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Post by BiteUrLip on Jul 20, 2018 23:03:15 GMT
Music: Elton John
Lyrics: Gary Osborne
I got a ball and chain hanging around my heart
You were the one to blame for tearing my world apart
I got a heart so true, you got a heart of ice
A little more love from you, it could have been paradise
I got a ball and chain hanging around my heart
And if it's all the same maybe we should part
And I'm singing do do do...
I'm singing do do do...
You had to tie me down inside a cage of doubt
I'm sick of being kicked around so this is where I get out
Oh oui baby you tried to hold me but you were slowly
Driving me insane
Oh oui baby
I got a ball and chain hanging around my heart
You were the one to blame for tearing my world apart
I got a heart so true, you got a heart of ice
A little more love from you, it could have been paradise
I couldn't take your pain, you couldn't take my love
So I'm gonna quit this game 'cause baby I've had enough
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Post by BiteUrLip on Jul 20, 2018 23:03:42 GMT
Pretty nice soft rocker from JU! 4½ stars.
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Post by dougs on Jul 20, 2018 23:15:26 GMT
"Ball and Chain" from JUMP UP!
A decent acoustic pop song from a pop album. The studio version actually has Pete Townsend from The Who on acoustic guitar. Live, the song had more edge and rocked a bit. Elton could certainly write disposable pop music and this was a nice one - nothing profound but still a fun little song.
Rating: 3 1/2 stars
Doug
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Post by newloneranger on Jul 21, 2018 6:26:36 GMT
3rd single from Jump Up, Did not get much airplay but I heard it on the radio a couple of times. I think the Bside was better, the faster version of Where Have All The Good Times Gone. But this was still pretty good upbeat song. 4 stars
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Post by rocketman on Jul 21, 2018 15:32:45 GMT
3.5 stars...the song keeps pace with the rest of Side One of Jump Up!, which is saying something, since the album gets out of the gate with Dear John and maintains an uptempo feel throughout the first several songs, until Blue Eyes applies the brakes.
In substance, it's an OK song that doesn't push any barriers or establish anything new. It just fits well with the rest of the album.
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Post by Commodore Orpington on Jul 24, 2018 18:35:38 GMT
Really, its only excuses for existence are Pete Townshend on guitar (I actually heard about this long before the album was released), and the fact that it keeps you going fairly pleasantly between better songs.
I have the feeling no one was happy with this choice of 45... it seems to be a song you'd pick by process of elimination. David Geffen was picking US singles, was this his?
I like it, I even sing along to it, but I feel as if I shouldn't, or something. It's bouncy. I'm not really for that normally... The lyrics are pure filler. Yet when I think about it, it has that snappy sounding wordplay that I like when Bernie does it. I'm talking about the *sound* of the words not content. Bernie uses more interesting words though. I have to admit that Osborne's pap lyrics here feel physically good when singing them...
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Post by nix on Aug 7, 2019 11:34:21 GMT
3.5 whole Jump Up album sounds to me like it's filled with some B-sides. This is no exceptio, but it's one of better ones from first half of the album.
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