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| From | "John L. Micek" <jlmicek@comcast.net> |
| Subject | Re: Inconsistent songwriters |
| Date | Wed, 31 May 2006 10:51:20 -0400 |
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For me, the death rattle began around "I'm Still Standing," and continued
precipitously down hill from there.
He redeemed himself a little bit a few years back with "Reg Strikes Again,"
but the Adult Contemporary Elton John (c. 83-96) is just excreable. Horrid,
horrid stuff, really.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Sam Smith" <sam@lullabypit.com>
To: <audities@smoe.org>
Sent: Wednesday, May 31, 2006 10:39 AM
Subject: Re: Inconsistent songwriters
> John L. Micek wrote:
>
>> Two words: Elton John
>> Anyone who can produce both "Rocket Man," and "Nikita," is the
>> bellewether for that sort of thing.
>>
> What's a little weird about EJ, though, is that the variation wasn't
> song-to-song or even album-to-album. If you dump all his good songs into
> one bucket and the bad ones into another, you'll notice that a big
> majority of the good ones occurred on or before ROCK OF THE WESTIES (some
> might slide that marker back one to CAPTAIN FANTASTIC, I realize). After
> that, the suck factor increased dramatically.
>
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> ...it's a lonesome thing to be passing small towns with the lights shining
> sideways when the night is down, or going in strange places with a dog
> nosing before you and a dog nosing behind, or drawn to the cities where
> you'd hear a voice kissing and talking deep love in every shadow of the
> ditch, and you passing on with an empty, hungry stomach failing from your
> heart.
> - John Millington Synge
>
>
>
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