Folks I have heard enough tracks off this album now in full to tell you I pre -
ordered the album. It is a follow up to Songs From The West Coast. I don't dare
compare them, and I won't. No need too. They are both brilliant in their own
right. If nothing more...for Porch Swing In Tupelo, Answer In The Sky and Too
Many Tears, now add in They Call Her The Cat...and I still can't convince you?
Ok, try this one on...The Weight Of The World is one of the prettiest Elton
John songs since We All Fall In Love and yet has tones of Captian
Fantastic.....and I think I may actually prefer it over Captain Fantastic , I
know I prefer it over Emperor's New Clothes...and by the way I LOVED that song.
It is a remarkable gem this new track, made me have shivers. I have one final
statement on that track....JESUS GOD IT'S AWESOME!!!!!

Now let's talk about Too Many Tears....Freakin' brilliant! It is right off the
Captain album...coud have followed Bitter Fingers and we would all have LOVED
IT FOREVER!!!!!!!!!! God it is amazing to hear That guy
again!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Sir Elton John...what the F....? Where the F...... Have you been hiding for
the past 28 years since Blue Moves was released? It took 28 years for you to
get back to what is the essence and beauty and GENIUS of your craft and talent
as a musician? If you ever stray away from it again, I swear I will persoanlly
drive up to your house and scream at you!

To the Record Company....you guys are just amazing! Amazing idiots! You have
been handed THE BEST of one of the worlds greatest musicians of all time and
you can't even call the guy and do some marketing? Two words come to mind,
F......Y.....! and yet I am sure that is exactly what you are doing these days
instead of promoting records! Elton get a new label....and NOW! They should be
bwoing to you , kissing your feet and swending you limos. They are dumb ass's
who have no understanding of how to market. Let's see Johnny Cash = Dead, Let's
see Sinatra = dead, Let's see Ray Charles = Dead, let's see Billy Joel = might
as well be dead, and yet we have this guy who has come up with an album that
walks the perfect line between them all, and appeals to that whole generation
who bought their music, and they need someone to buy and listen to now that all
those musicainas are gone...yeah , you're right guys I'd do no advertising for
this too....dumb ass's!

Go to Columbia Records. It certainly couldn't hurt.

John Reid, Chris Thomas, Greg Penny, David Geffen, Tom Bell, Don Was and all
the rest......What gives guys? Why did you enter into this business if you
couldn't actually produce an album of music or even one song of music like this
for Elton John when he came to your door? He had to do it....cause you
couldn't. You all ought ought be ashamed of yourselves!!!!!!!!! What a
disappointment you have all been to History!

Elton, I am MORE than proud of your new direction musically. Even if this album
has NO HIT and sells terribly. The direction and place you should have been and
ARE NOW is right on Peachtree road.
Just stick with Blues, Gospel, Country, Soul and Elton John and you will not do
wrong. This is wonderful music and you are a genius.

If the World chooses to not buy this one....F......em!

Bunch of deaf idiots out in the real world.

You are where you should have been for 28 years....maybe you can make up for
some lost time. I for one am proud you have tried. Infact I feel these days as
if I am not worthy! Even God might be jealous of your brilliance.

Folks, want to hear talent and care and thought, it arrives right at the
begining of Weight of The World. But it shows up again in his piano part later
on, he sneaks it in, between tons of stuff, but if you listen, you have not
heard studio work like this from Elton John since 1974's Captain Fantastic and
The Brown Dirt Cowboy. Go Get'Em Elton!


Sincerely,


Claude W. Bernardin
Author of Rocket Man A to Z, The Music Of Elton John

leggerò questo articolo, come la recensione che hai postato precedentemente, dopo l'ascolto dell'album...sono il tipo di persona che se legge cose positive, poi si carica di aspettative ancor più alte...

Ok, Bernardin ha ascoltato tutto l'album e ha scritto una recensione più completa. Io continuo a postare le sue opinioni, penso siano interessanti anche perchè provengono da uno che la storia musicale di Elton la conosce molto bene (avendo scritto anche libro forse più approfondito che sia mai uscito sulla MUSICA di Elton John).

Album Review Peachtree Road -

The album opens with rain dripping, and then the romantic piano, and then that
wonderful voice, amazingly clean and clear and loud and yet he sounds wonderful
and not all throaty, then there's the lyrics and the melody...o My GOD! Classic
Elton John. Captain Fantastic, Yellow Brick Road, Madman Elton back again. The
album gets to you quickly and it is a joy. It could use a few more uptempo
tracks but over all it shines from brightly from every track that we have a
VERY inspired Elton John, who cares and is trying his best to make up for lost
time in the 1980's. And he is successful. The album is a gem. This is ONE of
the srongest set of ballads to ever appear on any Elton John album. Fans of
Billy Joel ballads, Sinatra ballads, Johnny Cash and Ray Charles, you should
all give this album a chance, it just might open your eyes to the brilliance of
a piano master songrwriter and singer in his own right, long too over shadowed
by his excess's and Candle In The Wind. His songwriting is THE MOST MATURE he
has ever been in in his career. The songs drip with sincerity and great tongue
in cheeck jabs at himself. He even calls himself "dumb as a wall" sometimes.
It's just a great listen, and an album fans will love in a second. But it is so
mature, I think the door is open to appeal to Country MUsic fans, Soul and R
and B fans, and even Clasic Sinatra style fans. Somehow Elton cleverly weaves
it all into a classic Elton sound and it all works, marvelously. The album has
tons od depth. Dim the lights, pull up a chair, some chinese food and a few
drinks and enjoy it! You havn't heard THIS Elton John in a long, long while.

I Stop And I Breathe - It's an A …got it!
They Call Her The Cat - It's a A …got it! Fun as anything, upbeat….a
single! Great piano.
Porch Swing In Tupelo - It's an A ….got it!
It's Getting Dark In Here …It's an A+….just awesome….should be the
single! A classic!
Weight of The World ……It's an A+……just awesome….could be a possible
single!
Elusive Drug ….It's an A+, a great, great song, a perfect ballad. Beats this
train in a heart beat!
Too Many Tears…It's a B+/A-, Where To Now St. Peter, January, Look Ma and
Holiday Inn.
All That I'm Allowed ….It's a B -, nice but nothing special, not Original
Sin
Answer In The Sky…….Is a solid B, nice, but not fantastic
Freaks In Love…….A solid C.
Turn The Lights On When You Leave…..C+, too much like Simple Man
Can't Keep This From You…..a B


The album overall gets 4 out of 5 stars from me.
It is unique, it is creative, it is wonderfully recorded and VERY appealing.
Elton you should have produced more of your own albums.

Elton release … "It's Getting Dark In Here" as your next single, it's simply
classic Elton John, a wonderful emotional ballad. Folks I actually might prefer
it over Don't Let The Sun.

I can't wait to play this album to death, and I have yet to tire of the last
one, Songs From The West Coast.


Sincerely,


Claude W. Bernardin
Author of Rocketman A to Z, the Music Of Elton John

Awesome job, Elton, I'm very proud of you. Two in a row that are winners!

Bernardin, per quello che fino ad ora ho sentito io, mi sembra sovraeccitato!
mi sembrano giudizi molto, molto esagerati, l'avrà ascoltato anche bene il nuovo album non discuto, ma sembra che stia parlando di un nuovo Tumbleweed o Captain Fantastic.

Anche a me Bernardin sembra sovraeccitato (con tutti quei punti esclamativi!!!) e poi mi sembra ridicolo lo sfogo con tutti i produttori precedenti (se la prende anche con Greg Penny....MAH!...Greg a mio parere è stato uno dei migliori produttori di Elton dopo Gus Dudgeon e Patrick Leonard).
E comunque è così esperto che OSA dire che Captain Fantastic è del 1974 (vedere fine della prima recensione)!

Andrea

il libro di Bernardin, rileggendolo bene non è il massimo.
doveva essere una cosa completamente diversa (dalle bozze che mi aveva inviato) poi, probabilmente ha dovuto affiancare al suo nome quello di Stampton per poterlo pubblicare.
e quello che ne è venuto fuori è stato un prodotto diverso, con qualche inesattezza e con un'impostazione discutibile.

Sul libro di Bernardin: a me piace, le imprecisioni sono ovvie quando si trattano una quantità di dati così considerevole. Tom Stanton cos'ha che non va? Dici che gli si è affiancato Stanton come se fosse la Morte in persona...

Su Greg Penny: ha avuto il (grande) merito di riportare Elton a suonare semplice e senza sintetizzatori e tastiere varie... ma il disco (Made in England) suona in maniera ORRIBILE, uno dei peggiori "sound" di tutta la carriera di Elton.

Sulla recensione, io sono d'accordo con lui. Mi sono scaricato l'album da internet e credo che ci siano alcuni pezzi veramente eccezionali: quattro stelle questo album se le merita tutte, come se le meritava West Coast (anche se questo mi sembra avere qualche cosa in più).
The Weight of The World potrebbe agevolmente sostituire Captain Fantastic come canzone d'apertura dell'omonimo album, idem per Too Many Tears al posto di Better Off Dead. Porch Swing in Tupelo potrebbe tranquillamente essere messa in Tumbleweed Connection e fare la sua bella figura. Turn The Lights Out When You Leave è una canzone alla Johhny Cash con vocals alla John Lennon, e la trovo splendida. My Elusive Drug è semplicemente magnifica, una via di mezzo tra qualcosa di Yellow Brick Road (Harmony e I've Seen That Movie Too) e di Blue Moves (Idol). They Call Her The Cat potrebbe essere l'opening di Caribou. Questi gli highlights, che per me sono tutti di un livello superiore rispetto a qualsiasi brano di SFTWC. Allowed e can't Keep this From you sono i pezzi meno interessanti.

il libro di Bernardin doveva essere completamente diverso, secondo me Stanton lo ha fatto modificare per farlo pubblicare, ma lui non centrava niente con il progetto.

questa notte, invece di trovare le zucche di halloween, mi son ritrovato Peachtree Road...non faccio recensioni perché odio dannatamente farle (Beppe ti autorizzo a cancellare anche quello che scrissi su SFTWC, I was full of shit, forse potrei parlarne adesso di SFTWC).
Ho fatto due seri ascolti dell'album ma é un album da ascoltare e riascoltare e comunque non voglio dare giudizi su singoli brani. Però sono qui a scrivere perchè voglio dire che non si può non avere nella vostra collezione di dischi Peachtree Road. Sono orgoglioso di quello che c'é lì dentro. Grazie Bernie, grazie Elton, e grazie al Mississipi, ai suoi dannati fantasmi intrisi d'anima e alla brezza della sera.