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Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy

Rmst ed.

Reissued, Extra Tracks, Remastered

Elton John (Artist) Format: Audio CD
4.8 4.8 out of 5 stars 1,187 ratings
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Track Listings

1 Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy
2 Tower of Babel
3 Bitter Fingers
4 Tell Me When the Whistle Blows
5 Someone Saved My Life Tonight
6 (Gotta Get a) Meal Ticket
7 Better Off Dead
8 Writing
9 We All Fall in Love Sometimes
10 Curtains
11 Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds
12 One Day at a Time
13 Philadelphia Freedom

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This newly remastered reissue of one of Elton's classic LPs (featuring complete packaging with detailed sleeve notes) sports 3 bonus tracks: "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds," "One Day at a Time" and "Philadelphia Freedom."

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Elton John has always liked having it both ways. He's flamboyant and vain, yet empathetic and sincere. He sits at his piano playing sentimental melodies, but the words come not from inside his soul but from friend Bernie Taupin. For Captain Fantastic, he and Taupin wrote a concept album which sketches their career together. "Someone Saved My Life Tonight" is easily the strongest song outside of the concept. The addition of several songs "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" featuring John Lennon, "Philadelphia Freedom," and "One Day at a Time" blow the concept but up the entertainment value considerably. --Rob O'Connor

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  • Is Discontinued By Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ No
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Product Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.12 x 5.67 x 0.39 inches; 3.81 ounces
  • Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ The Rocket Record Company
  • Item model number ‏ : ‎ 2138796
  • Original Release Date ‏ : ‎ 1996
  • SPARS Code ‏ : ‎ DDD
  • Date First Available ‏ : ‎ December 12, 2006
  • Label ‏ : ‎ The Rocket Record Company
  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B000001EGA
  • Country of Origin ‏ : ‎ USA
  • Number of discs ‏ : ‎ 1
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.8 4.8 out of 5 stars 1,187 ratings

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11th & Most Beloved Birthday Present of My Life
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11th & Most Beloved Birthday Present of My Life
The best album of my lifetime. I got this on my 11th Birthday & after that, my love for Elton & Bernie never changed, never dissipated. I used to listen to this on my little kid record player & burned through 3 vinyl copies, until it came out on CD. It makes me run the gamut of emotion, as this is the best Elton/Bernie album, starting me with big smiles & by “Someone Saved My Life Tonight” brought heavy sobbing. It’s raw emotion from these two geniuses, the Captain & the Kid.
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John
5.0 out of 5 stars Its Elton
Reviewed in the United States on December 22, 2023
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Can't go wrong with this purchase!
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Faun Marie Parks
5.0 out of 5 stars Brought Back so many memories
Reviewed in the United States on August 28, 2023
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Captain Fantastic was the very first album I purchased for myself with my own money. It's still one of my favorites. I wanted it on CD.
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Pam Taylor
5.0 out of 5 stars Terrific Album - Brings Me Back to the 70s
Reviewed in the United States on July 31, 2023
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Listened to this vinyl album during my 70s college years and listen to this cd in my car over and over now, 50 years later. Timeless music and John at the height of his brilliance.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Fantastic (pun intended) Music and Recording
Reviewed in the United States on July 19, 2021
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I have always loved this album...still have it on vinyl from a long time ago; IMO it is one of EJ's best. I wanted another copy on CD to play in areas where I don't have a turntable (and my turntable is currently in need of repair). I am always a little hesitant to purchase "remastered/reissued" CDs as it is a coin-flip whether they will be excellent or subpar (seems to be the 2 choices). A lot of remastered CDs seem to compress the music...this makes it play louder but drastically reduces the sound quality. Fortunately, the remaster of Captain Fantastic is excellent! The clarity is amazing and I am extremely pleased with the purchase. The very reasonable price here on Amazon was a bonus!
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Mark
4.0 out of 5 stars Fine, but not his best (sorry, Elton, and Gus Dudgeon too!).
Reviewed in the United States on November 27, 2020
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So many of the reviews here simply gush over this erratic album. I guess I can't help but try to post a somewhat dissenting view, if only for balance.

To clarify where I'm coming from, I've enjoyed this album enormously since it came out. I've played and replayed it many times over the years, as I've done with all of Elton John's albums from "Empty Sky" to "Blue Moves." So yes, this is overall a fine piece of work on Elton's part, and particularly on Bernie Taupin's. I really don't get, however, why Elton and producer Gus Dudgeon both have gone on record as calling it the very best release from their collaborations during these "classic years."

Yes, there are great songs here. But the great songs are the ones which are easy to follow in context of what's presented as the story of Elton and Bernie as fledgling songwriters and fast friends. But there are also compositions that go out of their way to be willfully obscure, like "Tower Of Babel," which stops the album dead at only the second track after the promising title cut.

On one level, this seems to be metaphorical observation of the evils of the music business, as viewed through the callow eyes of the virgin songwriter and industry novice. Fair enough. But what, one wonders, is the listener to make of lyrics like "or was it just the scalpel blade that lied?," or "Junk. Angel. This closet's always stacked?" Just what in hell is Bernie going on about here, and how does it fit into the story we're supposedly being told about Captain Fantastic & sidekick? While we're at it, what does the Babel myth have to do with what's being described? This song isn't profoundly poetic, it's just maddeningly vague and poetically pretentious.

Track #3, "Bitter Fingers," is another mediocre offering that stops the momentum dead again, particularly as it comes along so early in the track listing. On the surface, these lyrics are clearer as to how they pertain to a story about young songwriters, but why does the melody sound jarringly like Christmas music? And why don't the melodies for the verses and for the chorus feel like they belong in the same song, especially since the segue from one to the other is so abruptly forced? Three songs into this album now, and already two of them don't seem to belong. Hmm. This is not looking good.

Happily, starting with the excellent "Tell Me When The Whistle Blows," the next three songs are all strong, clearly communicating their points about where they fit into the Elton & Bernie story. These make up in spades for the lost momentum and the vacuum left by the previous cuts. Then we get to "Better Off Dead," and again it's more obscurity. Why are our heroes "better off dead" as they observe a parade of whores and drifters filing past them in what's presumably a late-night coffee shop?

"Writing" is sprightly and puts things back into focus again, setting us up nicely for the beauty of "We All Fall In Love Again" and the magnificent "Curtains." The former is a bit bothersome lyrically, though, because who is in love with whom in this song, and why? Is Elton in love with Bernie, albeit unrequited? Is this code, couched in ambiguity in this way because no one was supposed to know at this point that Elton was homosexual? The lyrics don't really give us enough rope to tell us anything.

This was the last album in a long time to feature THE Elton John Band - Davey Johnstone, Dee Murray, and Nigel Olsson. All play superbly, per usual, and soon would be missed in spades by a lot of us fans. Production on this album is generally excellent - as indeed, all of Gus Dudgeon's production work on Elton's '70s releases is excellent - but Olsson's drums on a couple of the songs here are just painfully loud in the mix. So much so, unfortunately, that it's difficult to get a comfortable listening level all the way through on both "Curtains" and "Someone Saved My Life Tonight," killer tracks in every other respect.
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Steven Sly
5.0 out of 5 stars Elton John - The Story Of Elton And Bernie's Early Days In The Music Business
Reviewed in the United States on October 26, 2008
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For me this is probably Elton's last great album. The rest of the 70's, 80's, 90's, and 00's would find him putting out rather inconsistent material that although having high points never was as cohesive as this, or his previous couple of albums. "Captain Fantastic" is a concept album that tells the story of Elton and Bernie's early years and their rise to fame and fortune. The album only contained one hit single, "Someone Saved My Life Tonight" which to my ears ranks up with the very best songs the duo ever wrote together. It remains a great song and one that I never tire of. The rest of the album tells the story from the opening title track to the closer "Curtains" chronicling the duos highs and lows trying to make it in the music business of the late 60's and early 70's. The album has held up remarkable well, with only the disco-ish "Tell Me When The Whistle Blows" sounding overly dated. The period between 1970 and 1975 were the nadir of Elton John and Bernie Taupin's creative output and "Captain Fantastic" would prove to be the end of an era for the duo. Second only to "Yellow Brick Road" in the Elton John catalogue "Captain Fantastic" is an essential Elton album.
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Schumannesque
5.0 out of 5 stars Too me, possible the best Elton John album
Reviewed in the United States on August 3, 2022
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You can pick your favorite or best song of Elton John is any album and, more or less I would agree with you on that particular song. But this album is the sum of Elton's musical mastery and distinction.
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RLB
5.0 out of 5 stars Remastering is brilliant
Reviewed in the United States on May 29, 2018
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Firstly, Sir Elton's voice is free of any "grit" or analog overload on previous CD issues. The sound stage is more stable, more focused, more acoustic space surrounds the instruments, tonal accuracy is improved and the bass energy is not limited like original or previous versions. Or in other words the percussion and bass drums (and tom-tom's and drum kit etc) have energy and scope like a digital recording OR have the BEST qualities of analog sound capture. MIdrange detail is positively mind blowing. For fans of this album and EJohn in general this disc gets a positive, must-have recommendation.
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Mark Monforton
5.0 out of 5 stars Fantastic!!
Reviewed in Canada on January 24, 2024
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I’ve been an Elton fan for over 50 years, but for some reason I’ve never owned or played this album. I finally bought the remastered CD, and I love it. Great songs, intelligently written, remastered with beautiful sound. The bonus tracks are all superb as well. I highly recommend this!!
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Jeremias Abner Ake Uitz
5.0 out of 5 stars Elton John 🔥🔥💯
Reviewed in Mexico on January 30, 2022
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Es uno de mis álbumes musicales favoritos, lo considero como uno de los mejores álbumes de Elton John, Captain fantastic and the brown dirt cowboy.
Me gusta todos las pistas de este álbum como Bitter fingers, someone saved my life tonigth, better off dead, we all fall in love sometimes, curtains y Lucy in the sky with diamonds.
Es conclusión, me llego en perfecto estado y a tiempo, tiene las letras de las canciones también, lo recomiendo si eres un fan de Elton John 👏👏💯
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Reviewed in Mexico on January 30, 2022
Es uno de mis álbumes musicales favoritos, lo considero como uno de los mejores álbumes de Elton John, Captain fantastic and the brown dirt cowboy.
Me gusta todos las pistas de este álbum como Bitter fingers, someone saved my life tonigth, better off dead, we all fall in love sometimes, curtains y Lucy in the sky with diamonds.
Es conclusión, me llego en perfecto estado y a tiempo, tiene las letras de las canciones también, lo recomiendo si eres un fan de Elton John 👏👏💯
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Leonard Catherine
5.0 out of 5 stars Parfait
Reviewed in France on August 2, 2023
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Parfait.
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Stefano Biggi
5.0 out of 5 stars really fantastic
Reviewed in Italy on January 13, 2023
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lo metto tra i primi 3 album di Elton, insieme a goodbye yellow brick road e madman, comunque sotto tutti belli gli album anni 70 di elton john
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S. Lornie
5.0 out of 5 stars Did he get any better? I think not!
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 5, 2020
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Elton John is a musician that I have always admired but never quite got into. I'm admittedly more of a rock guitar kind of guy, especially with more blues overtones etc. But I have always had respect for Elton, especially for albums like Goodbye Yellow Brick Road and Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy. These two albums alone are (in my opinion) two of the finest '70s albums out there and this remaster hasn't convinced me otherwise.

It seems that the ranking of Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy depends whether or not you prefer the previously mentioned Goodbye Yellow Brick Road. Both albums are suitably epic, have their fair share of classics and don't have a single dud track on it. For me personally, I would rate them both as Elton John's finest work but would easily consider Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy to be his best. Not because the songs are better (my favourites are on the other record) but because of the overall pacing.

For me personally, I feel that this album is a lot easier to listen to. The songs are considerably more up beat for the most part with each one coming and going in a faster, more energetic fashion. It's one thing having the better songs but the way Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy sort of zooms on by makes for a better listening experience. There is also the fact that Goodbye Yellow Brick Road is a staggering seventeen songs long, it's no wonder this one flows better.

I was a bit hesitant to try this CD when I saw it was the 1995 remaster. So many of these re-releases sound absolutely awful after all (Genesis?). But after having a good go at it, I was pleasantly surprised. The sound is very clear and there's plenty of dynamics through out. I love hearing the way Elton's piano booms over Davey Johnstone's guitar and the bass from Dee Murray. It's a very well put together great sounding record, no doubt helped by the production from Gus Dudgeon.

I'm not one for picking a favourite song from the album. I think Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy is stronger as a whole than as separate pieces. There's no Candle in the Wind or Tiny Dancer to latch onto. It's just one good solid forty five minute rock n roll record. Folks looking for that hit single might be a bit put off by that but this is not a greatest hits package. It's a great album that deserves to be treated as such and I couldn't recommend it more.
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