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ELTON JOHN "madman across the water" cd, 1971

career stats:
studio albums.................31
singles..........................128

this album...........................#41 UK...#8 AU...#8 US...#13 CAN
singles:
"levon"...........................................#94 AU..#24 US....#6 CAN
"tiny dancer"...................................#13 AU..#41 US..#19 CAN

Sir Reggie's sixth studio album....
and like all the others from this period the songs were written with Bernie Taupin....
this album I have is the remastered reissue and the linear notes say this is the only album from his early years
that doesn't contain bonus tracks, simply because he what he recorded at the time for the album went on the album....
songs are typical of that period by his standards...lovely piano based melodic tracks with good lyrics overall(its the Taupin factor I guess)....
im just surprised that the singles that made the charts elsewhere simply didn't chart in the UK, and the album fared badly there also by his standards...
overall, a very good album but let down by a couple of tracks I just don't like....

I LIKE THIS ALBUM

worst track: indian sunset
best track: tiny dancer

[video=youtube;hoskDZRLOCs]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hoskDZRLOCs[/video]

tracks:

1...tiny dancer ***
2...levon ***
3...razor face *
4...madman across the water ***
5...indian sunset *
6...holiday inn ***
7...rotten peaches **
8...all the nasties **
9...goodbye **

3s=4
2s=3
1s=2

rating: 2.2