Elton John - (Gotta Get A) Meal Ticket (Captain Fantastic 6 of 13)

[LoneStarBenF1995]

Gotta get a Metal ticket !

1975 I miss you-(no pain - no regrets !)

Ben

[MegaSteviebhoy]

This album plus Rock of the westies and Goodbye yellow brick road are eltons best album Every track a classic xxx

[Perfidia4ever]

It's rock and roll brother, and I like it

[toshtile]

one dislike ,he needs a meal ticket sad sod

[nethaeleth]

yes i was 8 when this came out and i put the poster on my wall which concerned my parents and teachers. a great elton song written in witch language to poison your souls and minds, rant and babble about how great it is your intelligence amuses me.

[clifdyvr]

If I recall correctly, this album went gold (500K sold) in an hour after release... and this was before you could pre-order online!

[RTT8001]

Summer of 75 babe EJ ruled the airwaves; when albums were exciting and meant something. This song even got heavy airplay on AM radio that year along with the title track even though neither were single releases.

[77edster]

I've prob said it before but this song has a blistering bassline

[cjsmith771]

@77edster and Davey's lead is incredible. What musical writing!

[Mr1969rastus]

While the Diamond Jims and the Kings Road Pimps breathe heavy in their brand new clothes.... gotta love Bernie's lyrics!

[Perfidia4ever]

Un album che è una pietra miliare della pop music di tutti i tempi.Liberatosi dagli spettri adoloscenziali che lo "vedevano" esecutore di sinfonie classiche e pur sfoderando talentuosissimi albums ricchi di sapienti tocchi gotici oltre che di lirismo toccante con il Capitano Fantastico Sir Elton condensa beat, rock, blues, country in una miscela esplosiva che a oggi risulta sempre frizzante...Ascoltare per credere

[rebeccaarnold8]

Another wonderful songs from the 70s. Go Elton John.

[Escondido123]

Davey Johnston rules !!!!! Great guitar work !!!! Is that Cooper in the background! Great percussion!!! Is Dee Murry There? Yes! How about Nigel Olson? Yes!!!

[1959Rangers]

best of his work by a mile

[tmac052558]

I remember waiting for this to come out in the Summer of '75. All the kids were waiting on its release. And, when it came out, we all knew the songs inside and out within a few days. Great great album.

[cyrus1960]

@tmac052558 agreed!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!­!!!

[rebeccaarnold8]

@tmac052558 I was back at that time i got the record. it is great.

[Rodneyrivera1701]

This album tells of Elton and his song writer Bernie Taupi in the early years of their musical careers in London (from 1967 to 1969). This song tells of the British 'food stamps' and what they had to work for to eek out a living.

[cyrus1960]

@Rodneyrivera1701 This song tells of the British 'food stamps' and what they had to work for to eek out a living.

Rodneyrivera1701 2 months ago

VERY TRUE>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>­>>>>>>>>>>FOOD STA<MPS

[SteveSparx]

Great Album

[todendorf77]

ain't that so ---

[rchilds59]

The original Elton John Band at the top of their craft--they had to be to follow-up and top Yellow Brick Road.

[francescsants]

This is rock and roll, my friend !!!!

[SpocksBrain425]

Elton's band never gets enough credit for the energy they bring to songs like this. Let's hear it for Davey Johnstone, Dee Murray, and Nigel Olsson!

[jferkfjkj]

@SpocksBrain425 don't forget ray cooper who on this track is playing like hell on the tambourine

[Mjollnir1234]

@SpocksBrain425

Yup. They KILLED, and they still do.

[OrisLover]

@SpocksBrain425 Right on!



[OrisLover]

@SpocksBrain425 Right on ma brotha!

[kelvin241157]

@SpocksBrain425 Absolutely, especially Davey Johnstone's blistering guitar solos and fills.

[SpocksBrain425]

Been jamming to Sir Elton tonight on YouTube, and nearly forgot how AWESOME his music is, and how much I loved it when I was a young lad back in the 70s. Thanks for the time travel!

[freenachos]

Ironically, these old Elton John albums remind me of college...in the late 1990s.

[JasperJohnD]

I first bought this album as an 8-track!  It was a clever format where the tape continuously played and I'd often fall asleep listening to an album and wake up in the early hours still listening to it. Capt'n Fantastic was certainly a great album but unfortunately seemed to be the peak of Elton's and Bernie's creativity (IMO.)

[DelphinusMAch1]

I don't care about your ages. There's one word for people who don't appreciate this as a great piece; that word is 'plebeian'.

[tabbyman2009]

@DelphinusMAch1 Shut yo mouth Delpenis.

[16240000]

I pity the kids of today.  Nothing out there now comes even close to this. In today's vernacular, Elton's "the shit"

[16240000]

I pity the kids of today. Nothing out there now comes even close to this. In today's vernacular, Elton's "the shit"

[mizofan]

Fantastic album indeed, my favourite, pipping Goodbye Yellow Brick Road, Tumbleweed Connection and his super new album The Union with Leon Russell

[MegaSteviebhoy]

Im a big elton fan and this is probably his best ever album x

[seanandtracey1]

hopes i'm DEAD if lady gaga EVER becomes classic rock!

[usmcfutball]

Davey Johnstone gets a LOT of credit on this one. It's the hardest rocker on the album yet he manages to blend in some really nice acoustic guiter work.

Elton (and Bernie) define greatness. But there was a helluva' band back there as well. Cheers!

[springsteen96]

i'm 14 and i hate all that lady gaga and other garbage my dad introduced me to elton john and hes one of my favorites along with the beatles, the who,bruce springsteen, and eric clapton

[queefbreeze]

@springsteen96 Indeed i'm 28 and feel the same way!

[RebelFounderOdogoo]

@springsteen96 OMG someone who doesn't have there head shoved up there ass! I am 23 and when I was your age I got made fun of so much for loving this music. Stay the course and if you love EJ I would recomend having your dad try and find the box set called "to be continued" It has his hits and other songs that you probly never heard before! Also has the song Come back baby I think it was called. EJ wrote it and it was from when he was in a band!

[alcarr99]

Side 2, Track 1 on vinyl. Put this album

on the turntable many times back then!

[SteveSparx]

Dee Davey Nigel

[candelise]

One of Elton's best rockers! Notice how Gus Dudgeon used the trick of turning up the volume sound VERY gradually so that by the end of the song, it's louder than when it started. He did this on 'Your Sister Can't Twist...' and 'Someone Saved My Life Tonight' too!

[salawoh]

@candelise

If my two grade school/high school friends from the 60's/70's Ray and Tim come to this site to listen to this song, this is the first time I could listen to it since Tim came to NJ to visit in '75 and Ray played the song over and over the entire week just to drive us nuts. Great song, great memories, glad I can listen to it again and appreciate it once more :-)

[doyoubarnes]

Too bad our kids will miss this. Lady Gaga will be bringing back the good old days for them. Sad.

[nickmarkham69]

@doyoubarnes What a horrible thought... worst thing is, you're right !!!! My 12 year old daughter loves Lady Caca...

[17865329]

@nickmarkham69 Yes, also on Social Disease from Goodbye Yellow Brick Road.

[wisterlane58]

This album, as awesome as it truly is, meant the end of the road for Nigel and Dee, which in my opinion was an absolute idiotic move, though 'Rock Of The Westies' was a great album...That magical sound had changed forever...

[yiotispan]

Back in 1985, I remember pulling off an all nighter at George Mason University studying for a philosophy exam... and listening to this LP.

[statman99]

This album is second only to Don't Shoot Me I'm Only the Piano Player as EJs best!

[17865329]

@statman99 Maybe, but Tumbleweed Connection is very good.

[ladybluluv]

I was 10 or 12 years old when this album was out and we listened to this ALLLL THE TIMMEEE!!

[weottertalk]

From his best album ever, IMHO~

[lahonorable]

buen rock de elton john una de sus mejores canciones desde el barrio de san nicasio leganes madrid,españa, youtube...la honorable sociedad

[Essendy7920]

Wow I love Elton Johns song. they mean alot to me. HE is for sure Mr Elton John. Gooooooooooooooooooooo Dude. Meal Ticket. Becky :)

[Starlitblond]

super great! this whole album was great!!!!!!!!

[jmad627]

@Starlitblond I remember me and a friend of mine used to listen to it everyday after school back in '75 when it just came out. It IS a great LP, kind of an overlooked under rated classic IMHO!!

[bassmanjoe]

@Starlitblond Was?? Still is great!!

[RJLKMRD]

John's on fire here

[lvcarmel]

@RJLKMRD I totally agree!

[stellagranos72]

jim102353 has his sequence wrong - If he is starting with Tumbleweed Connection, where is Madman Across The Water? Also, Honky Chateau came out a year before Don't Shoot Me.

That said,

[17865329]

@stellagranos72  Yes, Honky Chateau definitely precedes Don't Shoot me.

[RebelFounderOdogoo]

@17865329 Yep HC was the album before Don't Shoot Me. HC was released in 72 while Don't Shoot Me was released in 73

[lcvideofreak]

I still have this on vinyl from like 1973! It was the best I think. It was my first album too, I was 12 or 13 yrs old.

[steve53london]

elton was at his best in the 70's,this is my favourite album.had this on vinyl,8 track .cassette and cd.i think it's the best he did. dont shoot me and goodbye yellow brick road are close behind

[cbeliles]

I agree!!! My first album, and still the best!!

[thedrummer77]

Those were DA Days! Man! Sir Elton could rock! This was his best album EVER!

MEAL TICKET!!!! YEAH!

[weottertalk]

GOD ELTON KNOWS HOW TO ROCK!

[frank19593]

I meant to say all that crooner stuff after 1976

[frank19593]

This song rocks! Elton John 1970 to 1976 were the classic years. Cant handle all that crooner after 1976

[jim102353]

The sequence of LP's - Tumbleweed Connection, Friends, Don't Shoot Me, I'm Only The Piano Player, Honky Chateau, Goodbye Yellow Brick Road, Caribou, Captain Fantastic & the Brown Dirt Cowboy, Blue Moves. Lets not forget Empty Sky, Your Song before all of that. Quite a run, the most consistent and successful artist since the breakup of the Beatles. The Stones, Led Zep, Beach Boys, Four Seasons, Michael Jackson, & Pink Floyd were all great and still are, but Elton is the greatest of them all.

[wabbitstu]

You missed one album: Rock of the Westies (1975). Came out after Capt. Fantastic, and before Blue Moves.

[jim102353]

wabbitstu, you are right that I forgot about Rock Of The Westies however I did not forget to go out and buy it when it was first released. Elton changed his band with that LP. I have it in CD also. "Island Girl" was the top charted on it at #1 for 3 weeks in October 1975.

[wabbitstu]

I remember when Elton fired bassist Dee Murray and drummer Nigel Olsson prior to going out on the road to promote Capt. Fantastic. He replaced them with Roger Pope on drums, and Kenny Parsarelli on Bass. Dee Murray was pretty upset by it, even up until the time he died in the late

'90's.

[Stoned69]

This album is from 1975 and in my opinion was his best!

[sbcruiser]

YEAH! Get somethin' to eat, just DON'T GET A FLU SHOT!

[webuzzyoung]

you know..

elton has really recorded some shit over the past 10 years..if u go back into his catalogue he really did some fantastic stuff..

this album is a great example

I have great memories of the songs on this album

[brendangarlick]

this album is waaaay older than 10 years.

early elton john (pre '76 is the rock you're looking for). more drums, more bass, more shweet!

[nickmarkham69]

CLASSIC !!!!!