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Title: Screw Bernie Taupin
Review: I was never a big fan of Bernie Taupin's lyrics, which is too bad because Elton himself is a great pianist and has a way with a melody too. Bernie's lyrics positvely blow, however, and get in the way of Elton himself. Songs like the obnoxiously homophobic All the Young Girls Love Alice, racist and sexist Sweet Painted Lady, I've Seen That Movie Too and This Song Has No Title have some of the worst lyrics ever. And some of the songs are awful even without the lyrics: the supremely annoying hit Bennie and the Jets, Roy Rogers, Social Disease, Ballad of Danny Bailey, I've Seen That Movie Too...Anyway, there are only five songs I do like on this album: Funeral for a Friend/Love Lies Bleeding, Candle in the Wind, title track, Grey Seal and Saturday Night's All Right for Fighting. But this is one thin album outside of those - I'd recommend the self-titled record, Madman Across the Water and Don't Shoot Me I'm Only the Piano Player instead.
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