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When I was in college, my girlfriend's mother used to refer to Curtains as the "Whoa-ooh-whoa" song. :lol

I feel Captain Fantastic is one of those classic EJ albums that deserves reevaluation. It belongs in the top 5 or even top 3 of all his albums. Elton was at the height of his powers vocally, and his commercial popularity was also at a peak...yet he and Bernie released this deeply personal, downright subversive record! From the biting-the-hands-that-feed-them Bitter Fingers to the almost undisguised sexual declaration of Someone Saved My Life Tonight, this is about as far from pop as you can get without totally abandoning it (although Someone Saved was still a hit). And Curtains is a high water mark for me. Incredible stuff.

Incredible indeed.  I love every one of Elton's albums (up to and even including A Single Man) in so many different ways, but without a doubt, Captain Fantastic is my favorite... and the way We All Fall in Love Sometimes turns into Curtains is just perfection.

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Genesis

 

Dancing with the Moonlit Knight

Supper's Ready

Watcher of the Skies

Lamb Lies Down on Broadway

Firth of Fifth

Very nice again.  I really got in to Genesis post-Gabriel and backed into their older stuff, thus some of the "newer" Genesis with Collins...

 

Genesis

 

Supper's Ready

Fly On A Windshield

Dance On A Volcano

One For The Vine

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R.E.M.

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  • 7 Chinese Brothers
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Neutral Milk Hotel

 

Song Against Sex

Gardenhead/Leave Me Alone

The King of Carrot Flowers, Pts. Two & Three

In The Aeroplane Over The Sea

Oh Comely

Good list. Here is mine. A very similar list:

 

Neutral Milk Hotel

  • Song Against Sex
  • Holland, 1945
  • Gardenhead/Leave Me Alone
  • King of Carrot Flowers Pts. 2 & 3
  • Ghost
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Some newer bands that I like..

 

Parquet Courts

Borrow Times

You Got Me Wondering Now

Dust

Already Dead

Ducking & Dodging

 

Mac Demarco

Cooking Up Something Good

Another One

Chambers of Reflection

Passing Out Pieces

Goodbye Weekend

 

Beach Fossils

Fall Right in

Carless

Adversity

Generational Synthetic

Clash the Truth

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Dire Straits

 

Wild West End

Once Upon a Time in the West

Skateaway

Telegraph Road

Brothers in Arms

Dire Straits

  • Romeo & Juliet
  • Sultans of Swing
  • Wild West End
  • Skateaway
  • Telegraph Road
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Slapp Happy

  • The Drum
  • Casablanca Moon
  • Charlie N' Charlie
  • Some Questions About Hats
  • Mr. Rainbow
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