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Madman Across the Water

June 18th, 2010 by aussieboy63

I am not even going to try and do justice to the great Sir Elton John in an introduction except to say that over 30 years he has given us over 30 albums and sold over 250 million copies.  His song Candle in the Wind probably is still a song most equate with him, coming off the Goodbye Yellow Brick Road album.

My favorite album I am going to talk about is actually Madman Across the Water which was released in 1971, and despite how much I love this album it remains his lowest charting album in the UK.  That does not worry me the least because I turn the CD on and listen to the whole album and just take it in.

“Tiny Dancer” and “Levon” launch the album and when you listen to “Tiny Dancer” and here those signature high notes of Elton before his throat surgery the old goose bumps come back.  Quite a few of the songs have that Tumbleweed sound, especially “Razor Face” but I just love his early stuff so I have a true bias. 

“Madman Across the Water” is a haunting song balancing some great guitar sounds with classical backing sounds and is of course the title track.  Apparently this song was to be on the previous album, but they held it back to lead of this album, and I am glad they did.  The whole album is very tight with its sound and its theme and deserves more recognition, but such is the fickle nature of critics and fans

“Rotten Peaches” is also worth a listen because it is more up tempo, but continues the really individual sound of this album.  At this time Elton and lyricist Bernie Taupin provided us with project albums all with their own unique sound.  Not like these days where artists discover a beat and bleed it to death.

I will close here, perhaps rightly so, with the final track on the album “Goodbye” which although only 1:48 is a beautiful finish to a great album.  I love this album and it remains to this day one of my favorites.

Friday will be music day from now on, so I will go through the old CDs, and yes, Vinyl to see what I can bring you next week

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