artist and all his funny costumes and eyewear are a past memory. I was studying music theory when I encountered Elton John's music and I still think a lot of it in terms of, ahem, harmony, not performance, and to me, his best songs are often those I find most rewarding as compositions. (That is not to say I don't have huge admiration for him as a performer - my favourite costume of his is the Donald Duck one.)

 

Your Song
Funeral For A Friend/Love Lies Bleeding
Someone Saved My Life Tonight

 

I’ve Seen That Movie Too
Harmony
We All Fall in Love Sometimes

 

1. Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
2. The Last Song
3. I Want Love

 

Come Down In Time (Piano Demo)
I'm Going To Be a Teenage Idol
The Ballad of Danny Bailey (1909–34)

 

Madman Across the Water
Someone Saved My Life Tonight
Ticking

 

my next top 3
Rocket Man
Country Comfort
First Episode at Hienton

 

Indian Sunset
Rotten Peaches
Amoreena

Really hard to keep off Ticking and Empty Sky, the latter maybe my most listened to EJ track.

 

Amoreena

Funeral for a Friend / Love Lies Bleeding

Empty Garden

 

Someone Saved my Life Tonight
Funeral For a Friend/Love Lies Bleeding
Mona Lisas and Mad Hatters

 

Your Song

Saturday Night’s Alright for Fighting

Goodbye Yellow Brick Road

 

In no particular order:

Bennie and the Jets
Empty Garden
Bite Your Lip

 

I attended a sold out, packed Saturday concert on the Goodbye Yellow Brick Road tour. Elton came out for the first encore, and stopped at Davy's mic to say, "You all know what tonight is." The audience positively erupted, about as happy a collective crowd as I have ever witnessed. Feeding off that energy, Elton and band rocked "Saturday Night's Alright For Fighting."

That has to be one of my three favorites from the album.

 

Cage the songbird
One horse town
Between seventeen and twenty

Blue moves best album hands down

 

St. Peter definitely falls in my top five. Great melody but extra great lyrics, IMO..especially for those of us who ponder the subject mater.

 

Love Lies Bleeding is the only one I would actually choose at any given time to always want to hear.

 

This is hard

I Feel like A Bullet
Mona Lisas And Mad Hatters
Texan Love Song

 

Can’t do it.

But probably my most played:

Harmony
Danny Bailey
Skyline Pigeon (B side version)

 

Dude, Im a fairly recent convert, but this guy, him and Bernie Taupin, until
About 72/74....all those albums. Get them. Everything up til Capt. Fantastic.

 

Blue Eyes
Rocket Man
Candle in the Wind

 

Take Me to the Pilot
Levon
Tonight

 

Someone Saved My Life Tonight
Rocket Man
Daniel