CD 17 tracks, 76:12
General Rock
Elton John - Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
Mercury (1973)
In Collection
#24

Rating:
7
01  Funeral For A Friend (Love Lies Bleeding) 11:09
02  Candle in the Wind 03:49
03  Bennie and the Jets 05:23
04  Goodbye Yellow Brick Road 03:13
05  This Song Has No Title 02:23
06  Grey Seal 04:00
07  Jamaica Jerk-Off 03:38
08  I've Seen That Movie Too 05:58
09  Sweet Painted Lady 03:54
10  The Ballad of Danny Bailey(1909-34) 04:23
11  Dirty Little Girl 05:01
12  All The Girls Love Alice 05:09
13  Your Sister Can't Twist (but she can rock 'n roll) 02:42
14  Saturday Night's Alright For Fighting 04:53
15  Roy Rogers 04:08
16  Social Disease 03:43
17  Harmony 02:46
Personal Details
Purchase Date 1/22/2001
Price $17.99
Store Sam Goody
Details
Spars DDD
Sound Stereo
Notes
Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
Artist Elton John
Album Title Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
Date of Release Oct ??, 1973 (release) inprint
AMG Rating (Best-of-Artist)
Genre Rock
Styles Pop/Rock, Soft Rock, Singer/Songwriter, Rock & Roll
Time 76:12

AMG EXPERT REVIEW: Goodbye Yellow Brick Road was where Elton John's personality began to gather more attention than his music, as it topped the American charts for eight straight weeks. In many ways, the double album was a recap of all the styles and sounds that made John a star. Goodbye Yellow Brick Road is all over the map, beginning with the prog-rock epic "Funeral for a Friend (Love Lies Bleeding)" and immediately careening into the balladry of "Candle in the Wind." For the rest of the album, John leaps between pop-craft ("Bennie and the Jets"), ballads ("Goodbye Yellow Brick Road"), hard rock ("Saturday Night's Alright for Fighting"), novelties ("Jamaica Jerk-Off"), Taupin's literary pretensions ("The Ballad of Danny Bailey") and everything in between. Though its diversity is impressive, the album doesn't hold together very well. Even so, its individual moments are spectacular and the glitzy, crowd-pleasing showmanship that fuels the album pretty much defines what made Elton John a superstar in the early '70s. -- Stephen Thomas Erlewine

Elton John - Organ, Piano, Keyboards, Piano (Electric), Vocals, Mellotron, Farfisa Organ
Kiki Dee - Vocals (bckgr)
Davey Johnstone - Synthesizer, Guitar (Acoustic), Guitar, Guitar (Electric), Vocals, Vocals (bckgr), Slide Guitar
Leroy Gomez - Saxophone
Ray Cooper - Percussion, Tambourine
David Katz - Violin, Orchestra Contractor
Gus Dudgeon - Producer, Liner Notes
David Hentschel - Synthesizer, Keyboards, Engineer
Dee Murray - Bass, Vocals (bckgr)
Del Newman - Arranger
Nigel Olsson - Conga, Drums, Tambourine, Vocals (bckgr)
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