College Student Reacts To Elton John - Goodbye Yellow Brick Road (Side 3) For The First Time!!!
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I remember seeing a documentary about the making of this album. Elton wrote this song in about 25 minutes. He just reads the lyrics & starts playing. It's crazy watching a genius at work.
I remember seeing that documentary piece on tv shortly after this album came out. A good part of that hour show was spent on him taking Danny Baily from Bernie Taupin's lyrics to completion. And like you pointed out, he wrote the song in no time. It was a very good documentary that still sticks in my memory 50 years later.
Bernie Taupin in the lyricist. They never work in the same room at the same time. Bernie gives him a stack of lyrics and Elton does his magic. Totally unique songwriting technique.
'Two Rooms At the End Of the World' . . . a truth and a great song!
Danny Bailey, the made-up gangster, was not only violent, but a bootlegger running sales of illegal whiskey during Prohibition. The last 3 years of his life (the character "died" in 1933) would have coincided with the beginning of the Depression, which is why the reference to him as a "hungry kid" and the love for him held by his fellow Kentuckians who he supported by giving the products of their stills a market. All of which explains the expressions of sympathy toward Danny. If you read up on the history of the high profile gangsters who operated during that era you'll get a clearer understanding of this song. BTW - I usually hate pauses during reactions, but when you pause to dig into the lyrics it shows you actually care about the song, so it is not only tolerable but appreciated...by me, at least!
A really great and gracious comment! 👍
Thank you!
Each song on this album is intended to be a "mini-movie" or vignette story. The intent is for you to paint a picture in your mind and then have an emotional reaction to solidify the overall concept of the song. Unlike many "concept albums" where a single concept is shared by all the songs on the album, the "concept" of this album is that each song is its own individual concept. GENIUS if you ask me.
Fantastic reactions Silas. Your comments and facial expressions had me laughing my ass off at times! 😂 Bernie Taupin is one of the greatest ever pop/rock lyricists. He can tear your heart out with tender lyrics and can make you sit up with social observations. He has an awesome turn of phrase that stops you in your tracks as you have experienced in this album. Then Elton receives the lyrics through the post and writes a melody and arrangement that captures it. Genius!
All true though their best albums together with great orchestrations and musical directing were done one Tumbleweed Connection, Madman Across The Water, Honky Cat Chateau, Don’t Shoot Me I’m Only The Piano Player, and his self titled Elton John album. Those had better connection to each song.
@@joelliebler5690 I disagree.
People really think All The Young Girls Love Alice is about lesbianism but it's really about being used. It's a tragic tale of a young girl who gets used by older women until she ends up dead.
I thought it was about Alice Cooper who was as big as EJ at this time.
I can't wait! There isn't a bad song on this whole album.
Danny Bailey was fictional name created by Bernie Taupin, but the person was real, probably a pseudonym for American gangster John Dillinger, or a personification of the gangsters of that era, the 1920's/'30's...
Every side of this album is my favorite. Cannot make up my mind which is the best. They are all so damn good.
The Ballad of Danny Bailey is one of my all time favorite songs. I loved it when it came out, never get tired of listening to it, on my playlist still. Danny Bailey was a bootlegger in the prohibition time, he talked about Kentucky, probably made homemade whiskey. Maybe a bit of a local gangster?
It's one of my favorites too. The piano at the end... omg!
You have no idea how happy it makes me to see a young guy like you enjoying so much the music I have loved for so many years. It’s awesome to see. Almost makes me cry with happiness ❤❤❤
This is a great side, some really great tunes here. It's Bernie with some of his most scathing lyrics, just good stuff.
Elton & Bernie get down and get nasty here‼🔥
I love this entire album! WHAT A VIBE‼Great choice for a reaction, Silas‼☮ ❤ 🎶
A Subway in the UK is not a train, but an underground passage to cross a street or similar. You must see that these lyrics are Bernies, who was a teenager when he began writing the words that Elton then put the musuc to. Much of it reflects his childhood watching western movies & TV shows. Bernie grew up in a small rural town in the English countryside, while Elton liived un a London suburb.
This song encapsulates why elton is/was so great. He could take a poem of a few words, and turn it into an epic story. And allows the other band members to shine in that rocking out-tro, which really makes up nearly half the track. That thumping bass guitar never wavers, a great string arrangement, and Reg doing his magic on the keys. outstanding ! (re: Danny Bailey)
Purchased the double album in 75 or 76, and while the big hits were heard everywhere, my favorite through high school was Grey Seal.
I came home and went straight to CZcams to see if you had Elton Part 3 ready 😆Hooray!
Great reaction! It's so cool to see a younger generation get into one of Elton John's landmark rock albums. The songs, the lyrics, the wickedness of it all is quite the experience. Great job!
Every song on this double album is great
HE WAS ON SMOKE ALRIGHT, IN THOSE 70'S SILAS!!! 😊 FYYYYRRRR!💯
All the Young Girls Love Alice is one of my favorites. The story that the lyrics portray and the style of music creates a unique musical experience. This album shows the musical genius of Elton John and Bernie Taupin. The next group of songs contains a track with a genre of music you wouldn't associate with EJ, surprise!
AGR young man 🤙😎
Watching you react to All the girls Love Alice made my day. Heck, it made my week!
Fabulous reaction again .. hope someone shows Elton these reactions he would love it!
Elton could rock and with the help of Bernie’s lyrics Elton could get gritty!Us old timers are well aware of these lyrics in Alice and the rest of these songs. Back in the day we read the lyrics as we would play these albums over and over again. It helped us to understand what was going on in the real world!
I first heard this album in 1975 and it was an absolute blast watching your reactions!
All the girls love Alice is still one of my all-time favorite Elton John songs! And a pretty saucy topic, especially for the time.
I have so much fun watching you react to music I listened to in my youth.. LOL.. Your reactions to the 'painted lady' and the "all the girls love alice" were priceless. Let's corrupt Silas.. LOL.. lot's of great music out there.. great stories
Dude! You crack me up. Great music and great entertainment, what could go wrong? lOl
New sub bro
Nobody can rock a piano better. Listen to those electric weaves.
My favorite E.J. album.
You just get it Silas!!!!!
You have to check out the EJ song "Ticking" from his Caribou album.
My favorite song from this incredible album!!
loved your reaction to Alice! lol
Dude. You’re listening to one of the best rock stars of our time and his lyricist Bernie Taupin. One of the best song writers of all time. In my opinion up there with Lennon and McCartney.
Keep up the good work. I like your reactions!
In England a public school is a very upper class expensive PRIVATE school
I had this LP when I was a kid and honestly never paid much attention to the lyrics because the music was so good. Gotta say I'm a bit surprised myself at the content. The lyrics I did know though had me wondering what your reaction would be like "All The Young Girls..." You didn't disappoint hahahaha Can you believe that got airplay on album rock stations? Oh the 70's
Nice reaction to each song Silas. Just a note about the research on All the Girls Love Alice: you read that it was the first song Elton did about a gay character. It actually wasn’t.
The first song Bernie wrote about a gay character was a song on the Madman Across the Water album from 1971. The song is on side two and is called All the Nasties. Bernie wrote it about Elton and is asking what would happen if he came out to the public and the press and how they would react to the news.
HEY SILAS, WHAT'S UP KID! 😊 SIDE 2 WASN'T BLOCKED, IT WORKED AND STILL WORKS GREAT!💯😊
This is one of my desert island albums.
I always ask people if you had music on an island alone from ONE artist who would it be? I cheat myself by saying Beatles for breakfast and Led Zeppelin for the rest.... I prefer the variety of my couch but it's a fun question.
You need to realize that Bernie is a fan of American West. He's the Brown Dirt Cowboy in your next excellent perfect Elton John album.
And let's not forget the 'sequel', The Captain and the Kid, a later album I love.
John Dillinger was a gangster like Baby Face Nelson or Bonnie and Clyde. Dillinger died in 1934.
a subway in England is an underpass.
LOL. Silas Bailey react to Danny Bailey. Thanks, Man, for the wonderful Elton journey! I forgot how good this album is. Now, Captain Fantastic, pleeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaase (and cherry on top)!
Hey, Silas, I know I've already suggested Rainbow and more Queen but out of all the guitar gods you've already reacted to, have you listened to any Eric Clapton? You should go back to the 60's soon and react to Cream, they only made a few album because of tension in the group between Clapton, Jack Bruce and Ginger Baker and did one last reunion/farewell at the Royal Albert Hall in 2005. Great psychedelic songs, Sunshine of your love is my favorite to play on guitar, easy too.
Hi Silas. Great Content. Something to note when you feel cringe from these lyrics. This LP is meant to be an edgy piece of work form Elton & Bernie. Bernie's more 'out there' ideas are not him lashing out in mean and disrespectful ways. Dirty Little Girl, for example, is written from the point of view of a character in Bernie's imagination observing a degenerate woman and ranting about her. So, the song is about 2 imaginary characters, not just one. A lot of songs are like that...a poetic license to say something about society through the eyes of someone whom you might not approve of. A great song like this will also make you question, "Do I agree with this awful narrator a little bit?" Steely Dan lyrics rely heavily on this technique...the narrator seldom seems the same person from song to song. In case you aren't already a Steely Dan Fan, the joy, the complexity, the unusual characters and brilliant metaphors of Countdown to Ecstasy, Katy Lied, Royal Scam, Aja and Gaucho will keep you coming back for decades. Where to start? Aja is masterpiece of songwriting, studio production and engineering. However, the rocking guitar epics are on Countdown to Ecstasy.
You're being very kind about Dirty Little Girl. In a sense most songs are from a narrator's point of view. Here, it has always rubbed me the wrong way. Elton turns those words into a great song, but I think it's nasty. Sorry.
I mean, where is the fictional character? If it was, say, his Pa who warned him about this girl, if it was Pa who said "I'm gonna put buckshot on HER pants" - and then at the end they have twenty grandchildren and she's still his dirty little girl - well, that would work.
Sweet Painted Ladies, about prostitutes in a port where sailors occasionally stop, use the ladies services, then leave. It's always been the same. Prostitution is said to be the oldest profession. Hence the sea & seagull sounds at the end of the song.
Brilliant....Every time.I hope you react to another perfect song, love song...very wonderful: Sorry seems to be the hardest word. Is one of more popular Elton' songs.....
"Danny Bailey" seems to be about a bootlegger, with its references to stills and Kentucky hills.
1973, age 16, wore out the needle on the stylus
Early days stuff for Elton John.
It's the fictional story of a whiskey bootlegger from Kentucky
Hey kid, we live in a brutal world
The album is mostly meant to be fun full of comic book characters. Most are fictional. Don’t try and read too much into it and the album flows if you just let it play without overthinking it. Bernie Taupin is Elton’s songwriting partner. Elton writes the music and melody and Bernie the lyrics.
It's amusing that people sometimes think it's Elton who wants to go back to the woods and hunt toads. That's Bernie. Elton would be like, "Darling, who brought that #!£%#@&%! toad in here? Get it out or you're £%&*#@! fired."
You'l be popping out of your chair on the first few tracks of side 4.
I was wondering how you'd react to Alice.....tragic but it still rocks.
Bernie wasn't just the writer of this album. He was the writer for all things Elton John. They met when Elton was just getting started. They agreed to be a team, since Elton already knew that lyrics weren't his thing. You really should've watched the movie Rocket Man, before starting this album.
None of this is a factual story. It is a story that happens every day
Elton + music BERNIE=WORDS!
Danny was a GANGSTER! FICTIONAL but Dillinger was mentioned as a contemporary. Need to pay attention
Did you think that Good bye Yellow Brick Road was am UP song?? listen again.
Sweet painted lady is a beautiful song about a brothel if that is possible. Danny Bailey is a made up gangster based on others in the 30's.
Yea, weird song. "alice". I'm not a lyrics person so I never knew how interesting the lyrics were. I just liked the song.
Well, I guess they can't all be hits.
If you don't want to watch Rocket Man, at least Google about Elton and Bernie relationship.
I'm not sure why but Elton / Bernie wrote a lot of songs about prostitutes !?
Including the great Island Girl herself!
Sweet Paint Lady is a beautiful song, but I recommend listening if you don't understand English 😂 Those silly words sound so beautiful when Elton sings them. Before I learned English, I had listened to it and liked it. But now I realize that Berry and Elton were two little misogynists back then. Is that why they've been friends for so long? 🤣 How many horrible songs about women are on this album
The sound dynamics are off on the songs. Certain instruments can be barely heard.
And, a lot of these lyrics are wrong. Enjoyable videos nonetheless.
On side 3, Bernie Taupin’s misogynism is on display.
I think you’ve missed where Bernie is coming from. He’s an observer of life, as he’s stated, and a writer which gives him the capability to write incorporating the views of others.