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| From | Michael vg <govango@yahoo.com> |
| Subject | Re: Inconsistent songwriters |
| Date | Wed, 31 May 2006 08:16:20 -0700 (PDT) |
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EJ's fall from songwriting grace happened around
the same time he and Bernie Taupin split up.
Peachtree Road, a full collabaration with
BT was actually pretty decent. Even Songs
from the West Coast had it's moments.
michael
--- Sam Smith <sam@lullabypit.com> wrote:
> 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.
>
> --
> Sam Smith, PhD
>
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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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