Forum Home Forum Home > Other music related lounges > General Music Discussions
  New Posts New Posts RSS Feed - Captain Fantastic & the Brown Dirt Cowboy
  FAQ FAQ  Forum Search   Events   Register Register  Login Login

Topic ClosedCaptain Fantastic & the Brown Dirt Cowboy
 Post Reply Post Reply
Poll Question: what do you think of this album
Poll Choice Votes Poll Statistics
1 [33.33%]
1 [33.33%]
0 [0.00%]
1 [33.33%]
0 [0.00%]
0 [0.00%]
0 [0.00%]
0 [0.00%]
This topic is closed, no new votes accepted

Author
Message
  Topic Search Topic Search  Topic Options Topic Options
Icarium View Drop Down
Forum Senior Member
Forum Senior Member
Avatar
VIP Member

Joined: March 21 2008
Location: Tigerstaden
Status: Offline
Points: 34050 		Direct Link To This Post Topic: Captain Fantastic & the Brown Dirt Cowboy
    Posted: May 31 2015 at 16:42
I really find it to be quite stunning, a true fem of colourfull melodic symphonic rock, highly influentul to albums following, plerhaps to welcome to My Nightmare, Meat Loaf and similar artists seaking theatrical rock sound
i find it stunning and quite suprising in many ways.
Back to Top
Tom Ozric View Drop Down
Prog Reviewer
Prog Reviewer
Avatar

Joined: September 03 2005
Location: Olympus Mons
Status: Offline
Points: 15916 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 01 2015 at 01:10
Not quite 'great' but very good for me. Lots to like here.
Gene Page's orchestral scores are very well done, Elton uses a wide variety of keyboards. Great textures throughout. Alongside the Live 17-11-70, probably my most listened to EJ album from the few I have.
The vinyl packaging/artwork is fantastic - with the booklets and full-size poster.
Back to Top
Icarium View Drop Down
Forum Senior Member
Forum Senior Member
Avatar
VIP Member

Joined: March 21 2008
Location: Tigerstaden
Status: Offline
Points: 34050 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 01 2015 at 01:36
yesterday i liatend to it after i listend to Welcome to my Nightmare by Cooper, it has some stunning bass lines.

both are similar in many ways of being autobiographical or life story related (i think)
Back to Top
Icarium View Drop Down
Forum Senior Member
Forum Senior Member
Avatar
VIP Member

Joined: March 21 2008
Location: Tigerstaden
Status: Offline
Points: 34050 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 01 2015 at 01:39
Originally posted by Tom Ozric Tom Ozric wrote:

Not quite 'great' but very good for me. Lots to like here.
Gene Page's orchestral scores are very well done, Elton uses a wide variety of keyboards. Great textures throughout. Alongside the Live 17-11-70, probably my most listened to EJ album from the few I have.
The vinyl packaging/artwork is fantastic - with the booklets and full-size poster.
what you think of Better of Dead ?

imo quite corney, but also neat vocals VERY LOUD TAM-TAMS AND DRUMS, Allmost avant garde
Back to Top
Tom Ozric View Drop Down
Prog Reviewer
Prog Reviewer
Avatar

Joined: September 03 2005
Location: Olympus Mons
Status: Offline
Points: 15916 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 01 2015 at 07:20
^ I always noticed that odd mix on the drums. Cool effect, some sort of gated reverb/echo, long before Phil Collins milked it for all its worth in the 80's   
Actually perusing my record now - not a weak track throughout, maybe the 'Curtains' half of the last track goes on a bit, but generally has some diverse and clever songwriting.
Back to Top
dr wu23 View Drop Down
Forum Senior Member
Forum Senior Member
Avatar

Joined: August 22 2010
Location: Indiana
Status: Offline
Points: 20468 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 01 2015 at 13:18
Good album but I like Tumbleweed , Madman , and Goodbye Yellow Brick better.
One does nothing yet nothing is left undone.
Haquin
Back to Top
Tom Ozric View Drop Down
Prog Reviewer
Prog Reviewer
Avatar

Joined: September 03 2005
Location: Olympus Mons
Status: Offline
Points: 15916 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 02 2015 at 07:18
I doubt there are many Elton fans here at P.A.
Some of his earlier albums were part and parcel of my development of musical taste many years ago (just like The Rolling Stones and The Beatles, Run DMC and Def Leppard were for me). Hey, I was never destined to be a 'nappy-dude' running around with my squeaky duck and rocking along to Magma and Shub Niggurath at an early age.........)
He is a fantastic pianist in his own right. No comprehensive and thorough music library is complete without an example (or two) of his music - he has displayed expertise in his approach to various musical stylings, performance and appeal. Maybe not to many a Prog-head's taste, but a cut above the 'average'......
Back to Top
Icarium View Drop Down
Forum Senior Member
Forum Senior Member
Avatar
VIP Member

Joined: March 21 2008
Location: Tigerstaden
Status: Offline
Points: 34050 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 02 2015 at 09:25
most when hes compared to Bowie they (experts say that while Bowie was an innovator, that Elto was a interpretor, thats probably some right in that, but also unfair i think, as i hear plento of innovative stuff from s/t debute through GYBR and Capt Fantastic., Blue Moves got some innovativeness also.
Bowie was boundery braker and style turner /shifter an paradigme enigma :$, Elton fused Ghospel/ Country with classical piano in tandem often compareable to Wakemans work on Hunki Dory?? spelling.

hes use of harp in pop formate is quite inventive (check out Greatest Discovery and 60 yers on Ozric)
Back to Top
dr wu23 View Drop Down
Forum Senior Member
Forum Senior Member
Avatar

Joined: August 22 2010
Location: Indiana
Status: Offline
Points: 20468 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 02 2015 at 10:24
To me this is as progressive as a lot of things that get mentioned here at PA...
One does nothing yet nothing is left undone.
Haquin
Back to Top
Icarium View Drop Down
Forum Senior Member
Forum Senior Member
Avatar
VIP Member

Joined: March 21 2008
Location: Tigerstaden
Status: Offline
Points: 34050 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 03 2015 at 09:13
quiz - when Elton mentions Suger Bear in Someone Saved My life Tonigh? Whos the Sugar Bear?
Back to Top
Tom Ozric View Drop Down
Prog Reviewer
Prog Reviewer
Avatar

Joined: September 03 2005
Location: Olympus Mons
Status: Offline
Points: 15916 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 04 2015 at 01:25
^ The lyric booklet says 'sugar babe'........ I guess the 'sugar babe' in question is a close partner/relative ??
Very good song, and a decent length.
Back to Top
Icarium View Drop Down
Forum Senior Member
Forum Senior Member
Avatar
VIP Member

Joined: March 21 2008
Location: Tigerstaden
Status: Offline
Points: 34050 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 04 2015 at 01:40
its Long John Baldrey who saved Elton rrom commiting suecide
Back to Top
Tom Ozric View Drop Down
Prog Reviewer
Prog Reviewer
Avatar

Joined: September 03 2005
Location: Olympus Mons
Status: Offline
Points: 15916 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 04 2015 at 03:55
^?   Are you serial ???? I would never think Elton was like this........
It's whatever.
.........Sugar-Babe it is...........Long John Baldry..........
Elton Dean would've been too busy creating amazing Saxello compositions and jams in incredible Canterburian Prog units.......
Back to Top
Icarium View Drop Down
Forum Senior Member
Forum Senior Member
Avatar
VIP Member

Joined: March 21 2008
Location: Tigerstaden
Status: Offline
Points: 34050 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 04 2015 at 04:15
Originally posted by Tom Ozric Tom Ozric wrote:

^?   Are you serial ???? I would never think Elton was like this........
It's whatever.
.........Sugar-Babe it is...........Long John Baldry..........
Elton Dean would've been too busy creating amazing Saxello compositions and jams in incredible Canterburian Prog units.......

Taupin's lyric refers to a time in 1969, before John was a popular musician, when John was engaged to be married to his girlfriend, Linda Woodrow. John and Woodrow were sharing a flat with Taupin in Furlong Road in London, hence the opening line "When I think of those East End lights." While having serious doubts about the looming marriage, John contemplated suicide.[2]He took refuge in his friends, especially Long John Baldry, who convinced John to abandon his plans to marry in order to salvage and maintain his musical career
Back to Top
Tom Ozric View Drop Down
Prog Reviewer
Prog Reviewer
Avatar

Joined: September 03 2005
Location: Olympus Mons
Status: Offline
Points: 15916 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 04 2015 at 06:05
I was aware of young Reggie and his girlfriend not working out. I didn't think he had such reservations and doubts about it......... (not to the suicidal extreme anyway). I'm glad he had the strength to sallee forth.
Don't Shoot Me....... sports many great moments too, kind of like an 'edited' Yellow Brick Road album......
Back to Top
Icarium View Drop Down
Forum Senior Member
Forum Senior Member
Avatar
VIP Member

Joined: March 21 2008
Location: Tigerstaden
Status: Offline
Points: 34050 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 04 2015 at 07:16
Originally posted by Tom Ozric Tom Ozric wrote:

I was aware of young Reggie and his girlfriend not working out. I didn't think he had such reservations and doubts about it......... (not to the suicidal extreme anyway). I'm glad he had the strength to sallee forth.
Don't Shoot Me....... sports many great moments too, kind of like an 'edited' Yellow Brick Road album......
it is hes most glam rock influenced album, "Do You have Mercy On the Criminals" Tom Tongue
Back to Top
 Post Reply Post Reply

Forum Jump Forum Permissions View Drop Down



This page was generated in 0.313 seconds.
Donate monthly and keep PA fast-loading and ad-free forever.