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Elton John
by Elton John
from Island / Mercury

Features:

• Original recording remastered

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0

• Amazing CD!
  Simply an amazing CD with so many extraordinary and beautiful songs. A must have for your ears and your soul.

• Essential Early Elton
  Though Elton John's eponymous album does not reach the creative heights achieved by the follow-up Tumbleweed Connection, it still makes the listener wonder how someone could achieve so much early on and survive shifting musical tastes to remain a superstar into his 60s. What brings this into five-star territory is the quality and value added by the inclusion of the bonus disc.
  With this special edition, you get nearly two hours of music and an attractive, informative booklet containing pictures, album... more info

• Glaring Error Makes You Wonder
  First the good news.... the quantity and relative (sound) quality of the bonus tracks, especially since they include three never-before-heard titles, one of which I could imagine being finished off and fitting in on the original LP ("I'm Going Home"). It's great how Elton vocalizes the orchestral parts on the demo for "The Greatest Discovery"... (but with all the computer technology available today, couldn't they have done something about the tape glitch that shows up at 3:04?) And I love the laugh-fit that... more info

• One of it's Kind
  I purchased this LP on the same day I picked up: "Tumbleweed Connection". Elton's 3rd record. These two recordings by the exact same artist are MILES apart from each other.
  The Original Album:
  I had heard 3 of these tracks already before I dropped this LP on the turntable. "Your Song" was a BIG Hit Single. FM Radio was playing "Take Me To The Pilot" & "Border Song", that said, I knew a little bit going in. Nobody could be prepared from this record, it was very different in 1971 from... more info

Tracks:

1. Your Song
2. I Need You to Turn To
3. Take Me to the Pilot
4. No Shoes Strings on Louise
5. First Episode at Hienton
6. Sixty Years On
7. Border Song
8. The Greatest Discovery
9. The Cage
10. The King Must Die
11. Your Song
12. I Need You to Turn To
13. Take Me to the Pilot
14. No Shoes Strings on Louise
15. Sixty Years On
16. The Greatest Discovery

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