Love Songs [Remaster] - John, Elton (CD 2001)

If you enjoy Elton John, this CD is an excellent collection of some of his best loves songs (hence the title, Love Songs). Love Songs is classic Elton John to me. I grew up with parents who enjoyed Elton John and so the music often reminds me of growing up. That alone does not make him once of my favorites, after all, my parents also enjoyed many other artists. Some of the songs I remember best are his love songs, and so I was thrilled when he put out this CD. It was put out in 1996 by MCA Records. There are 15 songs on it, ranging from different time periods in his life, including: Can.

I saw Elton John in concert a few months ago and let me just say he was wonderful. Gone are the flamboyant costumes and wild stage antics. What was left was a truly remarkable a man with a huge stage present, who can not only play a piano, but sing as well. Many time during that concert he made mention of this CD, Love Songs. I have been on search since, until I ran across it in the store just the other day. After picking the CD up and reading the songs that were included I knew I had to have this CD. Elton John was what rock and roll was in my growing up days, many experiences my high school.

The remarkable span of Elton John is here among these fine cuts from Daniel to Circle of Life. And it really is remarkable. When you think of all the nobody-to-megastar stories that have led to graveyards from Texas to Paris, you nod to Elton John and to Bob Dylan and to Joni Mitchell and to Bonnie Raitt and all others who have managed to stay the course. So the advice of this review will be short. If you are thinking of choosing a single Elton John work for your collection, stop here and go no farther. This one will suffice. I am trying to remember what I thought of Elton John when he...

Every now and then I hear a song on the radio that captures my attention, overwhelms my emotions, and plants itself so deeply in my brain that adding it to my limited music collection becomes an obsession. As I've gotten older, this seems to happen less often than it did when I was in my teens or twenties, but when it happens now there is no less intensity in those feelings. One song that hit me that way a few years back was "Blessed" by Elton John. At the time, I was going through one of my "Rock And Roll" stages and just happened upon the soft-rock station one day when my favorite station...