my 40 Favourite Elton John Songs

among them made 1969-78

as I experience this masterpieces nowadays
including Taupin's lyrics

ordered by Phases of my life
retroactive from 2015 back to 1975
through each year they most feels or seems to Represent




39 year old

COUNTRY COMFORT

"I saw grandma yesterday down at the store
Was she really going five or eighty-four?"


38 year old

WESTERN FORD GATEWAY


37 year old

MONA LISAS AND MAD HATTERS


36 year old

THE KING MUST DIE


35 year old

WRITING


34 year old

ROCKET MAN (it's lonely here in space)


33 year old

(City living woman) YOU'RE SO STATIC


32 year old

BIG DIPPER


31 year old

TOWER OF BABEL


30 year old

SOMEONE'S FINAL SONG


29 year old

INTO THE OLD MAN'S SHOES


28 year old

SOLAR PRESTIGE A GAMMON


27 year old

AMOREENA


26 year old

TEXAN LOVE SONG


25 year old

I'VE SEEN THE SAUCERS


24 year old

HYMN 2000


23 year old

ISLAND GIRL


22 year old

PINKY
"candlelight fell like a crescent
upon your feather pillow"


21 year old

TINY DANCER


20 year old

THE BALLAD OF DANNY BAILEY


19 year old

FUNERAL FOR A FRIEND (LOVE LIES BLEEDING)


18 year old

DIRTY LITTLE GIRL


17 year old

WE ALL FALL IN LOVE SOMETIMES
(including CURTAINS)


16 year old

IT'S ME THAT YOU NEED (Look in the Mirror)


15 year old

GOODBYE YELLOW BRICK ROAD


14 year old

THIS SONG HAS NO TITLE

"in a vast high powered rocket to the core of the sun
want to read books in the studies of men"


13 year old

PINBALL WIZARD
[penned by Townshend for Tommy]


12 year old

DAN DARE (PILOT OF THE FUTURE)
[my first computer game]


11 year old

TEACHER I NEED YOU


10 year old

(It's hard to write a song with) BITTER FINGERS


9 year old

SONG FOR GUY


8 year old

YOUR SONG
[especially a cover with Mia Martini]


7 year old

LUCY IN THE SKY WITH DIAMONDS
[penned by Beatle Lennon]


6 year old

CROCODILE ROCK


5 year old

SKYLINE PIGEON (over...
flowers and forest fountains)


4 year old

GREY SEAL (How does it feel to be so wise?)


3 years old

HARMONY (and me...
Baby Hello!)


2 years old

(Everybody needs a) PART-TIME LOVE


1 year old

FEED ME


0 year old

COME DOWN IN TIME








Elton also made numbers with fitting titles as
Sixty Years On
or Between Seventeen And Twenty
but they just almost
feels good enough to join the fourty




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