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Joined: August 17 2006
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Posted: January 22 2016 at 01:11
GYBR is a total classic, whichever way you look at it, an endless cascade of brilliant songs, all seeking out fresh and vibrant territory and even including some prog! A slate of golden melodies.....
I never post anything anywhere without doing more than basic research, often in depth.
Joined: September 03 2005
Location: Olympus Mons
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Posted: January 24 2016 at 06:10
I go for Yellow Brick. I still have Blue Moves on LP (somewhere, not with my 'regulars' lot.........) and Yellow Brick was poached years and years ago..............Still recall much of it. I still declare the best of ELTON pianist singer songwriter PROG-style is that live 17 11 70 album. Just choice..........thanks Christopher
Joined: March 21 2008
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Posted: January 25 2016 at 01:41
Tom Ozric wrote:
I go for Yellow Brick. I still have Blue Moves on LP (somewhere, not with my 'regulars' lot.........) and Yellow Brick was poached years and years ago..............Still recall much of it. I still declare the best of ELTON pianist singer songwriter PROG-style is that live 17 11 70 album. Just choice..........thanks Christopher
I believe Blue Moves to be in the same and the last in that line of classic Elton, but more on the symphonic, and experimental, as it is said on wiki article, he sort of gets creativly nuts on Blue Moves, it has 3 to 4 instrumentals, that some reminds me of Jethro Tull, other of U.K. and fantastic songs like Sorry Seems to Be the Hardest Words with layers upon layers of newly added keybord that creates a French feeling.
also this song is certainly influential on later generations, probably hes best piano melodie
Blue Moves ended a great streak for Elton, one that may be unsurpassed....from 1970 right thru 1976 he just kept on releasing hit after hit. By the time of Blue Moves, folks were getting sick of old Elton - he'd been releasing one or two albums a year, touring incessantly, the outlandish costumes, constantly on both AM and FM radio, making appearances on TV and radio shows. Blue Moves ended it all....Caribou and Rock of the Westies slowed him down, but Blue Moves stopped everything....a double album with only Sorry Seems to Be as the big hit (his weakest among his #1s) and entire sides of what seemed uninspired music. Then the follow up - A Single Man - was his first without Bernie and his first without a number 1.....and the follow ups to ASM just got worse and worse.
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