Elton John - Goodbye Yellow Brick Road [40th Anniversary Edition] (2014) FLAC Beolab1700

Elton John - Goodbye Yellow Brick Road [40th Anniversary Edition] (2014) FLAC Beolab1700



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Elton John - Goodbye Yellow Brick Road [40th Anniversary Edition] CD1
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Artist...............: Elton John
Album................: Goodbye Yellow Brick Road [40th Anniversary Edition] CD1
Genre................: Rock
Source...............: CD
Year.................: 2014
Ripper...............: EAC (Secure mode) / LAME 3.92 & Asus CD-S520
Codec................: Free Lossless Audio Codec (FLAC)
Version..............: reference libFLAC 1.3.0 20130526
Quality..............: Lossless, (avg. compression: 64 %)
Channels.............: Stereo / 44100 HZ / 16 Bit
Tags.................: VorbisComment
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Posted by............: Beolab1700 on 04/04/2014

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Tracklisting
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CD1: The Landmark Album (2014 Remaster)

01. Funeral For a Friend / Love Lies Bleeding
02. Candle In the Wind
03. Bennie and the Jets
04. Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
05. This Song Has No Title
06. Grey Seal
07. Jamaica Jerk-Off
08. I’ve Seen That Movie Too
09. Sweet Painted Lady
10. The Ballad of Danny Bailey (1909 – 34)
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

CD2: Revisited and Beyond

01. Ed Sheeran – Candle In the Wind
02. Miguel feat. Wale – Bennie and the Jets
03. Hunter Hayes – Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
04. The Band Perry – Grey Seal
05. John Grant – Sweet Painted Lady
06. Emeli Sande – All the Girls Love Alice
07. Imelda May – Your Sister Can’t Twist (But She Can Rock’n’ Roll)
08. Fall Out Boy – Saturday Night’s Alright For Fighting
09. Zac Brown Band – Harmony
10. Grey Seal (Piano Demo)
11. Grey Seal (Version 1970)
12. Jack Rabbit
13. Whenever You’re Ready (We’ll Go Steady Again)
14. Screw You (Young Man’s Blues)
15. Candle In the Wind (Acoustic Mix)
16. Step Into Christmas
17. Ho! Ho! Ho! (Who’d Be a Turkey At Christmas)
18. Philadelphia Freedom
19. Pinball Wizard

CD3: Live at Hammersmith Odeon (1973)

01. Funeral For a Friend/ Love Lies Bleeding
02. Candle In the Wind
03. Hercules
04. Rocket Man
05. Bennie and the Jets
06. Daniel
07. This Song Has No Title
08. Honky Cat

CD4: Live at Hammersmith Odeon (1973)

01. Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
02. The Ballad of Danny Bailey (1909-1934)
03. Elderberry Wine
04. Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer
05. I’ve Seen That Movie Too
06. All the Girls Love Alice
07. Crocodile Rock
08. Your Song
09. Saturday Night’s Alright For Fighting

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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 Ten 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 that go a long way toward explaining the overstuffed 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.
The 40th Anniversary edition of Goodbye Yellow Brick Road expands the album to a whopping five discs. The first CD is devoted to the album itself, while the second combines nine covers by contemporary acts with B-sides, outtakes, and other stray tracks from the mid-’70s; the third and fourth discs showcase an excellent live show from 1973 at Hammersmith, leaving the DVD to present the 1973 documentary Elton John & Bernie Taupin Say Goodbye to Norma Jean and Other Things. The covers have nothing compelling but are usually pleasant, with the highlights being Band Perry’s insistent read of “Grey Seal,” John Grant’s contemplative “Sweet Painted Lady,” Imelda May’s swinging “Your Sister Can’t Twist,” Fall Out Boy’s balls-out “Saturday Night’s Alright for Fighting,” and Zac Brown Band’s “Harmony,” which keeps the song rooted in the ’70s. The bonus tracks are a weird batch, containing some singles that popped up on the ’90s Don’t Shoot Me I’m Only the Piano Player expansion and “Philadelphia Freedom,” a non-LP 1975 hit that has nothing to do with Goodbye Yellow Brick Road, but they’re all good: “Whenever You’re Ready (We’ll Go Steady Again)” and “Screw You (Young Man’s Blues)” are hard, humorous rockers and “Step into Christmas”/”Ho! Ho! Ho! (Who’d Be a Turkey for Christmas)” is one of the great ’70s rock Christmas singles, with the flip being one of the rare songs from a superstar that sounds designed for Dr. Demento. The live show is energetic and deep, illustrating how strong John’s catalog already was and how good he was in front of an audience. There’s not a bad note of music here, and it’s worthwhile for the superfans.

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