Someone Saved My Life Tonight

Probably the best song ever written, no?

is that some a dj? then i might agree.

someONE

Overplayed but agreed.

my fave elton.

but i'm kinda goth.

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def

(signed,
not the biggest Elton fan)

Leaning more towards "yes" than "no."

Also:

― a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, June 7, 2012 6:11 PM (56 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

^^^
I literally lol'd.

aye "rolling round the basement floor" etc. love it to bits. whole album in fact. saw a pretty pristine copy of the album with the full comic book inside and all the inserts for about £2 in Manchester the other week. stupidly didnt buy it. the CD reissue has a tiny replica of the comic and costs about 20 quid!

Not even in my Elton top 20.

Okay, that was harsh. I forgot the "DAMMIT" part. It would probably squeak in towards the bottom of this theoretical list.

My favourite song of his by a mile.

Bernie at his most crazy too.

As a teen, used to picture Marianne Faithful covering it, imagining the "strangled by your haunted social scene / just a pawn out played by a dominating queen" sounding especially awesome.

I was a weird kid.

Has Elton ever had a better lyric to sing?

great, but "benny and the jets" is the EJ song i hold above all others (well, that and "rocket man")

it's up there with those and "daniel" though

"I Feel Like a Bullet (In the Gun of Robert Ford)" is a far superior, more imaginative sequel (although I still love SSMLT).

single-only b-side to this single in case anyone is curious.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDMdOJLNeWQ

written by paul simon

i even love that editing job at 4 minutes in. someone sliced my song tonight. and then the ringing guitar comes in. and then goes away. love everything about this song. the drums are amazing. piano is too. stacked vocal heaven. lyrics. elton's voice is amazing. there is a soul cover of this song from that time and it sucks. no urgency. it just becomes a song.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sw2Lptf7K0E&feature=related

Yeah, this is top ten Elton for me, not sure what I could say about it that hasn't been said. It's not half as obtuse as most Taupin - genuinely feels like dude tried to take Elton's actual life experience and capture what mattered about it. Works too because the low of the low situation he gets saved from is convincingly sketched: the "one more beer / and I don't hear you anymore" is willing to show him as an asshole, the cruelty of his own part in the situation so it's not just that he's the victim of some harpy.

Never heard "House of Cards" before. Huh. Not exactly bowling me over, the water guitar doesn't serve this one so well. I could imagine it growing on me if it were a Captain Fantastic album track.

See also: "Captain Fantastic" C/D?, Captain Fantastic And The Brown Dirt Poll

i wanted to sing this in karaoke last night but it wasn't on the list.

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one of my all-time favorites. love to sing along to the opening verses.

Probably in my top 10 favourite songs, yes. Maybe not the very best song ever written, but close.

Also:
THROCKING (participial vb.)
The action of continually pushing down the lever on a pop-up toaster in the hope that you will thereby get it to understand that you want it to toast something. Also : a style of drum-playing favoured by Nigel Olsson of the Elton John Band, reminiscent of the sound of someone slapping a frankfurter against a bucket. An excellent example of this is to be heard on 'Someone Save My Life Tonight' from the album Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy.
(from 'The Meaning of Liff' by Douglas Adams and John Lloyd)

it doesn't sound like a frankfurter being slapped against a bucket, but i like that they came up with a word for the sound.