Re: Elton John vs. The Moody Blues

KajaGooGoo wrote:
> "BLACKPOOLJIMMY" <Elton is a moody blow, I've heard.>
> 
> Why take the low road here?
> 
> The bottom line is that you have some great songs like Funeral For a
Friend,
> Sixty Years Gone,

Sixty Years Gone might be a good song, but the arrangement and 
production is questionable.  Buckmaster didn't want piano on it for 
starters.


  most of the Tumbleweed Connection, Grey Seal, Goodbye
> Yellow Brick Road, etc., and how does that compare to Knights in White
> Satin, Tuesday Afternoon, etc.?
> 
> I think many of those songs tapped into a mood that is very much the
early
> 1970s. A great time, a time that is gone.
> 
>