It’s the Bennie Bennie Bennie BennieBenmieBennie and the Jeeeeeeets part man. Gets ya every time.
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Good song to listen to if you're in the right frame of mind.
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For one thing, it's a vamp, which is supposed to be structurally loose. For another, it's funny. For another, the production makes it sound like you're in a sonically awful arena, which is just perfect.
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I think far too much about the decision to produce it as "live" and how flawlessly they pulled it off.
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Yes, I was thinking about you guys making that point on the podcast. It makes the song. Even moreso than, say, Springsteen with Sherry Darling.
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It's good! And it doesn't sound a lot like anything or anyone else.
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Plus, listening to me sing Bennie and the Jets while wearing headphones is a quasi-religious experience for everyone near me.pic.twitter.com/DG2t8sAZrY
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No. No it doesn’t. It’s aural pollution.
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To his delight, it became his first single to cross over to black radio, charting higher there than his subsequent efforts that were more "intentionally" R&B.pic.twitter.com/FLYV7yaeHM
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Everyone I knew in jr. high listened to that song because we heard a "b" in place of the "t" in the lyric "electric boots" and we couldn't believe you could sing that on the radio.
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On April 13, 1974, ‘Bennie And The Jets’ by Elton John reached #1 on the Billboard Hot 100