Elton John: Goodbye Yellow Brick Road - Disc 2 CD Track Listing
Elton John
Goodbye Yellow Brick Road - Disc 2 (1973)
Goodbye Yellow Brick Road - Disc 2 of 2 (Japanese Pressing)\n1987 MCA Records, Inc.\n\nOriginally Released October 1973\nMCA 2CD Edition Released 1987 ??\nRemastered 1CD Edition Released February 20, 1996\nGold CD Edition Released November 3, 1989, Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab Catalog 526\nJapanese Mini LP Version Released September 27, 2001\nHybrd SACD Edition Released November 25, 2003\nDVD-Audio Edition Released April 27, 2004\n2001 Victor Entertainment, Inc. - Japan\n\nAlbum Details (Mini LP CD Packaging)\nDigitally remastered Japanese limited edition featuring a miniature LP style sleeve for initial pressing. \n\nAMG 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\n\nAmazon.com essential recording \nRarely mentioned as one of the great double albums, Goodbye Yellow Brick Road had to settle for ending up in a few million record collections. So sprawling that it doesn't quite measure up to the earlier, more laid-back Honky Chateau or the later, pushy Rock of the Westies, this still holds claim to a lot of brilliant, very pop-savvy music: the winking rebellion of "Bennie and the Jets" and "Saturday Night's Alright for Fighting," the ready-made nostalgia of "The Ballad of Danny Bailey," the downbeat melodicism of "Harmony." --Rickey Wright \n\nCD Now Review (August 25, 1999)\nBack in the 1970s, long before he dominated '90s radio with sappy ballads penned for cartoon soundtracks, Elton John was an outrageous rock & roller who consistently topped the singles and album charts. He was, along with Led Zeppelin, the biggest thing to come out of England since the Beatles. \nJohn's most acclaimed album, by his fans and critics alike, is 1973's Goodbye Yellow Brick Road. A two-LP set was usually the epitome of bloated artistic self-indulgence, but not in this case. Spreading out across a number of styles and moods, it's nonetheless a coherent listening experience, tied together by John's talent for memorable melodies and Bernie Taupin's mix of vernacular lyrics and high-flown poetry. \n\nFrom the first track, this album sets itself apart: "Funeral for a Friend/Love Lies Bleeding" combines a long, moody instrumental featuring John's piano skills with an intense lament of love lost. "Candle in the Wind" has been the butt of jokes since Elton updated it for Princess Diana's funeral, but in its original form as a tribute to Marilyn Monroe, it's sentimental but effective. The #1 hit "Bennie and the Jets" is a rollicking rocker about a fictional band (that has found new life in 1999 at Shea Stadium as the themesong of Bennie Agbayani of the New York Mets). \n\nOther highlights include the ballad title track, the rowdy party anthem "Saturday Night's Alright for Fighting," the cowboy tribute "Roy Rogers," and the pretty "Harmony." After a quarter of a century, Elton John still hasn't topped this peak album. -- Steve Holtje,\nCDNOW Senior Editor\n\nCopyright
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- Elton John - Harmony (02:45)
