Binge MusicCast – Elton John Album Review
Through a glass eye your throne
Is the one danger zone
Take me to the pilot for control
Take me to the pilot of your soul
The Binge MusicCast is back with an album review of another classic artist and this time around, it’s Elton John.
This is one of my personal favorite MusicCasts that we’ve done so far. Not because I’m a huge fan of Elton John (although now I consider myself to be) but because I got my ass thoroughly schooled in this episode. And you can thank my co-hosts MovieFreak and Professor Rob (from The Beatles Episode) for that.
For me, I was pretty much only familiar with Elton’s hits: Goodbye Yellow Brick Road, Your Song, Rocket Man. But doing homework for this podcast revealed a whole wealth of 70s gold (a decade I’m a sucker for). From singer/songwriter, folksy ditties to broader more elaborate showmanship/entertainer productions, the evolution of Elton John in the 70s is pretty interesting. I mention this in the podcast but for some reason I associated Elton with the late 70s/early 80s and it was pretty eye opening to know that he had done his best work by 1975 and never recovered. Incredible to me.
I gotta thank MovieFreak and Professor Rob for, in all honesty, doing the majority of the heavy lifting in this show. Although I listened to the albums for homework (Elton John through Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy), their extensive knowledge and breakdown of albums, their themes and tracking the trajectory of Elton John is something I wouldn’t have provided.
Though we didn’t use a typical “top songs/albums” format for this show, what did you think?
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