Probably "Philadelphia Freedom" next, but if you went for "Daniel" or "The Bitch Is Back" next, that would be almost as good. You should hear all 3 songs eventually.
THANKS for posting!! Because it’s the album version, those of us can, 50 yrs later, KNOW every word, inflection, and nuance of this song. And it feels like it was just released yesterday. #TheFabricOfOurLives!!
The album 'Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy' was an autobiographical album of how Elton and Bernie got started. This song is based on a time that Elton tried to commit 'suicide' and he was stopped. He had gotten engaged to be married and couldn't go through with it. His friend, Long John Baldry 'Sugar Bear' talked him out of it also. Bernie wrote these lyrics for that time in their life. As to how they worked, Bernie would write the lyrics, and pass them to Elton, either in person with some song/albums when he was there at the recording studio, or send them by mail, and then electronically when that capability came about. Elton then on his own would put the melody to the lyrics, and record with the band.
I forget if it was Bernie or someone else came in and saw Elton with his head in an oven but it was resting on a pillow and instead of shock being the first reaction it was how absurd it was and the person actually laughed. Fortunately he got help and began to understand more about himself and he has made so much more great music for us all.
This is my very first album that I purchased with my own money. I also remember the price, it was a whopping $4.98. It had a booklet inside the cover with the lyrics to every song on the album!! I think I was around 10-12 years old! 70’s had the best music.
we had as kids also.i found an original.cooy g.c. at an estate sale has the booklet and mini poster of the cover think original shrink was 4.98 sticker i paid 10 at the sale store would have been at least 20 original.pressing has the cover art on the label.
A karmic debt repaid, then, because the song is based upon Elton's real-life suicide attempt as a young man when his girlfriend tried to pressure him into marrying her. The cool thing about this song is that Bernie Taupin and Elton John were so in sync with each other that Bernie could write a set of lyrics about Elton's suicide attempt and then Elton, without batting an eye, put it to music and recorded it with his band. What's more, he then insisted that his record label (MCA) release it as a single despite the fact that it was 6 minutes and 45 seconds long.
Bernie writes lyrics then gives to Elton, then magic happens. The Making of Goodbye Yellowbrick Road is a fantastic documentary. All your questions about, Bernie, Elton and the band is answered. You won’t be sorry.
Based on your questions about how he writes, it seems very clear that you still haven't seen ROCKET MAN! Absolutely worth a watch, especially once you've already listened to all the songs featured in the film
I heard this song on the radio in middle school and knew my mom knew a lot of Elton's songs. I "sang" rather poorly the piano chords for her and she thought it was "Madman Across the Water," so I bought that album on CD and thus began my lifelong obsession with Elton and Bernie. Eventually figured out this was the song I meant. ❤
I didn’t fully realize what an amazing musician he is till I saw him live. My daughter even said that she would have been happy if all he’d done was play piano all night.
Back in the day Elton was my favorite artist. I was in the US Navy in 1983 and some of my shipmates and I got to see him (with Quarterflash) at the Greek Theater at UC Berzerkley. Only $20😎 "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road" album was his masterpiece. Recommended Elton John rock song, "Saturday night's alright for fighting".
I believe that Bernie wrote the lyrics and Elton did EVERYTHING else. And while Bernie was closely connected to Elton that some lyrics were about Elton's life, the fact that Elton wrote the music, the arrangements and performed the songs is astounding. I often marvel at this.
Elton takes that falsetto from his influences by 50s music and turns it into something different. The fade ins an fade out of the background vocal, the voice doubling on key parts. Just masterful recording let alone the music.
This is Elton’s masterpiece. The entire album is an autobiography of his and Bernie’s early partnership. It’s not the most commercial but it is totally brilliant. This song starts in a place of dark despair and finishes in euphoric gratitude. It’s cathartic. Also the bass and drums are flawless. It’s my favorite song of all time.
This entire album is the BEST! I know Goodbye Yellowbrick Road was his monster album from this period, but Captain Fantastic was always my favorite, right behind Madman Across the Water. Captain Fantastic is one of those "complete package" albums/art pieces. If you guys can find a vinyl copy with the gatefold album cover and the lyric/artwork booklet, you will be amazed. The art and music are so perfect in this album!
Have been waiting for you lads to react to this absolute MASTERPIECE literally for years now... and you didn't fail! Every layer of this song is perfection... deep, involving lyrics... ear-candy musicianship... the song ebbing and flowing till the glorious cascading waterfall at the end that completely washes over the listener. I've heard this song thousands of times and I never tire of it. There is always something more to discover... another stroke of genius around the corner. Thanks for letting me relive experiencing this wondrous song all over again.
I was about 8 years old when my 15 year old brother gave me all of his singles in 1975/76. This, Philadelphia Freedom, the album Don't Shoot Me, I'm only a piano player, goodbye yellowbrick road... My brother only listened to Steve Hillage and Gong for years after my haul of great music. His loss...
as a record to hit, TUMBLEWEED CONNECTION or Madman Across the Water. Both excellent projects from 1970/1971. Dee Murray and Nigel Olsen in the groove like no other trio.
This isn’t a documentary but I highly recommend the movie Rocketman! It’s a musical based on his life, and how you described Elton coming up with something on a piano and then Bernie making the lyrics is how Sorry Seems To Be The Hardest Word was written.
Bernie hands the lyrics to Elton and he writes the music to it on the studio and records it that day. He writes the music within 30 minutes or less. Your Song took 15 minutes. It like magic!
You ask about Bernie and Elton's somgwriting process... Bernie Always wrote the lyrics out without Elton around... Then he gave them to Elton and he ran with it. Shows just how good the two of them asre. DOCUMENTARY - Separate Rooms is a great one... and they talk about the process.. (Of them writing in separate rooms). Oh yes.... and this is a masterclass in how to build a song.
Hidden GEMS and deep gold on this album!!! Try "Curtains/We all fall in love sometimes" It's really 2 songs, but there is a single key piano bridge from one song to the next and they are always coupled together on album and youtube searches.
Everything about this song is perfect. The building of the tension, dynamics, lyrics, piano, Elton’s emotion. Such a great song. Funny you mentioned the part where the song slowed down. With the click tracks in today’s music, I feel like music is lacking dynamic rhythm. It all sounds so repetitive and this song is a prime example of how much better music can be. This is my favorite Elton John album and one of the first albums I owned.
What us know what to hit next from Elton!! 🔥🔥
This clip/reaction was from the patreon vaults !
Philadelphia Freedom
We all fall in love / Curtains
"Lucy in the sky with diamonds".....!!!! (Better than the Beatles)
Probably "Philadelphia Freedom" next, but if you went for "Daniel" or "The Bitch Is Back" next, that would be almost as good. You should hear all 3 songs eventually.
Not sure if you've done it, but Empty Garden. It's his beautiful tribute to John Lennon
Thank God his music is still alive. . . ..
I'm always reminded that the piano is a percussion instrument when I hear Elton play.
Yes, and Elton's main drummer, Nigel Olsson, drives the point home.
@@TB-fk8ho Can't leave Ray Cooper out of the conversation.
Bernie and Elton are in different rooms. Bernie writes the lyrics and gives them to Elton who does the music. Amazing!
Sometimes he would write the lyrics and simply leave it on the piano for Elton to find.
This for me is a goosebump song.
Bernie Taupin is a great songwriter!
Yes and he doesn't get the recognition he deserves.
I really love that Elton is still loyal to him.
I just read today that George Harrison would disagree with that, which stunned me.
Taupin wrote lyrics, not the tunes.
That's what the comment says "Great songwriter"
Bernie was 'The Brown Dirt Cowboy"
THANKS for posting!! Because it’s the album version, those of us can, 50 yrs later, KNOW every word, inflection, and nuance of this song. And it feels like it was just released yesterday. #TheFabricOfOurLives!!
We are absolutely with you. Brother!
So accurate… ❤
1975 I was 9 years old. This is one of my favorite songs. His songs from the 70's are the best.
The album 'Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy' was an autobiographical album of how Elton and Bernie got started. This song is based on a time that Elton tried to commit 'suicide' and he was stopped. He had gotten engaged to be married and couldn't go through with it. His friend, Long John Baldry 'Sugar Bear' talked him out of it also. Bernie wrote these lyrics for that time in their life. As to how they worked, Bernie would write the lyrics, and pass them to Elton, either in person with some song/albums when he was there at the recording studio, or send them by mail, and then electronically when that capability came about. Elton then on his own would put the melody to the lyrics, and record with the band.
I forget if it was Bernie or someone else came in and saw Elton with his head in an oven but it was resting on a pillow and instead of shock being the first reaction it was how absurd it was and the person actually laughed. Fortunately he got help and began to understand more about himself and he has made so much more great music for us all.
My dad had this record…and the artwork always fascinated me!
THE ASSOCIATION. ALONG COMES MARY. NEVER MY LOVE. CHERISH. WINDY.
Never My love is such a good one
Requiem for the Masses--the best anti-war song
This is the record to listen to
One of my favorite tracks to sing in the car lol.
Top 10 artist of all-time for me personally
Top 1 or 2 for me
This is my very first album that I purchased with my own money. I also remember the price, it was a whopping $4.98. It had a booklet inside the cover with the lyrics to every song on the album!! I think I was around 10-12 years old! 70’s had the best music.
we had as kids also.i found an original.cooy g.c. at an estate sale has the booklet and mini poster of the cover think original shrink was 4.98 sticker i paid 10 at the sale store would have been at least 20 original.pressing has the cover art on the label.
Ditto.
I never bought the album but our library let me check it out about a hundred times😊 and portable record player too l
This song really did save my life one night, when I was 14 and thinking about opting out. Thank you Elton
A karmic debt repaid, then, because the song is based upon Elton's real-life suicide attempt as a young man when his girlfriend tried to pressure him into marrying her.
The cool thing about this song is that Bernie Taupin and Elton John were so in sync with each other that Bernie could write a set of lyrics about Elton's suicide attempt and then Elton, without batting an eye, put it to music and recorded it with his band. What's more, he then insisted that his record label (MCA) release it as a single despite the fact that it was 6 minutes and 45 seconds long.
I love You, I love your here to tell about it
Life is so Special and Music is a soul saver
You mean thank you Bernie Taupin
This song will remain timeless. So moving and beautiful vocals. Chills.
Bernie literally writes it on his own, posts it to Elton , who goes, oh yeah, i know how to put that to piano... two geniuses ..
IM N TEARS!!!!! magnificent
Have you NEVER heard this ????!!!
Bernie writes lyrics then gives to Elton, then magic happens. The Making of Goodbye Yellowbrick Road is a fantastic documentary. All your questions about, Bernie, Elton and the band is answered. You won’t be sorry.
Bernie wrote the lyrics, Elton wrote the music. That was the way they worked.
"Tantrums and Tiaras" is the documentary to understand Elton.
Worst seats but best concert I've ever seen. He is the ultimate performer.
Based on your questions about how he writes, it seems very clear that you still haven't seen ROCKET MAN! Absolutely worth a watch, especially once you've already listened to all the songs featured in the film
This is the first album I ever owned. And EJ was the first concert I ever attended, in 1975. Fan for life!
I read somewhere it refers to Sugar Bear who is Long John Baldry who get Elton to come out.
I love 'Curtains' from this album. Just beautiful.
Been too long since I've heard this gem...
Impeccable production the type of which you never hear anymore and possibly elton's best Eva!!🎶🎵💜
I heard this song on the radio in middle school and knew my mom knew a lot of Elton's songs. I "sang" rather poorly the piano chords for her and she thought it was "Madman Across the Water," so I bought that album on CD and thus began my lifelong obsession with Elton and Bernie. Eventually figured out this was the song I meant. ❤
I’m almost 57, and he had hits when I was in 2nd grade. Amazing.
Ttivia....that is Eltons persinal favorite of all his songs
This is my personal favorite of his. Glad you hit it.
'Tumbleweed Connection' is my favorite album by Elton
Saw him live 5 times. He ages like a fine wine. I even named my son Daniel.❤❤ Lyrics first then Elton writes the music. Genius's both.
I didn’t fully realize what an amazing musician he is till I saw him live. My daughter even said that she would have been happy if all he’d done was play piano all night.
As a teen, I played this and sang along over and over. It's one of my favorites if not my favorite of Elton's.
MADMAN ACROSS THE WATER!!
Back in the day Elton was my favorite artist. I was in the US Navy in 1983 and some of my shipmates and I got to see him (with Quarterflash) at the Greek Theater at UC Berzerkley.
Only $20😎
"Goodbye Yellow Brick Road" album was his masterpiece.
Recommended Elton John rock song, "Saturday night's alright for fighting".
Growing up in the mid seventies was the BEST ever! All these great Bands and songs! Ugh! The greatest!
I believe that Bernie wrote the lyrics and Elton did EVERYTHING else. And while Bernie was closely connected to Elton that some lyrics were about Elton's life, the fact that Elton wrote the music, the arrangements and performed the songs is astounding. I often marvel at this.
Elton takes that falsetto from his influences by 50s music and turns it into something different. The fade ins an fade out of the background vocal, the voice doubling on key parts. Just masterful recording let alone the music.
One of my all time favorite songs... epic !
My favorite Elton song.
one of my favorite Elton John songs.
You need to hit the amazing record that song was on, "Captain Fantastic And The Brown Dirt Cowboy". My favorite of his.
One of my favorite Elton songs. Love the slow build and chills when the band kicks in. "t's 4 o'clock in the morning damn it"
I loved reading through the book that came with the album back then. Still have both!
The most iconic and eclectic albmn that propelled Elton John to superstar status is IMHO, is Goodbye Yellow Brick Road. It is a must listen.
They've done an album reaction to it already.
RIP English
Dan Ingraham, and old disk jockey in NY, used to sing, Someone shaved my wife tonight. A great song regardless.
Bernie always faced his lyrics to Elton who then created the music. Always being the key word
A unique astonishing arrangement and partnership
This whole album is brilliant!
I close my eyes, and this song takes me back to a different time 🤗 I'm so glad my childhood was during the 70's and 80s!
Same here. Life was good.
I feel the same exact way
One of the best rom Reginald Dwight
This entire album is flawless and fire
Bernie would write the lyrics and mail them to Elton who would then put them to music. Magic!
This is Elton’s masterpiece. The entire album is an autobiography of his and Bernie’s early partnership. It’s not the most commercial but it is totally brilliant. This song starts in a place of dark despair and finishes in euphoric gratitude. It’s cathartic. Also the bass and drums are flawless. It’s my favorite song of all time.
Bernie writes it all. He gives them to Elton and he then puts music to it.
Don’t Let the Sun Go Down on Me…when the drum line & vocals hit…sublime music at its best
The best Elton John´s album !!!!!!!!
I really forget how great Elton was back then..sometimes I think about how lucky I was to have real timed the 70s and 80s music, it was so badass.
Those drums were tuned to perfection!!
An unimaginable collaboration....so damn good.
Bernie wrote lyrics, handed them off to Elton, then Elton put them to music. Magic
Elton john- funeral for a friend ❤
Incredible song. Always been one of my favourites
This song sinks deep in your marrow. One of Elton's top five in my book. Just searing honesty and vulnerability being expressed here lyrically.
Definitely one of his finest
My favorite song when I was a kid. Did not understand the mature topic until I listened to it through adult ears. Still in my top 10.
My favorite album!
I can't think of many songs at this slow pace that go so hard! The percussion is savage, hitting you over the head with the urgency of the situation.
Madman Across the Water.
This entire album is the BEST! I know Goodbye Yellowbrick Road was his monster album from this period, but Captain Fantastic was always my favorite, right behind Madman Across the Water. Captain Fantastic is one of those "complete package" albums/art pieces. If you guys can find a vinyl copy with the gatefold album cover and the lyric/artwork booklet, you will be amazed. The art and music are so perfect in this album!
yeh was telling other viewer i found the originsl at an estate sale has mini poster also one you never see local.indies at least local
I agree! This album is a no skip, amazing album.
This is my second favorite from Elton, if you've never heard " Tumbleweed Connection " give that one a listen, that's my favorite by him.
This album has always been a favorite tho this not my favorite song from it....I'd go with When the Whistle Blows
ONE OF MY FIRST ELTON ALBUMS TY FOR REACTING TO THIS SONG!!!!
Have been waiting for you lads to react to this absolute MASTERPIECE literally for years now... and you didn't fail! Every layer of this song is perfection... deep, involving lyrics... ear-candy musicianship... the song ebbing and flowing till the glorious cascading waterfall at the end that completely washes over the listener. I've heard this song thousands of times and I never tire of it. There is always something more to discover... another stroke of genius around the corner. Thanks for letting me relive experiencing this wondrous song all over again.
Probably one of the best vocal melodies ever written. Up there with hey Jude.
I was about 8 years old when my 15 year old brother gave me all of his singles in 1975/76.
This, Philadelphia Freedom, the album Don't Shoot Me, I'm only a piano player, goodbye yellowbrick road...
My brother only listened to Steve Hillage and Gong for years after my haul of great music.
His loss...
One of my favorite 8 tracks!!!! 😮 😂😊
Great recording timeless
People forget but Elton in the 70’s was huge…I believe he had like 5 straight number one albums in a row….great music in those years
Not many forgot.
Just love that song!! 🎶
as a record to hit, TUMBLEWEED CONNECTION or Madman Across the Water. Both excellent projects from 1970/1971. Dee Murray and Nigel Olsen in the groove like no other trio.
can't go wrong with Elton John. ❤
Nigel, Dee, Davey and Ray are the most under rated band ever!!!!
This isn’t a documentary but I highly recommend the movie Rocketman! It’s a musical based on his life, and how you described Elton coming up with something on a piano and then Bernie making the lyrics is how Sorry Seems To Be The Hardest Word was written.
Bernie hands the lyrics to Elton and he writes the music to it on the studio and records it that day. He writes the music within 30 minutes or less. Your Song took 15 minutes. It like magic!
Oh man Elton - when he was best he was out of this world.
You ask about Bernie and Elton's somgwriting process... Bernie Always wrote the lyrics out without Elton around... Then he gave them to Elton and he ran with it. Shows just how good the two of them asre.
DOCUMENTARY - Separate Rooms is a great one... and they talk about the process.. (Of them writing in separate rooms).
Oh yes.... and this is a masterclass in how to build a song.
This album has many great songs
Hidden GEMS and deep gold on this album!!! Try "Curtains/We all fall in love sometimes" It's really 2 songs, but there is a single key piano bridge from one song to the next and they are always coupled together on album and youtube searches.
Elton's voice is so all-consuming. He really owns his music, no apologies
Everything about this song is perfect. The building of the tension, dynamics, lyrics, piano, Elton’s emotion. Such a great song. Funny you mentioned the part where the song slowed down. With the click tracks in today’s music, I feel like music is lacking dynamic rhythm. It all sounds so repetitive and this song is a prime example of how much better music can be. This is my favorite Elton John album and one of the first albums I owned.
Memories. '62.
One of my absolute favorite Elton John songs. Lyrics are spot on-- somewhere caught between sadness and anger. I love it.
But what's crazy is that Bernie is writing the lyrics from elton's point of view.
One of my all time favorite EJ songs.
Probably in my top 5 fave Elton tunes. Beautiful chords and harmonies, of course!
One of my favs!!
This is his best album imho. Great song. Great reaction. Hit the title track, you won’t be disappointed!
My number one all time favorite singer 👨🎤.
11:53 !
Soundtrack to my Youth.Thank you.❣️
This and Madman Across the Water are two of my EJ faves.
The drum sound is unreal.