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Elton John — Burn Down The Mission
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peter_thurlow
Posted: Apr 29, 2012 - 15:16
 
his best album!
 

linzie
Posted: Mar 28, 2012 - 21:49
 
Blessed was thy earliest stuff, Sir Elton...whenst thou was simply Elton.

NeuroGeek
(Just Way Out There)
Posted: Jan 25, 2012 - 12:23
 
I have nothing against Elton...but if he makes the RP cut, why not some Ben Folds?

bev
(Reno, NV)
Posted: Jan 25, 2012 - 12:22
 
 mnuisance wrote:
When Elton ruled. Man, this is good.
 

{#Yes}  My sentiments exactly. I loved the lyrical themes Taupin took on...not just generic love/loss, but really storytelling. And Elton's wildman piano (at times reminding me of Moon's drumming for The Who)...great combo.


cc_rider
(Austin Texas. Y'all.)
Posted: Jan 25, 2012 - 12:18
 
 Andy_B wrote:
One of the albums I had stolen from me during some obscure party years ago that I have seriously regretted it's absence.
  I have re-purchased the CD at least twice. There's a two-disc set that has alternate versions, it's actually pretty cool. At least for hardcore EJ nerds.



cohifi
(Denver)
Posted: Nov 23, 2011 - 01:07
 
 Andy_B wrote:
One of the albums I had stolen from me during some obscure party years ago that I have seriously regretted it's absence.
 
Cool !  I had my Stones Let It Bleed LP stolen, too.  thank god I still have the cover  {#Mad}


Andy_B
(aboard MV "Horizon," east coast Fla)
Posted: Aug 20, 2011 - 10:19
 
One of the albums I had stolen from me during some obscure party years ago that I have seriously regretted it's absence.

sirdroseph
(Yes)
Posted: Jun 18, 2011 - 09:22
 
 xkolibuul wrote:
No song is played too much on RP, let alone this one.  Sheesh.
 mrbox wrote:
Have to agree with Bill that few artists were as good "then" and as bad "now" as Elton John. His albums before "Rock of the Westies" were transcendent. - But Bill, you play THIS tune TOO MUCH given how many stellar alternatives there are before 1975. Refresh your Elton John preferences!
 
 

What a dichotomy! I could not disagree more with the first part of the sentence and agree more with the second part!{#Lol}

bbryan
(Don't believe everything you think)
Posted: Jun 18, 2011 - 09:20
 
This is sort of the "Vegas-y" track from the CD...

linzie
Posted: Mar 15, 2011 - 18:00
 
Absolute classic album..I agree with the other comments asking for MORE!!!

xkolibuul
(Chuckanut sandstone)
Posted: Dec 11, 2010 - 15:43
 
No song is played too much on RP, let alone this one.  Sheesh.
 mrbox wrote:
Have to agree with Bill that few artists were as good "then" and as bad "now" as Elton John. His albums before "Rock of the Westies" were transcendent. - But Bill, you play THIS tune TOO MUCH given how many stellar alternatives there are before 1975. Refresh your Elton John preferences!
 



DaveInVA
(In a hovel in effluent Damnville, VA)
Posted: Sep 07, 2010 - 09:15
 
 sirdroseph wrote:
For the love of all that is good and proper; can you please play more classic Elton???!!!!!{#Pray} Automatic 10
 
I agree wholeheartedly!


xtalman
(What dimension?)
Posted: Sep 07, 2010 - 09:02
 
 fitzworld wrote:
As much as I generally love most of Elton John's music this is just too much like a cheesy show tune. I can't listen to this without imagining Broadway dancers cavorting around on a stage.
 
You mean Elton right?  {#Laughing}


fitzworld
(The Big A)
Posted: Aug 06, 2010 - 08:39
 
As much as I generally love most of Elton John's music this is just too much like a cheesy show tune. I can't listen to this without imagining Broadway dancers cavorting around on a stage.



tnt_thomas
(In Conceivable!)
Posted: Jul 05, 2010 - 11:41
 
Sir EJ is coming to perform in little Prince George BC and forgoing the latte sucking world of Vancouver. It's driving their classic rock DJs nuts. {#Bounce} Personally, just lovin' it!

Care to chime in, Vancouverites?



lmic
(Harmless Little Bunny)
Posted: Jun 03, 2010 - 17:29
 
 cc_rider wrote:
you may the only other person who's ever heard of 'Blue Moves'. Some great songs on it. Some, uh, not-so-great ones too. 
The last Elton release I bought - 4 times! The pressing must have been defective because every LP had a skip in the same place. Anyway, I was just consuming Elton output on entropy by then.... Not a very memorable album.


sirdroseph
(Outer Mongolia)
Posted: Apr 01, 2010 - 07:10
 
For the love of all that is good and proper; can you please play more classic Elton???!!!!!{#Pray} Automatic 10

h8rhater
Posted: Apr 01, 2010 - 07:07
 
 Papernapkin wrote:
I have to laugh when I hear Bill say, 'That's Elton John.' After 30 years I'm surprised we need a DJ to remind us who this artist is.
 
Not everyone is as old as you. 


Dgradeworkunit
(Shenandoah Valley)
Posted: Apr 01, 2010 - 07:05
 
 ugly wrote:
I'll never forget holding this full sized album in my hands and just thinking it was absolutely amazing. I think I got it for Christmas one year.
 

A bit of irony in that, eh?  I guess it's good nobody burned down the mission before Christmas.  ;-)

jersey_birdman
Posted: Apr 01, 2010 - 06:59
 
Play anything from this album/cd: it is all grerat.

mrbox
Posted: Feb 28, 2010 - 16:27
 
Have to agree with Bill that few artists were as good "then" and as bad "now" as Elton John. His albums before "Rock of the Westies" were transcendent. - But Bill, you play THIS tune TOO MUCH given how many stellar alternatives there are before 1975. Refresh your Elton John preferences!

whitebuffalo
Posted: Feb 28, 2010 - 16:25
 
I used to think Elton John was a genius arranger as well as a great composer. The truth is that he recorded the piano and the vocal, handed the song off to Gus Dudgeon (1942-2002) and left the building (http://mixonline.com/recording/interviews/audio_gus_dudgeon/). According to an interview I read with Gus somewhere, Elton approved of every finished track but one. Here's to Gus, wherever he is. And here's to Bernie, who wrote some of the most poetic and evocative lyrics of his career on this album.


bachbeet
Posted: Feb 28, 2010 - 16:17
 
Not a big fan of Elton's.  Very quickly grew very tired of this song and the whole album.

Papernapkin
(Mountain View, CA)
Posted: Dec 27, 2009 - 18:29
 
I have to laugh when I hear Bill say, 'That's Elton John.' After 30 years I'm surprised we need a DJ to remind us who this artist is.

ugly
(Compton, CA)
Posted: Dec 27, 2009 - 18:20
 
I'll never forget holding this full sized album in my hands and just thinking it was absolutely amazing. I think I got it for Christmas one year. Music doesn't have the same feeling when I buy a CD.

Mugro
(Lane Village, Red Sox Nation)
Posted: Sep 24, 2009 - 09:16
 
{#Sunny}

cc_rider
(Austin Texas. Y'all.)
Posted: Sep 24, 2009 - 09:11
 
 mfassett wrote:

I think Blue Moves is a pretty good record, even if there are a few songs i can't stand on it... there are also some great songs on it.  
 
you may the only other person who's ever heard of 'Blue Moves'. Some great songs on it. Some, uh, not-so-great ones too.


amoreena
(west whatnot)
Posted: Sep 24, 2009 - 09:10
 
A classic from high school.....I dont' know why this song in particular makes me want to run outside in the rain and laugh?  Of course, then my headphones would fall off and the moment would be lost......

jadewahoo
(Beautiful Earth)
Posted: Aug 23, 2009 - 20:59
 
Ahh! Back from in the day when Elton John was Rock n' roll! And so fine he was too. Alas, no more.

mfassett
(Redwood City, CA)
Posted: Aug 23, 2009 - 20:58
 
 ProgFusion wrote:

"Madman Across the Water" is my favorite Elton John album. But I'd say everything he did was good, up to and including "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road." After that, forget it.
 
I think Blue Moves is a pretty good record, even if there are a few songs i can't stand on it... there are also some great songs on it.  

ProgFusion
Posted: Jul 26, 2009 - 05:08
 
redstorm wrote:


Like Beethoven? and i'm really serious about this....it's kinda hard to think beyond ourselves, but 100-200 years from now will they be talking about the genuis of Elton John, Hendrix, Clapton, Beatles?.....i'm thinking yes! {#Yes}


I agree with you. The music from that era is already forty years old, and it's still going strong.

I believe that there are many modern artists who are just as talented as Beethoven, but we don't notice, because the musical genres are different, and because modern musical instruments, recording technologies, and distribution methods, allow more of those musicians to come to the fore, rather than just a few standing out.

I also believe that there are just as many talented artists making music today, as there were forty years ago. Unfortunately, you have to search to find them. Radio Paradise is a good place to look, of course. For my favorite genres, Progressive Rock and Jazz Fusion, there are some other good sources, all on the Internet. You'll also find some good music on various movie and television soundtracks.

What do all those sources (and sixties and seventies radio) have in common? The selection was/is being done by people who love music! Contrast that with today's radio, and television music stations. There, the musical selection is firmly controlled by corporate committees. Thus, these days, very little real art reaches the mainstream. Can you think of more than a handful of hits from the last five years that might be considered memorable? I know I can't.

Darn it. You got me going on one of my hot buttons, and it got heavy. So back to the celebration, and your point...

Great music from the sixties and seventies — Yay!!! Great modern artists — Yay!!! Their music will last for 200 years!!!

{#High-five} {#Dancingbanana_2} {#Drummer} {#Cheers} {#Meditate}


redstorm
(East Coast!........ Lou!)
Posted: Jul 23, 2009 - 06:52
 
 woodchuk wrote:
Elton John is truly one of those talents that will be remembered for centuries into the future....
 

Like Beethoven? and i'm really serious about this....it's kinda hard to think beyond ourselves, but 100-200 years from now will they be talking about the genuis of Elton John, Hendrix, Clapton, Beatles?.....i'm thinking yes! {#Yes}


woodchuk
(Lunar Lagrange point L1)
Posted: Jun 21, 2009 - 11:27
 
Elton John is truly one of those talents that will be remembered for centuries into the future....

ProgFusion
Posted: Apr 19, 2009 - 02:28
 
nagsheadlocal wrote:

And not long afterward he produced "Madman Across the Water," another classic that has been all-but-forgotten in the glare of the disco and smooth rock he later took to commercial success.


"Madman Across the Water" is my favorite Elton John album. But I'd say everything he did was good, up to and including "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road." After that, forget it.



nagsheadlocal
(North Carolina, the new New Jersey)
Posted: Mar 18, 2009 - 13:40
 
 JJAB wrote:
I bought this album in 1970 when I was 15, and it has left a strange, ethereal emotion that returns each time I hear it.  Of course, music does this, and happens to anyone with a favorite song.  But this album was so powerful and moving and different from what was coming out at the time, even from Elton John.  It was a rock album that was mostly ignored when it was released (not quite sure why I purchased it), but, like any classic, it has withstood the test of time, and is a beautiful rock album today, one of my all-time favorites.

 
Yeah, we're about the same age and I too bought this album on a whim. I was more into Cream and Hendrix at the time and it was a departure. And not long afterward he produced "Madman Across the Water," another classic that has been all-but-forgotten in the glare of the disco and smooth rock he later took to commercial success.

Well, I don't begrudge the man his money or fame. But it's too bad it ruined his composing abilities somehow.


JJAB
(The Universe)
Posted: Dec 13, 2008 - 17:04
 
I bought this album in 1970 when I was 15, and it has left a strange, ethereal emotion that returns each time I hear it.  Of course, music does this, and happens to anyone with a favorite song.  But this album was so powerful and moving and different from what was coming out at the time, even from Elton John.  It was a rock album that was mostly ignored when it was released (not quite sure why I purchased it), but, like any classic, it has withstood the test of time, and is a beautiful rock album today, one of my all-time favorites.


meloman
(Warsaw, Poland)
Posted: Oct 11, 2008 - 13:23
 
 redstorm wrote:

Pure Musical Genius!! This man has been making wonderful music, for a generation. I've seen him from central park, the garden, the horsehoe (ohio state), to vegas!!! the music just pours out of him.  He is like the genre of singer-songwriters (along w/ bernie taupin) who transformed a musical generation. Stevie Wonder, Duke Ellington, Stevie Winwood, Chuck Berry, Carol King, these folks impacted our lives!


  Absofuckinglutely! (Well, at least my life)


redstorm
(East Coast,!............. Lou!)
Posted: Aug 09, 2008 - 08:24
 

Pure Musical Genius!! This man has been making wonderful music, for a generation. I've seen him from central park, the garden, the horsehoe (ohio state), to vegas!!! the music just pours out of him.  He is like the genre of singer-songwriters (along w/ bernie taupin) who transformed a musical generation. Stevie Wonder, Duke Ellington, Stevie Winwood, Chuck Berry, Carol King, these folks impacted our lives!



cc_rider
(Austin Texas. Y'all.)
Posted: Jul 08, 2008 - 17:38
 
redeyespy wrote:
I've been listening to this album tonight for the last half hour. I turn on RP, and then....love these sort of coincidences. Or perhaps this occurence is of the Celestine variety?

Either way, this is a fabulous album, start to finish.


Dig. I'ma go home and put it on. I've listened to album a hundred times or more. Still awesome.

c.
redeyespy
(Clandestined in the bamboo thicket.)
Posted: Mar 04, 2008 - 18:18
 
I've been listening to this album tonight for the last half hour. I turn on RP, and then....love these sort of coincidences. Or perhaps this occurence is of the Celestine variety?

Either way, this is a fabulous album, start to finish.
cutterjudd
(smackdabinthemiddle)
Posted: Mar 04, 2008 - 18:14
 
snowcat wrote:
Awesome record all the way through.


I concure........
Zep
(Land of 1000 dunces)
Posted: Feb 02, 2008 - 11:28
 
Back from the day when Elton John could impart spine-tingling chills and goose bumps.
snowcat
(Cold, Frozen Minnesota)
Posted: Jan 17, 2008 - 13:46
 
Awesome record all the way through.
a_genuine_find
(Sol, Gould Belt, Orion Arm, Galaxy of Milk and Honey)
Posted: Jan 17, 2008 - 13:39
 
Vandy005 wrote:
Great transition from Beethoven to Elton...


Filet Mignon followed by Jello
a_genuine_find
(Sol, Gould Belt, Orion Arm, Galaxy of Milk and Honey)
Posted: Jan 17, 2008 - 13:34
 

n4ku
(KY)
Posted: Jan 17, 2008 - 13:33
 
Vandy005 wrote:
Great transition from Beethoven to Elton... Keep up the great work Bill!!


Smoove_D
(Milwaukee)
Posted: Jan 17, 2008 - 13:32
 
It's been in my head all day. Bill, you're reading my mind.
Orphan
(Hamilton, Ontario, Canada)
Posted: Jan 17, 2008 - 13:32
 
Oh yes!!
Love this early album.
ronniegirl
(Middle of New Jersey)
Posted: Dec 01, 2007 - 12:05
 
My Favorite Elton John. That piano gets me every time.
cc_rider
(Austin Texas. Y'all.)
Posted: Oct 15, 2007 - 09:24
 
I've probably listened to this album hundreds of times. It still grabs me. I'm still not sure what Bernie was trying to say, maybe he was painting a picture instead of telling a story. Regardless, it's still stunning after all these years.

c.

edit> I think his 'phrasing' is part of the appeal. In the break it rushes along, a tiny fraction ahead of the beat, creating urgency. Then he slows it back down, drawing the phrases out, as if in resignation. The man is pure genius at drawing emotion out of a song.

c.