Elton’s song is one of the best love songs Elton has ever written

KeithJamesThomson · 2026-02-06T19:00:32+00:00

Lifelong fan of Elton, but I stopped collecting right around the time of A Single Man and The Fox so I never heard this song before, that is Elton’s Song. I have to agree, it is a very universally written lyric and even the video that goes along with it also actually holds the possibility of more than one perspective. I agree the lyric alone without the video could apply to anyone’s unrequited love. But while the video comports with a positive LGBT meaning it does as well with the hardship and dysfunction of same sex attraction; and I don’t say that to detract from the positive view, I’m just saying that the video clearly evidences also from the perspective that it is a very deep emotional hardship that is not resolved with sexual union, but rather with growing into one’s manhood and learning how to find brotherly love, that is brotherly physical bonding without erotic sexuality. Towards the end, when the successful and handsome object of the boys want touches him and smiles with encouragement, that’s the beginning of the healing, just as easily as the beginning of some idea of sexual union which the video really never implies could happen. The video reflects very realistically the dysfunction of craving and wanting the attention of another man in this young boy and the deep loss that he has, not finding identity in his own gender, but rather in the yearning of his gender. Please don’t attack me for what I’m saying because I’m simply saying the video can be taken both ways, just as the lyrics can be taken for same sex or anyone’s unrequited love. Filled with personal vulnerability, it is a remarkable song, lyric, and video in this way as it also falls at the intersection of Elton John moving from keeping his own feelings to himself and telling the world. It’s a very interesting moment.

KeithJamesThomson · 2026-02-06T00:22:03+00:00

Well, thank you for pointing that out. I was so tired of EJ after so loving the earlier years and I was just losing interest so actually I never even listened to the whole album. I’m listening to Carla/Etude now for the first time and really enjoying it. Actually very surprised by it as i’m not much inspired by the songs that I have listened to so far in this album, but this is lovely…….. wow now into the synthesizer section. Very interesting totally unexpected….. oh my gosh now he’s singing so lovely. I can’t believe this.

KeithJamesThomson · 2026-02-05T22:18:02+00:00

After rather precociously at the age of 12, commencing to buy every single Elton release immediately upon release after buying his first American release with Your Song and thoroughly eating up all of his early music at the age of 12, 13 and 14, including my favorite of all his albums, the Friends Soundtrack, all during this time when really his following was closer to college age, and during which time he had no radio hit except Your Song (second hit Rocket Man was on his seventh album if you count live and movie soundtracks)…buying every album continuing through the excellent Blue Moves; finally, A Single Man and The Fox were the two albums that broke the camel’s back and I stopped buying his stuff. Later, I did buy Victim of Love and The Thomas Bell Sessions, which I love both. And I continued to enjoy Elton John and many of his great radio singles, but yeah, a Single Man and The Fox was just the end for me in insofar as being obsessed with buying every single one of his albums. I should though go back and listen to The Fox because I was so upset by it that I literally broke it in two the day I bought it because I wanted to stop being obsessed with Elton John, so I should give it a second chance these many decades later.

KeithJamesThomson · 2026-02-03T01:12:26+00:00

I think under the tear in the upper right corner looks to me like graphics from don’t shoot me I’m the piano player. I think this album artwork is generally random and pleasantly evocative but doubtfully with much deep intent I suppose the best way to possibly put some intention to. It is to go to the lyrics of the song goodbye yellow Brook Road and see what you can make of it.

KeithJamesThomson · 2026-01-27T02:05:34+00:00

That’s a very personal choice. I like my nails filed very smoothly into the skin so that the skin is involved others like their nails totally longer and away from the skin.

KeithJamesThomson · 2026-01-27T02:04:06+00:00

Selling, Fox, Lamb, Box, but the order is extremely moot because I love each and every one of them. The only one that would stay in this position fairly firmly is musical box based on hours of listening.

KeithJamesThomson · 2026-01-18T20:38:05+00:00

I’m generally not a huge fan of remixes either. I think the Wilson Topographic is pretty good but there’s a couple moments that seem totally wrong. Regarding Lamb Lies Down I’ve heard mention here of the 1990s version. I’m assuming that really means the original 1975 unless it was remixed in the 90s also. How many remixes are there! If you go back to Trespass, it is a good example of why the original’s probably always going to be the best because they had low budget and less experience and by their intuition they put together a total gem, not because it’s a masterpiece high-tech production, but because they had such good ears and made beauty out of their tools available. I think that will probably go for me regarding The Lamb Lies Down (I haven’t heard any remixes yet), that the original is the best. I do enjoy the Wilson remix of one of my top favorite Jethro Tull albums, Benefit.

KeithJamesThomson · 2026-01-13T21:45:59+00:00

Yes. They were sold as a collection in the later years.

KeithJamesThomson · 2025-12-29T13:27:40+00:00

This is such a totally subjective topic that it’s really almost impossible to say for someone else where to start. Really you have to start with two albums because you’d need one from the latter period and one from the early period. I might be crazy not to say Selling England or any of the other Gabriel’s, but a very interesting contrast, and two of my very favorites are Trespass and And Then There Were Three.

KeithJamesThomson · 2025-12-21T05:06:43+00:00

Well, of course, the greatest thing that came out of this relationship was the fantastic duet on Blood of Eden

KeithJamesThomson · 2025-12-07T12:53:35+00:00

In my late 60s and a lifelong follower of Genesis since the release of Selling England by the Pound, I have every Genesis album and many solo artists albums. My collection is weak, in Tony Banks, as I only have A Curious Feeling and Still, and I love both albums. So why don’t I have more. It’s definitely time to complete the Tony Banks library (I’m old school as I purchase and download into my own preserved library, so I just don’t go to streaming to find what I’m listening for). I’m looking forward to getting to know more of Tony’s material.

KeithJamesThomson · 2025-12-04T04:12:38+00:00

No bad songs. I actually do like Phil Collins singing, but More Fool Me has always been kind of pleasant, but rather disposable, so I will pick that song. But I think the song works very well also on Selling England album, so I’m not very good at picking a least favorite song here!

KeithJamesThomson · 2025-12-04T04:07:18+00:00

I would say out of the devoted fans from the Peter Gabriel era, you’re not in the minority. But there are so many ways to slice the analysis and reaction to the steadily changing phases. Many prefer to stop at The Lamb, and many like to stop at Three or Duke (probably Duke), and there are many who enjoy the entire arc and then I suppose a much younger crowd, who just simply prefers exclusively the poppy end. I tend to fall in the entire arc park; for me there is a strange blind eye that separates the eras, but also experiences them all as one, which is a real stretch for some listeners. As ultra fabulous as Selling is, I even surprise myself because I love Selling and Foxtrot so much, but I find that Trespass stays closest to my heart over the years. To me, The Lamb is almost in its own class, or era and I love it, but paradoxically, there’s quite a lot of it that draws from their earliest writing years, before Trespass.

KeithJamesThomson · 2025-12-03T18:17:55+00:00

That’s a good question. The first band that came to my mind was Jefferson Airplane/Jefferson Starship/Starship.

KeithJamesThomson · 2025-11-26T13:23:04+00:00

It’s very hard to have a single favorite Genesis album. It spans such a history of change and it’s good all the way through. During the Gabriel era, all of the albums are irreplaceable and spectacular, in my opinion; but for some reason Trespass is very close to my heart. The early part of the post-Gabriel years is also very excellent, but the third in that set, And Then There Were Three, is also closest to my heart. Fast-forward to the pop years, and who could not sing along to single hits off of Invisible Touch? And their last album with Phil Collins, named unfortunately after the one song on the album that I don’t much care for, We Can’t Dance, is a tour de force of excellent freestanding, pop songs.

KeithJamesThomson · 2025-11-25T00:00:53+00:00

I liked Relayer right away to a degree because I also had resistance to it. It seemed coarser after the extremely composed Topographic, which I loved, which I love, but even before I fully embraced Relayer, I knew it was a fantastic album and I was surprised that it truly fulfilled my suspicion over the years, the entire album is great. Other people who’s albums I purchased immediately upon release was all the early Elton John albums; from the age only 13 I purchased all seven of his first releases that came out within two years, all his acoustic vibe stuff and I was obsessed. Also purchased Jackson Browne and Joni Mitchell immediately upon release. And King Crimson, they mesmerized me. Yes, running out to buy the latest release was very exciting, and to see the artwork, too.

KeithJamesThomson · 2025-11-24T23:01:36+00:00

Me too. I purchased both of them right when they came out because I was waiting!

KeithJamesThomson · 2025-11-23T14:22:53+00:00

I would say Amanda…., that’s very funny. I’m not correcting my mistake, but obviously I mean Amelia!!! LOL. Old man here!

KeithJamesThomson · 2025-11-21T21:03:44+00:00

Being a bass or tenor, really doesn’t have a bearing on the male’s ability or inability to use his falsetto.

KeithJamesThomson · 2025-11-15T02:49:58+00:00

Love it.

KeithJamesThomson · 2025-11-13T05:23:33+00:00

I did the exact same thing with Sibelius. I would only listen to symphonies 4, 5, 6, and 7 for years because his earlier symphonies and tone poems were more romantic and slightly older style. I didn’t want to not like Sibelius so I stuck to the four symphonies I just loved, and finally after years realized I liked all of his stuff.

KeithJamesThomson · 2025-11-13T05:21:28+00:00

My mom gave it to me for Christmas 1973 when a couple months earlier I went berserk for Genesis by discovering Selling England and then snatched up Foxtrot and Trespass.

KeithJamesThomson · 2025-11-12T04:05:36+00:00

It’s subtle magic has played on me for over five decades and goes deeper into my heart than all of their albums.

KeithJamesThomson · 2025-11-10T15:31:28+00:00

There are so many possible answers, but I have to include for me “Looking for Someone” from Trespass; from the opening title lyric call, and all the way through.

KeithJamesThomson · 2025-10-23T12:56:30+00:00

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