 | Goodbye Yellow Brick Road by Elton John
Buy new: $12.99 / Used from: $6.20 Elton's best album, and one of the best double length albums ever released. From 'Funeral for a Friend/Love lies Bleeding' through the overlooked classic 'Harmony', there simply isn't a weak moment. Superb.
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 | Tumbleweed Connection by Elton John
Buy new: $8.99 / Used from: $3.98 A fascination with the American West yields a wonderful thematic work. Highlights include 'Come Down in Time', 'My Father's Gun', 'Country Comfort'and the epic 'Burn Down the Mission'.
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 | Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy by Elton John
Buy new: $8.99 / Used from: $3.69 The story of Elton's and Bernie Taupin's early years, movingly told. 'Someone Saved My Life Tonight' was the hit single, with standout cuts 'Bitter Fingers', 'Better Off Dead' and 'Curtains'. Great cover art, too!
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 | Don't Shoot Me I'm Only the Piano Player by Elton John
Buy new: $8.99 / Used from: $2.77 Elton's best ballad, 'High Flying Bird', closes out one of his most varied albums. 'Daniel' and the immortal 'Crocodile Rock' reside here.
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 | Madman Across the Water by Elton John
Buy new: $8.99 / Used from: $3.50 This is many fan's favorite Elton John album, for good reason. 'Tiny Dancer', 'Levon' and the title track are the star attractions, along with the great 'Holiday Inn'.
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 | Elton John by Elton John by Elton John
Buy new: $10.99 / Used from: $3.50 Elton's classic U.S. debut, containing some of his most beautiful songs; 'I Need You to Turn To', 'The Greatest Discovery'...and, of course, 'Your Song' and 'Border Song'. Among other highlights; 'The King Must Die'.
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 | Sleeping with the Past by Elton John
Buy used from: $0.01 This one, frequently overlooked, was Elton's strongest album during the '80's. Highlights include 'Healing Hands', 'Sacrifice', 'Whispers', and 'Blue Avenue'.
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 | Honky Chateau by Elton John
Buy new: $10.99 / Used from: $5.05 'Rocket Man' is the undeniable highlight, but 'Honky Cat' and 'Mona Lisas and Mad Hatters' are not far behind.
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 | Caribou by Elton John
Buy new: $10.99 / Used from: $4.57 One of Elton's best rockers, 'The Bitch is Back' kicks off his most freewheeling album. The classic 'Don't Let the Sun Go Down on Me' and 'You're So Static' give this album an almost manic-drepressive feel.
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 | Too Low for Zero by Elton John
Buy new: $13.98 / Used from: $6.03 The comeback album. 'I'm Still Standing' was Elton's defiant manifesto, while 'I Guess That's Why They Call It the Blues' gave him his biggest hit (and longest song title) in years. 'Kiss the Bride' is the best song here.
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 | Breaking Hearts by Elton John
Buy new: $14.98 / Used from: $28.94 Another overlooked gem, this has hits like 'Sad Songs (Say So Much)'alongside should-a-been hits ('In Neon')and a great ballad, 'Burning Buildings'.
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 | Blue Moves by Elton John
Buy used from: $17.96 Elton's second double length album has only one major hit, 'Sorry Seems to be the Hardest Word',along with highlights 'One Horse Town', 'Tonight' and 'Crazy Water'. 'If There's a God in Heaven' and 'Bite Your Lip (Get Up and Dance)' are the low points.
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 | Big Picture by Elton John
Buy new: $13.98 / Used from: $0.01 A thoroughly professional and well done album, perhaps too much so at times . 'Live Like Horses' rises a bit above the rest, along with 'Long Way from Happiness'.
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 | Rock of the Westies by Elton John
Buy new: $11.98 / Used from: $3.45 Elton debuts a new band, and rocks out. An occasionally successful effort, containing the big hit 'Island Girl' and the unjustly forgotten 'Billy Bones and the White Bird'.
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 | Empty Sky by Elton John
Buy new: $9.98 / Used from: $2.82 The debut. The epic title track and the original 'Skyline Pigeon' show the promise of a great career. 'Hymn 2000' ranks with his worst.
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 | Songs from the West Coast by Elton John
Buy new: $13.98 / Used from: $0.01 A slightly rustic feel to this, one of Elton's better late period albums. The best song here is the chilling 'American Triangle', which has some of Bernie Taupin's most haunting lyrical imagery.
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 | Jump Up! by Elton John
Buy used from: $7.99 The John Lennon tribute 'Empty Garden' and the standard 'Blue Eyes' are the highlights, along with 'Legal Boys' and 'Spiteful Child'. 'I Am Your Robot' may be the silliest thing Elton has ever recorded.
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 | Made in England by Elton John
Buy used from: $0.01 The title track and 'Blessed' shine, while 'Belfast' is effective, although a bit ponderous. The rest is a bit dull and overbearing.
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 | 21 at 33 by Elton John
Buy used from: $3.99 A great song, 'Sartorial Eloquence', and the near classic hit 'Little Jeannie' rise above the rest of an otherwise forgettable album.
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 | Peachtree Road by Elton John
Buy new: $13.98 / Used from: $0.01 A somewhat consistent follow up to 'Songs From the West Coast', but nothing particularly memorable here.
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 | The One by Elton John
Buy new: $13.98 / Used from: $0.01 The beautiful, heartbreaking 'The Last Song' closes out a collection of weak songs that resist efforts to overproduce them into viability.
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 | Elton John / A Single Man
"Shine on Through' is a solid Elton John ballad. The rest, with the exception of the touching 'Song for Guy', is unmemorable.
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 | Reg Strikes Back by Elton John
Buy used from: $0.01 'Don't Wanna Go On With You Like That' gave fans a bonafide, catchy hit single. The remainder of the album was scattershot and thin, failing to live up to the comeback ballyhoo that accompanied it.
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 | ELTON JOHN THE CAPTAIN & THE KID by Elton John
Buy new: $16.95 / Used from: $8.99 A would-be sequel to 'Captain Fantastic', Elton attempts to recount his glory years via his more organic 'Peachtree Road' sound. It doesn't work. A disappointment.
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 | Ice on Fire by Elton John
Buy used from: $4.95 If you must have this, buy the extended version with 'The Man Who Never Died' and the live version of 'Restless'. Those two songs outshine everything else on the original album.
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 | Leather Jackets by Elton John
Buy used from: $16.00 Imitation Elton John as performed by Elton John, and a weak version at that. Nothing to recommend here, although this is (if you can believe it)not Elton's worst album.
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 | Victim of Love by Elton John
Buy used from: $1.99 Here it is. The Elton John Disco Album. Oh the horror, the horror. A travesty that would have destroyed a lesser artist's career. As it was, it took Elton a few years to put this debacle behind him. Even completists would be wise to pass it by.
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