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    Posted: January 21 2016 at 18:05
which of these two Elton double albums do you favour, Blue Moves is underrated so i reccomend hearing that before voting.
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Direct Link To This Post 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.....
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 23 2016 at 07:42
there are progy moments on Blue Moves too
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 23 2016 at 08:22
Goodbye Yellow Brick Road is the best album Elton made, and one of the best of the 70s.
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Direct Link To This Post 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
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 25 2016 at 01:41
Originally posted by Tom Ozric 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
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 26 2016 at 12:32
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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Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 26 2016 at 18:40
Im listening now on The Diving Board ( newest album) some of he best piano playing is on that, more classical tinged then one would believe

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