What are some of your favorite songs by Elton John?

[Moonglow]

The Left Wingers are shocked at what the English call cigarettes.

Fags are sticks that light fires. Big deal.

 

[playtime]

Fags are sticks that light fires. Big deal.

& sausages are called bangers for a reason.

 

[AlexanderPK]

Crocodile Rock
and all of the above of course.

 

[QuickHitCurepon]

I really like"Yell Help/ Ugly" and "Grow Some Funk of Your Own" from the very good album Rock of the Westies, and I really love the Caribou album.

 

[Cougarbear]

Saturday is like the song Rhonda, Rhonda that the Beach Boys sing at concerts. The only song that gets the entire crowd to their feet dancing and feeling good. The other songs are great and composed amazingly. But, Saturday is the one that moves people's emotions to get up and dance.

 

[justoffal]

My favorites include "Your Song", "Daniel", "Honky Cat", "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road" and "Someone Saved My Life Tonight".

Pretty much all of them

 

[toobfreak]

My favorites include "Your Song", "Daniel", "Honky Cat", "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road" and "Someone Saved My Life Tonight".

I remember in grade school seeing a classmate with an Elton John album for the first time. Of course, I assumed they meant: Elton, John. So I asked them: "Who is John Elton?"

I also enjoyed the bits Elton contributed on the LSD music musical movie: 'Tommy".

And no, while I don't count myself as any great Elton fan, I do have several of his albums, count him as at the very top of the mainstream artist genre bordering on epic, and no--- now that he is open about his divergent sexuality, that is really not important to me.

I guess I judge him as an artist purely on his musical work alone, and if I had to pick a song, I'd have to say there is no song of his I like better than Yellow Brick Road. That song just exudes all that it quintessential Elton.

 

[WelfareQueen]

Grew up with him. Like most all of them. But to name a few.

Rocket Man
Grey Seal
Burn Down the Mission
I've Seen That Movie Too
Levon

 

[whoisit]

My favorite, had his 8 tract in the 70s.

 

[AlexanderPK]

My favorite, had his 8 tract in the 70s.

I remember listening to a BBC English teaching program where they were breaking down the lyrics of this song.

 

[leftwinger]

On the 1970 album "Tumbleweed Connection." Jazz musician Johnny Van Derek played the fiddle solo, and Gordon Huntley of Matthews Southern Comfort played pedal steel guitar. Nigel Olsson and Dee Murray sang backup. The lyrics have a combination of influences from American folk life and the countryside of Bernie Taupin's childhood in Lincolnshire, England.

 

[CrusaderFrank]

For our friend, Tinydancer

 

[JLW]

 

[AlexanderPK]

I refused to believe when they said that he was, well, you know... Kind of a tragic moment in life. What the **** is wrong with these people?

 

[whoisit]

Never heard this one ,thanks.

 

[Failzero]

“ Pinky “ / “ Solar Prestiege au Gammon “

 

[Mack The Finger]

I bet that most young folks do not know where the Yellow Brick Road came from.
Back in the 60s and 70s the TV networks used to show The Wizard of Oz about once per year.

Great Post !

 

[Twisted Gypsy Child]

what a groovy song. All the Girls Love Alice.

 

[Clipper]

Keith Richards wanted to beat the shit out of him when he jumped on stage with the Stones to do one song then wouldn't leave until Richards gave him a look that could melt steel. Richards later said he was just a "poser".