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Goodbye Yellow Brick Road (30th Anniversary Deluxe Edition) | 
 enlarge | Artist: Elton John
Label: Island
Category: Music
List Price: $29.98
Buy New: $19.95
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Rating:  22 reviews
Sales Rank: 25994
Format: Extra Tracks, Hybrid Sacd, Original Recording Remastered
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 2
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 5.5 x 4.7 x 0.7
UPC: 602498132067
EAN: 6024981320678
ASIN: B0000E64TR
Release Date: November 25, 2003
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Condition: Factory sealed!! Free first class upgrade!!
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| Tracks:
Disc 1
| • | Funeral for a Friend/Love Lies Bleeding | | • | Candle in the Wind | | • | Bennie and the Jets | | • | Goodbye Yellow Brick Road | | • | This Song Has No Title | | • | Grey Seal | | • | Jamaica Jerk Off | | • | I've Seen That Movie Too |
Disc 2
| • | Sweet Painted Lady | | • | The Ballad of Danny Bailey (1909-1934) | | • | Dirty Little Girl | | • | All the Young Girls Love Alice | | • | Your Sister Can't Twist (But She Can Rock 'N' Roll) | | • | Saturday Night's Alright for Fighting | | • | Roy Rogers | | • | Social Disease | | • | Harmony | | • | Whenever You're Ready (We'll Go Steady) | | • | Jack Rabbit | | • | Screw You (Young Man Blues) | | • | Candle in the Wind |
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| Customer Reviews:
Goodbye yellow brick road + SACD 5.1 = enjoyment December 24, 2008
Badgerz (arizona)
Well Worth it if you like to heard good sound. If you have a SACD player/5.1 channel system, you will LOVE this recording. I am not reviewing the content per se, if you have ever heard Goodbye yellow brick road, then you already like the album or not, I bought this for my wife, but it is so good its one of my favorite SACDs, especially benny and the jets. For those who complain about 5.1 mixes, and how they differ from the original stereo LP, hey, if you see a group live, alot of times they don't play songs the same anyway, so if it seems too different from the original, chalk it up to artistic interpetation, the original artists probably approved or arranged the new 5.1 mixes anyway. For me, once i heard SACDs in 5.1, there is no going back! The only way to listen to SACDs is with the proper setup, The Playstation 3 will play them if you get the proper receiver, one that decodes LPCM thru the HDMI cable, see [...] for receivers that work, otherwise, get a SACD stand alone player and a 5.1 receiver/amp, see ebay, and ENJOY!!!!
One of the best rock alums ever. May 6, 2008
E. Blood (Ft Lauderdale, FL)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
As the title says, this is one of the best rock albums ever. It's up there with Physical Graphitti, Dark Side of the Moon, Boston, etc. Highly recommended for the classic rock fan.
audiophile recording November 28, 2007
Reza S. Habib (Dubai)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Listen to the bonus track - 13.
"Candle In The Wind (Acoustic Mix)"
Awesome recording and on SACD!
Soundstage is HUGE.
Use this track to explain imaging.
A must have.
Rediscover a Classic! August 7, 2007
Don Labonte (Wales, WI USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I really don't have much new to add to what the others who have reviewed this CD have already said. but trust me: the SACD is absolutely wonderful. I got it in the mail the other day and listened to the entire CD, and the fidelity and surround mix enhance the music greatly. This and "Dark Side of the Moon" are now my demo discs when people want to hear what SACD can do for a record. I wish that all SACDs of classic LPs sounded this great. If you have an SACD player, you NEED this disc.
Elton sets the gold standard June 21, 2007
Tim Brough (Springfield, PA United States)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
If there was ever an album that defined the seventies, "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road" has got to be one of them. It is also the album that comes closest to being what Elton was about at his grandest. Extravagant, over-the-top, melodic and brash, this double album is probably how many from the period would describe both the album and the performer. As such, it redefined music and super stardom, and is a classic.
Stylistically, the 1973 version Elton John and Bernie Taupin were now fearless. They were (to quote a line that eventually became part of "Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy") turning them out thick and fast. There was the beautiful, melodic piano work on the title track and "Candle In The Wind," the hard rocking "Funeral For A Friend/Love Lies Bleeding" and "Saturday Night's Alright For Fighting," the western looking "Social Disease" and the melodrama in "I've seen that movie too" and "Harmony." Seventeen near flawless songs over two albums, and that was following the breakthrough of "Don't Shoot Me I'm Only the Piano Player" and the number one "Crocodile Rock" from earlier that same year.
It wasn't just the seeming effortlessness to Elton and Bernie's prolific pace that was so attractive, it was the extravagance. Elton's reputation as a showman had already become the stuff of legend, and in the feverish time of the seventies, he allowed that into the "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road" artwork. The original album was a thing of ornate beauty, a triple-fold gate sleeve that expanded out to show Elton stepping into a magic kingdom in ruby red platform shoes. The inner-sleeves were decorated with illustrations for each lyric and the band photos. It was everything you wanted in an album at the time...the full experience. Something you really don't get from too many performers these days.
That is one of the many bonuses of this Deluxe version of "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road." The album art is faithfully reproduced, plus you get reproductions of some of Bernie's typed lyric sheets with correction and the faces of the mastertape labels. I have to admit that I don't care about - or for - the extra B-sides, as they distract from the original album's structure, are all available elsewhere and aren't very good songs. (The exception being acoustic "Candle In The Wind.") Another nice touch is the "tribute to the genius of Gus Dudgeon."
As such, the deluxe "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road" is as good as gold, and worth the extra bills. I know it is a cliche, but they just don't make 'em like this anymore.
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