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专辑名称: Madman Across The Water
创作艺人: [Elton John]
音乐流派: ROCK|摇滚
专辑规格: 1碟9首
出品公司: EMI
发行时间: 1971/11/5
官方标价: £7.79 （会员免费下载）
域名语言: [en] （AI检测）
曲目介绍：
Tiny Dancer
Levon
Razor Face
Madman Across The Water
Indian Sunset
Holiday Inn
Rotten Peaches
All The Nasties
Goodbye
详细介绍:
Elton John before his mid-%2770s cloudburst of success is a fascinating aural adventure. After the tentative first step of Empty Sky, the muscular songwriting strength of Elton John, the countrified experimentalism of Tumbleweed Connection and the live energy bursting through 17-11-70, Madman Across The Water, now reissued with Bob Ludwig%27s highly detailed yet full-bodied remastering, is the first album in what would become an amazing four-year run of varied, resourceful, and artfully brilliant collaborations between John and Bernie Taupin. The pair%27s trajectory from this point shot skyward into considerable wealth and ever-expanding notoriety. But as John/Taupin efforts go, the highly produced and manicured Madman is also a tale of two records. On the surface there are the obvious, irrepressible hits Levon and Tiny Dancer that are polished to a high gloss, and like the rest of the album, feature Paul Buckmaster%27s string arrangements (sometimes to a detriment). But beyond those two tracks, this may be John%27s moodiest album thanks to darker songs like the title cut with its complex and masterful arrangement, ARP synthesizer, and some of Taupin%27s most obscure phrases, and the gloomy lament Goodbye, which closes the album. And in most other hands, a song like Indian Sunset, with its overserious and occasionally embarrassing lyrics, could come off as a hackneyed and naively racist tribute to Native Americans, but is partially rescued by John%27s impassioned singing. Madman is less essential than Honky Château or Goodbye Yellow Brick Road because of low points like the lesser melody of Holiday Inn, the overproduced massed voices of All The Nasties, or the impenetrable lyrics of Rotten Peaches, which seem to tell the story of picking devil fruit in a U.S. State Prison. It is interesting to hear the gusto that John%27s road band brings to this material. Producer Gus Dudgeon preferred to work with studio musicians and this is the last John record not to feature band members Nigel Olsen (drums) and Dee Murray (bass), though guitarist Davey Johnstone (who still plays with John today) appears on several tracks including playing mandolin and sitar on Holiday Inn. Ambitious and oddly dark, Madman is the preface for all the glorious pop music to come. © Robert Baird/Qobuz