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Tumbleweed Connection by: Elton John List Price: $29.98 CD-Charts Price: $19.97 You Save: $10.01 (33%)Prices subject to change. |
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Binding: Audio CD EAN: 0600753052556 Format: Original recording remastered Label: Island / Mercury Manufacturer: Island / Mercury Number Of Discs: 1 Publisher: Island / Mercury Release Date: June 03, 2008 Studio: Island / Mercury Sales Rank: 2351 MPN: 001083902 Disc 1:
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Editorial Review: Album Description: 2008 digitally remastered deluxe two CD edition of Elton's hit album featuring a bonus CD containing 13 additional tracks including previously unreleased cuts, demos and more. Originally released in 1971, Tumbleweed Connection featured EJ classics like 'Burn Down The Mission', 'Love Song' and 'Country Comfort'. This deluxe edition features piano demos of many of the album's tracks plus BBC sessions and more. 23 tracks total. Universal. Customer Reviews
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 Rating:  - ELTON JOHN'S "Tumbleweed Connection" Gets A SENSATIONAL NEW REMASTER!!Reginald Dwight's 3rd album proper was released in late 1970 and firmly established Elton John as one of the great singer-songwriters of the Seventies. This 2 June 2008 DELUXE EDITION 2CD set is a fully upgraded version of that breakthrough album and in my books is already up there as one of the REISSUES OF THE YEAR. Here's the layout: DISC 1 is the 10-track album originally released in the UK in October 1970 on DJM Records DJLPS 410 and in the USA on Uni Records 73096 (47:04 minutes) DISC 2 is the BONUS DISC containing 13 tracks, 10 of which are PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED and the other 3 are RARITIES with upgraded sound from their previous release in 1988 (1 track) and 1995 (2 tracks) (61:07 minutes) Read More: Rating: - Sublime, artful, tasty, masterful.I have the SACD version of this disc - and it sounds fantastic. If you have a surround sound stereo and the ability to play SACD discs, I highly recommend getting the SACD version of this album. In terms of the music itself, I enjoy this album more every time I listen to it. The fact that it didn't have a "commercial hit" song makes it even better, because the songs were never beaten to death on the radio. The songs are sublime, artful, tasty, and masterfully played and recorded. A perfect example of music created as art, rather than music created for commercial purposes. Rating:  - Not quite Deluxe enough"Tumbleweed Connection" is a fantastic re-imagining of the American West by a couple of brilliant young British songwriters who had never been there. Other reviewers here have described the album, and if you think you are interested in Elton's breakthrough years, you need to have this. The songs are inventive, poetic, and rockin', and Elton's vocals and piano playing are superb. It's beautifully arranged and recorded, but more of a piano-based rock album than the self-titled album that preceded it. There isn't a bad song on it, and it may be Elton's most thematically unified work. In addition, since it never had a hit single, it is not as well known as most of his early works, so it is easy to listen to it with a fresh appreciation. (The least ... Read More: Rating: - Elton's "Tumbleweed" Get Deluxe TreatmentInspired by The Band's Music from Big Pink and feturing lyricist Bernie Taupin's Great Western imagery,Elton John's "Tumbleweed Connection" is widely regarded as one of his finest albums and for good reason.Though it did not have a big hit single,it contains many classic songs including "Country Comfort"(later covered by Rod Stewart and Juice Newton,of all people),"Burn Down The Mission","Come Down In Time","Amoreena" and others as well.This Deluxe Edition contains a sepia-toned 28-booklet feturing elegant photos and song lyrics,a stunning 2008 remaster of the original album done by Giovanni Scatola and Tony Cousins at Metropolis Mastering,London which surpasses all the previous masters,and a second disc of 9 previously unreleased demos and live ... Read More: Rating:  - What could have been......For starters, I have every single Elton John album ever made, (with the exception of Victim of Love). I have virtually every B side that I know exists and have mulitple sources of other unreleased material, studio and live. Depending on the day of the week you ask me, Tumbleweed Connection is probably my second favorite Elton release behind Captain Fantastic. To be clear, my mediocre rating has absolutely nothing to do with the original record. If you have never heard Tumbleweed before, purchase this right away. It is Elton and Bernie at the top of their early game. While there is much to cheer on this release, my mediocre review is solely predicated on what is not here. For some reason, a trend is developing on re ... Read More: |
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