NewCC0058: Elton John

Submitted by lbangs on Thu, 05/10/2001 - 05:34
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  • Greatest Hits (74): **** 1/2
  • Goodbye Yellow Brick Road (73): **** 1/2
  • Tumbleweed Connection (73): **** 1/2
  • Honky Chateau (72): **** 1/2
  • Greatest Hits, Vol 2 (86): **** 1/2
  • Madman Across the Water (71): ****
  • Elton John (70): ****
  • Captain Fantastic & the Brown Dirt Cowboy (75): ****
  • Too Low for Zero (83): ****
  • Greatest Hits, Vol. 3 (1979 - 1987) (87): ****
  • To Be Continued... (90): ****
  • Rare Masters (92): ****
  • Greatest Hits, 1976 - 1986 (92): ****
  • Don't Shoot Me I'm Only the Piano Player (73): *** 1/2
  • Love Songs (96): *** 1/2
  • 11-17-70 (71): ***
  • Friends (71): ***
  • 21 at 33 (80): ***
  • Jump Up! (82): ***
  • Made in England (95): ***
  • Big Picture (97): ***
  • Aida (99): ***
  • One Night Only (00): ***
  • Empty Sky (69): ** 1/2
  • Caribou (74): ** 1/2
  • Here & There (76): ** 1/2
  • A Single Man (78): ** 1/2
  • Ice on Fire (85): ** 1/2
  • Rock of the Westies (75): **
  • Blue Moves (76): **
  • The Fox (81): **
  • Breaking Hearts (84): **
  • Leather Jackets (86): **
  • Live in Australia (87): **
  • Reg Strikes Back (88): **
  • Sleeping with the Past (89): **
  • The One (92): **
  • Duets (93): **
  • The Complete Thom Bell Sessions (83): **
  • Victim of Love (79): * 1/2
Author Comments: 

This is a new entry in an up-dated series I'm calling the New Critical Consensus. Several people have requested updates of the older series, and since critical opinions shift, I am revamping the entire system. I am averaging the opinions of several excellent music critics to produce a list of each artist's albums. Rather than using a number system, which was perhaps a bit clunky, I will now be using a five-star system. The albums will be listed in a recommended purchasing order, so new fans will have an idea of where the best place to start buying an artist's work is.
These are not my opinions, although, since I have chosen the critics used (and I'm using many), my taste will perhaps seep through a bit.

Terribly nerdy, I know, but maybe this will help people only now beginning to dabble into certain artists' bodies of work.

Scale:

***** - Masterpiece
**** 1/2 - Classic
**** - Great
*** 1/2 - Good
*** - Above Average
** 1/2 - Average
** - Below Average
* 1/2 - Bad
* - Terrible
1/2 - One of the worst albums ever