Goodbye Yellow Brick Road Album Reaction | Hi Def Upgrade
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In this episode we discuss “Goodby Yellow Brick Road"; the 1973 landmark album recorded by The Elton John Band; and produced by Gus Dudgeon. There aren’t many albums that stand the test of time; but this double LP will no doubt be celebrated for centuries to come. If you’ve ever wondered why Elton John is such an important artist this is a perfect place to start. If you’ve never understood how integral Dee Murray, Nigel Olsson and Davey Johnstone were to Elton’s success; Goodbye Yellow Brick Road will tell you all you need to know.
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It's impressive and mesmerizing how timeless and completely unbelievable this album is. I'm a new member in the Elton John community, I'm just 25 years old, even though I'm kind of a "product of my time" and completely ignorant about music on a technical level, beholding the drums of Danny Bailey was something to live for. I felt like I had this beautiful and dreadful monster in front of me, and the magical suspense this sound gave, the, almost, religious revelation it was, and how it still give me all the chills after I discovered this album in highschool for ten years by now. And, most incredible of all was surfing through these monuments of albums, and uncharting the first decade of this band. It was and it will always be an enchanted time I had as a teen and for life to come. Thank you Ray, Davey, Nigel, Dee, John and Bernie for blessing us with your music!
And thank you, Jon Blackstone for making the incredible content!
Hi guys. I enjoy your videos. I was thirteen when this album came out and just moved to a new neighborhood and met my best friend (even though he passed away, still my best friend). We used to listen to this album over and over again and again. It was like listening to a story. Each song took me to a different time and place. Every time I hear a song from this album I’m back in 1973 sitting on the couch and traveling through the songs on the album. There are SO MANY songs that don’t get the airplay they deserve (This Song Has No Title, Jamaica Jerk-Off, I’ve Seen That Movie Too, Social Disease). Great memories!!!! What a time to grow up as a teen!!!
Sorry I just now saw your comment. Thank you for the kind words and for sharing.
@@JonBlackstone it’s all good. Thanks for videos and bringing back some great memories.
been on this lp since 74 i was 10..my neighbors had it...what A magic time.....
I am always amazed that Elton, Dee, Nigel, and Davey (plus Gus) wrote, recorded, and completed GOODBYE YELLOW BRICK ROAD in such an incredibly short period of time. Everyone (Bernie included) was so on top of their game - all at the same time. I didn't buy the album until the summer of 1976 - at Durant's Appliances in Kemptville, Ontario, Canada! Elton and the band were able to almost effortlessly excel writing & performing such a wide range of genres at such a high creative level all on one record - extraordinary. "Bennie and the Jets" hooked me as a single in early 1974 and then "Saturday Night's Alright (For Fighting)" on his GREATEST HITS blew me away. Hearing "Funeral For A Friend/Love Lies Bleeding" that summer of 1976 on GOODBYE YELLOW BRICK ROAD and HERE AND THERE was mind blowing. The whole album is filled with great songs: "All The Young Girls Love Alice" and "The Ballad of Danny Bailey" and "Grey Seal" and "Candle in the Wind" and "Harmony" and, as you mentioned, the underrated "I've Seen That Movie Too." The title track is sublime. Agreed, the songs on the album are cinematic. A pop (much more than that) masterpiece. I am so glad that I got to see Elton, Dee, and Nigel live in 1980, and then with Davey in 1982 (twice), and 1984 (twice). Do you think that Gus gets the credit he deserves for shaping Elton's sound on these great 70s albums? Thanks for re-posting this video in hi def.
Douglas you need to be a writer or a critic. Most critics don't know their stuff. You certainly do! Thanks!
The entire "distillation," if you will, of this sound is fantastic to consider too. Thanks for doing it!
So glad you enjoyed it! Thanks for watching!
Thanks for the trip down memory lane ❤😊
So glad you enjoyed it! Thanks for watching!
Thank you for posting this. Fantastic music that will be remembered for generations
Let's get the band some recognition . Now that Elton and Bernie have theirs it's about time the original band and I will include Gus in this
I couldn't agree more! I'm assuming you watched my Elton John Band tribute? czcams.com/video/8hq-e2B5OMw/video.html
Jon, I could sit and watch these Elton John Band programs of yours all day! Really helps to reflect just how fantastic this band was. And I've taken heart that I'm not the only one who remembers specifically this band and Elton as the high point of his music career, and specifically this album. All personal tastes, but this one, for me is his greatest ever, with honorable mention (for me) of Captain Fantastic. Thank you so much for the work of throwing light on some of the greatest moments ever from the Elton John Band!
My stories of being a child and listening to this album is way too long to get into here, but this album and Captain Fantastic define my childhood and played constantly along with The Beatles. But Goodbye is literally the one and ONLY album I crave and need to listen to every so often. "I've Seen That Movie Too" is the stand-out track, "This Song Has No Title", "Harmony", "Danny Bailey", "All The Girls Love Alice" and "Candle In The Wind" are just sheer classics with very little competition.
Thank you Jon. I love how you share your heart and soul. I was 21 yo when this album came out. A long haired stoned piano player in a rock and roll band just outside of Los Angeles. I was a closeted homo and a hopeless romantic completely in love with a roommate at the time that had the finest stereo equipment in his room. We would lie on his bed and listen to this album endlessly, never touching one another, thoroughly channelling our hearts and feelings into this album. And me, hopelessly longing. Harmony and me… we’re pretty good company…. BTW, the Elton John Band video, rocked my world and everyone else’s with whom I’ve share your outstanding documentary. ❤️
I was 8 when this came out. I remember hearing Benny and the Jets in the summer of 74 and it was otherworldly. Elton was a god and for a few years he was a hit song jukebox.
Totally
I love your stuff, thanks so much.
From the bottom of my heart thank you!
Thanks so much for another great Video about the wonderful music this band made in those days. I remember very well when it was released and I was Just blown away by ITS sheer amount of creativity. I was 13 then and happy now that this awesome music hast still a place in my and other peoples heart.
This is a game changer for sure. But for me all of Elton’s work was so incredible during these years! I wish I could go back and relive these days. So wonderful!
Pure sonic bliss, pure magic
Absolfukinlootly !
I was born in '74, was raised by my great aunt, and some of my earliest memories were of my cousin playing piano along to this album. He gave me his copy for my tenth birthday and I would play it over and over. There was just something magical about its sound plus I was struggling with my sexuality and Elton being so obviously gay made me feel less alone. I couldn't be as openly flamboyant but I didn't feel like I was such a weirdo. Elton helped save my life. To me he'll always be one of my biggest inspirations and heroes.
I was born 20 years before you & I didn't know about this album. My friend in the city was a Bowie fan & introduced me to "Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars" . My buddy also introduced me to an artist named Jobriath who was gay . I loved his music.
Ofcourse I heard Elton on the radio and loved him also.
I'd say I was more influenced by David Bowie at the time.
Great hearing your story.
@@josephblue4135 Your friend was a really good one :)
@@ZiddersRooFurry - he was a really good friend. I moved to Philadelphia from Syracuse NY & we lost contact. He moved back to his hometown of Louisville KY. I miss him. He was like a big brother to me. Back in Syracuse when we knew each other he work at an audio store & sold me my first audio components. I still have them.
@@josephblue4135 I hope you're able to find them again. I've lost touch with people and found them again years later. If they're not too much older than you they might still be around. You never know.
Bernie taupin is my favorite lyricist because his words are so cinematic. I have always thought that Bernies words were the movie that I I was watching and Elton and band were the most memorable and greatest soundtrack music of all time. That brought the movie to life and and made the movie live. . If you like Bernie wrote the script, and Elton and the band were all of the actors and the soundtrack.
Agreed! I believe Elton's writing changed dramatically as soon as he began writing with another lyricists on "Single Man". The change was obvious and shocking to me (even as a kid). I bought Single Man the day it was released and I'll never forget the way the first song felt lifeless to me. Then the opening words to "Shine On Through" instantly caught my attention; "Oh, my love. I have cursed the stars above". That first lyric jumped out at me. Bernie Taupin would never write something so trite and generic. Nor would he have ever written such a cliche rhyme as "love + above". I'm not saying I was smart for a kid; but I immediately felt the loss of brilliance in Elton's composing style and the lame lyrics. I believe Bernie's lyrics inspired Elton in a way no one ever has since. Anyway, I digress. Thanks for the great comments!
@@JonBlackstone absolutely. As talented as Elton is. Elton,,Bernie, and the Elder John band, were an entire package. Like, The Beatles and Pink Floyd I will throw LED Zeppelin and Queen in there as well. When those bands, broke apart, the original creative spark ended, although, the obvious talent was there. That was it for the groundbreaking creativity.
@scottmcgregor4829 Agree 👍💯 Try taking the Coast Starlight ( Empire Builder, California Zephyr, Pioneer, 🏜️ Desert 🌬️ Wind etc.)Amtrak 🚆 train 🔙 back and forth, from LA to Seattle ⛱️☔ listening 🎧🎶 to Bernie's esoteric lyrics looking at the ocean 🌊 and 🏔️ mountains and 🌇 sunsets 🌆 and sunrises. 🌄🌻🌞🌲 Needless to say, Bernie 🐈 my youngest feral cat, born under my house, 🏡 is named after Taupin and Bernard Hermann. Both phenomenal🎉 British geniuses!!!🇬🇧🏴🏴🕯️✨🕊️❤
@@JonBlackstoneTysm. The Sound Quality✨ is awesome 😎👍 on this episode, coming through my inexpensive Smart 🤓 phone.🤳📱
@@scottmcgregor4829I totally agree with you. The whole of the Elton John Band+ Gus Dudgeon was much greater than the sum of its parts.
I have never heard an album that has as many magical songs as Goodbye Yellow Brick Road. There's a reason why it was the number one album in the world in 1973. My favorite album of all time.
16:30 That’s perfection!
Yeah! Gotta love Elton in the ‘70s! Nobody could touch him! Thanks for watching!
Beautiful!! I think I'll pull the vinyl out tonight and put on the headphones. :)
What a fantastic video have a wonderful weekend Jon ❤😊
There is nothing better in the musical world than the early works of one Reginald Dwight. This album is amazing on so many levels. Dissecting the tracks and songs you get to hear Gus Dudgeons arrangements (producer) and David Hentschel's engineering of the music. The way the orchestra and strings combines to offset and complement the timing of each song and accentuates Elton's full playing is mesmerizing (listen to Ballad of Danny Bailey and I've Seen That Movie Too). Have loved this album since it came out. This is Elton's opus at the time and is timeless. While I also personally love his second double album (Blue Moves) GYBR will be the litmus test for music for a very very long time. Thanks for posting!!!
Oh Jon! You've done it again! I love this with your friend, and your story of the girl that you fancied😀
Your videos always make me a bit tearful with the memories. you have a fabulous way of describing and dissecting things.
Loved the films as well, part of the Brian Forbes documentary. We found the house/bungalow called Hercules at Virginia Water, Surrey shown in the video😳
24 when this album came out, met Elton at the opening of a fete in 1972 just before Dont shoot me came out. he was so lovely! These days I feel sad when I look at with some of the later pictures when I look at his eyes🤔
Have you seen The live in Sweden in 1970 part one and two, he was so innocent😘🥰 i'm sure you have I thought it was wonderful.
I love your videos Jon😘
In 1973 after church on Sunday my family went to JC Penny and I was bound and set to buy my first non-cut-out bin records. I had only so much money to spend from my paper route income - I could either buy Goodbye Yellow Brick Road or Don't Shoot me and Now and Then (Carpenters). I chose the latter and ironically these two albums remain among my least favorite albums of both artists.
It wasn't until several EJ album purchases later I bought GYBR in 1975, again on the way home from church on a Sunday. This album was the first album I played non-stop from beginning uninterrupted and VERY loudly, much to the chagrin of my mother, lol. She asked me, do you have to play it so loudly? I said, yes I do! I was enamored with every single song - pure genius.... This remains a perfect album and my favorite album of all time by any artist.
Thanks for posting this great video. I can still remember the first time I heard this album. I had it on vinyl and 8 track and just never tired of it. The entire album is excellent but of course the title track is amazing and I really loved Harmony from the moment I first heard it. Sweet Painted Lady is a great song as well but then so are all the others. Funeral for a Friend/Love lies bleeding is still my favorite Elton/Bernie song. The amount of music that they put out in a short few years was incredible. Would love to see you do a video covering Madman Across the Water.
Agreed! Madman is my favorite Elton John album (though the others rank right up there)!
One of the best albums ever. I remember buying the Bennie and the Jets single and then getting the album a couple weeks later. Seems like yesterday. Thanks!
Wow, what an awesome channel. So happy YT put it in my feed. Gonna be a long night 🥰
Funeral for a Friend is a song for a musician the world still doesn't believe is dead.
Man that’s a great comment if you’re talking about Elton? 😎 Thanks for watching!
@@JonBlackstone Nope, higher up the food chain. He was once regarded as a "Fab"ulous singer.
@@mr.g1758 I was really hoping you weren’t one of the “Paul is dead” people. Oh well. As John Lennon said “whatever gets you through the night”. Cheers!
... wunderbar!
I can understand your birthday experience with the album - it would probably have been the same for me 😉
Best from D
I was 19 when this album was released in the Fall of 73 -Concert ticket prices were 15 20 bucks-Every album and every song was special-lots of everything back then 👍😀
New subscrbiber , love your work ! Thank you kind Sir.
Welcome aboard! Thank you for watching!
Nicely done. Great insight. Great detail. 👏
Thank you for the kind words! Please share!
@@JonBlackstonePlayed this episode several times. Tysm. Which albums do you listen to? I have most Elton John albums until the late 2000's . I currently listen to: Rare Masters ( Friends album), Goodbye Yellow Brick Road, 🧱 🛣️ Captain Fantastic, 3 songs from 💙 Blue Moves, Elton John 1970 album, bootleg versions Skyline Pigeon 🐦🕊️ that I bought at both Tower Records, on the Ave ( UDistrict) and Mercer Street( late night 🌉 browsing, after Pacific Northwest Ballet 🩰 1995- 2000 performances.) Thanks for mentioning Bartell's. I lived next door.🚪 The Seattle memories are so sweet. I can't go back, 🔙 just like Bernie Taupin cannot return to Lincolnshire. You are blessed to live in Seattle.🌲Thanks for reposting this episode. It is extremely cathartic/ healing 🩹 to my soul.✨🕯️🕊️✨
Once again, great video.
You’re a man after my own heart. The only other artists/band I have a healthy obsession for is Donald Fagen/Steely Dan and Stevie Wonder
Obviously he was such a superb vocalist and he was absolutely on top of his game for GYBR.
In 1978 he sang live on Morecombe & Wise (available on CZcams) Shine on Through. Absolutely superb, i assumed he was lip syncing but no, a live performance.
When you first heard the GYBR single in September 1973, did you also automatically think that Bernie's Honky Cat was fed up with the big city and reversing course? I sure did, and could imagine a screenplay beginning and ending with the two hits... maybe with some of Social Disease, Country Comfort, Rotten Peaches etc... I had seen Friends and also thought of how 'Can I Put You On' and 'Honey Roll' were inserted into the narratives about the young rich boy and the young girl with family property in France escaping the trappings of their urban families...
It's almost unthinkable to me that a highly successful artist would so capriciously and summarily fire his entire band, at the absolute zenith of their fame. Truly a head-scratcher, and without any other comp in Pop/Rock history. If it were a single member, one could surmise that it was a personality or money conflict of some sort....but the entire band? Who does that?!?! And it's fairly obvious his music was never quite the same afterwards. Yes, there were scattered hits across a couple more decades, but the punch & fire was completely missing.
I also can't help wondering: Is it possible that Elton fired the band because Captain Fantastic had no number #1 hits? Hmmm I guess we'll never truly know. 🤔
Jon, I would like to see you do a similar video for Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy. Your particular viewpoint as a young fan who has remained a fan into adulthood, a musician and a music producer would give such richness to a deep dive exploration of this album. CF&TBDC might be my favorite Elton John album, along with Madman Across the Water.
Also, I would really, really, really like to see some exploration of solo projects by Dee, Nigel and Davey. They are (Dee Murray remains alive musically IMHO) all excellent musicians and I would love to watch a curated sample of what they got up to guided purely by their own muses.
Thank you for the great videos you have posted and I look forward to more! 🕊️
Would you say that 'Captain Fantastic...' is basically Elton's version of the White Album?
@@redriderbbgun8018I don't know if I would say that. I have a long personal history with CF&tBDC that I don't have with The Beatles, so I have deep emotional ties as well as strong musical appreciation+admiration for CF. Hopefully Jon will weigh in on this question and will give his learned opinion.
a question..why is DLTSGDOM on Captain Fantastic and Caribu ?
The best song is Bennie and the Jets!!