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TRAILER: Anthony & Dominic talk about...music?!
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Yes that's right, regular falafellers Anthony & Dominic have a new podcast where they rage over which Elton John album they like the best. Episode One drops today so look us up; we'd love it if you gave it a go. Thanks!
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Introduction to 'Elton versus Elton'
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Hello everyone, Anthony here. Now if you listen to Enough of the Falafel Productions because you're only interested in veganism and animal rights stuff, then this isn't going be the mini episode for you.
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But myself and Dominic, part of the Enough of the Falafel Collective that you may well know and love, um we've been working on a bit of a side hustle that has nothing to do with veganism and animal rights. So we just wanted to share in the feed today a little trailer of that project. It's called Elton versus Elton, the album battle. It is a music review podcast where we review the work of Elton John.
How to Find the Podcast
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I'm just going to shut up now and play you the trailer so you can hear it. Hope you enjoy it. Search for us in your podcast feed and you'll find us Elton versus Elton album battle. You'll find it there.
Overview of Elton John's Career
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And yeah, thanks for giving it a listen. See you next time on Falafel.
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Bye. Elton John has released 31 solo studio albums over a career spanning seven decades. Yeah, and at one point he released seven consecutive US number one albums. But which of these albums is the one? And which is, well, quite frankly, a stinker?
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Some of you might have noticed those were two Elton Song title references there. Dominic, did you notice that? are you impressed with me? I've never heard of a song called The Stinker, but I look forward to hearing it. I'm not sure using the one to represent the best album is accurate. Well, fair enough. We're each entitled to our opinion. I'm Anthony. And I'm Dominic, and we're two Elton fans who are ready to get the gloves on and thrash it out So, whether you are an Elton superfan, or just new to his work, we would love for you to join us in this podcast series.
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Elton vs Elton, the album... Battle! Dominic, this is a really exciting
Personal Connections to Elton's Music
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project. I feel like Elton, as an obsessive collector and categoriser of things himself, he might approve of our attempts to go through each of these albums fastidiously, rank them all. I think it's an Elton-worthy thing to do. Should we just take a moment now to introduce ourselves and our own journeys of learning to to love the music of Elton John? Yeah, sure. I was born in 1979, not a peak year for Elton John, a single man. Did have Song for Guy on it. But I was therefore growing up in the 80s, where really the biggest artists were probably Michael Jackson, Prince and Madonna. And I bought the very best of Elton John, which was a UK greatest hit. It's not released stateside. And oh I listened to it track by track. The good, the bad, the ugly, absolutely obsessed with it. What about you Ant? Yeah, that was the first album that I ah came across Elton's work from. When I was about four or five years old, um I remember that little semi-detached house that me and my parents lived in and my dad would put The Very Best of Elton John on whilst doing the washing up. It was the only CD in the house. This was like 1990, 1991. And so just subconsciously, i' I'd learnt all these songs by by the age of, you know, five or six, because they were just on repeat every night whilst my dad was ah getting his hands covered in fairy liquid. I was learning the piano at around this time too. um I was lucky enough to to grow up with a piano in the house from the age of about five years old. Song for Guy was in my piano.
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first sort of big piano book, though it was a bit too difficult for me for a few years. So yeah, Elton's music has been a fixture of my life as as long as I
Podcast Format and Scoring System
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can remember. We moved house from Peterborough to quite near Watford in my oh ninth or 10th year. And me and my dad started going to watch football together. And some many folk will know that Elton is a lifelong woman Watford Football Club fan. He was the chairman at the time that we started to go and watch Watford. So pretty soon after that, I became a ah collector of his records pretty much right through until I'd left home to go to university. So I'd probably bought about 10 or 15 of his albums by the age of 18, 19. I was lucky enough to see him perform live twice at that time. And then I've seen him once subsequently in my mid-20s. And just, yeah, I love him. He's great. I wear glasses too. I'm a bit of a nerd too. like he's um
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There are things that we don't share, but there's there's lots of things where I'd i'd say I... you share his riches? LAUGHTER oh wow would would i love to share his riches no i'm i'm not sure right yeah yeah i i think so i think so dom many folk might be thinking oh do i need to have listened to all the albums before listening to to the episodes what what's your feeling on that i that's a really personal thing uh i don't think that someone
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as to listening in any way they might have an album that they really love and want to just listen to us talk so skip straight to episode five for example if that's your favorite elton i'm somebody who often reads the reviews of stuff before deep delving so i can imagine that i would probably listen to this podcast before listening to the record uh It's up to you. And listening in order? Yeah, I think people can dip in wherever they want, can't they? We're going to record them in chronological order, but you can listen to them however you wish. are We're going to score them, aren't we, Ant? We're going to be quite strict about our scoring methods. How are going to work all that out? I'm not going to go into all the details because I've given certain elements as sort of different weighting to other, but all the scores we give are going to be out of 10. The main scoring we're going to do is we're going to be scoring each album track out of 10 on each episode, but only the tracks that appear in the original version of an album. So a lot of Elton's albums were re-released in 1995 and had bonus tracks. We're not going to rate those. We'll discuss them. We won' won't give them a rating. So we're going to give all the tracks an individual rating out of 10. And then in addition, we're also going to discuss and rate the name of each album, the artwork,
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cover versions just as a whole, the lyrics as a whole, so all of these just out of 10 each time, the music as a whole, and then the final two, they're slightly idiosyncratic. So we've got a category called flop dodge. So if an album avoids anything even resembling a flop, so every track is solid and consistent, that would avoid flops. That would be a good flop dodge score. So you might score an eight or nine or a 10 Whereas if every track was a flop, we think it's rubbish, then it might be scoring a zero, a one or a two or something like that. So that's the flop dodge category out of 10. And then finally, hits. And we're not talking about how well stuff did in the charts or anything like that. It's just what constitutes a Dominic hit, what constitutes
Final Thoughts and Encouragement to Listen
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an Anthony hit. So we'll give ah a score out of 10 for the album as a whole of how many hits it
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provided now anthony has been my friend for a number of years and it was anthony who approached me with the idea of doing this and one of the reasons i immediately said yes was to defend empty sky empty sky is the first elton john album release and there are zero official hits on in dominic land ah Oh, hit heavy, hit heavy. Give me that harpsichord skyline pigeon. So I was eager to infuse about Empty Sky. And at the time of us releasing, what you're listening to now, we have released episode one. So you can listen to me praise Empty Sky and Anthony. Well, let's just say he might take a little bit of persuading on one or two the more harpsichord heavy moments. Indeed. Oh, the dratted harpsichord. I can hear it from here. But yeah, that that episode is live now and we are aiming to drop a new episode, on a new album review each Tuesday until we run out of albums or one of us dies, whichever happens first. Yes, yes, yes. Really excited about releasing these. I think you're going to love them.
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Tune in, please. The show must go on.