Listen to how good his voice sounds. The songs are incredibly great,...no denying that,.....but his voice sounds so pure, so clear, so perfect,........so good! This and Yellow Brick Road are untouchable albums. I don't think anyone, in any era,......has made albums anywhere near to........ as how great those albums were and are. Enjoy the music people,...it doesn't get better than this!
Probably the best song on this album, which I personally, consider his best ever. I know 'Yellow Brick Road'' was critically acclaimed and did have ''Candle'' on it but this album was consistently better. ''Bitter Fingers'', ''Better off Dead'' and ''We All Fall In Love Sometimes'' are probably his best and Bernie's most lyrically incisive of all time. Never bettered in my opinion. Oh halcyon days!!
This brings back memories of playing this album on my parents Magnavox console, pushing those tubes to their limit and being sprawled out on the living room floor while flipping through the booklets that came with the record. I think it's really cool when kids post comments saying today's music is crap and they like this old stuff instead. They really get it.
@knowhereman1 Some do get it and some never will get it.Both of my girls like some of my music but not all of it.They both listen to contemporary Christian and praise and worship music more than anything else.One is in college and one in high school.Both sing in their school's chorus and do exceptionally well.College girl is majoring in music to be a director/teacher.of my stuff they like stuff like MJ Fleetwood Mac Bee Gees 80's stuff.There's more but can't think of it.Elton rocks!
Thank you George Strouboulopoulos. Yet another reminder of why freedom of speech is so very important. Tolerance can be learned. We're all just atoms.
I found this song 5 years ago now ...i'm 48 yrs old and will never know why i never found it before ...simply one of the most amazing songs i've ever heard....it has a way of opening up my spirituality every time i hear it ........i guess when i was a kid i never came outside The Doors.......another is Tenderness by Steppenwolf if you've never heard this one check it out...
i'm living proof that a hardcore metal head can still love great music this is one of my all time fave elton john songs . with that said i have to concur that the whole album is genius and bernie and elton did go very very far as my once 1st grade music teacher said they would. i actually have the whole discography of this team. LOVE IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! \M/(><)\M/ power metal whore.
i was introduced to elton john in 1971 i was 6. my music teacher mrs. lamb played the album good bye yellow brick road. i remember vividly she kept saying remember this, this is the true essence of music that the singer and writer would go very very far. if it wasn't for her i wouldn't have been turned on to elton john as my parents listened to country. i am forever grateful to her i couldn't have had a better teacher she new an icon when she seen it. and i have been hooked to it every sence.
This is one of my all time favorite albums and one of my favorite album covers as well.I am SO GLAD that I was born in 1959 and grew up with the great music from the 60's and on into the 70's when this great album came out.Except for artists like Elton and all those from the 60's and 70's and 80's,when we hit the 90's the music died.Only our great artists that continue on outs out anything good these days.Rock has come full circle so it WILL get better again!Just you wait and see
my only question is does anyone know what the lyric is at the end of the song - the words which are repeated as the song winds and and then finally winds down...?
PIxie... Yes I agree totally.... puts you right back to the carefree teenage years....I stayed in for days until id learned every word and every beat of every song..." will we still be writing in approaching years?".....Janet
I remember when I brought home the vinyl record and first heard this. Gave me goosebumps. Does the same thing now some 35 years later. There are songs that may fade from view but will always be powerful and this is one of them. Still one of my top 10 songs of all time. Thanks!!
The kids of today would not understand the words, the lyrics and that this is music!! I can still see this man today as i did 25 years ago and nothings changed
The ending of my childhood, as now I am 18 and this is a fitting closure. Even though that coda at the end is long enough, sometimes I wish it would last forever.
I remember being over at my cousins' home when I was about ten or so. I remember this song on their stereo, knew it was Elton John, but never heard it again and never know where to find it; until now.
Can someone tell me the name of the Elton John song with the line "I don't want to play this game no more" or something like that? That's the only line I remember from the song.
@the81kid I pity the people that have missed out on, or just don't know beautiful music such as this, i'm playing this at 4.40 in the morning because my partner doesn't, or refuses to understand my taste in music - i feel sorry for him and other people like that. I know what you mean xx
Welcome to the modern world of autotune, lip-synching and x factor kareoke. But Elton John and Bernie Taupin's early music was beautiful, it's 40 years old and sounds more beautiful now.
anyone have any idea what is being said during the Whoa-oh part after 4:02-on?? Looking to make a cover of this great song and can't figure out what he/the chorus is saying.
I was 15 and listening to FM radio (back then that was special), and over the airwaves came this song. It totally reached out and grabbed me and never let me go. It gets me through some down times, and oddly it gives me a sense of renewal. I used to play it to myself on the piano often, and still do when I'm in a certain mood. A true and timeless classic that so many seem to pass over.
Simply and absolutely the greatest albumn of all time. It still sounds as fresh today as it did in May of 1975. We all fall in love sometimes/Curtains is the greatest track of all time. Elton and Bernie reached their pinnacle of writing here and everything they had worked for.Says it all doen't it?
Elton John will be in Springfield Mo, tomarow March 19th 2011 and this will be the last chance to ever get to see him, and my pay check diden`t come to day and I don` have any charge cards after anything in my life I want is to have seen him him at his best singing, It is not fun being poor.
Thank you anyway Elton for bringing so much joy in my life even if it was just with Lp records VHS tapes and CDs it made me happy just the same God Bless you sign one of you true Fans.
Elton John and Leon Russell were my introductions into music, always comforting to return to this music, they really don't make music like this anymore...
Sorry to sound old, I am not that old, but class is class and crap will always be crap..
Ma non vi accorgete che è Hey Jude di un certo Paul McCartney che l'ha scritta nel 1968? A parte questo dettaglio per me Elton è e rimane un immortale della Pop Music.I primi Lps del nostro eroe sono talmente pieni di raffinatezza e armonia che solo un vero musicista sa creare.....
Unbelievably good music on this album and Yellow Brick Road. Can't get enough of it and so lucky to have been around when it came out. I love it when the young of today discover this stuff and rave about it. The 70's were just briliant. Thanks for posting.
I was 14 when this album came out and i was in heaven, especially Someone Saved my Life Tonight and this. There's treasure children always seek to find; i feel with the new album The Union i've found it after all these years. But this still sends tingles down my spine, far from Elton's most famous but maybe the greatest song of all.
Sir Elton is one of those rare breeds of talent that transcends both time and genre...he. along with Bernie Taupin were absolute musical geniuses who wrote and performed some of the best music of the 1970's and that music has withstood the test of time.
This may be Elton (and Bernie')s finest song, and that's out of so many tremendous contenders. From this album Someone Saved my life Tonight is another absolute classic that should be better known. Well, the album as a whole is utterly magnificent, a real grower. However many thousands of times i have listened over the years, i love it as much as ever.
Maybe some of these modern youths who feel hemmed in and confused would benefit from hearing this album in a quiet setting to hopefully get their heads right, Just a thought.
Someone once said to me that nigel was not a flamboyant or original drummer but his timing was always perfect. Just ask any one from any profession what is the most important ingredient...............
another wonderfull tune that I just love so much, and his band is great fantastic, the music is wonderfull the, lyrics are perfect theres no way to do it better outstanding in every way.
I believe his voice was most developed and at its peak by early '86. After that his voice deteriorated from oversinging, alcohol, and excessive cocaine abuse.
@dolunaydainsanolan I second your motion to listen to Jeff Buckley cover, it's unbelievably, heartbreakingly beautiful!!! Not that Elton is in any shabby! beautiful song
Thie song will always remind me of a particular summer with my mother back in the 1970s. I haven't heard it for many years. Now I have found it again. It's wonderful.
I last listened to this album in its entirety 33 years ago when I was home after my first year of college... now my son is finishing his first year... life is a mystery, better for music... this album is transcendant.
wow... reading all of your postings... you have summed it up for me. This album is so awesome... and I agree, I feel blessed to have grown up in the time it came out. It was a big part of my evolving so to say.
Captain Fantastic is a monumental piece of work. Someone Saved My Life Tonight and Curtains are two of the most beautiful songs... Both slow anthems about redemption - especially the latter. Knowing he and Taupin wrote such masterpieces, Elton will go to his grave knowing they left mankind a gift for the ages...
to me.. This is one of the most mesmerizing albums he did.. one of my favorites for sure.... the album cover always captivated me.. such sweet music inside and such creepiness on the out. ..
once you experience this album, nothing compares. Don't get me wrong, there is awesome music out there, awesome artists. But it's this whole album, if you really listen to the words, music and lyrics, it blows you away.
One of the best three-minute songs ever. As a song longer than six minutes, it's average. Still, one of the best poets of our generation producing such great words.
The songs, the music, the lyrics are all out of this world..................but Elton's voice is rarely talked about. I think his voice....in the 70's and 80's .....were the absolute best. He voice just sounds so good. So clean, pure and perfect. Not enough is said.....about Elton the "vocalist".
Neil Tennant (Pet Shop Boys) has always said he thinks Elton is probably the best pop/rock vocalist ever. (And he also thinks people forget how good a singer EJ really was during this period.)
@jjacintoful I agree I am somewhat of a voice enthusiast I often listen to him and note the differences in his voice from 70 to 86 when his vocal nodule developed.
@jjacintoful I have to agree with you! Even though his voice has changed over the years, that raunchy voice he had back then is what truly made him iconic. He is in my opinion very underrated and underestimated.
@jjacintoful I agree. Just listen to a song like "Sugar on the Floor". And this one. It's interesting that it Elton and Bernie both sing, and it was only because Elton was already doing covers and stuff that they picked him to be the one to sing their songs.
I have always felt very priviliged to have grown up in the 70's from a musical perspective. Elton John's early stuff was absolute quality and for me Captain Fantastic was and still is the best album he ever produced. Thanks Elton, you're a one off.
I pretty much grew up with his music in the 70's as a kid...it always played in my house. I always thought this song was very beautiful, but it would make me cry sometimes. I don't know why. It brings back so many memories now and still makes me cry. I think because my mom was alive back then, but died when I was only 12...so it reminds me of that wonderful time when she was here and the horribly sad time when she left.
Thank you for posting this. It meant a lot to me when I found this perfect recording of this song. It's what I needed. I have come back several times since I first found it, and will keep coming back now and again. Thanks, and please keep this up and running.
34 years have past,and I still get goosebumps. I've listened to a lot of music and a lot of albums during my 50 years,but none as often as I've played Captain Fantastic from beginning to end.
"but that's okay,there's treasure children always seem to find"
It has always reminded me of Lennon, too. (Maybe because Ray Cooper had just begun doing percussion and was featured prominently of EJ's cover of "Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds" the year before.) And I love songs that start slow and quiet and then BUILD.
Listen to how good his voice sounds. The songs are incredibly great,...no denying that,.....but his voice sounds so pure, so clear, so perfect,........so good! This and Yellow Brick Road are untouchable albums. I don't think anyone, in any era,......has made albums anywhere near to........ as how great those albums were and are. Enjoy the music people,...it doesn't get better than this!
maccardle1 10 hours ago
hairs on back of neck
Clivelynham 16 hours ago
Probably the best song on this album, which I personally, consider his best ever. I know 'Yellow Brick Road'' was critically acclaimed and did have ''Candle'' on it but this album was consistently better. ''Bitter Fingers'', ''Better off Dead'' and ''We All Fall In Love Sometimes'' are probably his best and Bernie's most lyrically incisive of all time. Never bettered in my opinion. Oh halcyon days!!
cramlacy 3 days ago
Needs to be listened to with We All Fall in Love Sometimes and merged into one track.
Derek9307 3 weeks ago 2
I've fallen in love with this.Of course, we all fall in love sometimes...
equineiscool 1 month ago
This brings back memories of playing this album on my parents Magnavox console, pushing those tubes to their limit and being sprawled out on the living room floor while flipping through the booklets that came with the record. I think it's really cool when kids post comments saying today's music is crap and they like this old stuff instead. They really get it.
knowhereman1 1 month ago
@knowhereman1 Some do get it and some never will get it.Both of my girls like some of my music but not all of it.They both listen to contemporary Christian and praise and worship music more than anything else.One is in college and one in high school.Both sing in their school's chorus and do exceptionally well.College girl is majoring in music to be a director/teacher.of my stuff they like stuff like MJ Fleetwood Mac Bee Gees 80's stuff.There's more but can't think of it.Elton rocks!
thecoolestdad 4 days ago in playlist Elton John - Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy
Great sound production,man.
OrisLover 1 month ago
Probably one of the best albums ever recorded.
Derek9307 1 month ago 3
Quite simply, there is no better send-off song to an album than this. And I have listened to music for almost 4 decades.
ncf1 2 months ago 4
Thank you George Strouboulopoulos. Yet another reminder of why freedom of speech is so very important. Tolerance can be learned. We're all just atoms.
sintael 2 months ago
THE BEST
pokerface1967 3 months ago
this is true soul engulfing music, not that CRAP my kids listen to! It's like listening to a church choir lift your soul up to heaven!
jonsey617 3 months ago 2
" Just like us, You must have had a once upon a time" Love it.
goodthing52 3 months ago in playlist goodthing52's favorites
I found this song 5 years ago now ...i'm 48 yrs old and will never know why i never found it before ...simply one of the most amazing songs i've ever heard....it has a way of opening up my spirituality every time i hear it ........i guess when i was a kid i never came outside The Doors.......another is Tenderness by Steppenwolf if you've never heard this one check it out...
plyitld24 3 months ago
A triumph of musicianship
Nontheistism 3 months ago in playlist Elton J
Do you think this song's ending is a better "Hey Jude" imitation than "All the Nasties" which had him and a choir singing "Oh, my soul!"?
ClassicTVMan1981X 3 months ago
they are just in a league by themselves period end of discussion ,
pokerface1967 4 months ago
i'm living proof that a hardcore metal head can still love great music this is one of my all time fave elton john songs . with that said i have to concur that the whole album is genius and bernie and elton did go very very far as my once 1st grade music teacher said they would. i actually have the whole discography of this team. LOVE IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! \M/(><)\M/ power metal whore.
pow3rm3talwhor3 4 months ago
i was introduced to elton john in 1971 i was 6. my music teacher mrs. lamb played the album good bye yellow brick road. i remember vividly she kept saying remember this, this is the true essence of music that the singer and writer would go very very far. if it wasn't for her i wouldn't have been turned on to elton john as my parents listened to country. i am forever grateful to her i couldn't have had a better teacher she new an icon when she seen it. and i have been hooked to it every sence.
pow3rm3talwhor3 4 months ago
THIS IS THE ROCKET MANS OWN HEY JUDE!
luvtotruck 4 months ago 2
@luvtotruck i couldn't agree with you more lol. you hit the nail on the head lol.
pow3rm3talwhor3 4 months ago
This is one of my all time favorite albums and one of my favorite album covers as well.I am SO GLAD that I was born in 1959 and grew up with the great music from the 60's and on into the 70's when this great album came out.Except for artists like Elton and all those from the 60's and 70's and 80's,when we hit the 90's the music died.Only our great artists that continue on outs out anything good these days.Rock has come full circle so it WILL get better again!Just you wait and see
thecoolestdad 4 months ago
lyrics were never the strongest part of the John-Taupin partnership - still brillant
Timwgtn 4 months ago
@Timwgtn
I beg to differ, the lyrics make the songs. Listen closely.
billisback46 2 months ago
Thanks Davemh80
Timwgtn 4 months ago
timwgtn they are ''YOU MUST HAVE HAD''
davemh80 4 months ago
timwgtn they are ''YOU MUST HAVE HAD''
davemh80 4 months ago
my only question is does anyone know what the lyric is at the end of the song - the words which are repeated as the song winds and and then finally winds down...?
Timwgtn 4 months ago
sublime - and endlessly replayable
Timwgtn 4 months ago
PIxie... Yes I agree totally.... puts you right back to the carefree teenage years....I stayed in for days until id learned every word and every beat of every song..." will we still be writing in approaching years?".....Janet
hercules256 4 months ago
I remember when I brought home the vinyl record and first heard this. Gave me goosebumps. Does the same thing now some 35 years later. There are songs that may fade from view but will always be powerful and this is one of them. Still one of my top 10 songs of all time. Thanks!!
pixiedixiejynx 5 months ago 2
I can't remember how I discovered this song but it certainly wasn't at the time of the CD release.
But it has forever become One of My 10 all time favorite songs I ever heard !!
zuttorizzo 5 months ago
@zuttorizzo At the time this song was written by Elton John there weren't even CD's at all....
BeelaTeismar 2 months ago
The kids of today would not understand the words, the lyrics and that this is music!! I can still see this man today as i did 25 years ago and nothings changed
except the hair
sav1998 5 months ago
The ending of my childhood, as now I am 18 and this is a fitting closure. Even though that coda at the end is long enough, sometimes I wish it would last forever.
queenkixass 5 months ago
This song is so beautiful, it reminds me of the classics back from the 18th century. Mozart eat your heart out !!!!
heathenwolf1 5 months ago
@horsemad1670 I'm 25 and this is one of my favorite albums of all time. And I 100% agree with you.
P2000Camaro 5 months ago
I remember being over at my cousins' home when I was about ten or so. I remember this song on their stereo, knew it was Elton John, but never heard it again and never know where to find it; until now.
thespeez 5 months ago
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"and just like us, you must have had, A ONCE UPON A TIME!!" love that line!
odie7 5 months ago
Lum de Lum!
PeteLI66 6 months ago
I always thought he was saying "a lovely,lovely day"
ny63 6 months ago
@trishthedish41- Thanks for insight! I can totally hear that now that you've mentioned what the proper lyrics are
jdelorean81 6 months ago
Can someone tell me the name of the Elton John song with the line "I don't want to play this game no more" or something like that? That's the only line I remember from the song.
speakwhnspkn2 6 months ago
@speakwhnspkn2 the song is Sartorial Eloquence from the 1980 album 21 at 33
odie7 5 months ago
@odie7 Thanks very much friend. I have been searching for that song for a long time, but didn't know the title.
speakwhnspkn2 5 months ago
@speakwhnspkn2 anytime, I have nearly ALL EJ albums and know them pretty well
odie7 4 months ago
Listened to this for years and smoked a lot of weed in the process, it doesn't get any better. Music today sucks.
dubiedelux 6 months ago
What a great song
year5000 6 months ago
i love how this song builds to a crescendo. feels sort of like bolero.
mmedeuxchevaux 6 months ago in playlist Elton John
Really beautiful... and people still mock Elton's music as pap. And now everyone listens to Lady Gaga. I don't even want to live in this world!
the81kid 6 months ago
@the81kid I pity the people that have missed out on, or just don't know beautiful music such as this, i'm playing this at 4.40 in the morning because my partner doesn't, or refuses to understand my taste in music - i feel sorry for him and other people like that. I know what you mean xx
rumbaby999 6 months ago 10
@rumbaby999
Welcome to the modern world of autotune, lip-synching and x factor kareoke. But Elton John and Bernie Taupin's early music was beautiful, it's 40 years old and sounds more beautiful now.
the81kid 6 months ago 2
@rumbaby999 I totally agree. Beautiful!
rayraybaby091 1 day ago
anyone have any idea what is being said during the Whoa-oh part after 4:02-on?? Looking to make a cover of this great song and can't figure out what he/the chorus is saying.
jdelorean81 6 months ago
@jdelorean81 I looked it up - supposedly he's saying "lonely lovely lady".....Seems to fit....
trishthedish41 6 months ago
FOUND this song about 5 yrs ago ...what an amazing song......ty Elton......for keeping it real...
plyitld24 7 months ago in playlist elton john play list 05-23-2011 2
Cultivate the freshest flower this garden ever grew...
TheBlueRose2008 7 months ago
I was 15 and listening to FM radio (back then that was special), and over the airwaves came this song. It totally reached out and grabbed me and never let me go. It gets me through some down times, and oddly it gives me a sense of renewal. I used to play it to myself on the piano often, and still do when I'm in a certain mood. A true and timeless classic that so many seem to pass over.
TimothyQStanton 7 months ago
Every song is good to the last drop!!
flurdalee 7 months ago
C'est sur qu'avec Dylan,Lenon-Mcartney,Stevens et Marley ,Elton john est un des mélodiste le plus doué l histoire de la musique contemporaine.
Sadtune1 7 months ago
Beautiful song, but completely under rated! I can't find any chords or other versions of it anywhere (other than Buckley's which is still seldom)
nijayjayjay 8 months ago
wonderful memories of this wonderful song and wonderful memories of life in upstate new york
jeffslaven 8 months ago 2
@jeffslaven I, too, am from upstate and grew up with EJs music! Where do you hail from? *I am from Jamestown*
peace
technocrash09 7 months ago
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My friend Paul Becker, has introduced me to Elton John....
Thanks Paul.
TheDeanirwin 9 months ago
My friend Paul Becker, has introduced me to Elton John....
Thanks Paul.
TheDeanirwin 9 months ago
My friend Paul Becker, has introduced me to Elton John.
Thanks Paul.
TheDeanirwin 9 months ago
Best EJ album... Period...
CrazyMikeConrad 9 months ago
I FREAKIN!!! LOVE THIS SONG!!!!
bababarbie1 9 months ago
@bababarbie1
like your choice, one of my favourite pieces of music of all time, dont know why, just love it!
080266bmd 8 months ago
Got this the Christmas of '75. I was nine. Great stuff. I just saw him last Saturday (March 26th). He still sounds great.
comeon224 10 months ago 2
Simply and absolutely the greatest albumn of all time. It still sounds as fresh today as it did in May of 1975. We all fall in love sometimes/Curtains is the greatest track of all time. Elton and Bernie reached their pinnacle of writing here and everything they had worked for.Says it all doen't it?
midnightduder 10 months ago 2
Elton John will be in Springfield Mo .
April 16th not in march missinformation sorry
zipzapjack 10 months ago
thank you so much I`m gladd that thers others that feel as i do,
zipzapjack 10 months ago
Elton John will be in Springfield Mo, tomarow March 19th 2011 and this will be the last chance to ever get to see him, and my pay check diden`t come to day and I don` have any charge cards after anything in my life I want is to have seen him him at his best singing, It is not fun being poor.
Thank you anyway Elton for bringing so much joy in my life even if it was just with Lp records VHS tapes and CDs it made me happy just the same God Bless you sign one of you true Fans.
zipzapjack 10 months ago
Grew up on this.Still breaks my heart.I was maybe 7 or whatever...my mom and older sister introduced me to this heaven.
CouplesGameTogether 10 months ago
Thanks so much for this. Brought back so many memories.
neverdisparaging 11 months ago 3
in my school age, this album was like a best friend...thank you so much
yukarinist 11 months ago 2
I absolutely LOVE 2:32
FutureAbe 11 months ago
this brings back such memories.. I used to play this album over and over..
Starlitblond 11 months ago
Elton John and Leon Russell were my introductions into music, always comforting to return to this music, they really don't make music like this anymore...
Sorry to sound old, I am not that old, but class is class and crap will always be crap..
BrianSJoe 1 year ago 2
what a wonderfull and beautiful tune my favorite of all time, Thank you for posting .
zipzapjack 1 year ago
Used to sing this one in the shower. Back when nobody gave a damn.
wetvulture 1 year ago
I do so much wish I could exsplan how this tune makes me feel..
zipzapjack 1 year ago
@zipzapjack You don't have to explain, we're all feeling it!
413KEITH 10 months ago 2
@413KEITH Thank you so much, I`m gladd that others feel as i do
,some of us feel all alone your friend zipzapjack
zipzapjack 10 months ago
I discovered this song in the mid-to late 80s. I use it to fall asleep. I absolutely love this song and will forever listen to it!
zuttorizzo 1 year ago 2
And just like us you must have had a once upon a time.... Love the lyrics! EPIC!!!
warflynn 1 year ago 2
I love this song!!
Alvedronningen 1 year ago
Murry,Olsson(his group)+two...Who?
Bruno47602 1 year ago
One thing baffles me about elton in Jan 75 right after releasing this epic album he lets go of nigel and dee
all i can ask him is what the hell he was thinking ya i know he wanted to experience new sounds but listen to the nucleous of the band
BRILLIANCE
dadadruma 1 year ago
Listen to Daveys finger picking of his ovation 12 string to his tones on his les paul
to Nigels exploding tom fills
and the background vocals are chilling
what a fucking band
dadadruma 1 year ago 7
@dadadruma what a fucking band!!!
taschi71 10 months ago
@taschi71 They dont make them like that anymore do they??
dadadruma 10 months ago 2
@dadadruma SPOT-ON Dada!!! Thought I was the only one who picked that up.
JackalKC 3 months ago
My favorite EJ song and lyric ever. I mean that. Beautiful.
riesencub 1 year ago
Ma non vi accorgete che è Hey Jude di un certo Paul McCartney che l'ha scritta nel 1968? A parte questo dettaglio per me Elton è e rimane un immortale della Pop Music.I primi Lps del nostro eroe sono talmente pieni di raffinatezza e armonia che solo un vero musicista sa creare.....
Perfidia4ever 1 year ago
Primi tre minuti da brividi . . .ragazzi Elton è di un altro pianeta
paolino1704 1 year ago
Unbelievably good music on this album and Yellow Brick Road. Can't get enough of it and so lucky to have been around when it came out. I love it when the young of today discover this stuff and rave about it. The 70's were just briliant. Thanks for posting.
stixmix2375 1 year ago
yeah there was a time when Elton John was hip, and songs like this are why
Timwgtn 1 year ago
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mizofan 1 year ago
@Timwgtn Elton is doing pretty well now, as it happens; great new album The Union, with Leon Russell, has just been #3 in the US.
mizofan 1 year ago
This song is the flag that flies on the peak of Mount Epic.
SabbeleuDesigns 1 year ago 4
I was 14 when this album came out and i was in heaven, especially Someone Saved my Life Tonight and this. There's treasure children always seek to find; i feel with the new album The Union i've found it after all these years. But this still sends tingles down my spine, far from Elton's most famous but maybe the greatest song of all.
mizofan 1 year ago 2
Sir Elton is one of those rare breeds of talent that transcends both time and genre...he. along with Bernie Taupin were absolute musical geniuses who wrote and performed some of the best music of the 1970's and that music has withstood the test of time.
salwc2k 1 year ago
Always loved this, and the line "just like us, you must of had a once upon a time!"
odie7 1 year ago 2
This may be Elton (and Bernie')s finest song, and that's out of so many tremendous contenders. From this album Someone Saved my life Tonight is another absolute classic that should be better known. Well, the album as a whole is utterly magnificent, a real grower. However many thousands of times i have listened over the years, i love it as much as ever.
mizofan 1 year ago 6
most favoritte tune by Sir Elton John.
zipzapjack 1 year ago
I have this album and this is my favorite! shocked to see it here, momma turned me on to this when it was new
572blownhemi 1 year ago 2
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572blownhemi 1 year ago
Gosh I haven't listened to his song in over 30 years. What a great song!!!
ls1959 1 year ago 4
Awesome music !!!
SteelHorseRiders 1 year ago 2
I'd love to attend one of his concerts with this song being done by a high school/college choir doing the medleys for this at the end Oooohhh oooohh!
ehna22 1 year ago
Janice Margeret Gravett 01/12/43 - 17/11/03 - 831
trunknode 1 year ago
Maybe some of these modern youths who feel hemmed in and confused would benefit from hearing this album in a quiet setting to hopefully get their heads right, Just a thought.
horsemad1670 1 year ago 21
@horsemad1670 I know it helped me when I was 15 and feeling too tragic for words! And that was *ages ago* in 1996!
It's just an amazing album. I'd forgotten just how much I love it.
Great music will always find a way to stay relevant.
goldilox369 5 months ago
Someone once said to me that nigel was not a flamboyant or original drummer but his timing was always perfect. Just ask any one from any profession what is the most important ingredient...............
tsardooka 1 year ago 12
@tsardooka i disagree, Nigel brought a simple yet very srong presence in druming to pop music...a dynamic sound never recorded up to that point.
flippyflyer 1 year ago
Thanks for posting. brilliant.
werepig 1 year ago 2
this isnt spam, but go on my playlists and you can listen to this entire album. thank you for posting sydlivy (:
AlecKronicle 1 year ago
What a great song to close out
the excellent Captain Fantastic album,
I've always thought.
alcarr99 1 year ago
another wonderfull tune that I just love so much, and his band is great fantastic, the music is wonderfull the, lyrics are perfect theres no way to do it better outstanding in every way.
zipzapjack 1 year ago
The Greatest Melody Writer Ever In Popular Music
mactheartofwarfare 1 year ago
I believe his voice was most developed and at its peak by early '86. After that his voice deteriorated from oversinging, alcohol, and excessive cocaine abuse.
weirdguy75 1 year ago
Listen to Jeff Buckley cover of this song!
dolunaydainsanolan 1 year ago 2
@dolunaydainsanolan I second your motion to listen to Jeff Buckley cover, it's unbelievably, heartbreakingly beautiful!!! Not that Elton is in any shabby! beautiful song
hannah4440 1 year ago
PERFECTION
dariaE 1 year ago
Was always a fan of Elton's earlier work - and this one is beyond doubt as good as it gets.
serene4000 1 year ago
Great
I appreciate a lot
Thank you very much for posting
xanglat 1 year ago
drum work isoutstanding!!
mikeaurand 1 year ago 3
@mikeaurand - That is Nigel Olsson on Drums, ... Always has been an INCREDIBLE Drummer!
RTL777 1 year ago 2
@RTL777 yes, I knew that, thanks.
mikeaurand 1 year ago
@mikeaurand AMEN BROTHER
dadadruma 1 year ago
My first Elton Album.. and still the Best.
KCCAT5 1 year ago
Thie song will always remind me of a particular summer with my mother back in the 1970s. I haven't heard it for many years. Now I have found it again. It's wonderful.
jimbos211 1 year ago
My chick used to give me the best blowjobs when she listend to this song.
Thank you very much Sir Elton, you are my hero....
Obobbyss 1 year ago 4
... to leave upon the wind... not to return...
Starlitblond 1 year ago
"Beneath these branches, I once wrote such childish words for you..."
Reactiv12 1 year ago
I last listened to this album in its entirety 33 years ago when I was home after my first year of college... now my son is finishing his first year... life is a mystery, better for music... this album is transcendant.
CPHSDC 1 year ago
wow... reading all of your postings... you have summed it up for me. This album is so awesome... and I agree, I feel blessed to have grown up in the time it came out. It was a big part of my evolving so to say.
Starlitblond 1 year ago
Captain Fantastic is a monumental piece of work. Someone Saved My Life Tonight and Curtains are two of the most beautiful songs... Both slow anthems about redemption - especially the latter. Knowing he and Taupin wrote such masterpieces, Elton will go to his grave knowing they left mankind a gift for the ages...
redwoodjimmy 1 year ago 3
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1967mustanggta 1 year ago 4
to me.. This is one of the most mesmerizing albums he did.. one of my favorites for sure.... the album cover always captivated me.. such sweet music inside and such creepiness on the out. ..
Starlitblond 1 year ago
once you experience this album, nothing compares. Don't get me wrong, there is awesome music out there, awesome artists. But it's this whole album, if you really listen to the words, music and lyrics, it blows you away.
superdud100 1 year ago
There is nothing to compare it too.
xoglam0rous 1 year ago
music at its best!
ACHADAGAULA 1 year ago
what a great, great song...
Starlitblond 1 year ago
I got this album when it first came out.... one of his best for sure...
Starlitblond 1 year ago
This album marked the end of an era, that magical EJ era, and one never to be repeated...
wisterlane58 1 year ago 3
One of the best three-minute songs ever. As a song longer than six minutes, it's average. Still, one of the best poets of our generation producing such great words.
forloveoffilm 1 year ago
The songs, the music, the lyrics are all out of this world..................but Elton's voice is rarely talked about. I think his voice....in the 70's and 80's .....were the absolute best. He voice just sounds so good. So clean, pure and perfect. Not enough is said.....about Elton the "vocalist".
jjacintoful 2 years ago 33
Neil Tennant (Pet Shop Boys) has always said he thinks Elton is probably the best pop/rock vocalist ever. (And he also thinks people forget how good a singer EJ really was during this period.)
LWOPP 1 year ago
@jjacintoful I agree I am somewhat of a voice enthusiast I often listen to him and note the differences in his voice from 70 to 86 when his vocal nodule developed.
weirdguy75 1 year ago
@jjacintoful I have to agree with you! Even though his voice has changed over the years, that raunchy voice he had back then is what truly made him iconic. He is in my opinion very underrated and underestimated.
diamejia84 11 months ago
@jjacintoful I agree. Just listen to a song like "Sugar on the Floor". And this one. It's interesting that it Elton and Bernie both sing, and it was only because Elton was already doing covers and stuff that they picked him to be the one to sing their songs.
primroseburrows 9 months ago
Best song Elton, remember my young time.
JAF482 2 years ago
I have always felt very priviliged to have grown up in the 70's from a musical perspective. Elton John's early stuff was absolute quality and for me Captain Fantastic was and still is the best album he ever produced. Thanks Elton, you're a one off.
presspig 2 years ago 36
i agree. i still have the original album, still know all the words to the songs., best album he ever did
dollywetlegs 2 years ago 2
@presspig Well stated....my favorite also
dkcirtapd 1 year ago
I pretty much grew up with his music in the 70's as a kid...it always played in my house. I always thought this song was very beautiful, but it would make me cry sometimes. I don't know why. It brings back so many memories now and still makes me cry. I think because my mom was alive back then, but died when I was only 12...so it reminds me of that wonderful time when she was here and the horribly sad time when she left.
ladybluluv 2 years ago 4
genius lyrics and music is superb
greeneyedlady01 2 years ago 2
At 5:15-5:16 you can hear Nigel's sticks hit one another during his awesome fill...
flippyflyer 2 years ago
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mararules 2 years ago
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mararules 2 years ago
Beautiful.
TXGTR 2 years ago
I know I will be attacked by saying this but Capt Fantastic is my favorite EJ /BT album...Pure musical journey..Thank you Elton and Bernie..
flippyflyer 2 years ago 3
@flippyflyer also my fav EJ/BT album....good choice!!
fatvinnydabully 2 years ago
..........for ralph foglia R.I.P. WHEN SUMMER BURNS THE EARTH AGAIN LOVE LOUIE THANKS FOR UPLOADING
loufoglia1 2 years ago
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MrBazzabee 2 years ago
Thank you for posting this. It meant a lot to me when I found this perfect recording of this song. It's what I needed. I have come back several times since I first found it, and will keep coming back now and again. Thanks, and please keep this up and running.
Tailwind001 2 years ago 2
I STILL LOVE YOU , K Michelle
georgeovidio 2 years ago
WE'VE ALL HAD a once apon a time.....I love it. Can we get it back again???
flex1939 2 years ago 2
I guarantee you that I am working on it....How about you?
LisaJMoore 2 years ago
This album came out during some of the best times in my life. No wonder alot of us go backwords in time. Its when we the most happy
Jertheking6360 2 years ago 3
34 years have past,and I still get goosebumps. I've listened to a lot of music and a lot of albums during my 50 years,but none as often as I've played Captain Fantastic from beginning to end.
"but that's okay,there's treasure children always seem to find"
muskokan59 2 years ago 8
when I hear this song I just cry.
werytraveler 2 years ago 3
I swear that song reminded me so much of john lennon
weirdguy75 2 years ago
It has always reminded me of Lennon, too. (Maybe because Ray Cooper had just begun doing percussion and was featured prominently of EJ's cover of "Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds" the year before.) And I love songs that start slow and quiet and then BUILD.