What are your thoughts on Elton John?

[red_harrington]

One of my most disliked artists of all time.

 

[ThatFragranceGuy]

How have I not seen this before. Incredible.

Alan Partridge esque.

 

[ThatFragranceGuy]

I don't like all of his songs but he has some bangers

I quite enjoyed the Rocket Man movie

 

[spanishman]

Some of his early stuff is very good, some not so good. A great "showman" you don't get to fill stadiums for decades without being able to put on a show. Tumbleweed Connection is (from memory) good in patches. I still have Goodbye Yellow Brick Road somewhere and that is a very good album with hardly a duff track (yes, the tiresome "Candle in the Wind" is on there but pre the dead princess re-write/interpretation held up). His later stuff is the odd good track among a morass of mediocrity.

I liked the Tumbleweed Connection album.

 

[the_dormouse]

Incredibly successful in America,I read any one point 1in 5 records sold over there was his.really liked his early stuff.

 

[indeedido]

There aren't many artists that I really dislike. Elton John would be prominent on that list.
I think he has a horrible voice.
He also really really gives me the creeps almost in the way that Jimmy Saville did.

 

[newyddion]

Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy - possibly the best album title ever conceived.

 

[Scrug]

He emailed Lewis Capaldi ‘if you don’t stop being so hard on yourself I shall travel up from Sussex and bring out the latent homosexual in you’

 

[r00fie1]

Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy - possibly the best album title ever conceived.

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So much more tasteful......
Their Satanic Majesty`s Request

 

[sadgit]

I'm not a fan at all but at 10am walking through the Parkway Centre, they were playing Bennie and the jets. That song is genius and may have had a little foot shuffle while it was on. I did get 1 odd look, but who cares

 

[Malaguena]

..... as I thought much of his work was too commercial

What's wrong with work being commercial ?

Edit - removed the music snob comment - unnecessary - my apologies

 

[Legz]

I'm not a massive fan of many bands/singers in particular but will admit to a tune being a "banger" even if released by someone I've previously had no time for...and it's fair to say Elton John has had some absolute tunes over the years....along side some absolute dross ones too.