Madman Across the Water has "Levon," an excellent imitation of Cher's consonants-only vocal style.  

 The Wild West concept job Tumbleweed Connection has "Country Comfort" and "Amoreena," the song that plays over the opening credits of Dog Day Afternoon.  

 Honky Chateau, Elton's first actual rock & roll album, has some of his greatest nonhits, such as "Mellow," "Hercules," "Slave," and "Mona Lisas and Mad Hatters."  

 The Truffaut answer record, Don't Shoot Me I'm Only the Piano Player, comes down to the hits: "Crocodile Rock," which Elton revived with an all-croc band on "The Muppet Show," and the extremely annoying "Daniel."  

 The double-vinyl Goodbye Yellow Brick Road is Elton's biggest, best, catchiest, silliest, most pretentious, and most rocking set, a fun house of pansexual perversion. It's packed with mythic hits and oddities. 

 The autobiographical Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy didn't have many good songs, but it inspired a pinball machine, back when that really meant something.  

 Rock of the Westies has "Island Girl," a much more honest song about prostitution than "Lady Marmalade," and the fantastic self-loathing ballad "I Feel Like a Bullet (in the Gun of Robert Ford)," one of his best songs ever. 

 Elton's best album is Greatest Hits, Vol. 2, the cream of his grand early-to-mid-Seventies run: "Philadelphia Freedom" (written for tennis great Billie Jean King), "The Bitch Is Back," "Island Girl," "Levon," and "Someone Saved My Life Tonight." 

 The 2000s witnessed something of an Elton renaissance. Songs From the West Coast was such a great idea, you wonder why it took 25 years: Why doesn't Elton just sit down at the piano and make an Elton John album? 

 Elton also has many live albums and muddled compilations–the one called Love Songs includes "Daniel," even though it's apparently about driving your brother to the airport. 

 Duets had a funny remake of "Don't Go Breaking My Heart," with RuPaul as Kiki Dee. 

 Elton also has many live albums and muddled compilations–the one called Love Songs includes "Daniel," even though it's apparently about driving your brother to the airport. 

 Peachtree Road played like a sequel, with Elton and Taupin turning in some of their most personal songs ever, as well as ballads like "They Call Her the Cat," about a post-op transsexual woman.  

 Billed as the official followup to Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy, The Captain & The Kid was an autobiographical concept album about Elton and Taupin's lives since the Seventies. 

 Elton has been such a hit-making machine that he's had some hits twice, such as "Don't Let the Sun Go Down on Me," which became a 1991 duet with George Michael ("Ladies and gentlemenÉMr. Elton John!"), and "Candle in the Wind."