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List Price: $9.98 | | Label: Island
Salesrank: 2619
Released: May 14, 1996 |
| Our Price: $3.93 |
| Used Price: $3.55 |
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| Media: Audio CD |
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Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy Track Listing:
1. Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy
2. Tower of Babel
3. Bitter Fingers
4. Tell Me When the Whistle Blows
5. Someone Saved My Life Tonight
6. (Gotta Get A) Meal Ticket
7. Better Off Dead
8. Writing
9. We All Fall in Love Sometimes
10. Curtains
11. Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds - Elton John, Lennon, John
12. One Day (At a Time) - Elton John, Lennon, John
13. Philadelphia Freedom
Editorial Review:
Elton John has always liked having it both ways. He's flamboyant and vain, yet empathetic and sincere. He sits at his piano playing sentimental melodies, but the words come not from inside his soul but from friend Bernie Taupin. For Captain Fantastic, he and Taupin wrote a concept album which sketches their career together. "Someone Saved My Life Tonight" is easily the strongest song outside of the concept. The addition of several songs "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" featuring John Lennon, "Philadelphia Freedom," and "One Day at a Time" blow the concept but up the entertainment value considerably. --Rob O'Connor
Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy Reviews:
Elton John - The Story Of Elton And Bernie's Early Days In The Music Business 
2008-10-26 - For me this is probably Elton's last great album. The rest of the 70's, 80's, 90's, and 00's would find him putting out rather inconsistent material that although having high points never was as cohesive as this, or his previous couple of albums. "Captain Fantastic" is a concept album that tells the story of Elton and Bernie's early years and their rise to fame and fortune. The album only contained one hit single, "Someone Saved My Life Tonight" which to my ears ranks up with the very best songs the duo ever wrote together. It remains a great song and one that I never tire of. The rest of the album tells the story from the opening title track to the closer "Curtains" chronicling the duos highs and lows trying to make it in the music business of the late 60's and early 70's. The album has held up remarkable well, with only the disco-ish "Tell Me When The Whistle Blows" sounding overly dated. The period between 1970 and 1975 were the nadir of Elton John and Bernie Taupin's creative output and "Captain Fantastic" would prove to be the end of an era for the duo. Second only to "Yellow Brick Road" in the Elton John catalogue "Captain Fantastic" is an essential Elton album.
Captian Fantastic is Fantastic!
2008-08-28 - One of the BEST Elton John albums EVER! Grew up with the album and could not find the CD for years. So glad that I searched Amazon! This is the only CD that rides in my truck and I listen to it at least once a week.
Great Album...
2008-07-21 - For those of us that came of age in the early 80's..... this album brings back bittersweet memories........... this album is.....well....Fantastic...
Fantastic CAPTAIN FANTASTIC
2008-04-19 - What can I say it is Sir Elton John! This was a replacement to my daughter's collection. It arrived very promptly; the price was excellent; we are very satisfied.
Welcome back Cap'n Fantastic
2008-04-18 - This is one of my favorite albums of Elton John. It is nice to have it back in my collection.
