We're just mere days away from the start of the first Phish festival since Coventry - Festival 8. Among the possible remaining albums Phish may cover is Elton John's sprawling and slightly underrated double-LP Goodbye Yellow Brick Road . While we're not quite sure Trey or Page could hit some of the high notes on this one, it may make for a fun night - check out the album's title track from this performance on The Muppet Show... Elton John - Goodbye Yellow [...]
The artwork for rap artist Ghostface's forthcoming album, The Wizard of Poetry , takes as its inspiration L. Frank Baum's 1900 children's fable, The Wizard of Oz , in which a young American girl, displaced from her rural home, must travel to the Emerald City to obtain assistance from a kind-hearted wizard. The girl acquires a small band of companions, whom she helps to overcome various personal failings while traveling to the city. However, at journey's end, Dorothy comes to understand the [...]
Paul Simon sings, "Been a Long Long Day." He looks so young there (in that polo, he looks like he could be in Vampire Weekend). And this song is beautiful. Elton John, "Yellow Brick Road." This is my favorite Elton song, and one of my favorite songs overall. —eh