Goodbye Yellow Brick Road

Elton John - Goodbye Yellow Brick Road

Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
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Artist: Elton John
Edition: Music CD
Audio: German (Unknown); English (Original Language)
Format: Original recording reissued, Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 1996-02-20
Music Label: Island
Soundtracks:
  1. Funeral For A Friend (Love Lies Bleeding)
  2. Candle In The Wind
  3. Bennie And The Jets
  4. Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
  5. This Song Has No Title
  6. Grey Seal
  7. Jamaica Jerk-Off
  8. I've Seen That Movie Too
  9. Sweet Painted Lady
  10. The Ballad Of Danny Bailey (1909-34)
  11. Dirty Little Girl
  12. All The Girls Love Alice
  13. Your Sister Can't Twist (But She Can Rock 'N Roll)
  14. Saturday Night's Alright For Fighting
  15. Roy Rogers
  16. Social Disease
  17. Harmony

Music reviews of Goodbye Yellow Brick Road

Music Review: Has three all time classics on it. 95/100
Rating: 5 Stars


If an album has three all time classics in my view, and nothing really to dislike, I'm going to have to give it a pretty good score. Apart from the all time classic tracks, the rest of the album is interesting enough...perhaps only a few songs are disposable. Album has good drumming on it and a phat bass sound often. My cd is listed as being a 1995 issue. Have seen a later release listed, with bonus tracks. My cd runs some 76:20, so it is quite demanding to listen to already, time wise. Think the cd with bonus tracks has four extra songs...doesn't really seem an incentive to get that version unless they have done something special with the sound. No complaints with the sound quality on this album though.


The all time classics:


Bennie and the Jets - a signature song for Elton. Instantly identifiable opening. Sort of a demented march with the piano playing. Elton sings in falsetto at times, to good effect. Have heard that this song 'crossed over' to black Americans, who bought it in droves. Funky is funky whatever your skin colour.

Goodbye yellow brick road - another unmistakeable piano intro to this song. Lovely falsetto melodies by Elton here...he's definitely an underrated vocalist in the pop-rock genre, for sure. Like the emphatic drum beats at times in this song.

Saturday night's alright for fighting - a wild, all time classic rock song...especially for the guitar riff and Elton's rock vocals. Bassy, tough drumming. Not sure, but my sound levels seem to drop a bit for a bit on my cd. Anyway, Elton gives one of the all time great rock vocal performances in this song. No falsetto here!


Next best:


Grey seal - this song now appears on Australian FM radio at times. Not sure that it had in the past...or at least as often as now. Has a a jaunty and catchy chorus. Elton's vocals are doubled up here. Has a 1970s style funky guitar part. Bongos or some such feature as well. "~"


Best of the rest:


Harmony - I like the broody parts to this song as well as its poppy harmonies and melodies. Features acoustic guitar and some solid drum beats. Think this song has a double bass. Elton's vocals may be double up here...or maybe it's backing singers or something. "(.)"

Candle in the wind - another signature song for Elton...his ode to Marilyn Monroe. No doubt for many Elton fans this song would be the highlight of the album. Haven't really minded this song, but never fully embraced it. It's nice enough. Perhaps its currency has been devalued by Elton's re-do of this song in honour of Princess Diana...at her funeral, I believe. Has good drumming, backing coals, acoustic guitar and electric guitar. Subtle yet distinctive bass guitar. ">(.)"

I've seen that movie too - has a jazz lounge vibe to it with Elton's tinkling piano playing. Jazz flavour enhanced by use of cymbals. Think a double bass drum is used here...if that is what they are called. Acoustic guitar, violins, bass and electric lead guitar at times. ">(.)"

Sweet painted lady - slower tempo song. Deep bass, acoustic guitar, piano accordion and a trumpet, I think. Nice vocal melody and sing-along-able too. "[.}"


The rest:


Funeral for a friend/Love lies bleeding - album opener. 11:09 minute running time. For five minutes or so it's an instrumental...gothic and synthy...touch of "Oxygene" and "Phantom of the opera" to it...though it pre-dates those albums and soundtracks. The rest of the song has singing on it...turns into a rock song with rock guitar. Guitar has a touch of the later song "Saturday night's alright for fighting" to it for the "Love lies bleeding" segment on this song. A piano on "Love lies bleeding" reminds me of the sampled song used on the classic Australian hip-hop group The Hilltop Hoods' song "The nosebleed section". If that's right, I think that the melody they sampled pre-dates this Elton John album.

This song has no title - a piano instrumental for a lot of its running time. When the lyrics do kick it, they're wordy, but that's ok. A flute is used in this song, perhaps. Backing vocals at times. The synthesiser sounds odd at times.

Jamaica jerk-off - has a synthesiser drum beat sound to it. Reggae-ish, with multi-vocals. Has real drums too, which sound good. Keyboard sounds kitschy. A melody in this song reminds me of...is it "Under the boardwalk"? Maybe I have "Dock of the bay" in mind? Hmm.

The ballad of Danny Bailey (1909-34) - sort of a rock "The lonesome death of Hattie Carroll" song. Good drumming here, with some emphatic beats. Bassy, violins and some country sounding lead guitar. Song mentions "Dillinger"...a famous American criminal, I believe.

Dirty little girl - a rock song with a phat bass sound. Rock vocals, emphatic beats. Song has a "Signs" vibe to it (the 1960s protest song). Elton sounds a wee bit like Mick Jagger in this song. You get overdubbed vocals later on.

All the girls love Alice - bassy rock song. Overdubbed guitar perhaps...has a Led Zeppelin vibe to it in that respect. Got some brass...or that may just be the synthesiser.

Your sister can't twist (but she can rock'n'roll) - a jaunty rock song which references other songs...like stuff by The Beatles and The Beach Boys. Vocals have an ABBA vibe to them at times. Kitschy keyboard...MGMT's terrific "Oracular spectacular" album had this kind of element to it at times (on, say, "Kids"). Bassy.

Roy Rogers - some piano notes on this song bring to mind INXS' good song "By my side". Country style lead guitar turns up again. Doubled up vocals. Violins. Might be a bit of a grower, this song, like the song above.

Social disease - song fades louder as it starts...bit faint at the start. A country rock song, featuring the banjo. Elton threatens to yodel at times! Lead guitar plays in a country music kind of way too.


Elton John recommendations:


Too low for zero - been years since I've heard this album, but I remember loving it as child.

Jump up! - had some songs I liked on this, which never really turned up on compilations. Might have to reacquaint myself with this album and see if it is on cd now.
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Description of Goodbye Yellow Brick Road

Japanese reissue of 1973 album, packaged in a limited edition miniature tri-fold LP sleeve.
Rarely mentioned as one of the great double albums, Goodbye Yellow Brick Road had to settle for ending up in a few million record collections. So sprawling that it doesn't quite measure up to the earlier, more laid-back Honky Chateau or the later, pushy Rock of the Westies, this still holds claim to a lot of brilliant, very pop-savvy music: the winking rebellion of "Bennie and the Jets" and "Saturday Night's Alright for Fighting," the ready-made nostalgia of "The Ballad of Danny Bailey," the downbeat melodicism of "Harmony." --Rickey Wright

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