All 378 Elton John Songs, Ranked

The latest in pop-culture news, recaps, and reviews, plus close reads, profiles, interviews, and more from Vulture.com. [Brand Logo]( vulture lists [All 378 Elton John Songs, Ranked]( His closest competition when making new music is his own back catalogue. Photo: Ed Caraeff/Iconic Images The biggest obstacle to creating a ranked list of every Elton John song ever is Elton John himself. The 76-year-old songwriter hasn’t just set a curve for success against which other artists’ best songs can be judged. He’s destroyed the very idea of a curve. Half a century ago, he released a total of seven LPs (including one double album!) in just shy of four years, all co-written with lyricist Bernie Taupin and often composed and recorded in a matter of hours or, at most, days. And they were good. Very good. Elton John is as bold and excellent a first proper debut for a new artist as has maybe ever been released. Honky Château is the album equivalent of the most perfectly paired French red wine and mellow weed; Tumbleweed Connection is solid Americana on par with anything you’d hear from a Yankee in the 20th century. Madman Across the Water levies a scorched-earth rebuke of critics. And Goodbye Yellow Brick Road is the mind-melting double-disc epic that could stand in for an encyclopedia entry on “music of the 1970s.” They’re the kind of albums that other artists would eat a feathered boa to pull off once, let alone back to back to back. [read more]( The Latest TV Recaps • And Just Like … That: [The Theme Is Veiled Beauty (Episode 1)](, [Clutching Your Pigeon (Episode 2)]( • The Bear: [Can’t Hardly Wait]( • Star Trek: Strange New Worlds: [A Few Good Illyrians]( [Learn more about RevenueStripe...]( Stories We Think You’ll Like [The Bear Serves Up Cameo Chaos Season two’s menu of guest stars is enticing but flirts with overindulgence.]( By Roxana Hadadi [The Stan Lee Myth Is Safe — for Now Disney’s hagiographic documentary promotes a myth. But someday that myth will fade into history, and maybe then we can remember Stan Lee objectively.]( By Abraham Josephine Riesman [Jazmine Sullivan, Flying Lotus to Bring Afropunk Brooklyn Into a New Era Now at Greenpoint Terminal Market.]( By Justin Curto [Every Wes Anderson Film, Ranked Ranking Anderson’s films feels like a fool’s game, because he’s an auteur’s auteur — but we did it anyway.]( By Scott Tobias [The Jennifers Had to Have a Tough White Lotus Convo Garner needs to catch up on her peak-Coolidge TV.]( By Jason P. Frank [Dewayne Perkins on Being The Blackening’s Queer Final Girl The writer-star of the new horror-comedy on skewering stereotypes and proving that the gay best friend can be the hero, too.]( By Malik Peay [Dumb Money to Force Stonks Down Your Throat Again Just when the GameStop short squeeze was a distant memory.]( By Zoe Guy [Learn more about RevenueStripe...]( [Today’s Crossword]( 19-Down, Three Letters: ATN’s CEO (Succession spoiler!) Photo-Illustration: Vulture; Photos: Getty Images A newsletter of TV and movie recommendations. [Sign up]( to get it every week. [Get the Newsletter]( [logo]( [facebook logo]( [instagram logo]( [twitter logo]( [unsubscribe]( | [privacy notice]( | [update preferences]( This email was sent to {EMAIL}. Was this email forwarded to you? [Sign up now]( to get this newsletter in your inbox. [View this email in your browser.]( You received this email because you have a subscription to New York. Reach the right online audience with us For advertising information on email newsletters, please contact AdOps@nymag.com Vox Media, LLC 1201 Connecticut Ave. NW, 12th Floor Washington, DC 20036 Copyright © 2023, All rights reserved