ELTON JOHN Grey seal REACTION - The groove towards the end is ridiculous! First time hearing

[@kh2099-z5f]

Might be the best double album ever produced.

[@kimcutts6153]

🇬🇧 😮 I have never heard this song before! Mind literally just blown 🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯 Do i like it?......... Well of course I do. 🥰

[@CTPhil]

I love that you're running through the Yellow Brick Road album!

[@14gilbertst]

This was one of those songs I fixated on for a while.........playing it over and over again.

[@GottaDance56]

Sir Elton never disappoints, especially from this album!

[@garyarnett1220]

GYBR.... just one of those defining albums, not a bad track on it, and all of them so different from each other.

[@DJBilodeau]

Dee Murray was an awesome bassist for the Elton John Band. He's on display in this track.

[@matthewchance8835]

Such a great era of Elton John, this album "YBR" was fire at the time [1973] You have to check out "All The Young Girls Love Alice" it's a great rock classic.

[@han36solo]

I had the same thoughts when he harmonized his lead vocal! Brilliant song the band just slaying. Dee Murray on bass.

[@enta2]

Grey seal is one of the besties 🥴

[@llschnitz]

There is a wonderful documentary on the making of this album with actual footage of it being rehearsed and recorded, along with interviews and commentary from Elton and Bernie as well as the producer and recording engineers playing isolated tracks and discussing how they layered the instruments and vocals. Also the beautiful estate in France where it was recorded.

[@jdenino6022]

Yes it's called "Elton John and Bernie Taupin say Goodbye Norma Jean and Other Things."

[@johnlong9534]

I wore this album out. I learned the lyrics to every song on it. This was one of my favorites. Thanks Harri

[@marybaillie8907]

Another great tune from YBR, 1973, Grey Seal is another display of brillant musicianship from Elton and Bernie. The lyrics are bizarre in Taupin's typical fashion and Bernie said he hadn't a clue what he was writing about. The fast paced piano carries a wonderful smooth beat, a beefy bass and great percussion deliver another great tune for Elton. 💎💎 20 million copies of YBR have been sold. Keep 'em coming. 🎶🎶 Great reaction Harri and groovy choice JD. 👏👏 Cheers from Canada ❤❤🇨🇦🇨🇦

[@cynthiaschultheis1660]

I LIVEED IN SKI RESORT IN 1974. TOOK TWO ALBUMS, THIS ONE AND "DARK SIDE OF THE MOON" WARPED BOTH ALBUMS!!!TOP TEN!!👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼

[@keithjones7390]

It's so refreshing to see the 'deep cuts' being reviewed instead of his well known songs. So many of Elton's album tracks are as good or even better than his better known 'hits' Harmony, Roy Rogers and This Song Has No Title a few other superb tracks.

[@debjorgo]

I'm kind of partial to the hits but if we are tossing up deep cuts.... Medley: Yell Help, Captain Fantastic, Grow Some Funk of Your Own, Billy Bones and the White Bird, Hercules, I've Seen the Saucers....

[@keithjones7390]

@@debjorgo I'm kind of partial to the hits too, but like so many artists it's the lesser known tracks l seem to much prefer. In Elton John's case some of them are Cage the Songbird, The Ballad of Danny Bailey, Tower of Babel, No Shoestrings on Louise, Amy, Sweat It Out, The Ballad of the Boy in the Red Shoes, My Father's Gun, Holiday Inn to name a few ☺

[@donnakubiski5572]

Totally agree. Love all three of those songs.

[@debjorgo]

@@keithjones7390 I have all of Elton's albums up to and including Blue Moves. I rely on GH 1976-86 for the later tracks. You've stumped me on most of your selections in your last comment. I know Danny Bailey and Holiday Inn, but the others are either later tracks or songs I've just skipped over. What's your favorite one? ILL check it out on youtube.

[@debjorgo]

I forgot. I have the 8-disc Jewel Box too.

[@rubyswaim1441]

The piano is 🔥!

[@BigC.]

Pinball Wizard from Tommy. Had that kind of vibe.

[@williamneedham3117]

Harri 🔺 Please give a listen to Elton’s “BURN DOWN THE MISSION” It’s brilliant!

[@wentibbetts7833]

I remember ever lyric of this entire LP Harri. 😁 I love the harmonies too. I sing right along with. This has been an unexpected and wonderful journey with you and this album. 💖🤩🥳

[@mikejacobs7786]

Another good one harri !

[@dcmtrader]

Keep them coming from this LP!

[@tomcello4899]

Great reaction video, as usual. One of my favorites from Elton and Bernie.

[@scubasteev]

One of his best songs.

[@TristanandIsolt]

Check out Love Lies Bleeding if you want to hear Elton John and the band being GROOVY. You did react to Love Lies Bleeding. Did you forget?

[@wpollock1]

At this point in his career, Elton would take Bernie’s lyrics (never looking at them beforehand) and come up with the melody in 20 minutes. Incredible.

[@John_Locke_108]

I'll never understand how that's possible. It's just words that someone else came up with And in mere minutes this comes out of your soul? It is mind boggling.

[@keithjones7390]

It's a true gift.

[@debbiechang5781]

That’s why that partnership was unstoppable!🌸

[@ghogsten]

Such a dynamic song. Loved it the first time I heard it. Wakes up all the nerve cells…

[@bobcorbin3294]

Good ear Harry! gray seal has the same descending riff that pinball wizard has

[@debjorgo]

I have my top 30 favorite Elton John songs rated. This one is 15, right in the middle. It's in great company!

[@keithjones7390]

I could compile a list of Elton John top 30 songs too, they may fluctuate slightly, but Ticking will always be number1!

[@debjorgo]

@@keithjones7390 Ticking landed at 30 on my list. It's a great song but it's a little slow for me to have higher. Now if I was going for high art....

[@llschnitz]

This was written four years earlier and the original recording was used as a B-Side. He re-recorded it for GBYBR.

[@debjorgo]

@@llschnitz Right, the original was a bonus track on Elton's self-titled Elton John album. I have it on a disc called Rare Masters as well.

[@mikejacobs7786]

That's the Elton I know !

[@brucedillinger9448]

You are absolutely correct about his sweet sweet harmonies...with himself. Elton doubled is so incredible! Fan since 1969!!

[@CraigShifflet]

A great example of Elton's percussive piano playing. I was lucky to have an older sister that let me steal her EJ albums from time to time.

[@andyhampsten4252]

Yes! That harmonized voice! Amazing

[@richshelton7303]

Oh man! One of my favorite Elton John songs!

[@josephmilitello647]

Elton had a hit with Pinball Wizard and appeared singing in in the 1975 movie Tommy.

[@TristanandIsolt]

Here's an Elton John I don't think I've ever heard. Signature piano is good right off the bat.

[@debbiechang5781]

Love 70’s Elton John. This was a wonderful choice. Reaction, as always, was great. Thanks Harri and DJ Bilodeau. 🌸✌️

[@jenniferbabros1985]

Great song🎵

[@donnakubiski5572]

One of my favorites off the album and one that I had a hard time with learning the lyrics and singing along. The fast pace of the song made it difficult but boy I sure was proud of myself when I finally got it down. Can't wait for you to continue reacting to this album. There are still a lot of great songs for you to hear.

[@denisemay6807]

Great pick, DJ!!

[@Scooterboi60]

The original version was recorded in 1970 but didn’t make it onto his self titled album. It did appear on his Rare Masters compilation album though.

[@JohnPoulton]

Elton never failed to deliver in the seventies that's Dee Murray on bass

[@DJBilodeau]

As always, loved your reaction to this one Harri! Always so refreshing and entertaining!

[@brucedillinger9448]

This song just snaps! And don't even get me going on Nigel's drumming! Check out Better Off Dead for more AMAZING choices by this somewhat unsung drummer. And don't forget his sublime work as a background vocalist.

[@alanpeterson4939]

That whole double album is wonderful.

[@Thejazzfan66]

I don’t think this was a hit, but it’s my favorite track on Goodbye Yellow Brick Road….

[@jdenino6022]

not a single from this album, people who had the album played it.

[@ziggy107]

america invented rock and roll, but you UK’ers perfected it :) this being another example

[@blevens7251]

Good ear on The Who comment. Descending riffs, one on B minor (Who) and the other on B major (Elton).

[@balmpatchvideos]

Check out the harmony on the song Razor Face

[@abashal]

Great Album! Check out Jamaica Jerkoff!

[@oliverbendallcharles]

Tommy is Who musical your thinking of.

[@kianpa1]

❤

[@llschnitz]

Here’ms the earlier 1969 version: kzbin.info/www/bejne/pH6rqWZ5qc-Mh9ksi=MpbELs2ssMm_ZVZp

[@markholt6984]

This is a more polished rerecording of a song that was cut from his self titled second album. I always felt that lyrically it was out of place for the Goidbye Yellow Brick Road album. The original would fit well on his debut Empty Sky album. But this version, although well done, is not really compatible with this album. All this in my humble opinion, of course.