The Bitch Is Back

When "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road" as slowly adopted from the charts, Elton John in a short tour break a studio near Denver decided to rent and take a successor for his monumental double album. Within just one week, he played with his touring band, a 12 new songs, including "Do not let the sun go down on me" (UK Top 20 / US Top 2) and "The Bitch Is Back" (US Top 5 ). Actually, the album should be titled "The bitch is back" wear, but Elton then decided to name it as "Honky Chateau", according to the studio ("Caribou Ranch"). Unfortunately, it is enough neither to "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road ", nor to" Captain Fantastic and The Brown Dirt Cowboy "approach. The songs are not necessarily bad, but except for the two singles they sound almost all arbitrary and hardly recognizable. The low point is a song for the lyrics to Elton wished in his lyricist Bernie Taupin "some old meaningless rubbish" (Solar Prestige a Gammon). He wanted to the Interpretiersucht some music critics a little damper put (eg was "Madman Across the Water been "understood as an allusion to the Watergate scandal). The only exception in the same old forms of conclusion entitled "Ticking": it is about a young man who runs amok for no apparent reason and 14 people kill rarely moved me a song so as bonus tracks can be found on this revamped edition, the B-Sides.. the two singles, and "Pinball Wizard" (UK Top 10) from the rock opera "Tommy" and Elton's 1973 Christmas hit "Step into Christmas" (UK Top 30). Although I "Do not let the sun go down on me" consider one of the best songs of the British, I can only awarded four stars for this album, because I otherwise with the masterpieces of "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road" and "Captain Fantastic and The Brown Dirt Cowboy "would put on an equal footing. Since "Caribou", however on both sides of the Atlantic the top spot on the album charts climbed and thus was no less successful, as the pre-eminent predecessors, it should still be in every good CD collection!