Can you please react to tangerine by Led Zeppelin and Mona Lisa’s and mad hatters by Elton John.

Yes. he was going to get married but someone saved him.

Great Works of Reactions Jamel and very informative. I at age 58 yrs, thank you for learning about the structure of many songs meanings ' l had no idea' but thanks to you buddy i do now. Cheers to you and your great works. It occured to me just now, don't know if you did this before and that is sports theme songs for example in baseball the Mets and the Yankees: Mets have two so do the Yankees : Mets is ' Meet the Mets instrumental and lyrics. The Yankees is Here Come The Yankees and like wise instrumental and lyrics. Now do the rest of the Major Baseball League also have such, would like to hear them. 👍🍻cheers🍔⚾⚾⚾⚾

Wow, thank you for reacting to one of my all time fave EJ songs, this was so beautiful, powerful and emotional, just like when I first heard it all those years ago...🥰🦋💞😭😭😭 Being an avid lover of butterflies, this also resonated with me on so many levels...Like many of you, I have been heavily relying on youtube to help get me thru this pandemic. So much Nostalgia, so many feel good memories, and some not so feel good...such as life....😔 I so appreciate you Jamel, thank you for taking the time to listen to and explore all music genres. I have one itty bitty request, if I may...Can you please PLEASE react to "Wildflower" by New Birth. I love their version of the song, although it was also beautifully recorded by Skylark. God bless you.🙏🥰🦋

Sweet freedom from the drug

Along with "altar-bound, hypnotised"

"A slip noose hanging in my darkest dreams." This entire song is just incredible.

Bernie Taupin

L. E. Coleman, you're dead on, sir! What a catalog they have together...

For real. ❤️

A big Amen to that!

Absolutely! Bernie’s words, Elton’s voice/piano. Magic!

AMEN!!!!!

Bernie Taupin wrote most of his songs, including this one

Bernie Taupin is a genius with his phrasing, and he always brought out the very best in Elton John. Dynamic duo!!

Yes indeed!

Bernie Taupin and Elton John are an incredible team. Bernie's lyrics, and Elton's music. And also very, very underrated is his backing band. It's a riches of talent.

I do not deny any of this. Bernie and Elton had their very own art forms that came together just at the right time to make some amazing music

....and the drums are stellar!

Especially as they (the drums) roll out for the first time...awesome

Drums YES! Nigel's contribution to this masterpiece seems to always fly under the radar. I would love to hear his part isolated. He may be my favorite drummer.

One of my favorite Elton songs as well.

Tricky to play piano accompaniment but worth the effort.

Notice you've done a lot of early 70's Elton John, my favourite artist in the 70's....Maybe try "Mona Lisas and Mad Hatters"

My happy place.

Me too. Best summers from 73 to 76.

we've got a real historian here! relieved after seeing comments that Bernie wrote the songs... Glad someone knows what the hell their talkin about. Thanks Marta

Linda Woodrow Hanlon is the woman Elton was engaged to. Confused and tortured by his sexuality he contemplated suicide. Elton paid for her knee surgery last year as she was broke.

As I recall, this song came out before he was openly gay. It was revealed in a magazine interview, (Rolling Stone, I think?), and then somehow everything about him seemed to make more sense, even if it was rather shocking at the time. (Someone please correct me if the mists of time have muddled the details...)

@@patriciamorgan6545 He married Renate Blauel in Sydney in 1984, some 15 years after the incidents in this song took place, but he came out as bisexual in 1976 (yes, in a 'Rolling Stone' interview). In 1992, in another interview that appeared in 'Rolling Stone', he said he was comfortable with being openly gay.

Also - Bernie found him in the middle of a very un-succesful suicide attempt... He wrote this about that...

I thought I was an Elton John fan, but years ago I realised I was a Bernie Taupin fan.

@@peterr6658 whoa now, remember Elton has to write the music along with those lyrics. Why not be a fan of both?

@@ohwni Have to agree, both super talented.

That's actually a pretty common way songwriters work.

Elton John with Billy Joel!! Holy Canole!

I also saw Elton John & Billy Joel together back in 2001. Final encore was "Piano Man," just the two of them on their pianos, no band, and the audience singing along. Pure gold is an understatement. Best. Concert. Ever.

@@honeypie784 Lord, how I would have loved to have been there!!

I saw that tour also, great show.

THANK GOD MY MUSIC'S STILL ALIVE!!

@@JakeWarwick2410 We're thankful as well...!

Empty sky through caribou. Not a bad all album in the lot.

Incorrect sir.

Tony is correct. And this was Elton’s first suicide attempt.

@@brettjones4300 You can find this story everywhere online and from Eltons mouth himself

In the 70's it was well known that John was bi-sexual. Feb 10 1984 he DID MARRY Renate Blauel , lavish wedding on Valentines Day, in a church, Australia.They were married for until 1988.

Correct

In that it depicts him from walking away from suicide--yeah. He has always said this was the most personal of all songs.

Yep

@@boxsterman77 And yet these are not his words. Bernie Taupin’s ability to tap into something so personal in someone else’s life is incredible. Now that is talent!

Yeah i saved that album when my older sister dint want vinyl anymore, such fun to listen too

I have it on vinyl, cassette and mp3!

Came out when I was 15...the cd is in my car now lol. But I still have the vinyl.....

and Elton's Rock of the Westies the 2nd to enter at #1- the last of Elton's 7 consecutive #1 albums in USA from 1972-5

True. He’s a brilliant time keeper to Elton’s melodies. His contributions to the Elton sound is immense.

Elton fired Nigel right after the recording of this album, He would hire him back 8 years later.

Has

Yeah......looove Elton John too! But you forgot LION KING!! And of course, Tiny Dancer. LOL

Yes missing Tiny Dancer!

@@joannepage8894 Hes said hes heard it before

@@pamcoyer9582 Hes said hes heard Tiny Dancer before

Bennie and the Jets? Funeral for a Friend / Love Lies Bleeding Madman Across the Water

Best song of all about John Lennon when he was murdered. #2 was George Harrison's All Those Years Ago.

I disagree. The best was by his jilted elder son Julian in the masterpiece "Valotte."

Funeral For a Friend reaction has already been filmed and released

@@karachickering6769 Thanks I must've overlook it

Both great songs anyway Bill!! Maybe Jamel can do Sorry 🤞

@@jacqueline4514 thanks, he most likely will, he's good at requests

And Elton's genius brings Bernie's words to life. No one would have heard of Bernie without Elton. So they needed each other.

Yes, Elton John and Bernie Taupin are right there at the same caliber with the writing teams of Mick Jagger/Keith Richards and Paul McCartney/John Lennon.

almost all- lesser lyrics Don't Go Breaking my Heart are Elton's, and i believe most of the fine Sorry Seems to be the Hardest Word. Some other lyricists too, but mainly Bernie, and for virtually all the best songs. Elton can take the credit for instrumentals of course, including the great Funeral for a Friend. Some critics have been sniffy about Bernie's lyrics, but for me many have been marvellous.

My first record, too! ...the production is just superb on this album! ...when I got older, I got into Genesis.

I must have been next to you up there in the rafters. In heard a rumor that he sometimes gets people from the top and puts them in saved seats by the stage. I guess we weren' t that lucky. Sir Elton John is by far the best performer I've ever seen, and I've seen a few. I saw Bowie at 15 and Elton nearly 40 years later. Better late than never I guess

I agree! Also, am I the only person alive who wants him to give Whitewash County a spin? Why that wasn't a single, I'll never know.

Levon is off, in my opinion, Elton’s best album, Madman Across the Water, Which is my favorite Elton John album, and song!!

Your Song was the first EJ song I heard (coming from my big brother’s room) I was 13 and hooked on his music.

It's an album that walks you thru an amazing journey, each song/chapter is a little gem on its own. The title track is probably my favorite, very clearly a case for Corn Flakes and Classics...

Yes great song😎

@@olddisneylandtickets ..two teas, both with sugar, please..

I love Tower of Babel

@@kellywales4059 And yet Elton has only performed that song ONCE in his entire career.

Jessie , I own a copy of this album too and I will tell you l bought it when it first came out. I just turned 70 in March. The album is still in my record cabinet

Yes same here😎

My favorite part! Powerful

Have you seen the footage of Elton in Russia from the 70's? Great stuff with Ray Cooper.

@@MikeySea676 Ooooh, no I haven’t. I’ll have to look it up - thanks! 👊🏻

Yes!!! One of my favorites! Elton will not sing this song at any of his concerts. He has sung it live when in New York but only in New York. An absolutely must listen!!!

Bernie Taupin wrote most of his songs, including this one

@@PJAvenger He wrote all of the lyrics, Elton wrote all of the music and turned them into songs

Is that the same as Funeral for a Friend?

@@headbangingmama8907yes it's the second part of that song. So good.

I second that. “Ticking” is an absolute must. I don’t understand why people ignore that song. Maybe they don’t like sad songs. “Ticking” is one of my favorite Elton John songs. His piano playing on the song is incredible and lends even more drama to the song.

Oh hell yes !

I love that song! The whole Caribou album is excellent!

Spot on!

It also had Elton's friend John Lennon on backing vocals

Yup. Just haunting.

No it's not on this album

One of the BEST albums EVER.

Best Album - also including 'Levon' and 'Indian Sunset' - 3 must listen to tracks

One of the very best!

the Tumbleweed Connection bonus track version of MATW is even better imo.

It was so great when the lyrics were in the album!

Camping with my parents in the early 70s at Soap Lake in Washington state is when I heard this song for the first time. This song and those damn horse flies.

And the theatrics! I doubt our host is picturing Elton John truly in his Captain Fantastic eras he listens to this. He was a show in a show.

He used to say that Bernie was the one who found him and saved him. Don't know if that story has stayed the same all these years later.

My husband was a radio DJ when Can You Feel the Love Tonight first came out. The hairs on his arm stood up which equated to greatness. Many years later, our nonverbal autistic son was obsessed with that song. It's scary what's hereditary, isn't it?

Nope this was one GF but he did marry a woman down the road .Renate Blauel

That is the story I had heard, and not the one about wanting to save his career. Powerful song lyrics.

It’s Bernie’s lyrics

Glad someone got this right!

He did get married to a woman before he came out