Honky Château

Elton John - Honky Château

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Artist: Elton John
Edition: Music CD
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Original recording reissued, Original recording remastered
Published: 1996
CD Release Date: 1996-05-14
Music Label: Island
Soundtracks:
  1. Honky Cat
  2. Mellow
  3. I Think I'm Going To Kill Myself
  4. Susie (Dramas)
  5. Rocket Man (I Think It's Going To Be A Long, Long Time)
  6. Salvation
  7. Slave
  8. Amy
  9. Mona Lisas And Mad Hatters
  10. Hercules
  11. Slave (Alternate Version)

Free Music Notes for Honky Château

Free Music Review: its necessary to hear to it twice
Hit: 5 Stars

Luis Mejia (son) - Elton John came in this album with a stunning concentration on every track of this marvelous, strongly produced #1 album, Honky Chateau. When I heard it first I considerated it as simply "good", but after hearing to it twice that's when I realized how strong, catchy, and even funny album Elton John had the pleasure to release.

Honky Chateau contains a lot of enjoyable and familiar sounds through the record, including a lot of folkish compositions, mixing it with classic style pianno ballads and some rock and roll. Along its moods I noticed the album to be very catchy, enjoyable, funny, soft and juvenile, also having some dramatic moments, making it his most comprehensible and easy to listen album.

among the tracks each one of them is as enjoyable as the other one, but very original and unique:

- Honky Cat: a famous hit song with a lot of folkish sounds and a fresh mood, having a very mellodic electric piano performed by Elton and some ocassional trumpets, perfect for hearing it driving through a lost in the map road in some deep, farm area.

- Mellow: a light piano song which is mainly a funny, juvenile song, very simple though, having a light folkish sound introduced when applying the electric violin, although it has its moments.

- I Think I'm Going To Kill Myself: another funny, fresh and catchy song, one of my personal favorites, which Elton performes in the perfect way, singing in a freaky way and in a mood just like a crazy man (and I say it in the best sense), also having a fantastic mellody and even having a tap sound part! although the song has its dramatic moment at the end of the second part of the chorus.

- Susie (dramas): the song title says it, a dramatic song very alike with Texan Love Song and The Ballad Of Danny Bailey, although a little bit exagerated its a suburban, strong song.

- Rocket Man: a long time favorite hit which is the most recognizable track in the album, being a piano ballad mainly focused on piano and applying brief guitars with a semi dramatic mood, its a song much more alike with his past works, and my personal favorite in the album.

- Salvation: another good ballad but it goes just too fast being a short song; a couple of more lines in the lyrics would've made it perfect; also the instrumental interlude goes too fast.

- Slave: the original version of this song is mainly a song defined by a lot of guitar, banjo and congas, but without Elton playing the piano, which makes the track a little boring. The alternative version is a lot faster and I like it more just because Elton plays the piano and it also features some synthesizers, but the same problem happens like with Salvation; it goes too fast being too short, but enjoyable after all.

- Amy: another dramatic song very alike with Susie (dramas), although it keeps its difference for being just a little bit more profound. its the second track to feature Jean-Luc Ponty in the electric violin.

- Mona Lisas And Mad Hatters: my second personal favorite, it was a minor hit but its lyrics and composition are very delicate and rythmical. The song mainly spins around Davey Johnstone's mandoline.

- Hercules: another minor hit and a song that explodes the best instrumentation in the record, applying one of Elton's best piano performances, it also includes synthesizers, light backing vocals, drums, guitars and even rhino whistle (whatever that is it appears on the performance credits). Its also the most rock and roll alike song.

The two greatest highlights in the album are Elton and Taupin outrageously simple but amazing compositions, and the variety of instruments applyied, noticing that this is the first Elton John album not to feature strings (excepting two songs).

In conclussion the album its an amazing, easy to listen, delicate, juvenile, fresh composition regarded as one of the greatest Elton John's albums of all time, just "a simple classic".
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Honky Château Poster

Japanese-only SHM-CD (Super High Material CD) paper sleeve pressing of this classic album from the British singer/songwriter and entertainer, originally released in 1972. SHM-CDs can be played on any audio player and delivers unbelievably high-quality sound. You won't believe it's the same CD! Includes one bonus track. Universal. 2008.
By 1972, Elton John was already a rising star in America, although most casual listeners still identified him as part of the singer/songwriter explosion, thanks to the success of "Your Song" and "Levon." Honky Château changed all that, beginning with the success of "Honky Cat," a rousing New Orleans-ish R&B powerhouse that kicks off this terrific collection of songs. This was the album that first revealed John as a pure-pop craftsman, and he's all over the musical map on this set, moving from country-ish rock to blues-based rockers. But the best things here still might be two gorgeous ballads: "Mona Lisas & Mad Hatters" (displaying the young vocalist at his best) and the hit single "Rocket Man" (which had many rock fans debating which was the better space odyssey of the day--this or Bowie's). And lyricist Bernie Taupin was revealing a new, slightly darker side here via tunes like "I Think I'm Gonna Kill Myself." --Bill Holdship

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