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Swinging back to some Elton John!! Loved checking this one out!! What’s the next one we gotta hit?! 🙌🏻🔥
from the same album - Your Sister Can't Twist (But She Can Rock 'n Roll) a non-single banger.
Levon....beautiful song not one of his bigger hits but an awesome song.
The big debut (at least to pop radio in my city!) was Crocodile Rock. If you listen, just enjoy it for the boppiness.
Levon, Daniel, indian sunset
Throw a bone to the banger crowd and do All The Young Girls Live Alice!!
Elton slapped that piano in this song like it owed him money.
It did and he made it pay up. Lol!
I love that!! Well said! 😎
Interesting fact: Bennie and the Jets was actually a studio production. The echo, audience sounds, whistles, and other effects were added in post production.
Correct. Thank you for pointing this out.
Who cares when you've got electric boobs?
wOw
Amazing - and w/1972-1973 technology. Insane.
One of Elton’s best : “Burn Down The Mission”
"Someone Save My Life Tonight" is one of his best...!
Yes!
Yes!
Absolutely!!
Seriously one of the greatest songs ever recorded. The real high end.
Without a doubt.
" Goodbye Yellow Brick Road" is quintessential Elton John.
Rocket Man....
Yes! That song needs to be next. My favorite Elton song.
Side one alone is legendary, but the start of side 3(I think...?) is my fave. I think "Saturday Night's Alright For Fighting" should NEVER EVER BE SEPARATED from "Your Sister Can't Twist (But She Can Rock And Roll)"
"madman across the water" to me is a masterpiece ☮️
I agree. One of my favorites.
@@CindyWilson1991
The version off The Tumbleweed Connection is my fave....
Agreed... My favorite EJ tune.
His best album, imo.
100% agree!!
Elton John is so incredibly gifted that he had at least one charting single for 31 STRAIGHT YEARS!
"Mona Lisas and Mad Hatters" and "Grey Seal" are rockers.
And John Cleese and Michael Palin and Terry Gilliam are mockers.
Mona Lisa isn't a rocket, is a ballad. A great one at that
Damn, this is early. Caught me off guard.
Funny story about this song. This is the studio version. After they recorded it, the producer thought it lacked some energy. He added in all the crowd noises, clapping, etc. to give the song a live feel.
Another interesting note, Elton insisted that the clapping that was added was ON the beat as opposed to the off-beat or back beat which is much more hip, he thought ON the beat was much more accurate to stuffy, uptight english audiences, kind of a jab at them.
That reminds me, A&A should circle back to Jackson Browne because they thought Running On Empty had a fake audience. Load Out/Stay some day would be good. No rush :)
Thanks Greg!
Thanks. I was wondering as I watched this episode of A & A. It's funny that I *never* thought about it for all of these decades. I just accepted things (as kids may do), like, "The song has whistling. It just does", and until today never asked myself, could that be crowd whistling? But it happens in such perfectly timed ways that as I watched A & A, I decided it must be a band member. A &A & you give me another reason to watch reaction channels! Community sharing!
What a smart producer.
Your Song is his most beautiful. Not a banger, but a classic masterpiece.
One of the most romantic "rock" songs ever. Right up there with Billy Joel's "I Love You Just the Way You Are".
My wife and myself danced to this at our wedding.
My favorite song ever! The song of my life.😍
I've only got four words for you: MADMAN ACROSS THE WATER!
Oh yeah!
YES that whole album is a masterpiece
The beginning of this song ... that first note ... literally gives me goosebumps.
It’s time for “Madman Across the Water” 🤩
Perfect choice.
Hell Yes!
yes pleeeeze
The Tumbleweed Connections version though, it’s so good.
Absolutely.
Feel like doing "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road" next?
Album review?
The whole album !
Funeral For A Friend!
Check out the live version of Sara Bareilles covering this. Elton says it’s her song now.
@@djray369 that would be my pick as well.
What’s so cool about this song is it wasn’t recorded live, all the crowd noise, claps whistles cheers, all were added in, in post production. It gives it that feel, I don’t think it would be as good without it.
I don't care who you are, everyone can't help singing along. Extremely talented, one of the best musicians of That era. He kept it up too. This is such a fun song. Good album. He always had a great band too.
Try "Saturday Night (is Alright for Fightin')" - tasty guitar work from Davey Johnstone. You'll like it.
For sure, it's a banger from Sir Elton.
Absolutely.
Davey is one of the most underrated guitarist!
Yes, yes, yes!
Leading in with Your Sister Can't dance
‘All the Girls Love Alice’ and ‘Grey Seal’. Fuck it, do the album guys! Stop playin’!
All the young girls love Alice...tender young Alice they sayyyy....
Oooh Grey Seal, totally forgot that song! Yeah I’m an old fuck lol.
ABSOLUTELY.
@@nicolecolson182 come over and see me ; come over and please me...Alice is my turn today.
Nobody will take a chance on All The Young Girls Love Alice. I think the title scares them off. It's always the more commercially successful stuff. I hope eventually they'll hit some deeper cuts to find the hidden gems
"Don't Let The Sun Go Down On Me"... One of their most heart wrenching songs. A masterpiece! (Original studio version, please. Avoid the Live one from the 90's, it's a pale shadow.)
Yes! The original studio version is perfection...so sad it only got to #2, and the lesser 90's version is the one that hit #1.
@@tammyrodriguez2585 I suspect the 90's version got to #1 not because it was better, but because it was a reminder of how great the original was... Nostalgia is a great driver of trends. ;-)
My fav version of this is the duet with George Michael.
@@SC-gp7kt And the fact that it is a duet is exactly why I can't stand that version... Different strokes for different folks, I guess. ;-]
@@robertcartier5088 Really? Yes everyone has different tastes.
I remember when my black friends all thought that Elton John was African-American😊
He was able to bring everybody into his music and his style, along with Bernie Taupin, they created some of the best Music for generations to come
"Levon" is the S choice to make going forward.
Levon is sensational!
Came to say this!
Such a good song
12 years ago my sister was looking for boy L names, I suggested Levon, lol. They went with Levi... close, but no cigar!
The entire Madman album is his greatest by far! Levon is freaking brilliant!
"Charismatic" is a tame adjective for Elton John. You'll understand if you ever see him on stage.
He has many many great songs.
"Someone Saved My Life Tonight"
"Daniel"
These 2 are a must! Thanks for keeping THE great music alive!
I saw him at the Forum in Los Angeles just after Yellow Brick Road came out, it really was a fantastic show. Kiki Dee opened for him, the crowd was anxious to hear Elton and was giving her a hard time, Elton came out and told them to give her some respect or he was going to refuse to come on and play. Everyone shut up and had a wonderful time. I still don't care for Kiki Dee...
I'd add an unexpected one to the list: Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy. It's autobiographical. (As is the whole album.)
I second "Someone shaved my wife tonight".
I saw him more recently (within the last 20 years 😉) on tour with Billy Joel. He is such a showman! A wonderful evening!
A few years ago he had to cancel his date here (Fayetteville, NC). When the tour was over he came back here and did a solo show to make up. 1st: class act to make up. 2nd: what a show! We got a solo show that nobody else got!
“I Guess That’s Why They Call it the Blues” by Elton is such a good song. Similar funk, blues style as this song.
Please rate this one!!!
Yes indeed!
Man, he was a giant in the 70's. Hit after hit and almost all just top notch songs. I think my favorite is "Sorry Seems to Be the Hardest Word"
Last Waltz full movie... Damn boys, you're in for a treat
One of the best music films of all time! Pure joy!
For sure
I am as 'left' and yankee is one can get... but that being said.... The Night They Drove Ol Dixie Down is one of my favorite songs of all time and i like a shit ton of 60's,70s and 90s rock and pip. Saw the movie in 70s at the theater, and heard it maybe 500 times till about 10 years watched The Last Waltz again. Liked the movie.. BUT WAS COMPLETELY BLOWN AWAY BY LEVON HELM SINGING THE NIGHT THEY DROVE OL DIXIE DOWN.. THE SOUL HE SINGS IT WITH.. AND NOW EVERY TIME I SEE LAST WALTZ VID.. GET GOOSE BUMPS AND SIT IN AWE.. Masterpiece and one of top vocal i have seen.
Please just do this whole goddamn album. They are all bangers. It's in my top 3 albums if all time.
Mine too, along with "Rumours" and Led Zeppelin-Untitled (IV)!
This is true! Even the songs that weren't hits are incredible!
My uncle bought me Goodbye Yellow Brick Road for my 13th birthday. The lyrics and illustrations when you opened the double album... I stared for hours, days. For a 70’s album, it still holds up.
Parents gifted to me at 13 & I did the same 😄
ME TOO. I loved buying albums in those days. Pink Floyd, Supertramp, Led Zeppelin, So many good album covers and inserts...I remember staring, and staring at Elton's "Captain Fantastic" album cover trying to work out ALL the intricate animals and elements depicted therein. So much fun, all the while listening (some what enthralled) to what we didn't know at the time would be some of the best music ever written!!!
Oh those were the days...
Thanks, guys. “Bennie and the Jets” is pure pleasure.
Get "Take Me To The Pilot" up here, smashing rock piano
Off the 17-11-70 live album. Killer energy.
Or "Burn Down The Mission."
Take Me to the Pilot is very underappreciated.
@@kengray606 some seriously obtuse lyrics but, man, Elton sings them with passion.
@@jsr11 Pilot and Mission are two of my favorites of EJ. I’m burn’t out on Bennie.
Heard it too much back in the day.
Gotta do Goodbye Yellow Brick Road.
I heard that this song is THE most recognizable of all time from just the first note.
"Take me to the Pilot" and Funeral for a Friend " must listen!
Based on the video, I still can't tell whether you know that Elton didn't write the lyrics, but rather Bernie Taupin, his musical partner. Elton did the music. This is good to know. :)
2 rooms
He never gets enough credit as far as I'm concerned
Saturday Night's Alright - Elton John!!!
I've heard Bennie hundreds of times-never gets stale. Saw EJ play it live last year-like a sing a long with 50,000 people!
“Saturday Night’s Alright for Fighting” is an Elton John banger...few and far between.
YES!!!!
One of my favorite 45s when I was a kid. The B Side was "Harmony" which I played even more than Bennie and the Jets and might be my favorite Elton song.
Oh i love Harmony!
Harmony is up there.. Texan Love Song as well.. Burn Down The Mission... Levon.. Razor Face, the entire Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy album, Tumbleweed Connection, Don't Shoot Me.. all of them from the 70s.
After I discovered Harmony I couldn’t stop playing it! It’s one of my faves!
Madman Across the Water is essential Elton. Pretty much everything from the self titled record through blue moves is essential listening. Guy was an unstoppable force in the 70s
So many friends have never listened to Blue Moves. Awesome stuff.
Tumbleweed Connections version though
Well said.
There are so SO many great songs from Elton John. I’m going to throw in “Daniel” I haven’t seen anyone else mention it but it’s a hauntingly beautiful song.
Dudes, this is the song that made me realize the existence of Elton John. I was literally pulled from one end of my house to my bedroom, because this was playing on the radio. The drum beat captured me. I've been a fan ever since.
Goodbye Yellow Brick Road should be next but I can't wait until you get to Someone Saved My Life Tonight which is easily one of his best songs.
It is also autobiographical, based upon an early relationship.
Those are 2 great ones.
@@Sotto_ The first is about Bernie; the second about Elton.
Empty Garden - A song to/about John Lennon after he was assassinated.
Agreed. This was going to be my suggestion too.
ROCKET MAN, ROCKET MAN, ROCKET MAN!!!
Just so you fellas know, this is one of the most iconic albums Elton John has ever made!!! I know it’s one of my all time favorites!!
Madman Across The Water
Elton John... a bit older.... Madman Across the Water
Elton also charted and crossed over with this song on the Billboard Soul Charts. And he made an appearance on Soul Train.🚅
Elton John "Pinball Wizard"! It's so much better than the original, even The Who said so.
This is one of the songs that got him on Soul Train. Thatr synchopated piano is everything.
Heeeeeere we goooooo. This song is one of my early childhood memories of driving around in my cousins beetle and this song was playing
Saturday Night’s Alright For Fighting is what you guys call a banger. It would just get the party started. I will be forever surprised that you guys haven’t heard these songs before. They’re iconic. Elton John is top tier showman.
"I Feel Like a Bullet in the gun of Robert Ford" - kind of obscure, but great song
Masterpiece
Keepin' us on our toes, aren't you? I'm so happy you are checking out more of Elton John. Please consider doing "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road", and "Philadelphia Freedom". Cheers 🥃🥃❤
Yes, "Saturday Nights Alright for Fighting".
Try Elton John HARMONY, rarely played gem and MADMAN ACROSS THE WATER, Damn good banger!
How ‘bout “Danny Bailey.” The bassline is incredible. The songs nobody knows from the album may be the best ones.
Harmony may actually be my favorite song off of that whole album. Certainly my favorite of the tracks that weren't released as singles.
A straight banger check out “Philadelphia Freedom “. He is a musical genesis enuff said!
Elton John - 'Crocodile Rock' is a fun song too. The best video is when he was on the Muppet Show... you need to watch that video. So many rock stars were on the Muppet Show.
Facts
My mom and I would always dance around in the kitchen when Crocodile Rock came on the radio! Brings back fun memories
Another stutter song to go along with My Generation and You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet. Lol. Some other great stutterers... Changes by Bowie, My Sharona and Bad to the Bone.
Don't forget Morris minor and the majors, stutter rap.
They already reacted to My Generation.
@@rockyroad7345 They already reacted to both those songs. The comment is saying this is the third one they've done now, not that they should do those two as well.
@@rockyroad7345I know, that's why I said "to go along with..."
Kathmandu by Bob Seger. Welcome to the jungle Guns N Roses
His version of Pinball Wizard has a lot more energy that The Who’s version. Saturday Nights Alright is a banger as is Crocodile Rock.
Tommy was a great movie, and Elton rocked that song.
I love the panning they do with the piano in this song where they have the lower register in the left ear and the higher notes in the right. It puts you right at that piano bench with Elton and you get full spatial awareness of his hands and where they are on the piano as he's playing.
Saturday Night's Alright for Fighting would be a great choice, because yet again it is something different. Also Kudos out to Bernie Taupin who was/is Elton John's lyricist. EJ adds the music once Taupin sends him a page of lyrics.
Every track on "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road" is great. One of the best double albums in history. For real. Whatever your next Elton John song is, just pick a random one off that album. It'll be fire.
Double? Isn't it just the one album?
@@justafidemyself no, it was a double album. It fits on one CD, but it was two LPs.
@@jasonremy1627 So..just a long album then? So many albums are split in two vinyls these days
A "double album" is the term for a record that came packaged as two LPs. Had twice the music of a single LP. Until the mid 80s, the LP was the primary format, and an LP held about 20ish minutes of music per side, usually like 5 songs. A single LP held 40ish minutes. Goodbye Yellow Brick Road has about 76 minutes of music over like 17-18 songs. So it's a double album. Most artists of the period have one iconic double album. With the Beatles it's "The White Album". With the Rolling Stones it's "Exile on Main Street". With Pink Floyd, it's "The Wall". This was the one Elton did.
When I was a little kid in the '70s, Elton John was the "first rockstar" that I knew of, that is to say the first pop music personality that I could recognize. "Crocodile Rock" was one of the first rock songs that I can remember.
Elton John and Bernie Taupin have written 100's, maybe 1000's of songs. You can't go wrong with any of them.
This is one of my favorites. ❤
Madman Across the Water. No other Elton John song will suffice.
The stuttering thing is cool because it’s percussive. It’s like a vocal drum fill.
Elton John was one of the defining artists of the entire 70s. So many songs you absolutely have to react to.
Goodbye Yellow Brick Road was the first album I ever bought with my own babysitting money. This album also has "Candle in the Wind" and " All the Young Girls Love Alice". So many hits off this double album. And the sleeve art is supercool.
same here was first or one of our hippy 5th grade teacher had the record would play recess couple of years ago found original at estate sale like 10 dollars store way more local.indie station oldies played grey seal.pretty cool.hadnt heard in.a long time alice has one of daveys best guitar riffs especially the intro his band was on tour in uk when in dales 08.or 09.would have great to attend but to far away way more lical record store meant to say saw copy like 40 mine is almost perfect condition so kinda lucked out
Saturday Night Already for Fighting! A total BANGER!!
Elton John has sold over 300 million albums worldwide in his career. Enough said. ✌☮
Plus a ton of singles.
All of his really good stuff happened in the 70's.
And Bernie Taupin needs respect for writing the lyrics.
You gotta do Saturday nights alright for fighting. You heard Elton John’s sentimental songs, but this is one over 4 minutes of hard rocking goodness.
Benny and the Jets is the name of my Elton John cover band.
Wish you go back to the beginning may be some
Madman Across the Water. It will blow you Away
My 18 year old loves this song... I have just heard it SO many times...
I knooooooow!!!
"All the Young Girls Love Alice" from the same album. Also, "Grey Seal," and "Harmony." This album was a masterpiece.
The Ballad of Danny Bailey...
Try "Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy" title song. Deep cut: "Texas Love Song" off 'Don't shoot Me, I'm Only The Piano Player'. ***Blow Your mind "Ticking" from 'Caribou'***
Excellent. I love Elderberry Wine and Teacher from Don't Shoot Me...
Early Elton John is uncoverable as a practical matter, simply because his voice has such a unique and dynamic range. Don't take my word for it, listen to the 'Madman Across the Water' album.
Damn straight and AMEN, bro!
Late to the party, but if you weren't there, it's so hard to comprehend what an absolute phenom Elton was back in the day. EVERYONE loved him. Us kids, our parents, grandparents. No matter your age or fave style of music, everyone loved Elton.
I think you should just have an Elton John jar with everyone of his songs on individual slips of paper & every week just pull one out & hit it! Too many to just pick a couple.
I love your name Poochey!!
It is amazing to think that on the album that this came from, they were writing and recording one song per day.
“Someone Saved My Life Tonight” is an epic masterpiece.
while listening to this for some reason I flashbacked to my old high school days when I was on the stage crew setting up for some show (we had some pretty dope concerts at our HS), and just blasting this through the auditorium speakers and having it echo around the empty auditorium making it sound that much more live while I sang along. 1973 boys! Is it any wonder that a couple of years later Elton would be my first really big live rock concert when he came through the Chi. He is the *Ultimate* showman. And the band could not sound better live. He was the real deal. "Madman Across the Water" next please guys.
Just last night I was wondering what today's song might be and thinking, "Hmm... they haven't hit Elton John in a while." And here we go! Next, yes, please do "Saturday Night's Alright for Fighting." It's probably his bangingest song.
Definitely the next EJ song. Definitely!!!
Someone may have pointed this out but it is a studio simulation of a live performance. This brings me back to my childhood.
Another one of those songs you thought you were sick of after so much airplay, but years later, thru earphones, a great song! This whole album was great 🔥❤️
Saturday Night's Alright for Fighting is off this same album and is a banger. The whole album is stellar with several musical styles including some country and western, to boot.
You want stuttering - you want My my my Sharona by the Knack
LOVE THAT SONG!!!!
By The Knack
edit off that S and you're golden. 😊👌
And thus also, by extension, My Bologna by Weird Al.
Excellent suggestion @talbot! - I immediately flashed back to high school - 1979 - my buddy and me, half baked, driving down the road in my pickup singing along with this at the top of our lungs with the windows down - GREAT times!
@@RandySHilliard How this song never got used for a Mexican beer commercial, I'll never know...
Oh my little tasty one, tasty one...
Even better with a slice of lime.........C**ona!
First thing I always think of is Cheech and Chong's take-off on My Sharona as My Scortum czcams.com/video/4f_HftKNsg8/video.html
Contrary to what it seems, the song is not live, but recorded in studio and live sound effects were added later. Producer Gus Dudgeon explained:
For some weird reason, Elton happened to have hit the opening piano chord of the song exactly one bar before the song actually started. So I was doing the mix and this chord kept coming on which you normally wouldn’t expect to hear. I turned to engineer [David Hentschel] and I said, ‘What does that remind you of? … It’s the sort of thing that people do on stage just before they’re going to start a song.’ Just to kind of get everybody, ‘Okay, here we go, ready?’ For some reason that chord being there made me think, ‘Maybe we should fake-live this.’
"Texas Love Song", "Madman Across The Water" and "Saturday Night's Allright For Fighting".
You guys still haven’t gotten to the cream of Elton John material.
Exactly!
Yep. They ought to do Ticking. Go deep.
This is the cream. What do you expect? The Lion King crapola???
@@mjames4709 i think they mean his more obscure songs. Elton is more than just his hits. He is so overlooked when it comes to ballads and other amazing songs :) The entire Blue Moves album has so many great songs that are overlooked.
Crocodile Rock Levon Rocketman. 3 of my faves
And three absolute classics.
In early 1974, I was almost 5, I turned 5 less than a month after its release. About 5 months before this was released, Joe Namath was on the Brady Bunch. Now, I have no specific memory of watching that episode, though I know that I did. So at 4 and 5 years old (living just outside of Washington, D.C.) I was aware of Joe Namath and the N.Y. Jets. So when this song came out the following year, my 5 year old brain thought that it was about Joe Namath and the Jets.
"MADMAN ACROSS THE WATER"
"SOMEONE SAVED MY LIFE TONIGHT" which is autobiographical.
Please believe me when I say that I could list at the very least 10 more songs from memory.
Funeral For a Friend/ Love Lies Bleeding would be a good one for you guys to give a listen to. Also Rocket Man
Levon or Madman across the water. Both are Mamamamamasterpices. Check out the lyrics to both. Cheers guys.
Live , no filters , auto tune or pitch correction ❤ brilliant
So, I was today years old when I finally realized that along with electric boots she's got a MOHAIR SUIT!! At last, I can sing along without slurring and mumbling over that part. And I owe it all to you, Andy & Alex...
Saturday Nights Alright For Fighting
Take me to the pilot is a banger
You guys will like Elton's "Take Me to the Pilot" It's a gospel-style banger that really cooks.