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The b**** is Back: When did Elton John's career jump the shark?

Discussion in 'BBS Hangout' started by basso, Aug 8, 2005.

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When did Elton John's career Jump the Shark?

  1. After Goodbye Yellow Brick Road

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  2. After Caribou

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  3. After Captain Fantastic

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    11.1%
  4. When He started doing duets with Kikki Dee

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  1. Jeffster

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    His most recent album I know of (I think it was called "Songs from the West Coast" is the first one I can remember that I didn't like any of the radio releases from. Some of my favorite songs of his are from the 80's and 90's.

    I can feel the music snobbery oozing from this topic. ;)
     
  2. basso

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    Terry Kath was also their lead guitarist, and wrote a lot of their songs, make me smile, 25 or 6 to 4. a bit more than losing darren.
     
  3. Fatty FatBastard

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    Blasphemy! Billy Joel is awesome. Even up until 1989 when "We Didn't Start the Fire" was out. I freaking love just about everything the man wrote.

    (Stupid people... nobody ever likes my collection of Billy Joel, Journey, Chicago, and Barry Manilow.)
     
  4. Jeffster

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    I like all of those, especially Joel and Chicago.
     
  5. Fatty FatBastard

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    So do I. But try putting a mix CD of that foursome in at a party without having someone yell at you to take it out.

    (especially when you do it multiple times.)
     
  6. basso

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    you had me at Billy, lost me at Barry...Captain Jack anyone? one of the great lyrics in rock/pop:

    Your sister's gone out
    she's on a date
    and you just sit at home
    and masturbate.
     
  7. Pole

    Pole Houston Rockets--Tilman Fertitta's latest mess.

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    You can get marginally good tickets to Elton John's Red Piano show this October in Vegas for about 600 bucks a seat.

    I wish my career would jump that shark.
     
  8. Isabel

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    I remember how shocked I was when I first heard these lyrics. Then I started wondering about the rest of the song... do I even want to know what it's about? (for example, the same subject as above?) It just sounds bad...
     
  9. basso

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    Captain Jack= Cocaine.

    and speaking of Billy Joel, the brits are trying to ID Piano Man...

    I am the Entertainer
    And I know just where I stand
    Another serenader
    in another long-haired band

    http://www.mg.co.za/articlePage.asp...aking_news/breaking_news__international_news/

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    Doctors say identity of 'Piano Man' may never be known
    London, United Kingdom

    Doctors fear that the identity of a mysterious mute pianist found wandering on an English beach in April might never be known, a British newspaper reported on Monday.

    "We have discounted a lot of the names and continue to look at those which remain. But there is no obvious lead -- we haven't had someone bashing down the door saying, 'This is my son' or 'This is my brother'," an official at the Little Brook Hospital in Dartford, Kent, southeast England told the Independent.

    "Given the enormous amount of publicity about Piano Man we think it surprising that someone who knows him has not come forward.

    "It is possible that his family lead an isolated existence and have not seen the stories but we have to prepare ourselves for the fact that we may never know who he is and that he may be with us for a long time."

    The so-called "Piano Man", a tall blonde-haired stranger thought to be in his 20s or early 30s, was found on April 7 on the beach at Minster, on the south coast of England, soaking wet but fully dressed in a black suit and tie, with no clue as to his origin.

    He has not spoken since and has not responded to written appeals while being kept under observation in the psychiatric hospital.

    But he has fascinated social workers, the British media and the general public over his one means of communication: playing classical piano music.

    When given a pencil and paper by hospital staff, he drew a grand piano -- and then, when shown a piano at the hospital chapel, he impressed his carers with a remarkable virtuoso performance.

    Since an appeal for witnesses in mid-May investigators have received around 1 000 calls or e-mails, but none have helped the identification process, and several leads, including one in France and another in the Czech Republic, have proved false. - Sapa-AFP
     
  10. plcmts17

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    Elton's shark jumped around 1986.
    Billy Joel's around 1991.
    No matter how shlockey and aggravating their new material can be, I still can't think of them in negative terms as artists because of the strength of their best material. It's like when Chappell said he couldn't find MJ guilty for child molestation because "he did Thriller man,Thriller".
     
  11. RocketMan Tex

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    You're in good company there. Nobody ever likes my collection of Muddy Waters, Slim Harpo, Howlin' Wolf, and Freddie King either.

    :D
     

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