It was designed to be a blockbuster and it was spilling over two LPs, which was all the better to showcase every element of John’s spangled personality. It is good but is it double album good?
289 Elton John – Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
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What an insanely great album. Even the cheesy songs that have been played to death on the radio sound better in the context of this record because it’s so well put together. But you have the classic double album problem of there being stuff that could have been cut to leave you with a much stronger single album.
Honestly though, Elton John might have been the best in the world at this time. What was Stevie Wonder doing? Innervisions. Well, he was up there. If he wasn’t the absolute best, most interesting, recording artist in the world in 1973, he was without question in the conversation. Also, holy shit, Google “albums 1973”. Shit is crazy. We haven’t had as many truly great albums in the last 24 years as came out just in 1973.
This album is big, weird, overstuffed, silly, bombastic and insane. Everyone should hear this.
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