# What are your favorite Elton John deep cuts? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 4, 2015, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-favorite-elton-john-deep-cuts/729868 "2015-09-04T00:23:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/it_s_not_rocket_surgery/32/312_2.png) [@It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/It_s_Not_Rocket_Surgery)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2015, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-favorite-elton-john-deep-cuts/729868/41 "2015-09-06T17:52:31Z")
That list is full of, um, shallow cuts. “Funeral For A Friend” and “Amoreena” are still in moderate radio rotation, 40+ years later. My pick is “[Bitter Fingers](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjEENn771G0)”. ---
**Author:** ![Infovore](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/infovore/32/420_2.png) [@Infovore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Infovore)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2015, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-favorite-elton-john-deep-cuts/729868/42 "2015-09-07T23:46:50Z")
> [@Tim\_R.Mortiss](#): > > “Hercules” is my favorite Elton deep cut. If I ever get a cat, I’m going to name him Hercules. I always found it amusing that Elton John (the pseudonym)'s middle name is Hercules. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2015, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-favorite-elton-john-deep-cuts/729868/43 "2015-09-09T23:13:05Z")
First Episode at Hienton will always be my absolutely favorite Elton John song: The songs still are sung It was fun to be young But please, don’t be sad wherever you are. I am who I am You are who you are. ---
**Author:** ![6ImpossibleThingsB4Breakfast](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/6/e19adc/32.png) [@6ImpossibleThingsB4Breakfast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/6ImpossibleThingsB4Breakfast)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2015, 10:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-favorite-elton-john-deep-cuts/729868/44 "2015-09-15T10:19:26Z")
I know this thread has been snoozin’ for a few days, but it did compel me to put on Goodbye Yellow Brick Road; an album I’ve had for the past forty years but hadn’t listened to since 2007. [‘Social Disease’](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-93jphMpTM) needs to be on this list. ---
**Author:** ![tafowler87](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f07891/32.png) [@tafowler87](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tafowler87)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2015, 1:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-favorite-elton-john-deep-cuts/729868/45 "2015-09-15T13:13:17Z")
There’s Something About the Way You Look Tonight, Live Like Horses or Recover Your Soul ---
**Author:** ![alted315](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/cc9497/32.png) [@alted315](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alted315)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2015, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-favorite-elton-john-deep-cuts/729868/46 "2015-09-15T19:25:51Z")
Another vote for Mad man across the water, not only my favorite deep cut but my favorite Elton John song ever ---
**Author:** ![Satchmo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/satchmo/32/4223_2.png) [@Satchmo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Satchmo)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2015, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-favorite-elton-john-deep-cuts/729868/47 "2015-09-15T22:48:44Z")
I don’t think anyone’s mentioned “Gulliver” from Empty Sky. ---
**Author:** ![tumbleddown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e9bcb4/32.png) [@tumbleddown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tumbleddown)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2015, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-favorite-elton-john-deep-cuts/729868/48 "2015-09-15T23:28:46Z")
All these deep (and shallow) cuts are from the 70s. 80s Elton has a bad rap which is somewhat deserved but there are a few gems. The title track from _Too Low for Zero_. _Burning Buildings_ from Breaking Hearts. _Amazes Me_ from Sleeping With the Past. And slipping into the 90s, _Cold_ from Made In England all rank well with the album tracks of the 70s, IMO. ---
**Author:** ![6ImpossibleThingsB4Breakfast](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/6/e19adc/32.png) [@6ImpossibleThingsB4Breakfast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/6ImpossibleThingsB4Breakfast)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2015, 9:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-favorite-elton-john-deep-cuts/729868/49 "2015-09-16T09:06:49Z")
Thanks for those, **tumbleddown** - I’m not familiar with any of them and am going to look them up. I basically broke up with Elton in early '79 after A Single Man; Blue Moves was pretty iffy to me at the time too, so I’ve lived in the heady days of ‘Empty Sky’ to ‘Rock of the Westies’. Which reminds me: both \*Medley (Yell Help) \*and _Dan Dare (Pilot of the Future)_ from that album of bracketed song titles make this list. ---
**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2015, 10:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-favorite-elton-john-deep-cuts/729868/50 "2015-09-16T10:17:56Z")
> [@6ImpossibleThingsB4Breakfast](#): > > Thanks for those, **tumbleddown** - I’m not familiar with any of them and am going to look them up. > > I basically broke up with Elton in early '79 after A Single Man; Blue Moves was pretty iffy to me at the time too, so I’ve lived in the heady days of ‘Empty Sky’ to ‘Rock of the Westies’. This is me as well, although I have given a quick listen to **Peachtree Road** and **The Diving Board** and I like what I’ve heard. mmm ---
**Author:** ![6ImpossibleThingsB4Breakfast](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/6/e19adc/32.png) [@6ImpossibleThingsB4Breakfast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/6ImpossibleThingsB4Breakfast)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2015, 10:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-favorite-elton-john-deep-cuts/729868/51 "2015-09-16T10:44:44Z")
Thanks, **Mean Mr Mustard** - more ignorance fought! How very funny. IRL, Peachtree Road is a road that holds so many influences and memories for me that when I saw that album title, it was so intrinsic and familiar to me I thought I knew it. I don’t. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-favorite-elton-john-deep-cuts/729868.md?page=2)