Álbum Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy de Elton John - Canciones
Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy
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El álbum de 1975 'Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy' es una de las obras más personales y conceptualmente brillantes de la discografía de Elton John. Por lo tanto, en este trabajo, la legendaria pareja compositora de Elton John (Captain Fantastic) y Bernie Taupin (the Brown Dirt Cowboy) narra de manera autobiográfica sus primeros años de carrera. De hecho, es la crónica de sus luchas, sus sueños y su amistad antes de alcanzar la fama.
En consecuencia, el álbum es una obra de una gran coherencia temática y musical. Cada canción es un capítulo de esta historia, desde sus inicios en los pequeños clubes hasta el momento en que firman su primer contrato. La producción, una vez más a cargo de Gus Dudgeon, es de una calidad excepcional.
Además, el álbum fue el primero de la historia en debutar en el número uno de las listas de Billboard en Estados Unidos, lo que demuestra el increíble poder de Elton John en la cima de su fama. El disco contiene el exitoso sencillo "Someone Saved My Life Tonight", una dramática canción sobre un intento de suicidio del propio artista.
En definitiva, 'Captain Fantastic' es una obra maestra del álbum conceptual, un trabajo que es a la vez un éxito de ventas y una pieza de una honestidad y una profundidad artística extraordinarias.
Listado de canciones del álbum Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy
- Captain Fantastic And The Brown Dirt Cowboy 5:46
- Tower Of Babel 4:28
- Bitter FingersVer letra 4:34
[X]letra de Bitter Fingers
I'm going on the circuit, I'm doing all the clubs
And I really need a song boys to stir those workers up
And get their wives to sing it with me just like in the pubs
When I worked the good old pubs in Stepney
Oh could you knock a line or two together for a friend
Sentimental tear inducing with a happy end
And we need a tune to open our season at Southend
Can you help us
It's hard to write a song with bitter fingers
So much to prove, so few to tell you why
Those old die-hards in Denmark Street start laughing
At the keyboard player's hollow haunted eyes
It seems to me a change is really needed
I'm sick of tra-la-las and la-de-das
No more long days hacking hunks of garbage
Bitter fingers never swung on swinging stars, swinging stars
I like the warm blue flame, the hazy heat it brings
It loosens up the muscles and forces you to sing
You know it's just another hit and run from the tin pan alley twins
And there's a chance that one day you might write a standard lads
So churn them out quick and fast and we'll still pat your backs
'Cause we need what we can get to launch another dozen acts
Are you working - Tell Me When The Whistle Blows 4:20
- Someone Saved My Life Tonight 6:45
- (Gotta Get A) Meal Ticket 4:01
- Better Off DeadVer letra 2:37
[X]letra de Better Off Dead
There was a face on a hoarding that someone had drawn on
And just enough time for the night to pass by without warning
Away in the distance there's a blue flashing light
Someone's in trouble somewhere tonight
As the flickering neon stands ready to fuse
The wind blows away all of yesterday's news
Well they've locked up their daughters and they battened the hatches
They always could find us but they never could catch us
Through the grease streaked windows of an all night cafe
We watched the arrested get taken away
And that cigarette haze has ecology beat
As the whores and the drunks filed in from the street
'Cause the steams in the boiler the coals in the fire
If you ask how I am then I'll just say inspired
If the thorn of a rose is the thorn in your side
Then you're better off dead if you haven't yet died - Writing 3:40
- We All Fall In Love Sometimes 4:11
- CurtainsVer letra 6:40
[X]letra de Curtains
I used to know this old scarecrow
He was my song, my joy and sorrow
Cast alone between the furrows
Of a field no longer sown by anyone
I held a dandelion
That said the time had come
To leave upon the wind
Not to return
When summer burned the earth again
Cultivate the freshest flower
This garden ever grew
Beneath these branches
I once wrote such childish words for you
But that's okay
There's treasure children always seek to find
And just like us
You must have had
A once upon a time - Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds 6:18
- One Day At A Time
- Philadelphia Freedom 5:23
El álbum de 1975 'Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy' es una de las obras más personales y conceptualmente brillantes de la discografía de Elton John. Por lo tanto, en este trabajo, la legendaria pareja compositora de Elton John (Captain Fantastic) y Bernie Taupin (the Brown Dirt Cowboy) narra de manera autobiográfica sus primeros años de carrera. De hecho, es la crónica de sus luchas, sus sueños y su amistad antes de alcanzar la fama.
En consecuencia, el álbum es una obra de una gran coherencia temática y musical. Cada canción es un capítulo de esta historia, desde sus inicios en los pequeños clubes hasta el momento en que firman su primer contrato. La producción, una vez más a cargo de Gus Dudgeon, es de una calidad excepcional.
Además, el álbum fue el primero de la historia en debutar en el número uno de las listas de Billboard en Estados Unidos, lo que demuestra el increíble poder de Elton John en la cima de su fama. El disco contiene el exitoso sencillo "Someone Saved My Life Tonight", una dramática canción sobre un intento de suicidio del propio artista.
En definitiva, 'Captain Fantastic' es una obra maestra del álbum conceptual, un trabajo que es a la vez un éxito de ventas y una pieza de una honestidad y una profundidad artística extraordinarias.
letra de Bitter Fingers
And I really need a song boys to stir those workers up
And get their wives to sing it with me just like in the pubs
When I worked the good old pubs in Stepney
Oh could you knock a line or two together for a friend
Sentimental tear inducing with a happy end
And we need a tune to open our season at Southend
Can you help us
It's hard to write a song with bitter fingers
So much to prove, so few to tell you why
Those old die-hards in Denmark Street start laughing
At the keyboard player's hollow haunted eyes
It seems to me a change is really needed
I'm sick of tra-la-las and la-de-das
No more long days hacking hunks of garbage
Bitter fingers never swung on swinging stars, swinging stars
I like the warm blue flame, the hazy heat it brings
It loosens up the muscles and forces you to sing
You know it's just another hit and run from the tin pan alley twins
And there's a chance that one day you might write a standard lads
So churn them out quick and fast and we'll still pat your backs
'Cause we need what we can get to launch another dozen acts
Are you working
letra de Better Off Dead
And just enough time for the night to pass by without warning
Away in the distance there's a blue flashing light
Someone's in trouble somewhere tonight
As the flickering neon stands ready to fuse
The wind blows away all of yesterday's news
Well they've locked up their daughters and they battened the hatches
They always could find us but they never could catch us
Through the grease streaked windows of an all night cafe
We watched the arrested get taken away
And that cigarette haze has ecology beat
As the whores and the drunks filed in from the street
'Cause the steams in the boiler the coals in the fire
If you ask how I am then I'll just say inspired
If the thorn of a rose is the thorn in your side
Then you're better off dead if you haven't yet died
letra de Curtains
He was my song, my joy and sorrow
Cast alone between the furrows
Of a field no longer sown by anyone
I held a dandelion
That said the time had come
To leave upon the wind
Not to return
When summer burned the earth again
Cultivate the freshest flower
This garden ever grew
Beneath these branches
I once wrote such childish words for you
But that's okay
There's treasure children always seek to find
And just like us
You must have had
A once upon a time
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