Madman Across the Water [Remaster] - John, Elton (Cassette 1996)

For longer than most musicians have had careers, Elton John has been putting out some of the most deplorable, inadequate music the world has ever seen. After wading through his awful eighties and nineties stuff, you would be forgiven for thinking that the man is simply incapable of putting out an album of solid, likable music that can be enjoyed by people who are not diehard fans of sickening bubble gum pop. Nonetheless, if you go far back enough to the early 1970 s you may be surprised to find some honest-to-goodness quality music released by no other than Sir Elton John. I am not entirely...

The years between 1969 and 1975 represent one of the most prosperous period for rock and pop music ever. Being a obsessed of that kind of music, I've always dreamt of what my life could have been if I could have lived my youth so far before (I was born on 1974...)...and every time reminds me just how great it could have been...instead of living this kind of jealousy for those who were right there seeing that Golden Age, sorted out for Bowie, Iggy Pop, Reed, Clapton, Rod Stewart and more, right in the middle of their blooming period. Among the protagonists of that era Elton John probably...