Unheralded Elton john songs

I would say Amoreena, but it served as the opening theme of Dog Day Afternoon.

Asking a jazz fan for an unheralded Elton John song is like asking a vegetarian what's their favorite cut of meat.

 

Heart in the Right Place
Word in Spanish
Latitude
Blues For My Baby and Me
Texan Love Song
Ballad of a Well Known Gun
Home
I Feel Like A Bullet
Bitter Fingers
Hercules
Western Ford Gateway
Cold As Christmas
Dixie Lilly
Never Gonna Fall in Love Again
In Neon
It Ain't Gonna Be Easy
It's Getting Dark in Here
Michelle's Song

Just a few from the top of my head.........

 

I always liked "Breaking Down Barriers".

 

"Nobody Wins" is the record that introduced me to Elton, and the "Chloe" suite from The Fox.

"Gone To Shiloh", great song with Leon Russell and Neil Young.

"The Ballad Of The Boy In The Red Shoes", and about half of the songs on Songs From The West Coast.

The original version of "Madman Across The Water".

"A Good Heart" and "The Open Chord" from Wonderful Crazy Night.

Among many others.

 

Bad Side of the Moon.
A few covers of this I believe -- Bo Diddley ?
Amazing for a B side -- just shows the high quality of his early material ,

 

All The Nasties
Salvation
My Fathers Gun
Curtains
Ticking
Amy
Sugar On The Floor
Pinky
Cold As Christmas
Did He Shoot Her
Blue Avenue
Tortured
Heart In The Right Place
Passengers
Claw Hammer
The Open Chord
A Good Heart
This Train Don't Stop There Anymore
Cold
January
Birds
Bad Side of the Moon ( Here and There version )

Just to name a few...

 

Billy Bones and the White Bird - one of the hardest rocking tracks in his catalogue.

Check it out!

 

Yes it is on CD - A UK Reader's Digest compilation "Merry Christmas Everybody". I have it. Whoever chose the tracks for the seasonal themed package relied on the song title - it also includes "Cold As Christmas". Thinking of selling it.

 

I am a passionate jazz fan and a life long fan of Elton and I know others of my species.

 

"The Measure of a man" ROCKY V ost.

 

How about an unheralded album? My vote would be "The Captain & The Kid".

 

I'm a fan of Elton John (sort of--I much prefer jazz and other artists), but again the notion of "unheralded" is a slippery slope. Steve Kuhn is a FAR superior artist to Elton John in every way that matters to me. Now whose songs are unheralded again?

 

All song on a Friends soundtrack.

 

Holiday Inn without a doubt.

 

I’ve Seen The Saucers
High Flying Bird
Empty Sky
Lady Samantha
Grimsby
Salvation
Medley (Yell Help/Wednesday Night/Ugly)
Princess
Just Like Belgium
One Horse Town
Chameleon
Dirty Little Girl
Young Man’s Blues
All Quiet On The Western Front

 

TICKING is absolutely my favorite Elton's song. My God, so good. Nick Cave's O'Mailey's Bar always reminded me this one dunno why.

 

Shine On Through
Ball & Chain
All Quiet On The Western Front
Fascist Faces
Did He Shoot Her?
Satellite
Blue Avenue
Carla/Etude
Elton’s Song
Burning Bridges
Saint
Simple Life

Are all top notch post ‘76 Elton for me.

 

Always thought this was quite fun... Came out in 1992 but sounds like it was recorded circa Leather Jackets. Perhaps it's just me...



UPDATE: Great Caesar's ghost this is expensive................. Various - The Bunbury Tails

 

Screw You is fantastic and should have been included on Goodbye Yellow Brick Road.

Tortured is another great track that was left off an album.

Fascist Faces is the highlight of The Fox that nobody ever seems to mention.

The rock version of Where Have All The Good Times Gone blows away the album version.

 

You get at it when you say “ to me”.
I prefer not to rank. I can love Elton, I can love Monk , I can love Jaime XX or Daft Punk.
I dont see the point in debating who is superior
When i want to listen to Tiny Dancer , Monk is useless to me.
This is just my approach

( i wont comment on this further so as to not derail the thread)

 

Skyline Pigeon
Bad Side of the Moon
Amoreena
My Father’s Gun
Mona Lisas And Mad Hatters
Harmony
All The Young Girls Love Alice

 

One Horse Town, it's a fantastic song.

 

I'm not a huge fan of either artist but I think "Slow Rivers" is superb and one of the best tracks EJ and Cliff Richard did.

 

Have Mercy On The Criminal

 

The whole of side two of Rock Of The Westies is full of buried treasure. Your starter for..