Top 7 Elton John Albums

It's another Empty Sky above Nottingham today with barely any passenger planes flying over the city since the beginning of the Covid-19 outbreak. I'm listening to Elton John right now and I'm reminded that there's a Tumbleweed Connection with our empty cities, which have been like virtual ghost towns during lockdown. It conjures up images of tumbleweed blowing down empty streets with shuttered shops and closed  pubs and restaurants where we used to dine out with Friends in happier times gone by. Covid-19 has given rise to all sorts of batty conspiracy theories from the likes of David Icke and Alex Jones - the arch-conspiracy theorist  and Madman Across the Water in America. Anyway, it's best just to get on with living our lives as normally as possible, as we can't all live in isolation in some Honky Chateau in the heart of France. By the way,  I wonder how many people know that Elton John was a good friend of Groucho Marx... At a party attended by the pair, Groucho held up a thumb and forefinger in the shape of a pretend gun, and Elton held up his hands and said "Don't Shoot Me, I'm Only the Player Player". True story! After that preamble, it's time for another Top 7 albums poll, where Elton's classic Goodbye Yellow Brick Road must be the hot favourite to win, with the dismal follow-up album Caribou unlikely to pick up any votes at all. Gus Dudgeon disparagingly called the album "a piece of crap"  - and he was the producer! And so, it's on with the show, with a man whose stage outfits are as outrageously over-the-top as Captain Fantastic himself. 

Edited by Psychedelic Paul - May 05 2021 at 11:45

1. Madman Across the Water
2. Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy
3. Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
4. Don't Shoot Me Im the Piano Player
5. Tumbleweed Connection
6. Elton John
7. A Single Man

I reccomend to listen to the Diving Board, it have some beutifull and deep (and complex) songs, very classicaly inclined. Some of hes best piano-playing is featured.

1. Madman Across the Water

A pattern is already emerging. Although there are a few albums that are not shared by (m)any, there are some definite contenders for the top seven. Even if you were not to weight them, I think it’s still reasonably obvious what they will be.

This is how the Top 7 is shaping up so far after the first six rounds of voting:-

Edited by Psychedelic Paul - May 05 2021 at 07:41

Tumbleweed Connection is perhaps the best americana styled album made by a non-american, alongside Gary Rafferty/Steelers Wheeler releases

Edited by Icarium - May 11 2021 at 00:32

It's good to see the final Top 7 includes most of Elton John's classic albums from the early 1970's era. 

mellotronwave wrote: Psychedelic Paul wrote: It's good to see the final Top 7 includes most of Elton John's classic albums from the early 1970's era.  of course ! Just before he turned syrup and disco