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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.
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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.
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Posted: June 01 2015 at 01:39
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
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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.
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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'......
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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)
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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.......
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Posted: June 04 2015 at 04:15
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
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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......
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Posted: June 04 2015 at 07:16
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
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