Elton John – Captain Fantastic And The Brown Dirt Cowboy (Vinyl) Original Japanese Pressing
DJM Records (1975)
$65.00
Very Rare Actual 1975 Japanese First Pressing In Top Condition With Amazing Packaging Including Giant Fold-Out Poster! Heavy Grade Hardbound Gatefold Cover Also Includes 16-Page Bernie Taupin ‘Lyrics’ Colour Booklet, 16-Page Elton John ‘Scraps’ Colour Booklet & 8-Page Jap Insert!
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Very Rare Actual 1975 Japanese First Pressing In Top Condition With Amazing Packaging Including Giant Fold-Out Poster! Heavy Grade Hardbound Gatefold Cover Also Includes 16-Page Bernie Taupin ‘Lyrics’ Colour Booklet, 16-Page Elton John ‘Scraps’ Colour Booklet & 8-Page Jap Insert!
Condition – Vinyl: NEAR MINT! Appears to have had very little play ~ sounds, well… Fantastic!
Condition – Cover: VERY GOOD PLUS! Mostly EXCELLENT! Inner gatefold has some foxing, due to age and poster has small tears on folds / edges.
Japanese vinyl pressings are highly sought after by audiophiles and collectors, due to their premium sound quality and beautifully presented packaging. The sonic quality of Japanese records is regarded as the best in the world. No wonder all the original Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab records were pressed in Japan! The covers are printed on better quality heavy stock paper too. Top condition original Japanese pressings are becoming scarcer — and therefore more collectable and valuable every year.
Side 1:
Captain Fantastic And The Brown Dirt Cowboy
Tower Of Babel
Bitter Fingers
Tell Me When The Whistle Blows
Someone Saved My Life Tonight
Side 2:
(Gotta Get A) Meal Ticket
Better Off Dead
Writing
We All Fall In Love Sometimes
Curtains
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A testament to the strengths of the creative partnership of Elton and Bernie... Sitting atop the charts in 1975, Elton John and Bernie Taupin recalled their rise to power in Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy, their first explicitly conceptual effort since Tumbleweed Connection. It's no coincidence that it's their best album since then, showcasing each at the peak of his power, as John crafts supple, elastic, versatile pop and Taupin's inscrutable wordplay is evocative, even moving. What's best about the record is that it works best of a piece -- although it entered the charts at number one, this only had one huge hit in "Someone Saved My Life Tonight," which sounds even better here, since it tidily fits into the musical and lyrical themes. And although the musical skill on display here is dazzling, as it bounces between country and hard rock within the same song, this is certainly a grower. The album needs time to reveal its treasures, but once it does, it rivals Tumbleweed in terms of sheer consistency and eclipses it in scope, capturing John and Taupin at a pinnacle. They collapsed in hubris and excess not long afterward -- Rock of the Westies, which followed just months later is as scattered as this is focused -- but this remains a testament to the strengths of their creative partnership.