I wish this pasty-faced, untalented, moronic nauseating bag of shit would crawl off somewhere and DIE!!!
Everytime I see a photo of his smug, bloated, gap-toothed ugly mess of a face, I feel like hurting someone.
I hate his music, I"ve always hated it. “Benny and the Jets” is supposed to be one of his best songs, right? Well, it SUCKS!
I fail to see the “charm” in his thing about glasses, his sucking up to British royalty is just sickening, his “knightood”, his touchy-feely with diseased slime like Michael Jackson and Liz Taylor – all of that is fucking revolting.
He’s been around forever it seems, yet he’s still there, accepting various awards, appearing at “events,” etc., etc.
WHY??? What in hell does this asshole have to offer?
Untalented? I beg to differ. I think John is one of the most talented men in popular music and has been for the past 30 years or so. That is not to say that I would care to listen to “Crocodile Rock” or “Saturday Night is All Right for Figting” again, but I think he has a substantial body of work with some very noteworthy songs, especially “Your Song,” “Tiny Dancer,” “Levon,” “Somebody Saved My Life Tonight,” and “Candle in the Wind” (the original tribute to Norma Jean. The man obviously has been influenced by classical music so I doubt that makes him moronic. Of course you have a right to your opinions, regardless of what I think of them.
You’re not obsessed, are you?
We all have our idiosyncracies. I used to wear hats all the time in my younger days.
From what I’ve read in the press, his friendship with Princess Di was quite genuine. I am not aware that he has sucked up to any other royals.
He deserves his as much as Mick Jagger and Cliff Richards deserve theirs.
I find that I cannot defend Jacko, but what has Liz Taylor done to deserve the title of diseased slime? I mean, she goes through husbands like I go through a 12-pack, but other than that she has seemed like a normal human being.
*Empty Sky
Val-hala
Western Ford Gateway
Hymn 2000
Lady What’s Tomorrow
Sails
The Scaffold
Skyline Pigeon
Gulliver
Hay-Chewed
Your Song
I Need You To Turn To
Take Me To The Pilot
No Shoestrings On Louise
First Episode At Hienton
Sixty Years On
Border Song
The Greatest Discovery
The Cage
The King Must Die
Ballad Of A Well-Known Gun
Come Down In Time
Country Comfort
Son Of Your Father
My Father’s Gun
Where To Now St. Peter?
Love Song
Amoreena
Talking Old Soldiers
Burn Down The Mission
Take Me To The Pilot
Honky Tonk Women
Sixty Years On
Can I Put You On
Bad Side Of The Moon
Friends
Honey Roll
Variations On Friends Theme (The First Kiss)
Seasons
Variations On Michelle’s Song (A Day In The Country)
Can I Put You On
Michelle’s Song
I Meant To Do My Work Today (A Day In The Country)
Four Moods
Seasons Reprise
Tiny Dancer
Levon
Razor Face
Madman Across The Water
Indian Sunset
Holiday Inn
Rotten Peaches
All The Nasties
Goodbye
Honky Cat
Mellow
I Think I’m Going To Kill Myself
Suzie (Dramas)
Rocket Man (I Think It’s Going To Be A Long Long Time)
Salvation
Slave
Amy
Mona Lisas And Mad Hatters
Hercules
Daniel
Teacher I Need You
Elderberry Wine
Blues For Baby And Me
Midnight Creeper
Have Mercy On The Criminal
I’m Going To Be A Teenage Idol
Texan Love Song
Crocodile Rock
High Flying Bird
Funeral For A Friend/Love Lies Bleeding
Candle In The Wind
Bennie And The Jets
Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
This Song Has No Title
Grey Seal
Jamaica Jerk Off
I’ve Seen That Movie Too
Sweet Painted Lady
The Ballad Of Danny Bailey (1909-34)
Dirty Little Girl
All The Girls Love Alice
Your Sister Can’t Twist (But She Can Rock ‘n’ Roll)
Saturday Night’s Alright (For Fighting)
Roy Rogers
Social Disease
Harmony
The Bitch Is Back
Pinky
Grimsby
Dixie Lily
Solar Prestige A Gammon
You’re So Static
I’ve Seen The Saucers
Stinker
Don’t Let The Sun Go Down On Me
Ticking
Captain Fantastic And The Brown Dirt Cowboy
Tower Of Babel
Bitter Fingers
Tell Me When The Whistle Blows
Someone Saved My Life Tonight
(Gotta Get A) Meal Ticket
Better Off Dead
Writing
We All Fall In Love Sometimes/Curtains
Medley (Yell Help, Wednesday Night, Ugly)
Dan Dare (Pilot Of The Future)
Island Girl
Grow Some Funk Of Your Own
I Feel Like A Bullet (In The Gun Of Robert Ford)
Street Kids
Hard Luck Story
Feed Me
Billy Bones And The White Bird
Your Starter For…
Tonight
One Horse Town
Chameleon
Boogie Pilgrim
Cage The Songbird
Crazy Water
Shoulder Holster
Sorry Seems To Be The Hardest Word
Out Of The Blue
Between Seventeen And Twenty
The Wide-Eyed And Laughing
Someone’s Final Song
Where’s The Shoorah?
If There’s A God In Heaven (What’s He Waiting For?)
Idol
Theme From A Non-Existent TV Series
Bite Your Lip (Get Up And Dance)
Shine On Through
Return To Paradise
I Don’t Care
Big Dipper
It Ain’t Gonna Be Easy
Part Time Love
Georgia
Shooting Star
Madness
Reverie
Song For Guy
Johnny B. Goode
Warm Love In A Cold World
Born Bad
Thunder In The Night
Spotlight
Street Boogie
Victim Of Love
Chasing The Crown
Little Jeannie
Sartorial Eloquence
Two Rooms At The End Of The World
White Lady White Powder
Dear God
Never Gonna Fall In Love Again
Take Me Back
Give Me The Love
Breaking Down Barriers
Heart In The Right Place
Just Like Belgium
Nobody Wins
Fascist Faces
Carla/Etude
Fanfare
Chloe
Heels Of The Wind
Elton’s Song
The Fox
Dear John
Spiteful Child
Ball And Chain
Legal Boys
I Am Your Robot
Blue Eyes
Empty Garden (Hey Hey Johnny)
Princess
Where Have All The Good Times Gone
All Quiet On The Western Front
Cold As Christmas (In The Middle Of The Year)
I’m Still Standing
Too Low For Zero
Religion
I Guess That’s Why They Call It The Blues
Crystal
Kiss The Bride
Whipping Boy
Saint
One More Arrow
Restless
Slow Down Georgie (She’s Poison)
Who Wears These Shoes
Breaking Hearts (Ain’t What It Used To Be)
Li’l ‘Frigerator
Passengers
In Neon
Burning Buildings
Did He Shoot Her
Sad Songs (Say So Much)
This Town
Cry To Heaven
Soul Glove
Nikita
Too Young
Wrap Her Up
Satellite
Tell Me What The Papers Say
Candy By The Pound
Shoot Down The Moon
Leather Jackets
Hoop Of Fire
Don’t Trust That Woman
Go It Alone
Gypsy Heart
Slow Rivers
Heartache All Over The World
Angeline
Memory Of Love
Paris
I Fall Apart
Town Of Plenty
A Word In Spanish
Mona Lisas And Mad Hatters Part Two
I Don’t Wanna Go On With You Like That
Japanese Hands
Goodbye Marlon Brando
The Camera Never Lies
Heavy Traffic
Poor Cow
Since God Invented Girls
Durban Deep
Healing Hands
Whispers
Club At The End Of The Street
Sleeping With The Past
Stones Throw From Hurtin’
Sacrifice
I Never Knew Her Name
Amazes Me
Blue Avenue
Simple Life
The One
Sweat It Out
Runaway Train [with Eric Clapton]
Whitewash County
The North
When A Woman Doesn’t Want You
Emily
On Dark Street
Understanding Women
The Last Song
Tear Drops [with K.D. Lang]
When I Think About Love (I Think About You) [with P.M. Dawn]
The Power [with Little Richard]
Shakey Ground [with Don Henley]
True Love [with Kiki Dee]
If You Were Me [with Chris Rea]
A Woman’s Needs [with Tammy Wynette]
Don’t Let The Sun Go Down On Me [live with George Michael]
Old Friend [with Nik Kershaw]
Go On And On [with Gladys Knight]
Don’t Go Breaking My Heart [with RuPaul]
Ain’t Nothing Like The Real Thing [with Marcella Detriot]
I’m Your Puppet [with Paul Young]
Love Letters [with Bonnie Raitt]
Born To Lose [with Leonard Cohen]
Duets For One
My Baby Loves Lovin’
Cottonfields
Lady D’Arbanville
Natural Sinner
United We Stand
Spirit In The Sky
Travellin’ Band
I Can’t Tell The Bottom From The Top
Good Morning Freedom
Young Gifted And Black
In The Summertime
Up Around The Bend
Snake In The Grass
Neanderthal Man
She Sold Me Magic
Come And Get It
Love Of The Common People
Signed Sealed Delivered
It’s All In The Game
Yellow River
Circle Of Life
I Just Can’t Wait To Be King
Can You Feel The Love Tonight
Believe
Made In England
House
Cold
Pain
Belfast
Latitude
Please
Man
Lies
Blessed
Long Way from Happiness
Live Like Horses
The End Will Come
If The River Can Bend
Love’s Got A Lot To Answer For
Something About The Way You Look Tonight
The Big Picture
Recover Your Soul
January
I Can’t Steer My Heart Clear Of You
Wicked Dreams
Blue Eyes
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I’m sure I’m not alone in hating Elton John. We’ll see.
Elton’s great if you like stupid sentimental little ditties that were written in a hot tub in about 10 minutes by the hack Bernie Taupin while snorting cocaine.
I think a lot of Elton’s 70s stuff was fantastic, but his more recent works are sugary crap, custom-designed to make people flock in droves to stupid Disney movies. I can’t feel any real emotion or musical genius behind them like I could with songs like “Tiny Dancer,” “Daniel,” and “Funeral for a Friend/Love Lies Bleeding.”
I’d just like to point out that I was listening to Benny and the Jets on the radio when I came into the pit and saw this thread.
Other than that, I have absolutely nothing constructive to contribute to this thread. You still may, if you so desire, quote my entire post and then say something like “daaaaaaamn! remind me never to cross paths with Ender in the pit.”
I think Elton is a jerk, at least from what I’ve heard, he’s rude and snotty, but I do like his work.
I LIKE “Benny and the Jets”. And “Tiny Dancer,” “I Guess That’s Why They Call It the Blues”, “Your Song” and the original “Candle in the Wind.” (The song sounds so much more appropriate for Marilyn than it does for Diana.)
Although I do have some advice-Elton, lose the rug. It looks terrible. You look better without it. Seriously.
I just don’t get how people get this worked up over celebrities. Who gives a shit? Don’t watch their movies, read their books, or listen to their music. Problem solved!
Unless you talking about Julia Roberts. Julia Roberts is Satan.
lout: What’s your obsession with putting the word knighted in quotation marks? Whether you like it or not, the government of the country of which he holds citizenship deigned to appoint him to that particular office.
