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| | Elton John : Honky Chateau - Listen, Review and Buy at ARTISTdirect |
 | | But what makes Honky Chateau a classic is the songcraft, and the way John ties disparate strands of roots music into distinctive and idiosyncratic pop -- it's one of the finest collections of mainstream singer/songwriter pop of the early '70s. | | | The skittering boogie of "Honky Cat" and the light psychedelic pop of "Rocket Man" helped send Honky Chateau to the top of the charts, but what is truly impressive about the album is the depth of its material. | | | Considerably lighter than Madman Across the Water, Honky Chateau is a rollicking collection of ballads, rockers, blues, country-rock, and soul songs. |
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| | Comments for John, Elton, Honky Chateau - WWW Music Database |
| | Honky Chateau combines Taupin's lyrics of classic Americana with Elton's sense of melody and a band that continually grooves, and the result is a great album. | | | Elton carries a distinctively soulful vocal and piano style on songs such as "Suzie," "Amy," and "Mellow," while his great talent for the melody shines on "Mona Lisas and Mad Hatters." The true jewel of this album is "Rocket Man." Taupin's lyrics are original and thought-provoking, and Elton's vocals are as clear as ever. | | | It also made EJ a certified superstar, being that it featured two top ten hits ("Rocket Man", "Honky Cat") and was his first #1 album (and first in a string of #1 albums). |
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| | Honky Chateau, Elton John :: Music Review :: ABC Gold & Tweed Coasts |
| | Elton John's "Honky Chateau" is a feast of memorable pop songs that are driven by catchy melodies and powerful hooks. | | | "Honky Chateau" was Elton John's very first American Number One album, spending five weeks at the top of the charts. | | | The standout song on "Honky Chateau" is the psychedelic pop tune "Rocket Man", but Elton doesn't disappoint with other tunes such as the boogie number "Honky Cat', the cynical "I Think I'm Gonna Kill Myself", and the moving ballad "Mona Lisas and Mad Hatters". |
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| | Elton John -- Honky Chateau (1972) Music Reviews - UK - Hippyland |
| | The albums title \'Honky Chateau\', had reference to Strawberry Studios, and was dedicated to Catherine Phillipe-Gerard, who was the manageress of the Chateau. | | | The first half of the album is testament to Elton's ability of crafting hooks and melodies with aplomb, with the charming "Mellow" and the morbidness of "I Think I'm Gonna Kill Myself", with its catchy hooks and meandering piano. | | | The album starts off with "Honky Cat", a boogie filled number (and a top 10 hit in the US), with jaunty piano and some nice brass arrangement. |
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| | Amazon.ca: Music: Honky Chateau (Rm) |
| | Finally, "Honky Chateau" and "Don't Shoot Me" are the only two records I've had on vinyl, 8-track, cassette, and CD. | | | This was the album that first revealed John as a pure-pop craftsman, and he's all over the musical map on this set, moving from country-ish rock to blues-based rockers. | | | My favorite on this album has to be "Honky Cat," the sorta title track. |
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| | Elton John |
| | Honky Chateau, one of Elton John& most fondly remembered albums, is possibly most representative of his problems as an artist. | | | A reference point for Honky Chateau would be the Kinks’ Muswell Hillbillies, an album that is adamantly British, yet metaphorically engages the cross-cultural differences and likenesses between American/British peoples. | | | This shows most consistently on the Band-inspired (according to Elton) country songs that started with "No Shoestrings on Louise" on the 1969 Elton John &; and song styles which turned up on Tumbleweed Connection and continued intermittently through the albums that led up to Elton& conversion to "sophisticated" disco man circa 1978. |
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| | Classic '70s Albums From Elton John (ELTON JOHN, TUMBLEWEED CONNECTION, MADMAN ACROSS THE WATER, HONKY CHATEAU and ... |
| | HONKY CHATEAU (1972), his fifth studio album, stayed at #1 for five weeks, went platinum and solidified Elton's stardom. | | | SLOWHAND was remixed for surround sound by the album's original producer, the legendary Glyn Johns. | | | LOS ANGELES, Nov. 10 /PRNewswire/ -- With a new Elton John album, PEACHTREE ROAD, being issued on Universal Records on November 9, 2004, five of Elton's earliest albums will be issued in the SACD Hybrid format on October 26, 2004. |
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| | Honky Chateau |
| | And of course, Honky Chateau is a great album anyway, so I highly recommend this. | | | Although not his finest album, "Honky Chateau" ranks among Sir Elton's best. | | | And, speaking of production, we gladly can't hear much of Paul Buckmaster's hand--he ruined many a great Elton song before and after with overreaching orchestrations.This may be the most tasteful Elton album as far as instrumentation/arrangements goes--wish they all had this as the model. |
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| | Rockzilla.net The Honky Tonk Chateau "The Honky Tonk Chateau" by Al Kunz |
| | Elton John's classic 1972 album, Honky Chateau, contained an amalgam of musical styles that resulted in pop with a twist. | | | With The Honky Tonk Chateau, a seven song EP on Slewfoot subsidiary Wire Road Records, the folks from Crane continue to impress with their ability to find and sign talent. | | | Hurst mines a traditional honky tonk theme while turning in her strongest vocal performance on the disc. |
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| | Honky Chateau by elton john CD |
| | The results were successful, as the nonsensical "Honky Cat" and the Bowie-inspired "Rocket Man" became John's first Top 10 hits since the release of "Your Song" two years prior Honky Chateau. | | | This is a hybrid Super Audio CD playable on both regular and Super Audio CD players Honky Chateau. | | | By the time Elton John went to France to cut HONKY CHATEAU in 1972, he had already become the first act since the Beatles to land four albums in the American Top 10 simultaneously. |
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| | Honky Chateau |
| | "Honky Cat," the first track off this album is a pleasantly upbeat skiffle number that has me wiggling my index finger in the air with all the olde tyme merriness it has to offer. | | | Honky Chateau, however, is an album that is almost as artistically brilliant, and PLUS it comes equipped with its very own floatation device! | | | Also, this album is the most enjoyable Elton John record to this date. |
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| | CatStevens.Com - The Cat Stevens World Wide Web Site |
| | On Honky Chateau, John began to brighten up somewhat-the tone of the album was lighter and there was genuinely jaunty rockers scattered throughout the album. | | | Recorded with his touring band -- bassist Dee Murray, drummer Nigel Olsson and guitarist Davey Johnstone -- and featuring the hit singles "Rocket Man" and "Honky Cat," Honky Chateau became his first American number one album, spending five weeks at the top of the charts. | | | In 1971, he released the live 11-17-70 and the Friends soundtrack, before releasing Madman Across the Water late in the year. |
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| | SH Forums - Question about Japanese pressing of Elton John *Honky Chateau* (CD). |
| | I have four Japanese pressings of Elton John CDs on the MCA label, and the Honky Chateau disc appears to be newer. | | | In scouring the used CD bins today, I came across a Japanese pressing of Elton John Honky Chateau (MCA label), and I am hoping that you can give me some idea as to the age of the disc and the sound quality. | | | * Whereas the four discs I have show the artwork from the original LP on the back insert and have no barcode, the back insert for Honky Chateau has that MCA "Compact Price Plus" plaid design with a plain-looking track listing and a barcode. |
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| | John, Elton HONKY CHATEAU [SACD] - QuadraphonicQuad Forums |
| | In the first few listenings it all seemed quite good-but-not-great, with "Honky Cat", "Rocket Man" and "I Think I'm Going to Kill Myself" (anything with a cameo from a Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band member is OK with me...) the standouts. | | | I'm most familiar with Sir Elton as a "singles" artist (I haven't gone deep into the albums), so I checked out the 2-channel mix a few times while I was on the go to acquaint myself with the material. | | | It's just the song material, except the singles Honky Cat and Rocket Man, that doesn't make this one a great album for me. |
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| | Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Honky Chateau [Remaster] - Elton John at Epinions.com |
| | This song, surely a familiar one to longtime listeners of classic rock radio, is all sass and swagger. | | | Amy brings a different feel to the album, being the first and only minor key song on Honky Chateau. | | | Seventies music has gotten a pretty bad rap (some would say quite undeservedly), but Honky Chateau manages to transcend every cliché of the music from that era. |
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| | Daily Vault - August 22, 1997 |
| | It was courtesy of "CD 94.7", a radio station in Chicago, dusting off their copy of the same album and playing the track "Hercules" off of it. | | | Only two of the album's ten songs may be "common knowledge" to classic rock fans - "Honky Cat" and "Rocket Man." For now, we're going to put these aside - they weren't what drew me to dig this one out of the Pierce Memorial Archives (free sticky-bun with every order). | | | Damn shame he didn't examine this further - one track in this vein leaves you wanting more. |
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| | Elton John - Madman Across the Water / Honky Chateau - Island / Rocket Records - SACD |
| | The first tune out of gate, "Honky Cat" delivers several levels of EJ's keys, all of which are wonderfully spread throughout the song. | | | Those same keys are delightfully shaped and unmistakeably add more in clarity to the song than are found on previous releases. | | | Of the two albums reviewed here, clearly Honky Chateau yields the better mix in Stereo. |
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| | RollingStone.com: Don't Shoot Me I'm Only The Piano Player : Elton John : Review |
| | Elton's only major problem after the success of his first album was finding the right direction for his talent, and until Honky the path chosen led up a blind alley. | | | The essence of Elton's personality, on record and in performance, has always been innocent exuberance, a quality intrinsic in most of the best rock 'n' roll of the Fifties and early Sixties. | | | In Madman Across the Water, which closed phase one, Gus Dudgeon's overly lavish production and Bernie Taupin's often impenetrable lyrics ultimately created a barrier between Elton and his audience that severely endangered his star status. |
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| | Great Scott! : Albums : Honky Chateau |
| | While Honky Chateau doesn't have any grand, sweeping instrumentals, like "Funeral for a Friend" (the closest it comes is the vaguely psychedelic "Rocket Man") it's chock-full of tight rockers. | | | If you don't find the vocals on that track completely awesome, you are obviously a soulless automaton. | | | The ratio of "Amy"s to "Mellow"s is very nearly perfect, providing a great mix of upbeat dance-y songs to slow ballads. |
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| | In Music We Trust - Elton John: Captain Fantastic |
| | All three are now available in the hybrid multi-channel super audio format known as "SACD". | | | Universal's Chronicles series has given the hybrid SACD treatment to three of Elton John's most memorable records: Captain Fantastic, Madman Across the Water, and Honky Chateau. | | | Obviously geared towards audiophiles (who most definitely own top-notch vinyl players and have been enjoying these classics in their purity for years), and hardcore Elton John fans, these SACDs don't disappoint. |
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| | Elton John - Honky Chateau |
| | Notable not only for the hits "Honky Cat" and "Rocket Man" but also for "I Think I'm Gonna Kill Myself" and "Mona Lisas and Mad Hatters." The first of John's seven U.S. #1 albums. | | | After a couple of weightier singer-songwriter outings, it was delightful to hear John revel in the simple pop pleasures of "Honky Cat." Written in four days, and utilizing his signature touring band for the first time, | | | Rock & Roll Review: A Guide to Good Rock on CD, |
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| | From king of '70s radio rock to British heirloom, a survivor - The Washington Times: Entertainment - December 03, 2004 |
| | With 1973's "Honky Chateau," he began recording with his touring band, and the sound instantly became funkier, more electric, more flexible, and the innate catchiness of the songs seemed to increase exponentially at the same time. | | | Complete with a gatefold cover and full-color lyrics booklet, "Don't Shoot Me" was an exuberant Technicolor teenage fantasia of crushes, cars and dancing, spiked with just enough self-pity to go straight to the heart of its target adolescent audience. | | | John picked up the pace, he shed his influences and began to zero in on his own flamboyant identity as both a composer and a performer. |
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| | Lyrics to song Amy By ELTON JOHN from the album Honky Chateau |
| | Lyrics to song Amy By ELTON JOHN from the album Honky Chateau | | | This page is a static (generated) page in an effort to minimize the load on the mother website, Although we have done our best not to have broken links please report them if you find them on the mother website, Please refer to the mirror as sp1mirr1a |
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| | MTVNews.com: Music Geek: The One-Track Mind |
| | But after awhile, cracks appear in the glitter: The vocals are a little weak (perhaps because Jake and Ana haven't quite grown into their dreams of trans-everything fabulosity), and while in concert it would make for a perfect excuse to rub up against consenting strangers, the recorded song suffers from a lullaby-like monotony. | | | Well, Grasshopper, cogitate on this — for the first, say, 15 seconds of "Take Your Mama," all is well with the world. | | | It's sinuous and slutty, with just enough of a Honky Chateau-era Elton John vibe to open up the ears. |
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| | Schickele Mix Program Database Search |
| | JOHN/TAUPIN (Dick James Music Ltd.): “Honky Cat”, Elton John, “Honky Chateau”, | | | Or enter part of a program title, such as Prague. |
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| | JOHN,ELTON - HONKY CHATEAU: Buy CD for $8.09 |
| | JOHN,ELTON - HONKY CHATEAU: Buy CD for $8.09 | | | Order & Save 19% Buy from Amazon.com Buy from Half.com Style Rock Release 05/14/96 Year 1996 Rating **** Catalog POL 528162 UPC 73145281622 | | | John,Elton Honky Chateau List Price $9.98 Raw Cost $8.09 With S&H $10.51 In Stock Qty: |
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| | Elton John |
| | The original, one-LP/CD version was dominated by predictable early 70s hits, and it was pretty conservative outside of a dull duet with Lesley Duncan on her "Love Song," the heavy-rock intro to "Take Me To The Pilot," Ray Cooper's bizarre duck call solo on "Honky Chateau," and some relatively stripped down arrangments ("Skyline Pigeon"). | | | With a short running time and virtual replication of the studio arrangements, it just didn't have much emotional impact. |
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| | Mellow (Honky Chateau) @ Streamwaves |
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| | Second Hand Songs - Medium: Honky Chateau - Elton John (1972) |
| | Second Hand Songs - Medium: Honky Chateau - Elton John (1972) | | | California Dreamin' by Royal Gigolos was originally written by John Phillips, Michelle Phillips and performed by The Mamas and The Papas in 1966. | | | If you like this site, feel free to make a donation. |
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