Rolling Stone 500 Greatest Albums Music Club

I actually did a little suicide deep dive after I got theirs on my own random number generator (been doing 2-3 albums on Fridays if it's slow), I wonder if it's the same website I used... Becuase I also got james browns numbers too.

Random my ass!

Now Frankie Teardrop is on.

Why is this album on the list?

I'm gonna have to echo Drac on this. The first couple of songs were intriguing but eventually you "get" what the album has to over and it becomes a bit tedious. I don't think the music is bad so much as it doesn't necessarily benefit from being listened to on its own. Used as source music by the right filmmaker I could see these adding a lot of mood and energy to a scene but as its own piece it's more interesting in bits than as a whole.

I forgot to give the last album a spin, I’ll do it in the next couple days.

I’m a playlist junkie and, unless a song pops up on the radio or whatever, I listen to Elton John almost exclusively through the playlists I’ve curated over the years. So from the top of my head, I couldn’t give the consensus on any Elton John album except for the Lion King soundtrack, which is a beloved soundtrack, and my introduction to the man.

Anyway, going through the tracklist of Goodbye Yellow Brick Road, it has a lot of my favorite Elton John songs, but it also has a handful of songs I don’t give a fuck about.

— Funeral for a Friend is alright.

— Candle in the Wind, I never cared for. It’s weird to associate this song with this album since it’s now widely considered the Princess Diana song.

— Bennie and the Jets is of course a goddamn classic.

— Goodbye Yellow Brick Road is a Beatles knockoff but I love it. I usually put it as the closing track in my Elton playlists.

— This Song Has No Title is a darn good filler... but it’s a filler.

— Sweet Painted Lady, I fucking love that song.

— The Ballad of Danny Bailey is great, although in badly need of a remix.

— Saturday Night’s Alright for Fighting is... well... I don’t know... kinda shit... but also kinda good. If I’m putting together an Elton exclusive playlist, then yeah, throw it in. But I would never mix this song with songs by other artists. The fact this shit gets played on the radio is embarrassing. Why would you do that?

— Harmony is fucking great.

The rest I don’t care for. As of now. Things change.

Captain Fantastic is pretty good and I’m an unapologetic fan of disco-era Elton John:





But... yeah... Elton is more of a Greatest Hits artist than an album artist. Other than Goodbye Yellow Brick Road and the Lion King soundtrack, is there an Elton John album that people under 70-years-old give a fuck about?

Closest thing I can think of is his 1983 “comeback album” To Low for Zero and the ‘84 follow-up Breaking Hearts, which ended up being his only relevant 80’s output.

.... I guess....

Rocketman is a classic. And I do like Honky Cat. But what else is there? Mona Lisa’s and the Mad Hatters? That album pales in comparison to Goodbye Yellow Brick Road. Night and day, really.

People could make a better argument with Tumbleweed Connection. It has no hits whatsoever, but it’s a solid concept album. The only time, in their heyday, when Elton and Bernie didn’t care at all about getting a song on the radio.

David Crosby died today at 91.