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List Price: $24.98 | | Label: Island
Salesrank: 53027
Released: September 23, 2008 |
| Our Price: $14.93 |
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| Media: Vinyl |
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Goodbye Yellow Brick Road Track Listing:
1. Funeral for a Friend (Love Lies Bleeding)
2. Candle in the Wind
3. Bennie and the Jets
4. Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
5. This Song Has No Title
6. Grey Seal
7. Jamaica Jerk Off
8. I've Seen That Movie Too
9. Sweet Painted Lady
10. Ballad of Danny Bailey (1909-1934)
11. Dirty Little Girl
12. All the Girls Love Alice
13. Your Sister Can't Twist (But She Can Rock 'n Roll)
14. Saturday Night's Alright for Fighting
15. Roy Rogers
16. Social Disease
17. Harmony
Editorial Review:
UK 2 x LP pressing. Contains a voucher enabling the purchaser to download MP3 versions of the songs within. Tracks, LP1 - Funeral For A Friend/Love Lies Bleeding (Album Version); Candle In The Wind (Album Version); Bennie & The Jets (Live); Goodbye Yellow Brick Road; This Song Has No Title; Grey Seal (Version 1973); Jamaica Jerk-Off; I've Seen That Movie Too. LP2 - Sweet Painted Lady; The Ballad Of Danny Bailey (1909-1934); Dirty Little Girl; All The Girls Love Alice; Your Sister Can't Twist (But She Rock n' Roll; Saturday Night's Alright For Fighting; Roy Rogers; Social Disease and Harmony.
Description of Goodbye Yellow Brick Road:
Rarely mentioned as one of the great double albums, Goodbye Yellow Brick Road had to settle for ending up in a few million record collections. So sprawling that it doesn't quite measure up to the earlier, more laid-back Honky Chateau or the later, pushy Rock of the Westies, this still holds claim to a lot of brilliant, very pop-savvy music: the winking rebellion of "Bennie and the Jets" and "Saturday Night's Alright for Fighting," the ready-made nostalgia of "The Ballad of Danny Bailey," the downbeat melodicism of "Harmony." --Rickey Wright
Goodbye Yellow Brick Road Reviews:
benie and the jets on the yellow brick road 
2009-12-10 - the 16 songs featured on Goodbye Yellow Brick Road are arguably the finest of his many collaborations with Bernie Taupin. From the solemn-turned-rocking Funeral for a Friend/Loves Lies Bleeding to the ballad Harmony, John gives us a splendid example of what one writer once labeled as "his superlative musical perception."
Perfect
2009-11-19 - This album is perfect from the opening synth sweep to the closing ballad and is a truly deserving five-star album. There is not a dud track and the best songs are the ones you don't hear very often. This album saw the boys at their creative peaks. To just rip songs like this out with endless confidence must be so rewarding. A personal favourite no doubt, and the DVD-Audio version contains three bonus tracks that are also just magnificent. I could never tire of GYBR. Thankfully it's a double album. So much quality crammed into such as a small time frame. Love it, love it, love it.
Excellent
2009-05-29 - Fast shipping and in excellent shape.Not a scratch-I love it and wish I could buy all my used CD's from the same person.Thanks!
Probably his best era
2009-05-25 - In my opinion this is probably the best era for Elton John as well as many other musicians during that time. Not that I'm casting any doubt on the fine quality of his music in succeeding years, but this style of music with complex melodic arrangements and accompanying guitars to back his piano stylings heralds a time when music was an odyssey into the imagination.
One Of The Great Double Albums Of All-Time
2009-05-04 - "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road" is, for many people, the best Elton John album ever released. A double album gave his fans plenty of tracks to listen to, and he and Bernie Taupin were at the peak of their collaborative efforts. Even now when looking back at Elton's entire career up to now, this album stands out as one of the high-points, if not the high point of his long and tremendous career.
The album has a tremendous start as "Funeral for a Friend" is a great opening for the album, building to a magnificent crescendo and then transforming into "Love Lies Bleeding" which is the other part of the first track. "Candle in the Wind" is a piece which seems to get more and more popular as time goes on, and of course Elton reworked it when Princess Diana passed away in a tribute to her. Though I was never a huge fan of "Bennie and the Jets", one can appreciate the diversity it brings to the album as well as its reaching number one on the charts. Oddly enough Elton didn't want it on side one of the album, nor did he want it released as a single. "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road" is of course the title track and was the opening track on side two of the double album and is one of Elton John's best songs of all time. "This Song has No Title" is the next piece, and not surprisingly it is a step down in quality from the first four tracks, though still very pleasant as is "Grey Seal" which follows. "Jamaica Jerk-Off" is an enjoyable light piece leading into the more somber "I've Seen That Movie Too", which is a strong finish to the first half of the double album.
"Sweet Painted Lady" is a fairly weak start to the second half of the album, as it is one of my least favorite tracks on the album. It is not horrible, but fairly average in my view. "The Ballad of Danny Bailey (1909-34)" is a step back in the right direction, though still not as good as a lot of the other tracks, and "Dirty Little Girl" is a bit better, but the quality really goes up again with "All the Girls Love Alice" which closes out side three of the original release. "Your Sister Can't Twist (But She Can Rock & Roll) is another of the weak tracks, but it is worth sitting through to get to "Saturday Night's Alright for Fighting". "Roy Rogers" and "Social Disease" are both quirky but enjoyable, and then the album closes fairly strong with "Harmony".
Elton John plays a variety of keyboards and sings on all the tracks and is joined by his band which consists of: Dee Murray (bass, backing vocals); Davey Johnstone (guitars, backing vocals, banjo); Nigel Olsson (drums, percussion, backing vocals). There are also some guests on the album including: David Hentschel (synthesizer on "Funeral for a Friend/Love Lies Bleeding" and "All the Girls Love Alice"); Prince Rhino (interjection vocals on "Jamaica Jerk-Off"; Ray Cooper (tambourine on "All the Girls Love Alice"); Kiki Dee (backing vocals on "All the Girls Love Alice"); and Leroy Gomez (saxophone on "Social Disease").
A wonderful album which captures Elton John at his best. Over 76 minutes of wonderful music and lyrics from one of the great song-writing duos, and performed by a legend at his peak. Definitely worth picking up unless you just don't like Elton John.
