deepgaze
(LA) | | Posted: Apr 28, 2006 - 15:34 | |
Madman Across the Water- This is probably what Europeans looking west across the Atalantic are thinking.
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cutterjudd
(smackdabinthemiddle) | | Posted: Mar 30, 2006 - 10:33 | |
KevDogRedux wrote:
Old, powerful, Elton John was very much a product of Bernie Taupin. Without Bernie, Elton is just an average entertainer.
Bernie spends most of his time showing Cutting Horses in California and North Texas. Had the pleasure of meeting him once. IMHO I agree with the above comment but one has to admit Elton could play a piano. There were some "goodins" back then. |
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Geecheeboy
(under a crescent moon and palmetto tree) | | Posted: Mar 30, 2006 - 10:28 | |
Tommy Elskes did a cover of this that is divine.
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healyf52
(Midtown East, NYC) | | Posted: Mar 30, 2006 - 10:28 | |
Love the 'strings'. They totally rock. Reminds me of 'Chronus Quartet'
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healyf52
(Midtown East, NYC) | | Posted: Mar 30, 2006 - 10:25 | |
Love the 'strings'. They totally rock. Reminds me of 'Chronus Quartet'
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ArbiterOfGoodTaste
(Seattle WA) | | Posted: Mar 30, 2006 - 10:25 | |
Never heard this before, like the strings.
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moonbat
(Flying Low and Avoiding The Radar) | | Posted: Mar 15, 2006 - 17:05 | |
Art_Carnage wrote:I wonder how many people know this song is about Saint Rumold?
I thought it was about Richard Nixon...was going to say that the song still has relevance today! :) |
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KevDogRedux
(Los Angeles, CA) | | Posted: Mar 15, 2006 - 17:03 | |
jadewahoo wrote:Elton,my man, what the hell ever happened to you? This song evidences that you were powerful, shining and visionary... once. Now, a paltry pop bauble of bad lounge and elevator kische, Disney pablum and glitz. Ah well, let ye be a reminder to us all of what can be when we lose our course.
Old, powerful, Elton John was very much a product of Bernie Taupin. Without Bernie, Elton is just an average entertainer. |
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kazuma
(Austin, TX) | | Posted: Feb 14, 2006 - 08:51 | |
bmuscutt wrote:
It's on the remastered version
Wow, interesting. Thanks! I'd like to hear that. |
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bmuscutt
(Dallas) | | Posted: Feb 14, 2006 - 07:29 | |
kazuma wrote:
A better version of what? Of Elton? This song is not on Tumbleweed Connection. 
It's on the remastered version |
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pigglywiggly
(mid-America) | | Posted: Feb 14, 2006 - 07:27 | |
Very nice transition from Radiohead's Exit Music.  |
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kazuma
(Austin, TX) | | Posted: Jan 30, 2006 - 14:19 | |
drtjdel wrote:A better version (my opinion) is on Tumbleweed Connection.
A better version of what? Of Elton? This song is not on Tumbleweed Connection. |
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Beanie
(And darn it, you flushed while I was in the shower!!!) | | Posted: Jan 30, 2006 - 14:19 | |
jadewahoo wrote:Elton,my man, what the hell ever happened to you? This song evidences that you were powerful, shining and visionary... once. Now, a paltry pop bauble of bad lounge and elevator kische, Disney pablum and glitz. Ah well, let ye be a reminder to us all of what can be when we lose our course.
Funny, I was thinking the same thing listening to this (although I lacked your eloquence in expressing the thought). This was Elton at his absolute best...  |
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pdxguy
(Portland, Oregon) | | Posted: Jan 30, 2006 - 14:16 | |
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Ender43
(Central Iowa) | | Posted: Jan 30, 2006 - 14:13 | |
It's hard to imagine 'this' Elton doing Disney songs...or commericals
/i.e. I like 'this' Elton
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drtjdel
(saratoga, ca) | | Posted: Jan 01, 2006 - 11:00 | |
A better version (my opinion) is on Tumbleweed Connection.
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Clark_Kent
(Krypton...well, almost (Vienna)) | | Posted: Jan 01, 2006 - 10:42 | |
Old but good! I really liked Elton a lot more these days...  |
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trempel
(Abbostsford, BC, Canada) | | Posted: Dec 08, 2005 - 09:31 | |
The Disney years produced a few good songs. I quite like "can you feel the love tonight"
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jadewahoo
(Sedona Az, Beautiful Earth) | | Posted: Nov 18, 2005 - 17:57 | |
Elton,my man, what the hell ever happened to you? This song evidences that you were powerful, shining and visionary... once. Now, a paltry pop bauble of bad lounge and elevator kische, Disney pablum and glitz. Ah well, let ye be a reminder to us all of what can be when we lose our course.
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meadowwoods
(Madison, WI) | | Posted: Nov 18, 2005 - 17:49 | |
radiojunkie wrote:Definitely a 10. My favorite EJ ever.
Mine too.  |
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UltraNurd
(Boston, MA) | | Posted: Oct 20, 2005 - 11:54 | |
coding_to_music wrote:
Like he said...
You mean yours doesn't go up to 11? |
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brokemusician
(Buttfuch, Ireland) | | Posted: Oct 20, 2005 - 11:54 | |
Man, he was so much better (around this album's era) before he started wearing wigs and got hair transplants!
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UltraNurd
(Boston, MA) | | Posted: Oct 20, 2005 - 11:54 | |
Wow Bill... I didn't think you could keep making this set better... but then you threw in one of my absolute favorite Elton John songs.
This is k-awesome, for very large values of k.
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coding_to_music
(Beantown) | | Posted: Oct 20, 2005 - 11:53 | |
coding_to_music wrote:damn, I already gave it a 10...
Like he said... |
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Art_Carnage
(DeepintheheartofTexas) | | Posted: Aug 07, 2005 - 12:17 | |
It's too bad that, since this song was written, we know have madmen on both sides of the water.
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AlanCE
(Des Moines, IA) | | Posted: Jul 23, 2005 - 17:22 | |
He's never sounded more like Kevin Kronin :D
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tony99
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Beginning and end of my EJ collection, this one. 'Levon' is a great song. After that, with (very) few exceptions, forget it
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Zarba
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As AlgloRay says, just when you want to write the guy off...
Wonderful song.
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Shesdifferent
(Desert metropolis via Arizona) | | Posted: Apr 11, 2005 - 22:42 | |
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radiojunkie
(a sleepy bordertown (NY/CT)) | | Posted: Mar 28, 2005 - 10:01 | |
Art_Carnage wrote:I wonder how many people know this song is about Saint Rumold?
Certainly not me...and I don't really get the connection --
Rumold(us), OSB BM (RM)
(also known as Rombauld, Rumbold, Rombaut)
Died c. 775; feast day formerly June 24. Rumold, an Anglo-Saxon monk, became a regionary bishop and worked under Saint Willibrord in Holland and Brabant. He was martyred near Malines, where he is now the titular of the cathedral and his relics rest in an elaborate golden shrine over the high altar. His feast is still a major event. The Roman martyrology and later legends say that he was of Irish descent and bishop of Dublin (Benedictines, Montague). In art, Saint Rumbold is a bishop with a missioner's cross, a bearded man with a hoe lying under his feet. He may also be shown murdered near a coffer of money (Roeder). |
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