Blue Moves - ELTON JOHN***

Your Starter For/Tonight/One Horse Town/Chameleon/Boogie Pilgrim/Cage The Songbird/Crazy Water/Shoulder Holster/Sorry Seems To Be The Hardest Word/Out Of The Blue/Between Seventeen & Twenty/The Wide Eyed & Laughing/Someone's Final Song/Where's The Shoorah/If There's A God In Heaven/Idol/Theme From A Non Existent TV Series/Bite Your Lip (Get Up & Dance)

The double album Blue Moves provided further evidence of the decline in Elton John’s songwriting skills. Most critics agree that it should have been reduced to a single LP. Features the US No. 6 hit Sorry Seems To Be The Hardest Word. (US:3 UK:3)

“This is a long and somewhat rambling affair. It is also introspective and an unintended look into his troubled psyche. A lot less commercial that most of his past work, I can’t help but think that it would have made a pretty good single disc.”

“Nice variation in instrumentation, genres, and song moods. There's funk, prog, pop featuring sitars, synthesizers, strings, horns in fun string heavy sing-a-longs to crooning sad songs. This keeps it interesting but goes a bit too far at times.”

“Generally seen as the start of his decline, Elton John's Blue Moves is his worst album to date, even if it might seem unfairly derided at times.”

“The title is certainly apt (pretty much all the songs are downbeat). While there are not enough quality songs for a cohesive double album, it is still well worth a listen and better than most critics would have you believe.”

“As has been suggested it should have been a single album, or perhaps songs could have been saved from Rock Of The Westies to make it a better double album. This would have allowed the decent songs that went on too long to have been shortened namely Bite Your Lip and Crazy Water.”

“I have to agree that the quality of the material on Blue Moves is stretched over two albums, when one disc might have been dynamite.”

“This is a showcase for Elton’s decline into adult contemporary mediocrity. Blue Moves, sadly, wouldn't have made all that great a single record, although the best songs here, Tonight and Sorry Seems To Be The Hardest Word, are melodic and well crafted.”