Bennie and the Jets - Elton John | College Students' FIRST TIME REACTION! 

Swinging back to some Elton John!! Loved checking this one out!! What’s the next one we gotta hit?! 🙌🏻🔥

Elton slapped that piano in this song like it owed him money.

Interesting fact: Bennie and the Jets was actually a studio production. The echo, audience sounds, whistles, and other effects were added in post production.

I've only got four words for you: MADMAN ACROSS THE WATER!

"Someone Save My Life Tonight" is one of his best...!

" Goodbye Yellow Brick Road" is quintessential Elton John.

"madman across the water" to me is a masterpiece ☮️

"Mona Lisas and Mad Hatters" and "Grey Seal" are rockers.

Elton John is so incredibly gifted that he had at least one charting single for 31 STRAIGHT YEARS!

It’s time for “Madman Across the Water” 🤩

Damn, this is early. Caught me off guard. Funny story about this song. This is the studio version. After they recorded it, the producer thought it lacked some energy. He added in all the crowd noises, clapping, etc. to give the song a live feel.

One of Elton’s best : “Burn Down The Mission”

What’s so cool about this song is it wasn’t recorded live, all the crowd noise, claps whistles cheers, all were added in, in post production. It gives it that feel, I don’t think it would be as good without it.

Your Song is his most beautiful. Not a banger, but a classic masterpiece.

Feel like doing "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road" next?

“I Guess That’s Why They Call it the Blues” by Elton is such a good song. Similar funk, blues style as this song.

The beginning of this song ... that first note ... literally gives me goosebumps.

Try "Saturday Night (is Alright for Fightin')" - tasty guitar work from Davey Johnstone. You'll like it.

‘All the Girls Love Alice’ and ‘Grey Seal’. Fuck it, do the album guys! Stop playin’!

ROCKET MAN, ROCKET MAN, ROCKET MAN!!!

Thanks, guys. “Bennie and the Jets” is pure pleasure.

"Levon" is the S choice to make going forward.

Last Waltz full movie... Damn boys, you're in for a treat

I heard that this song is THE most recognizable of all time from just the first note.

My uncle bought me Goodbye Yellow Brick Road for my 13th birthday. The lyrics and illustrations when you opened the double album... I stared for hours, days. For a 70’s album, it still holds up.

"Charismatic" is a tame adjective for Elton John. You'll understand if you ever see him on stage. He has many many great songs. "Someone Saved My Life Tonight" "Daniel" These 2 are a must! Thanks for keeping THE great music alive!

Please just do this whole goddamn album. They are all bangers. It's in my top 3 albums if all time.

"Don't Let The Sun Go Down On Me"... One of their most heart wrenching songs. A masterpiece! (Original studio version, please. Avoid the Live one from the 90's, it's a pale shadow.)

I remember when my black friends all thought that Elton John was African-American😊 He was able to bring everybody into his music and his style, along with Bernie Taupin, they created some of the best Music for generations to come

Get "Take Me To The Pilot" up here, smashing rock piano

Saturday Night's Alright - Elton John!!!

Man, he was a giant in the 70's. Hit after hit and almost all just top notch songs. I think my favorite is "Sorry Seems to Be the Hardest Word"

"Take me to the Pilot" and Funeral for a Friend " must listen!

Based on the video, I still can't tell whether you know that Elton didn't write the lyrics, but rather Bernie Taupin, his musical partner. Elton did the music. This is good to know. :)

Gotta do Goodbye Yellow Brick Road.

I don't care who you are, everyone can't help singing along. Extremely talented, one of the best musicians of That era. He kept it up too. This is such a fun song. Good album. He always had a great band too.

“Saturday Night’s Alright for Fighting” is an Elton John banger...few and far between.

Madman Across the Water is essential Elton. Pretty much everything from the self titled record through blue moves is essential listening. Guy was an unstoppable force in the 70s

Goodbye Yellow Brick Road should be next but I can't wait until you get to Someone Saved My Life Tonight which is easily one of his best songs.

I've heard Bennie hundreds of times-never gets stale. Saw EJ play it live last year-like a sing a long with 50,000 people!

There are so SO many great songs from Elton John. I’m going to throw in “Daniel” I haven’t seen anyone else mention it but it’s a hauntingly beautiful song.

One of my favorite 45s when I was a kid. The B Side was "Harmony" which I played even more than Bennie and the Jets and might be my favorite Elton song.

Madman Across The Water

Just so you fellas know, this is one of the most iconic albums Elton John has ever made!!! I know it’s one of my all time favorites!!

Dudes, this is the song that made me realize the existence of Elton John. I was literally pulled from one end of my house to my bedroom, because this was playing on the radio. The drum beat captured me. I've been a fan ever since.

Elton John... a bit older.... Madman Across the Water

Empty Garden - A song to/about John Lennon after he was assassinated.

Saturday Night’s Alright For Fighting is what you guys call a banger. It would just get the party started. I will be forever surprised that you guys haven’t heard these songs before. They’re iconic. Elton John is top tier showman.

Elton John "Pinball Wizard"! It's so much better than the original, even The Who said so.

Yes, "Saturday Nights Alright for Fighting".

Heeeeeere we goooooo. This song is one of my early childhood memories of driving around in my cousins beetle and this song was playing

"I Feel Like a Bullet in the gun of Robert Ford" - kind of obscure, but great song

Elton also charted and crossed over with this song on the Billboard Soul Charts. And he made an appearance on Soul Train.🚅

Saturday Night Already for Fighting! A total BANGER!!

Elton John - 'Crocodile Rock' is a fun song too. The best video is when he was on the Muppet Show... you need to watch that video. So many rock stars were on the Muppet Show.

Try Elton John HARMONY, rarely played gem and MADMAN ACROSS THE WATER, Damn good banger!

A straight banger check out “Philadelphia Freedom “. He is a musical genesis enuff said!

Keepin' us on our toes, aren't you? I'm so happy you are checking out more of Elton John. Please consider doing "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road", and "Philadelphia Freedom". Cheers 🥃🥃❤

Another stutter song to go along with My Generation and You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet. Lol. Some other great stutterers... Changes by Bowie, My Sharona and Bad to the Bone.

His version of Pinball Wizard has a lot more energy that The Who’s version. Saturday Nights Alright is a banger as is Crocodile Rock.

You gotta do Saturday nights alright for fighting. You heard Elton John’s sentimental songs, but this is one over 4 minutes of hard rocking goodness.

Saturday Night's Alright for Fighting would be a great choice, because yet again it is something different. Also Kudos out to Bernie Taupin who was/is Elton John's lyricist. EJ adds the music once Taupin sends him a page of lyrics.

This is one of the songs that got him on Soul Train. Thatr synchopated piano is everything.

Benny and the Jets is the name of my Elton John cover band.

Elton John and Bernie Taupin have written 100's, maybe 1000's of songs. You can't go wrong with any of them. This is one of my favorites. ❤

Elton John has sold over 300 million albums worldwide in his career. Enough said. ✌☮

Every track on "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road" is great. One of the best double albums in history. For real. Whatever your next Elton John song is, just pick a random one off that album. It'll be fire.

It is amazing to think that on the album that this came from, they were writing and recording one song per day.

Goodbye Yellow Brick Road was the first album I ever bought with my own babysitting money. This album also has "Candle in the Wind" and " All the Young Girls Love Alice". So many hits off this double album. And the sleeve art is supercool.

The stuttering thing is cool because it’s percussive. It’s like a vocal drum fill.

Just last night I was wondering what today's song might be and thinking, "Hmm... they haven't hit Elton John in a while." And here we go! Next, yes, please do "Saturday Night's Alright for Fighting." It's probably his bangingest song.

When I was a little kid in the '70s, Elton John was the "first rockstar" that I knew of, that is to say the first pop music personality that I could recognize. "Crocodile Rock" was one of the first rock songs that I can remember.

Someone may have pointed this out but it is a studio simulation of a live performance. This brings me back to my childhood.

Madman Across the Water. No other Elton John song will suffice.

My 18 year old loves this song... I have just heard it SO many times...

I love the panning they do with the piano in this song where they have the lower register in the left ear and the higher notes in the right. It puts you right at that piano bench with Elton and you get full spatial awareness of his hands and where they are on the piano as he's playing.

Elton John was one of the defining artists of the entire 70s. So many songs you absolutely have to react to.

You want stuttering - you want My my my Sharona by the Knack

I think you should just have an Elton John jar with everyone of his songs on individual slips of paper & every week just pull one out & hit it! Too many to just pick a couple.

Try "Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy" title song. Deep cut: "Texas Love Song" off 'Don't shoot Me, I'm Only The Piano Player'. ***Blow Your mind "Ticking" from 'Caribou'***

“Someone Saved My Life Tonight” is an epic masterpiece.

Love this! When I was a kid I thought he was saying "She's got electric boobs! A "no hair" suit!" LoL!

Wish you go back to the beginning may be some Madman Across the Water. It will blow you Away

So, I was today years old when I finally realized that along with electric boots she's got a MOHAIR SUIT!! At last, I can sing along without slurring and mumbling over that part. And I owe it all to you, Andy & Alex...

The entire album “Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy.” Brilliant

You guys still haven’t gotten to the cream of Elton John material.

Saturday Nights Alright For Fighting

"All the Young Girls Love Alice" from the same album. Also, "Grey Seal," and "Harmony." This album was a masterpiece.

Another one of those songs you thought you were sick of after so much airplay, but years later, thru earphones, a great song! This whole album was great 🔥❤️

Take me to the pilot is a banger

Funeral For a Friend/ Love Lies Bleeding would be a good one for you guys to give a listen to. Also Rocket Man

Contrary to what it seems, the song is not live, but recorded in studio and live sound effects were added later. Producer Gus Dudgeon explained: For some weird reason, Elton happened to have hit the opening piano chord of the song exactly one bar before the song actually started. So I was doing the mix and this chord kept coming on which you normally wouldn’t expect to hear. I turned to engineer [David Hentschel] and I said, ‘What does that remind you of? … It’s the sort of thing that people do on stage just before they’re going to start a song.’ Just to kind of get everybody, ‘Okay, here we go, ready?’ For some reason that chord being there made me think, ‘Maybe we should fake-live this.’

The hiss on “jets” is so flipping awesome

Crocodile Rock Levon Rocketman. 3 of my faves

Early Elton John is uncoverable as a practical matter, simply because his voice has such a unique and dynamic range. Don't take my word for it, listen to the 'Madman Across the Water' album.

Guys, Listening to Goodbye Yellow Brick Road one song at a time is like looking at the Mona Lisa and staring at her hands rather than the entire painting. Stop breaking it up into day trips and enjoy the entire journey.

You guys will like Elton's "Take Me to the Pilot" It's a gospel-style banger that really cooks.

Saturday Night's Alright for Fighting is off this same album and is a banger. The whole album is stellar with several musical styles including some country and western, to boot.

while listening to this for some reason I flashbacked to my old high school days when I was on the stage crew setting up for some show (we had some pretty dope concerts at our HS), and just blasting this through the auditorium speakers and having it echo around the empty auditorium making it sound that much more live while I sang along. 1973 boys! Is it any wonder that a couple of years later Elton would be my first really big live rock concert when he came through the Chi. He is the *Ultimate* showman. And the band could not sound better live. He was the real deal. "Madman Across the Water" next please guys.

Live , no filters , auto tune or pitch correction ❤ brilliant