Favorite Elton John tune? Least favorite?

[Archae]

My favorite: "Club At The End Of The Street"

My least favorite: "Can You Feel The Love Tonight"

[Redbear]

1. Favorite: Burn Down The Mission

Least: Anything in the last 15 years.

[LadeJarl]

2. Hmmm... That's a hard one

He has made so much great stuff over the years..
I think Candle In The Wind is my fav, followed by an instrumental called Funeral For a Friend

[U of M Dem 07]

3. Favorite: Levon

Least favorite: I'll have to agree with you on "can you feel the love tonight"

[Loonman]

4. Fave: Tiny Dancer

Worst: Crocodile Rock


I don't even like Elton John.

[tsakshaug]

5. Ticking

Favorite is Ticking off of the otherwise excretable Caribou album

least as stated above anything after that point

[Westegg]

19. You know what? "Ticking" is great!

Not my favorite Elton song, but ONE of them, but I'm so glad someone else likes it the way I do. The lyrics are a bit strained and dated ("He knifed a Negro waiter..." etc.) and ultimately, I guess, Taupin is trying to "paint a picture" with words but doesn't really carry it off. Still, there's an enormous amount of passion and atmosphere generetad in this song. I have often listend to it with my head between the speakers, focussing specifically on Elton's piano. I guess I'd rather the song be JUST Elton and the piano. It's a bit overproduced (by Gus Dudgeon, I guess?). Having said that, the long drawn-out synth drone at the end is fucking brilliant, and I always crank up te volume as it dies away. Same way I deal with the end of the Beatles' "A Day In the Life."

My favorite Elton songs are probably: Levon, Sixty Years On, Funeral/Love Lies Bleeding, Rocket Man, Mona Lisas and Mad Hatters....I frankly stopped listening seriously to Elton after Blue Moves. I don't know his recent stuff. But if there's a "least favorite" Elton song for me, I'm sure it's been written, produced and performed in the last 20 years.

[kmla]

6. Favorite? Tiny Dancer - Least Fave: Sad Songs Say So Much. n/t

[jobycom]

7. Fave: Empty Garden. Worst: Little Jeanie

My favorites change frequently. Candle in the Wind (both versions), Goodbye Yellow Brick Road, Levon, Tiny Dancer...

[Dead_Parrot]

8. Favorite: Rocket man, Sorry.

The worst is the abysmal Diana re-hash of "Candle in the Wind" :puke:

[Parrcrow]

9. Favourite; Curtains

don't like Candle in the Wind.

[CPschem]

10. Fave... Mona Lisas and Mad Hatters

least fave: croc rock

[buddy22600]

11. same

[BOSSHOG]

12. Favorite: Indian Sunset from Madman Across the Water

[Elidor]

30. Yeah

:thumbsup: I didn't see that before I posted below.

[Commendatori]

13. Too many favorites

to list. The least favorite would be "Bennie and the Jets."

[toddzilla]

14. hehe, that's probably my fave!

[izzie]

15. Daniel

May have more in its name.

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

16. Favorite: Talking Old Soldiers and Where to Now St Peter

Least Favorite: His cover of Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds

[Bossy Monkey]

17. Fave: Empty Garden (Hey, Hey Johnny)

Least favorite is probably that abomination with Kiki Dee, though Elton has been a bit free with the stinkburgers over the years.

[1gobluedem]

18. Yellow Brick Road

I've always loved that one. Don't care too much for Philadelphia Freedom.

[Beefheart]

20. "Amoorena"

And "Benny in the Jets" never gets old.

[southpaw]

21. Favorite: Levon

But I love the original studio recording of 'Candle in the Wind' and too many others to count.

Least Favorite: Just about anything he did in the 80's... Nikita comes to mind.

[Canuckistanian]

22. Love Funeral for a Friend/Love Lies Bleeding

Hate Crocodile Rock

[southpaw]

23. Yah... Crock sucks pretty hard...

though my daughter loves it.

She's only 7, and likes it primarily becuase she has a thing for the Crocodile Hunter (Steve Erwin). Hell, she even likes the Baha Men remake of Crock Rock with the lyrics altered to be ABOUT Steve Erwin. Hey, it could be worse... she could be into RAP!

[Canuckistanian]

24. I have a 7 year old, too. He's into '80's music.

He's found some of my old tapes and loves them.

[democratreformed]

25. Favorite: ALL OF THEM

Elton John is the Greatest.

Okay, so my favorite of my favorites would be "Tiny Dancer", "Levon", "Alice", "Rocket Man", - oh, I can't think of all of them right now.

[curse10]

26. Favorite: Your Song ; Least Favorite: Goodbye Yellow Brick Road

:-)

[Elidor]

27. I usually pick Indian Sunset

Just because no one else will mention it. Or Rotten Peaches, Madman, Holiday Inn. (Gee, can ya tell what my favorite Elton album is?)

Worst? Pretty much everything for the last 20 years. I wish he'd live up to his repeated promises to retire. The pap and dreck he specializes in these days warrants nothing less than projectile vomiting. That's putting it nicely. Soda commercials is all he's good for anymore.

Oh, wait - there were a couple other contenders for best song on Yellow Brick Road: how could I forget the Ballad of Danny Bailey?

Some punk with a shotgun killed young Danny Bailey
In cold blood, in the lobby of a downtown motel...


And there's not many knew him the way that we did
Sure enough he was a wild one, but then aren't most hungry kids

Now it's all over Danny Bailey
And the harvest is in
Dillinger's dead
I guess the cops won again

And Sweet Painted Lady. Elton was at his best doing a hamfisted englishman's eccentric americana and oddities. Now he sounds like a corporation. It's sad.

[MrSlayer]

28. Saturday Night's Alright for Fighting.

He has to many bad ones for me to list a least favorite.

[redqueen]

29. Favorite: Bennie and the Jets

Least Favorite: Candle in the Wind remake

He's got so many good songs, hard to pick a favorite. Your Song would be a close second.

[thebaghwan]

31. My favorite: The Last Song from the movie "And the Band played On" in the

movie, which is about the Reagan administration and the early days of the AIDS epidemic. It is played while there is a montage of scenes from the AIDS QUILT and photos of those we lost to this illness. Very moving!

Least favorite: Benny & the Jets

[Blue-Jay]

32. Fav: "Daniel". Least Fav: "I'm Still Standing"

Maybe it's because I hated the "I'm Still Standing" video. What a piece of crap that was.

[jjmalonejr]

33. Fave: Your Song

Least Fave: Everything since he and Disney joined forces