Goodbye Yellow Brick Road is far from the best album by Sir Elton. It opens like it might be - "Funeral For a Friend/Love Lies Bleeding" is among the best songs of his entire career. The cavalcade of hits - "Bennie and the Jets," "Candle in the Wind," "Saturday Night's Alright for Fighting," "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road," might tell you the same. But it's not. It's a sprawling double-album, but it sags in the time between the first batch of hits and "Saturday Night's Alright for Fighting." All of it is competent, but not all of it is entirely engaging. Part of the problem is that it's transitional in nature - following the stripped down, low-key releases of his early career, John was moving in a more showy, pop-inspired direction. For what it is, it's impressive and a great listen, but Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy would prove that John was capable of much, much better as his artistry evolved.
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