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Elton John
Released 1971

Tiny Dancer
06:17
74,530 plays

Levon
05:22
66,751 plays

Madman Across The Water
05:57
30,480 plays

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- 1
- Tiny Dancer
- 06:17
- 74,530 plays

- 2
- Levon
- 05:22
- 66,751 plays

- 3
- Razor Face
- 04:44
- 14,762 plays

- 4
- Madman Across The Water
- 05:57
- 30,480 plays

- 5
- Indian Sunset
- 06:46
- 15,984 plays

- 6
- Holiday Inn
- 04:16
- 13,725 plays

- 7
- Rotten Peaches
- 04:58
- 11,889 plays

- 8
- All The Nasties
- 05:09
- 12,660 plays

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- Goodbye
- 01:48
- 11,875 plays

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album review

Trading the cinematic aspirations of Tumbleweed Connection for a tentative stab at prog rock, Elton John and Bernie Taupin delivered another excellent collection of songs with Madman Across the Water. Like its two predecessors, Madman Across the Water is driven by the sweeping string arrangements of Paul Buckmaster, who gives the songs here a richly dark and haunting edge. And these are songs that benefit from grandiose treatments. With most songs clocking in around five minutes, the record feels like a major work, and in many ways it is. While it's not as adventurous as Tumbleweed Connection, the overall quality of the record is very high, particularly on character sketches "Levon" and "Razor Face," as well as the melodramatic "Tiny Dancer" and the paranoid title track. Madman Across the Water begins to fall apart toward the end, but the record remains an ambitious and rewarding work, and John never attained its darkly introspective atmosphere again. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Music Guide