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Elton John — Tiny Dancer
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meadowwoods
(Dane County, WI)
Posted: May 09, 2013 - 13:00
 
 Highlowsel wrote:
To my mind this entire album is arguably the best work Elton John and Bernie Taupin put out over the course of their career. 

Just sayin'.

Highlow
American Net'Zen

 
I totally agree Highlow!

Highlowsel
(New York City)
Posted: Apr 08, 2013 - 09:07
 
To my mind this entire album is arguably the best work Elton John and Bernie Taupin put out over the course of their career. 

Just sayin'.

Highlow
American Net'Zen

Lazarus
(Bethany)
Posted: Mar 07, 2013 - 21:26
 
 Cynaera wrote:
No one will ever know how close I came to giving up tonight - and then this song came on, and I'm crying, but I can't give up. I guess there really is a supreme being who reaches down and rescues us when we just don't feel like we have another breath to breathe.

I'll be okay. I'm just really, really tired, but nowhere near as tired as others who've posted at the journals. This song will always be my bright light - that one that beckons me towards a more positive place.

Thanks, whoever uploaded it. You may have saved my life tonight, in a convoluted way.
 

Miss you so much, Cynaera...

love this song...



ThePoose
(Ottawa, capital of Canada)
Posted: Feb 04, 2013 - 13:45
 
Are you suggesting QEII should have made him ''Dame Elton John''?

 rtrudeau wrote:
Elton was so good before he became "sir."
 



jt1
Posted: Feb 04, 2013 - 13:45
 
 Papasmeg wrote:
Elton was so so good back in this period. Memories are made of songs like this.
 
I'm beginning to agree. I really must listen to some more of his older stuff. I've tended to ignore him due to his later output.



egsstaff
Posted: Feb 04, 2013 - 13:43
 
maybe a 1000 out of 10 !!!!{#Angel}

coachc
(Madison, WI)
Posted: Feb 04, 2013 - 13:42
 
Love it, but I can't get over him singing at Rush Limbaugh's wedding.

Papasmeg
(Lille France)
Posted: Nov 02, 2012 - 12:41
 
Elton was so so good back in this period. Memories are made of songs like this.

ziggytrix
(Dallas, TX)
Posted: Nov 02, 2012 - 12:39
 
 Bacadiar wrote:
Hold me closer, Tony Danza.
 
Count the head lice on the highway.

jmassoglia
(Everybody sez this is NoWhere)
Posted: Nov 02, 2012 - 12:37
 
 haljordan wrote:
Sure, it was in Almost Famous, but what about that episode of WKRP in Cincinnati?
 

Hear, Hear!!  Named my daughter after Bailey Quarters.{#Clap}

lemmoth
(NYC)
Posted: Mar 26, 2012 - 09:36
 

My college cafeteria in Brooklyn had a great juke box and though I didn't play I used to hang out there at lunch with the school's hockey team.

One time, when Tiny Dancer came on, one of the team's really tough guys (I believe he led the league in penalty minutes) got up on the cafeteria table and began to sing along to this sweet beautiful love song at the top of his lungs.

People knew who was at the table - and knew how tough Pete was - so no one dared make fun of this big guy singing this sweet song.

It helped me understand how an appreciate for art, music and sensitive emotional issues like love was not at all incompatible with being a so called "manly man."



haljordan
(probably at work)
Posted: Mar 26, 2012 - 09:15
 
Sure, it was in Almost Famous, but what about that episode of WKRP in Cincinnati?

Blastcat900
Posted: Mar 26, 2012 - 09:13
 
My last gf hated Elton John... I tried playing this album while driving slow through downtown Montreal. She told me to just put it down, yeah, I had the window open and her inadequate stereo on full blast. She has dumped me. So, thanks, RP. Thanks Sir Elton, its loud as I listen...

Songs are not just silly things. This one hits me right in my teenaged heart. Now, I remember... and will be looking for my tiny dancer for ever.

vandal
(arriving somewhere, but not here. . .)
Posted: Feb 23, 2012 - 16:59
 
 agkagk wrote:

You gave this a 7?

10.
 

You gave this a 10? 

crap. . . 10 it is, can't find the 11. . .
 



Byronape
("post-capitalist wreckageville")
Posted: Feb 23, 2012 - 16:51
 
 Moonflower31 wrote:
bus ride: Almost Famous....
 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Qn3tel9FWU

shellbella
(so california)
Posted: Feb 23, 2012 - 16:48
 
{#Daisy} Luv Sir Elton.


On_The_Beach
(The Blue Planet)
Posted: Jan 22, 2012 - 23:59
 
 Stratocaster wrote:
If a madman held a gun to my head and said "what is your favourite song? you MUST pick one!".

It would be Tiny Dancer.

In fact, I'd even pick it without the gun. 
 
Hopefully said madman is an Elton John fan!  ; )



Bacadiar
Posted: Dec 22, 2011 - 06:10
 
Hold me closer, Tony Danza.

Stratocaster
(Bermuda)
Posted: Dec 05, 2011 - 02:16
 
If a madman held a gun to my head and said "what is your favourite song? you MUST pick one!".

It would be Tiny Dancer.

In fact, I'd even pick it without the gun. 

ozzie1313
Posted: Nov 20, 2011 - 12:17
 
His best album, before he morphed into a cross between Liberace and Wayne Newton. 

kcar
Posted: Aug 17, 2011 - 21:26
 
 osbyec wrote:


Your love is like baaaaaad venison/Bad venison is what I need
 
LMAO. Cannot be topped. 

The more I hear of Elton's older stuff, the more I'm impressed. (Never really paid attention to him in his heyday). But this is one of those songs that FM radio simply beat. to. death. Sadly, I can't recall the scene in "Almost  Famous" with this song, although really liked the movie.

Yes, Bob, it was a good movie. 



Cynaera
(Kenneth's Frequency)
Posted: Jul 17, 2011 - 13:02
 
♫{#Sunny}♫

lshinkawa
(Berkeley, CA)
Posted: Jul 17, 2011 - 12:47
 
 Moonflower31 wrote:
bus ride: Almost Famous....
 
That scene completely changed this song for me.  I love it so much more now.

Moonflower31
(Flagstaff)
Posted: Jun 15, 2011 - 20:34
 
bus ride: Almost Famous....

jadewahoo
Posted: Apr 13, 2011 - 15:59
 
My heart is ♫ joyous ♫ in hearing this song... and sad, at how Elton got lost later on.

agkagk
(Aurora, Ontario, Canada)
Posted: Mar 06, 2011 - 14:30
 
 ScottFromWyoming wrote:
I gave this a 4?
 
7.
 


You gave this a 7?

10.

cohifi
(Denver)
Posted: Feb 09, 2011 - 19:56
 
 WonderLizard wrote:
My favorite LOL commercial from the Super Bowl: the Bud arrives and a saloonful of hard bitten cowboys launch into "Tiny Dancer."
 
Hillarious!  I was like....wtf?  Now I get it!


WonderLizard
(2,755.46 mi. due east of Paradise)
Posted: Feb 09, 2011 - 19:47
 
My favorite LOL commercial from the Super Bowl: the Bud arrives and a saloonful of hard bitten cowboys launch into "Tiny Dancer."

Rooney
(Near Paradise)
Posted: Oct 06, 2010 - 16:14
 
this is such a fantastic album over all.  One of EJ's best, imo.  Madman Across the Water (the song) is beyond words. 

diannemck56
(Sacramento)
Posted: Oct 06, 2010 - 15:12
 

love - Love - LOVE it!!  {#Bounce}



osbyec
Posted: Oct 06, 2010 - 15:10
 
 bknv wrote:

{#Lol}  Randy Bachman has a show called Vinyl Tap, each week a different theme.  From http://www.randysvinyltap.com, he describes the show on  Mondegreeens:
"This week on Vinyl Tap Randy Bachman will turn his attention away from guitars and onto another key part of a song... the lyrics. Only in this case it will be miss-heard lyrics. And even better... miss-heard lyrics as submitted by Tap listeners. In print or spoken word they are called malapropisms or spoonerisms. Sometimes the words and letters get all mixed up by accident, sometimes it's intentional. The accepted musical term is a mondegreen. The term was coined by writer Sylvia Wright who recalled a poem called "The Bonny Earl O'Murray"... she remembered the final two lines of the first stanza as "they hae slain the Earl Amurray and Lady Mondegreen". In fact the poet wrote "... and laid him on the green". And so begins an entire episode of Vinyl Tap. It's pretty amazing to hear what some people thought those pop singers were saying in tunes by The Band, Eurythmics, Kiss, Maria Muldaur and Creedence Clearwater Revival among many. "Excuse me while I kiss this guy" and tune in to the Tap this week. "
 

Your love is like baaaaaad venison/Bad venison is what I need

choderama
(Nanaimo, BC, Canada)
Posted: Sep 04, 2010 - 14:55
 
Yes! Almost Famous!

This is a great song... how can you not nod along to this tune...

Rp10v3r
(Gainesville, FL)
Posted: Sep 04, 2010 - 14:54
 
Love this song!

LPCity
(Salt Lake City, Utah)
Posted: Aug 03, 2010 - 15:02
 

Russell Hammond: I never said I was a golden god... or did I?



horstman
(Syracuse, New York)
Posted: Jul 02, 2010 - 18:00
 
 Cynaera wrote:
No one will ever know how close I came to giving up tonight - and then this song came on, and I'm crying, but I can't give up. I guess there really is a supreme being who reaches down and rescues us when we just don't feel like we have another breath to breathe.

I'll be okay. I'm just really, really tired, but nowhere near as tired as others who've posted at the journals. This song will always be my bright light - that one that beckons me towards a more positive place.

Thanks, whoever uploaded it. You may have saved my life tonight, in a convoluted way. {#Smile}
 
Try Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy for "Some one saved my Life tonight"!

Hang in there, we all have our bad days, bad ways, life goes astray.{#Wave}


Cynaera
(South of Neanderthal)
Posted: Jul 02, 2010 - 17:57
 
No one will ever know how close I came to giving up tonight - and then this song came on, and I'm crying, but I can't give up. I guess there really is a supreme being who reaches down and rescues us when we just don't feel like we have another breath to breathe.

I'll be okay. I'm just really, really tired, but nowhere near as tired as others who've posted at the journals. This song will always be my bright light - that one that beckons me towards a more positive place.

Thanks, whoever uploaded it. You may have saved my life tonight, in a convoluted way. {#Smile}

ScottFromWyoming
(Powell)
Posted: Jul 02, 2010 - 17:54
 
I gave this a 4?
 
7.

jersey_birdman
Posted: Mar 29, 2010 - 14:08
 
A great album right in the middle of a great period of work from 1970-1972...  Tumbleweed Connection, 11-17-70, Madman and then Honky Chateau: you really do not need much more in your collection.

I love Holliday Inn form Madman Across the Water: let's get that one played.


donna_birichina
(right where I should be)
Posted: Mar 29, 2010 - 13:52
 
Can't hear this without thinking of Lily34.... ♫ Hold me close, I'm tired of dancing ♫...

oldman
(Lost in Northern Virginia)
Posted: Mar 29, 2010 - 13:50
 
Elton John, Bernie Taupin, and Gus Dudgeon at their Best. Still play this whole album often.

Tagish_girl
(happily seeking hammock, HBG, SE)
Posted: Mar 29, 2010 - 13:44
 
 Mandible wrote:

 

rotflmao!

michaelc
(Walnut Creek, CA)
Posted: Jan 25, 2010 - 12:48
 
he was pretty good before he became famous for silly glasses

Lrobby99
(Wisconsin, USA)
Posted: Jan 25, 2010 - 12:47
 
 h8rhater wrote:

Your hopes sure do run contrary to the RP vibe.  This song totally fits here.

 

Sure.

Mandible
Posted: Jan 25, 2010 - 12:46
 


h8rhater
Posted: Jan 25, 2010 - 12:46
 
 Lrobby99 wrote:

Just what I hoped to never hear on RP. Score 1 Sucko-barfo.


 
Your hopes sure do run contrary to the RP vibe.  This song totally fits here.


hippiechick
(topsy turvy land)
Posted: Jan 25, 2010 - 12:45
 
Saw him at Kent State right when this album came out. He did walk his piano across the floor, but he didn't dress up in crazy outfits yet (hadn't come out yet). Great show!

And I so love this scene in Almost Famous!

Lrobby99
(Wisconsin, USA)
Posted: Jan 25, 2010 - 12:43
 

Just what I hoped to never hear on RP. Score 1 Sucko-barfo.



sirdroseph
(Outer Mongolia)
Posted: Jan 25, 2010 - 12:42
 
Yay!{#Dancingbanana} Don't hear enough good ol' Elton round here IMO!{#Snooty}

superflyLD
(Boston, MA)
Posted: Jan 25, 2010 - 12:42
 
easily a 9/10 even if you don't like Elton John.  Amazing song.

Stefen
(West Hollywood, CA)
Posted: Nov 23, 2009 - 16:39
 
This album is Elton John and Bernie Taupin at their best.