Elton John - Tell Me When the Whistle Blows (Captain Fantastic 4 of 13)

[best11228]

And I Still Feel The Need..... ::EJ4Eva::

[heapbigtalk]

effin jam ~ 

[jemimakahn]

What is it about this song that makes me want to up and leave my everyday drudgery and just bolt! Just drive and drive away and listen to this again and again! :)

[OrisLover]

@jemimakahn I hear ya bro.

[3801cc]

a 21st birthday present in 1975!!

[goocharoo58]

one of my Faves from Captain Fantastic! YES!!!

[luvtotruck]

Superb string arrangement by the late Gene Page the man who did all arrangements for Barry White and the Love Unlimited Orchestra. Those special little things like trombone simulating a taxi horn very subtle yet cool. Also Davey playing some real funky licks. I wonder if he had a phaser going through his Les Paul to get that sound on his 2 solos here on this cut?

[jemimakahn]

@luvtotruck , very very special. The strings, the guitar solo, the bass and drums tripping each other up at the end.....heaven.

[luvtotruck]

I knew this song sounds like another. 1978 Love to Good Jefferson Starship! Anyone agree or am I wrong?

[tomsladeontheriver]

Reliving my life right here, right now. Tnank you!

[johnnyborealis]

Philadelphia Freedom

[P2000Camaro]

I'm 25.. The chorus of this is my ringtone.lol. This is my favorite album of all time. In fact I'm listening to it because I just poured my heart out to my ex girlfriend, and she totally rejected me, so I had to listen to We All Fall In Love Sometimes on repeat.. Then Curtains of course.. Now I'm trying to bring my mood back up a bit with the rest of the album.

[INCURABLEME]

@P2000Camaro IF YA CANT FIX IT ... REPLACE IT .. TIME HEAL'S ALL  .... WELL TO A DEGREE ...

[NoSheep2]

@P2000Camaro hang in there sweet pea. You're in it with the best of us :-)

[barbarakroon]

Taxi Cab's a-hootin (honk, honk)

[jason13204]

first album to ever enter the charts at number1, that means after elvis and the beatles. Which of course he had two or three more to do the same thing right after this album. the 70's belonged to elton.

[SteelHorseRiders]

Awesome !!

[TheShack2112]

Taupins lyrics are right on the mark as usual....this was John n the bands " In your Face " album to me...." We aint a flash in the Pan MF's "

[rebeccaarnold8]

WOW!!!!!! I love this song.

[BadErnest]

me I'm young and I'm so wild....and I still feel the need of your apron strings once in a while

[MrFBCBSALES]

Can you believe there are two total idiots that don't like this??????? What a world!!!!!!

[LBjim]

"Not so bad but i really do love the land..." frigging classic!!

[GregERobertson]

man, I wanna hear, like, Barry white , or some one do this soul song . . bad ass . .

[rchilds59]

Elton, Dee, Davey and Nigel: The original Elton John Band. Pound-for-pound the best and tightest rock ensemble ever assembled.  Their break-up, to me, was a greater loss than when the Beatles split.

[GmanGregilla]

Sir Elton Awesome.

[mizofan]

An album i've never tired of, probably my favourite Elton, pipping Goodbye Yellow Brick Road and Tumbleweed Connection. At first i thought this song the weakest but after countless plays it was coming on strong, and seems ideal lead into the great Someone Saved my Life Tonight. Elton's new album The Union, with Leon Russell, is superb; rightly 5 stars in Rolling Stone

[leandrojosemartins1]

Um dos melhores discos do Elton...não há canção fraca, todas são boas.

[tsardooka]

u take dee out of the picture and there is none....

[edsroraphael]

 EXELENTE!!!!!

[edsroraphael]

@edsroraphael  TENHO EM VINYL MELHOR TRABALHO DO ELTON.

[tsardooka]

Dee was just a marvel, the best on bass. The glue that got me stuck while dee just ran amok below middle C. I, and I suspect we, miss you Dee!

[inthenameoflove61]

@tsardooka amen...we all miss dee murray...bass and great backup vocals...may he be remembered...

[blackcougar1959]

@inthenameoflove61 I was in LOVE with Dee Murray...Tall, Cool, Lean and a Sexy Bad-Ass, Bass Playing Machine! I WILL ALWAYS remember him!... Elton had THE BEST line -up in ROCK history when he found Davey Johnstone, Dee Murray, Nigel Olson, and  Ray Cooper!

[degregrio]

I had a OBE to this song, OBE, meaning Out Of Body Experience to this song, its effect on me was totally celestial or extraterrestrial to me back in the mid 70s as well as today, 2010, the entire Album was out of this world.....

[horsemad1670]

A great track, encompassing all styles, true greatness.

[alden21]

1975 was a great year, I remember buying this and Pink Floyd Wish You Were Here a few weeks later. Great time for music.

[weedhaven]

I like this album and it reminds me of the completion of my first year at college. Yikes! I do think Elton's music began to decline during and after this album. To me there were some good songs but it seems to sound a little tired. I think Goodbye Yellow Brick Road was his peak. One of the best musicians ever!

[mizofan]

@weedhaven Elton's still going strong!

[KCCAT5]

OMG MEMORIES....I was 14.....Summer love ( crush on a life guard @ Orchard beach in the Bx.

[TheSteverino1]

I've loved this song since it first came out.. Sir Elton awesome John

[LWOPP]

I just moved to a small North Carolina town where you can tell the time by the Amtrak passenger and CSX freights that rumble through day and night. There is one crossing where you can see the trains ease slowly around a long, easy curve in the rails on their way south... I never fail to hear the dying last chord of this song as the last car disappears around that bend.

[hinnyfan]

Nigel's drums here are really superb.

[77edster]

@hinnyfan absolutely superb

[floydygirl]

wow what a track i love it it lifts me up and takes me back to my young years ime in my 50s it makes me feel like dancing around the room again far out elton

[pinkeyegasms]

I hated when the album was over ... i shoulda had TWO copies so i wouldnt have to get up to flip it over lol!

[ladybluluv]

Back then is when I loved this guys music.

[muskokan59]

I doubt this ever left my turntable during the summer of 1975.

[inthenameoflove61]

@muskokan59 i hear ya...we were all groovin back then..had quad heaqphones...it was awsome!

[muskokan59]

@inthenameoflove61 lol....those headphones were sure something,eh? Now we've got the ear buds which are quite awesome : )

[blackcougar1959]

@muskokan59 I was given this L.P as a graduation gift from a fellow 8th grade student, and by the beginning of Fall, my ENTIRE family was" brainwashed" because like you, I played this album from dusk til dawn,

[EricDB007]

@muskokan59 hardly left mine during the summer of '11! :D

[LisaJMoore]

This was the first Elton John album I ever owned...I was about 15...I have not heard this in forever!

Thank you for taking me back to why I love the guy's music...

[tomsladeontheriver]

@LisaJMoore

It was one of my first RKD albums as well. Such good stuff. :o)

[mararules]

what happen to all the lyrics?

[Essendy7920]

This is a great album, I really love it have since I first got it back in the 70s, still love it. , Cool song here. Good beat to it.

[speedqueen693]

this was and is my favorite album of all time. the first time i ever heard it was on my 8track player. i know every word and it always lifts my spirits when life gets me down!!!

[unbeatableenergy]

Mmmmmmm! Sweet strings! Heeyyy!

[DarrylM65]

The strings were arranged by Gene Page who did the orchestartions for Barry White's hits. He also did Philly Freedom. Sweet indeed!

[unbeatableenergy]

Give me a name and a new door opens. Thanks for the name reference.

[weottertalk]

Love this. There's taxi cabs a hootin.

[sbcruiser]

There's a dusty old gutter... full of expired tamiflu... DON'T TAKE IT!!!

[ireworks]

this is the pinnacle of rock n roll!