My Top Ten favorite EJ songs (as if I can really limit it to 10 – puhleeeze!):
- Mona Lisas and Mad Hatters (despite the fact that it is about NYC, the lyrics are pure poetry, Elton’s voice is perfection and the orchestration/musicality is magnificent)
- Amoreena (“I can see her, sittin’ eatin’, apples in the evening, the fruit juice, flowing slowly slowly slowly down the bronze of her body”)
- The Greatest Discovery (once again, poetry – and it always makes my cry! Ask my sister Cindy about the time I tried to read the words to her)
- Original Sin (The voice! And, of course, the lyrics: “Up in the balcony, all the Romeo’s are bleeding for your hand, blowing theater kisses, reciting lines they don’t understand”)
- Where to Now St. Peter (“Dazzling, dancing, half enchanted in my merlin sleep” and of course the floaty melody)
- Funeral for a Friend/Love Lies Bleeding (A classic)
- Mandalay Again (A recent add – “I was younger then and foolish, come back, I’d like to find the time”)
- Carla/Etude/Fanfare/Chloe (Beautiful orchestration and of course my daughter’s namesake song)
- Tiny Dancer (How could it not be on the list?)
- Planes (A recently discovered favorite, it’s actually an outtake, believe it or not)
And there you go…at least, that’s today’s version of the list. I reserve the right to change my mind at any time!
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