Elton John - Captain Fantastic And The Brown Dirt Cowboy (1975) {2019, Japanese SHM-CD, Remastered}

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Artist: Elton John
Title: Captain Fantastic And The Brown Dirt Cowboy
Year Of Release: 1975 / 2019
Label: Mercury / Universal Music #UICY-78964
Genre: Pop Rock, Classic Rock
Quality: FLAC (Tracks+Cue+m3u,Log) / MP3 CBR320
Total Time: 00:46:45
Total Size: 270 / 113 Mb (Full Scans ~ 432 Mb)
WebSite: Album Preview

Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy is the ninth studio album by Elton John. The album is an autobiographical account of the early musical careers of Elton John (Captain Fantastic) and his long-term lyricist Bernie Taupin (the Brown Dirt Cowboy). It was released in May 1975 by MCA in America and DJM in the UK and was an instant commercial success. The album reached number 1 in its first week of release on the US Billboard 200, the first ever album to do so, reportedly selling 1.4 million copies within 4 days of release, and it stayed in that position in the chart for seven weeks. In 2003, the album was ranked number 158 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time, maintaining the rating in a 2012 revised list.

Sitting atop the charts in 1975, Elton John and Bernie Taupin recalled their rise to power in Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy, their first explicitly conceptual effort since Tumbleweed Connection. It's no coincidence that it's their best album since then, showcasing each at the peak of his power, as John crafts supple, elastic, versatile pop and Taupin's inscrutable wordplay is evocative, even moving. What's best about the record is that it works best of a piece -- although it entered the charts at number one, this only had one huge hit in "Someone Saved My Life Tonight," which sounds even better here, since it tidily fits into the musical and lyrical themes. And although the musical skill on display here is dazzling, as it bounces between country and hard rock within the same song, this is certainly a grower. The album needs time to reveal its treasures, but once it does, it rivals Tumbleweed in terms of sheer consistency and eclipses it in scope, capturing John and Taupin at a pinnacle. They collapsed in hubris and excess not long afterward -- Rock of the Westies, which followed just months later is as scattered as this is focused -- but this remains a testament to the strengths of their creative partnership.

~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Music

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Elton John - Captain Fantastic And The Brown Dirt Cowboy (1975) {2019, Japanese SHM-CD, Remastered}

Track List:

01. Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy [0:05:45.08]
02. Tower of Babel [0:04:28.23]
03. Bitter Fingers [0:04:33.39]
04. Tell Me When the Whistle Blows [0:04:20.55]
05. Someone Saved My Life Tonight [0:06:45.20]
06. (Gotta Get a) Meal Ticket [0:04:01.23]
07. Better Off Dead [0:02:37.29]
08. Writing [0:03:40.23]
09. We All Fall in Love Sometimes [0:04:16.17]
10. Curtains [0:06:16.26]

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