ELTON JOHN Goodbye Yellow Brick Road 2x YELLOW VINYL UK73 3X FOLDOUT SLEEVE NM
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2XLP YELLOW MARBLED VINYL
ARTIST: ELTON JOHN
TITLE: GOODBYE YELLOW BRICK ROADI
LABEL + YEAR: DJM DJE 29001; UK 1st PRESS 1973
CONDITION VINYL:
NEAR-MINT YELLOW MARBLED VINYL
CONDITION SLEEVE: TRI FOLD OUT SLEEVE NEAR-MINT
DESCRIPTION: All Music Review by Stephen Thomas Erlewine
It was designed to be a blockbuster and it was. Prior to Goodbye Yellow Brick Road, Elton John had hits -- his second album, Elton John, went Top 10 in the U.S. and U.K., and he had smash singles in "Crocodile Rock" and "Daniel" -- but this 1973 album was a statement of purpose spilling over two LPs, which was all the better to showcase every element of John's spangled personality. Opening with the 11-minute melodramatic exercise "Funeral for a Friend/Love Lies Bleeding" -- as prog as Elton ever got -- Goodbye Yellow Brick Road immediately embraces excess but also tunefulness, as John immediately switches over to "Candle in the Wind" and "Bennie & the Jets," two songs that form the core of his canon and go a long way toward explaining the over-stuffed appeal of Goodbye Yellow Brick Road.
This was truly the debut of Elton John the entertainer, the pro who knows how to satisfy every segment of his audience, and this eagerness to please means the record is giddy but also overwhelming, a rush of too much muchness. Still, taken a side at a time, or even a song a time, it is a thing of wonder, serving up such perfectly sculpted pop songs as "Grey Seal," full-bore rockers as "Saturday Night's Alright for Fighting" and "Your Sister Can't Twist (But She Can Rock & Roll)," cinematic ballads like "I've Seen That Movie Too," throwbacks to the dusty conceptual sweep of Tumbleweed Connection in the form of "The Ballad of Danny Bailey (1909-34)," and preposterous glam novelties, like "Jamaica Jerk-Off."
This touched on everything John did before, and suggested ways he'd move in the near-future, and that sprawl is always messy but usually delightful, a testament to Elton's '70s power as a star and a musician.
Side 1:
FUNERAL FOR A FRIEND
LOVE LIES BLEEDING
CANDLE IN THE WIND
BENNIE AND THE JETS
Side 2:
GOOBYE YELLOW BRICK ROAD
THIS SONG HAS NO TITLE
GREY SEAL
JAMAICA JERK- OFF
I’VE SEEN THAT MOVIE TOO
Side 3:
SWEET PAINTED LADY
THE BALLAD OF DANNY BAILEY (1909-34)
DIRTY LITTLE GIRL
ALL THE GIRLS LOVE ALICE
Side 4:
YOUR SISTER CAN’T TWIST (BUT SHE CAN ROCK ‘N’ ROLL)
SATURDAY NIGHT’S ALRIGHT FOR FIGHTING
ROY ROGERS
SOCIAL DISEASE
HARMONY
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