Sir Elton also demanded that the neighborhood kids stay off his lawn, decried the price of commodity goods citing prices from th 60s, then asked reporters if they had seen his damn glasses.

*loves Capn*

as to Elton John, the best thing going for him is the coincidence of his initials with EssexJan. Silly twit.

Cocaine is a terrible drug. It seems to have addled his little mind.

Without Bernie, we wouldn't be reading his opinions in the newspaper, anyway.

Example of one of Elton's own lyrics:

Made In England

I was made in England out of Cadillac muscle
I had a quit-me father, had a love-me mother
I had Little Richard and that black piano
Oh that sweet Georgia Peach and the boy from Tupelo

Oh, I was made in England
Oh, I was made in England

I was made in England out of Cadillac muscle
Face down on a playground crying God send me a brother
Not a bloody nose for Rock and Roll
Give me that sweet Georgia Peach and the boy from Tupelo

I was made in England like a blue Cortina
But a Yankee summer had a way about her
You had a scent for scandal, well here's my middle finger
I had forty years of pain and nothing to cling to

If you're made in England, you're built to last
You can still say 'homo' and everybody laughs
But the joke's on you, you never read the song
They all think they know but they all got it wrong

(man, that sucks even harder than I thought it would! I mean, JESUS! It's fucking AWFUL!)

Sir Elton also announced plans for the September release of his latest retooled single "Goodbye Yellowbrick Information Superhighway".

And to think, he was just weeks away from cutting the MetaFilter theme song, "I Guess That's Why They Call It The Blue."

“We’re talking about things that are going to change the world and change the way people listen to music and that’s not going to happen with people blogging on the internet.

“I mean, get out there — communicate."

I love that bit. Do you think he knows what the buzzwords he's using mean?

And it seems to me you lived your life like a kettle in the wind.
Never knowing who to cook for when the soot set in.
And I would have liked to clean you, but I was just a pot, the kettle burned up long before the fire got too hot.

Goodbye, Elton John...

"In the early Seventies there were at least ten albums released every week that were fantastic. Now you’re lucky to find ten albums a year of that quality."

Let's say the early '70s ran from 1970 to 1973. That's more than two thousand fantastic albums, and that's not even including Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy.

Oh, also--while Elton John doesn't like tattoos and piercings, he does like Dr. Dre. And, perhaps most of all, media attention.

Doesn't he understand that all those tubes were expensive, and that you can't just let them sit idle for five years?

Ten albums a WEEK in the '70s? ... maybe with the drugs he was taking at the time. Hey, I was a teenager/young adult/radio guy in that decade. I heard ALL the albums. Two or three a week were keepers and that was the considered the Golden Age of the Album Format. But even most of the great albums from back then had some cuts that you'd leave behind if you were buying ala carte. And Elton's best albums were nearly 50% filler.

Yep, he has turned from Captain Fantastic to Captain Old Fartastic.

If I could favorite comments here, chuckdarwin, Atom Eyes, Hugh Janus and IRFH would all get my vote from this thread.

Hold me close, tie me down, sir,
Count the headlice on the highway,
Baby darlin', she's a lemon,
You had a busy day today.

I'd say solid evidence of early-onset Alzheimer's — he couldn't even settle on a pronoun!

Yep, he has turned from Captain Fantastic to Captain Old Fartastic.

(And I'd favorite this one, especially since it comes from someone who knows that of which he speaks.)

And to think I used to have a CRUSH on that man.


Yes, I was a pathetic teenager, why, thank you.