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Post by BiteUrLip on Apr 1, 2018 19:19:26 GMT
Is it because of the lyrics?
If so, I hope someone could do an analysis here!
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Post by dougs on Apr 1, 2018 22:31:40 GMT
BiteUrLip:
Since I have been playing ROCKOF THE WESTIES on new 180 gram vinyl lots these days I was wondering the same thing about "Island Girl." It could be the lyrics for its exclusion from current day set lists but EJ wasn't eager to play it even in the 80s until the end of the decade. Maybe it is a song that he does not like a lot. In fact, everything from ROCK OF THE WESTIES has been long dropped from set lists. It could be as simple as that. Elton, despite his huge popularity in 1975, was not very happy and he tends not to go back to that album which was written in the summer of 1975.
I always "thought" that he liked "I Feel Like A Bullet (In the Gun of Robert Ford)" but that one has also long dropped from set lists.
Good question, though. It is also very rare to have Elton include songs in the set list that Nigel Olsson is not familiar with. Count 'em.
Doug
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Post by BiteUrLip on Apr 1, 2018 22:57:36 GMT
I bet one reason could be indeed the fact that probably EJ hasn't liked the song much. That and the lyric issue.
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Post by rocketman on Apr 11, 2018 14:15:33 GMT
It's not an easy song to sing, though Elton and the band simply would play it in a lower key anyway, I suppose, if that was the issue.
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Post by latitude on Apr 12, 2018 1:00:18 GMT
Personally? I think he's forgot the song entirely and hardly remembers it even existed.  |
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Post by newloneranger on Apr 12, 2018 18:24:47 GMT
Whats wrong with the lyrics?
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Post by BiteUrLip on Apr 12, 2018 20:48:20 GMT
Whats wrong with the lyrics? This is from Ultimate Classic Rock: Elton John, "Island Girl" (1975) Just how popular was Elton John in the mid-'70s? "Island Girl," a song about a Jamaican prostitute in New York City who'll "wrap herself around you like a well-worn tire" spent three weeks at No. 1 in 1975. While John and lyricist Bernie Taupin were clearly attempting to empathize with her, albeit in an insensitive way, it's the singer's use of a cringing patois that puts "Island Girl" over the top. According to Setlist.fm, John hasn't performed the song since 1989. |
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Post by newloneranger on Apr 13, 2018 4:56:01 GMT
I don't see anything wrong with those lyrics. The lyrics don't say anything about this woman being a prostitute from New York, reading the lyrics it just seems to me to be a Jamaican woman. This prostitute from New York is news to me. Its the first time I heard that.
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