23-07-2013, 08:52
ELTON JOHN "the fox", 1981
from my parents vinyl collection...
judging from the chart placings this one would surely come close as his worst selling album i'd have thought...besides #2 here and #6 in New Zealand, this barely scraped into the top30 in most places, and the lead off single "nobody wins" made top30 in the US, but barely bothered the charts just about everywhere else...
and my opinion of it matches those chart figures...
i dislike over half the album, with most of the others barely being classed as like songs!....it sure says a lot for me when the instrumental "carla" gets a like, well, its not a bad piece of music IMO, and its bloody good alongside most of this crap...only one song i love here and thats the final track which also happens to be the title track...
i guess old elton was starting to feel the pinch having to do most of it on his own without Bernie Taupin(he does co-write a couple of these though)...sort of like the Lennon/McCartney bust up, t did take those two guys a little while to find their feet also after their public breakup!
I DO NOT LIKE THIS ALBUM
worst track: fanfare
best track: the fox
tracks:
1. breaking down barriers **
2. heart in the right place *
3. just like belgium **
4. nobody wins *
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qq-Wtv174M8 video
5. fascist forces *
6. carla/etude **
7. fanfare *
8. chloe **
9. heels of the wind **
10.elton's song *
11.the fox ***
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=216IkUaiGtw video
3s=1
2s=4
1s=6
rating: 1.5
from my parents vinyl collection...
judging from the chart placings this one would surely come close as his worst selling album i'd have thought...besides #2 here and #6 in New Zealand, this barely scraped into the top30 in most places, and the lead off single "nobody wins" made top30 in the US, but barely bothered the charts just about everywhere else...
and my opinion of it matches those chart figures...
i dislike over half the album, with most of the others barely being classed as like songs!....it sure says a lot for me when the instrumental "carla" gets a like, well, its not a bad piece of music IMO, and its bloody good alongside most of this crap...only one song i love here and thats the final track which also happens to be the title track...
i guess old elton was starting to feel the pinch having to do most of it on his own without Bernie Taupin(he does co-write a couple of these though)...sort of like the Lennon/McCartney bust up, t did take those two guys a little while to find their feet also after their public breakup!
I DO NOT LIKE THIS ALBUM
worst track: fanfare
best track: the fox
tracks:
1. breaking down barriers **
2. heart in the right place *
3. just like belgium **
4. nobody wins *
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qq-Wtv174M8 video
5. fascist forces *
6. carla/etude **
7. fanfare *
8. chloe **
9. heels of the wind **
10.elton's song *
11.the fox ***
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=216IkUaiGtw video
3s=1
2s=4
1s=6
rating: 1.5
"BTO....Bachman,Turner,Overweight
They were big in the 70s....for five minutes,on a Saturday,after lunch..." - Me 2014.
They were big in the 70s....for five minutes,on a Saturday,after lunch..." - Me 2014.