1/15/2024 0 Comments Elton john blue moves album coverI sometimes wonder if newer artists like Mika and Scissor Sisters listened to "Bite Your Lip" and thought, "geez I can easily beat that" , "Bite Your Lip And Get Up and Dance", is beyond filler for me. "Shoorah", "If There's A God", Non-existent TV Theme" and oh my. And finally Side Four, I mean we're talking some pretty lame Elton John here friends. It's not there aren't some decent, but far from great, Elton tunes later in the album, but each one seems to either be something I've heard before or they just don't work for me, for one reason or another."Blue Moves" could have easily been a single album, rather than a two-album set, in my opinion.Ī few other tracks that I'll mention are "Chameleon" and 'Idol", which to me are so similar ("Chameleon" being more straight forward and "Idol" with it's late night smokey filled hotel bar direction), that one of them should've been omitted. After those two, with exception to "Sorry" and "Crazy Water", this album quickly starts to fall apart in quality for me with each song. Thankfully that silliness passes pretty quickly and we get into some quality tracks, like "Tonight" and "One Horse Town". I mean, come on, very close to that same time I was getting the first few Alan Parsons Project albums and those albums had REAL instrumentals! How can this album have the talents of James Newton Howard (who today is one of the most sought after motion picture scoring guys out there) and the rest of that version of "The Elton John Band" and come up with such average songs for them to play on? Back when I was 15 years old when this album was first released and I bought it, I probably thought that "Blue Moves" opener "Your Starter For" was a "cool" tune, but now at nearly 60 years old, that short little bit of instrumental cheese whiz is embarrassing at best for me to get through, even at less than two minutes. in that songs lyrics or performance, it's just a simple and beautiful Elton John ballad with such a perfect orchestration. Right out of the gate I have to say that "Sorry Seems To Be The Hardest Word" is one of my all-time favorite Elton/Bernie songs. tunes, but they may have been a lot better if they would have been recorded at a different time. I find that it's kind of up there with ELO's "Discovery" which was also an album of o.k. "Blue Moves" as an album for me is one of those "yeah it's alright, but it's got a lot of filler and is a bit cheesy" albums. Allow me to start by saying that there is absolutely no doubt to my ears that the newer SHM-CD is the VERY best that I have ever heard this album!
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