He didn't do the Lion King songs

I was surprised he didn't perform "Someone Saved My Life Tonight"

Don't misunderstand -- it was a helluva good show.

Miles Archer

(18,837 posts)

4. "Madman" was the album that got to me.

Reply to Algernon Moncrieff (Original post)

Fri Oct 30, 2015, 11:52 AM

Oct 2015

I remember an interview in which he said he hated the vocals on the whole album and had a daydream about re-recording the whole thing.

Enjoyed "Tumbleweed" very much but it did not hit me with the same emotional force as "Madman."

Thought the first album was very embryonic. Don't mean that in a good way or a bad way...it just felt like a "first album" (and yes, I do know that "Empty Sky" was the true "first album&quot .

I started to lose interest with "Goodbye." I prefer the "Harmony" and "Candle In The Wind" and "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road" Elton, and have little to no patience for the "Bitch Is Back" guy. By the time he started wearing the Donald Duck suit, I pretty much sank back into "Madman" and forgot about him, although I do really enjoy later songs like "Someone Saved My Life Tonight" and "Don't Let The Sun Go Down On Me." That Elton. Not the comedy Elton.

Algernon Moncrieff

(5,781 posts)

6. True of many artists

Reply to Miles Archer (Reply #4)

Fri Oct 30, 2015, 03:50 PM

Oct 2015

There is the thoughtful Jimmy Buffett of songs like He Went to Paris and A Pirate Looks at Forty, and the beach party Jimmy Buffett of Margaritaville and Fins. Sometimes it's a specific album or timeframe -- Joni Mitchell's work is generally marked by the album Court & Spark -- there is that which came before it and that which came after it.

I see Elton as both the thoughtful artist and the guy in the Donald Duck suit. I will say that I'm more partial to the material he did before his first "retirement" in the late 70s than the material afterward, but now and then e does a song that still resonates.

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