Bennie and the Jets - Elton John
Song of the Day #19
I hate to start out a review saying "what else is there to say?", but in this case, I don't really have a choice. It's one of those great anthemic songs that's so elegantly simple that it defies analysis. It has the exact same role in Goodbye Yellow Brick Road that "Starman" had in Ziggy Stardust: even if it isn't the deepest song of the album, both songs harness some of the spiritual fervor of the anthems surrounding them to turn their sing-a-longy choruses into powerful assets. Besides, when you got Bowie and Elton in a more introspective mood, it will always work wonders regardless if the song is any good. Yeah yeah, I know the song is supposed to be a satire of glitzy 70s music culture, but the song didn't sell 2 million copies because of Taupin's lyrics (sorry Bernie, you know it's true). We're too busy digging into that intoxicating chorus together with Elton's steady but pounding piano playing, and it's really damn hard to mess up a song if you got both of those. So, deny the song's greatness all of you want hipsters, go ahead and hear it again: no, you haven't heard this enough times.
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