Track Listing

1. Funeral for a Friend/Love Lies Bleeding
2. Candle in the Wind
3. Bennie and the Jets
4. Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
5. This Song Has No Title
6. Grey Seal
7. Jamaica Jerk Off
8. I've Seen That Movie Too
9. Sweet Painted Lady
10. Ballad of Danny Bailey (1909-34)
11. Dirty Little Girl
12. All the Girls Love Alice
13. Your Sister Can't Twist (But She Can Rock & Roll)
14. Saturday Night's Alright for Fighting
15. Roy Rogers
16. Social Disease
17. Harmony

Product Details

• Released on: 1990-10-25
• Format: Import
• Dimensions: .25 pounds

From Amazon.co.uk
Even those who customarily dismiss Elton John as a somewhat bland and sentimental balladeer would find much to admire in Goodbye Yellow Brick Road, the best album he has ever made. The track listing reads like an early Greatest Hits collection; it contains not only the original version of "Candle In The Wind" but such raucous and gleeful songs as "Bennie And The Jets", "Saturday Night's Alright For Fighting" and "Your Sister Can't Twist (But She Can Rock 'n' Roll)". From the impassioned opening medley of "Funeral For A Friend/Love Lies Bleeding" to the gentle closer, "Harmony", there are few duff moments among these 17 tracks. "All The Young Girls Love Alice" is a savage but wry tale of lesbian exploitation, and the title song is just short of lovely. Goodbye Yellow Brick Road is both a joy for fans and a genuine surprise for the uninitiated. --David Bennun

Amazon.com essential recording
Rarely mentioned as one of the great double albums, Goodbye Yellow Brick Road had to settle for ending up in a few million record collections. So sprawling that it doesn't quite measure up to the earlier, more laid-back Honky Chateau or the later, pushy Rock of the Westies, this still holds claim to a lot of brilliant, very pop-savvy music: the winking rebellion of "Bennie and the Jets" and "Saturday Night's Alright for Fighting," the ready-made nostalgia of "The Ballad of Danny Bailey," the downbeat melodicism of "Harmony." --Rickey Wright

Un Essentiel amazon.fr
Ce qui d'abord subjuguait chez Elton John, au milieu des années 70, c'était son éclectisme. Cette extraordinaire faculté d'aborder tous les genres musicaux sans jamais faire fausse route. Il suffit d'écouter Goodbye Yellow Brickroad pour s'en convaincre. Paru en 1974, ce double album alterne en effet avec brio morceaux rythmés ("Bennie & The Jets", "Saturday Night's Alright For Fighting") et ballades à la mélodie imparable, à commencer par "Funeral For A Friend" et le très désenchanté - et très célèbre - "Candle In The Wind" (revenu sous les feux de l'actualité lors de la mort de Lady Di). Goodbye Yellow Brickroad, dont l'univers renvoie au Magicien d'Oz, constitue le sommet de l'entente artistique entre le compositeur anglais et son parolier Bernie Taupin. Dommage que le tandem se soit parfois éloigné de cet heureux cocktail musical. --Philippe Margotin