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Elton John - Elton John - Greatest Hits 1976-86 Audio CD

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Elton John Band: Elton John
Title: Elton John - Greatest Hits 1976-86
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Release Date: 2001-05-15
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: I'm Still Standing 2: Mama Can't Buy You Love 3: Sorry Seems to Be the Hardest Word 4: Little Jeannie 5: Blue Eyes 6: Don't Go Breaking My Heart 7: Empty Garden (Hey, Hey Johnny) 8: Kiss the Bride 9: I Guess That's Why They Call It the Blues 10: Who Wears These Shoes? 11: Sad Songs (Say So Much) 12: Wrap Her Up 13: Nikita

Good
This is from the oldie days of his just beginning. If you like Elton John you'll like this also. My generation of music.


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good music
My personal favorite is "I'm Still Standing" which was used in a magazine back in 2000 for "Got Milk?" showing Elton John playing the piano with a glass of milk and cake with his milk moustache and saying "I'm Still Standing. This includes late 70s to mid 80s Elton John songs. " "Don't Go Breaking My Heart" and "Sorry Seems to be the Hardest Word" are also classics. .


Elton John's Greatest Hits Vol 3.2
His initial signings were John Lennon, Donna Summer and Elton. After his brilliant run with MCA records, Elton John joined the early roster of mogul David Geffen, who pledged to make his Geffen Records a haven for Artist's Artists. His first album for Geffen, "The Fox," had a minor top 40 single on it that isn't even included here, "Nobody Wins. " Thus Elton entered a slower period that didn't really reinvigorate until the third Geffen album, "Too Low for Zero" and "I Guess That's Why The Call It The Blues. "

After the poorly recieved "Leather Jackets," Elton resigned with MCA and re-established his career with the "Live in Australia" album, Geffen issued a third Greatest Hits collection. It seems Elton must have retained the rights to his materail since this set came out within ten years on MCA and covers hits from "Blue Moves" to "Leather Jackets. "

What this set does show is that, even in a somewhat shallow period of success, Elton John still could create finally tuned pop gems. From "Sorry Seems To Be The Hardest Word" to "Wrap Her Up" ("Heartache All Over The World" is one of the drops from the prior GHv3 set), this best-off really does pack on hits. It also misses a few key tracks ("Act Of War," "In Neon" and "Nobody Wins" would have been nice), yet includes one bona-fide oldie "Don't Go Breaking My Heart. " You're still getting several top tens ("I Guess That's Why. . . " and "Sad Songs Say So Much" are now classics) to offer that proof of Elton's staying power.

The change between the two GHv3 is that this version has 13 songs (from the Geffen's 12), drops two songs ("Heartache All Over The Word" and "Too Low For Zero"), then adds "Sorry Seems. . . ," "Who Wears These Shoes" and "Don't go Breaking My Heart. " The cover art on this one is a step down from the Geffen version, but the sound quality is an improvement. And I always get a smile from hearing Elton and George Michael name-check everyone from Samantha Fox to Nancy Reagen (!?!) on "Wrap Her Up. ".


TIDY CATCH-ALL
It follows on nicely from the second 'Greatest Hits', and begs the question, why not put volumes four and five out? Rocket should be able to do it, picking out the hits of the late 1980s, right up to now. This is a nice wrap-up of Elton's 1980s work, featuring tracks that don't appear on other compilations. It'd be a coup of sorts, simply for the fact that no other artist could conceivably release five albums of genuine "hits". Imagine that as a baby boomer gift box-- a five disc set of 'Elton's Greatest Hits'. .


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