Elton John / Madman Across The Water
Artist Elton John
Album Title: Madman Across The Water
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Primary Genre Rock
Format SACD
Released 11/05/1971
Reissue Date 11/09/2004
Label Island Records
Catalog No B0003610-36
Bar Code No 6 02498 24029 8
Reissue Yes
Packaging Super Jewel Box
Tracks
1. Tiny Dancer (6:17)
2. Levon (5:22)
3. Razor Face (4:44)
4. Madman Across The Water (5:57)
5. Indian Sunset (6:46)
6. Holiday Inn (4:16)
7. Rotten Peaches (4:58)
8. All The Nasties (5:09)
9. Goodbye (1:46)
Date Acquired 10/09/2013
Personal Rating
Acquired from Amazon
Purchase Price 16.01

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Review by Stephen Thomas Erlewine

Trading the cinematic aspirations of Tumbleweed Connection for a tentative stab at prog rock, Elton John and Bernie Taupin delivered another excellent collection of songs with Madman Across the Water. Like its two predecessors, Madman Across the Water is driven by the sweeping string arrangements of Paul Buckmaster, who gives the songs here a richly dark and haunting edge. And these are songs that benefit from grandiose treatments. With most songs clocking in around five minutes, the record feels like a major work, and in many ways it is. While it's not as adventurous as Tumbleweed Connection, the overall quality of the record is very high, particularly on character sketches "Levon" and "Razor Face," as well as the melodramatic "Tiny Dancer" and the paranoid title track. Madman Across the Water begins to fall apart toward the end, but the record remains an ambitious and rewarding work, and John never attained its darkly introspective atmosphere again.

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