If you follow me on Twitter, and I'm sure all 4 of you that read this do so that's a huge overlapping Venn diagram, you may know I stated that "Don't Go Breaking My Heart" is not one of the Top 100 songs in Elton John's catalog. What brought this up is the Backstreet Boys have a new single called "Don't Go Breaking My Heart" and it reminded many of the Elton John-Kiki Dee duet. The song was never released on an official album, but was a hit. It's also not a good song. Just because a song is catchy, does not make it good. I'm not going to say it's awful, but it's very quirky and just is a bullshit song that lacks meaning to me.
So to put my money where my mouth is regarding this song, here are 100+ better songs by Elton John. I am going to just make the list with no real reason for listing the songs where they are, other than probable chronological order of going through John's album/song list.
1. Skyline Pigeon
2. Your Song
3. Take Me to the Pilot
4. Border Song
5. Ballad of a Well-Known Gun
6. Country Comfort
7. Amoreena
8. Grey Seal
9. Tiny Dancer
10. Levon
11. Honky Cat
12. I Think I'm Going to Kill Myself
13. Rocket Man
14. Hercules
15. Mona Lisas and Mad Hatters
16. Daniel
17. Elderberry Wine
18. Crocodile Rock
19. Funeral for a Friend
20. Candle in the Wind
21. Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
22. Rock and Roll Madonna
23. Sweet Painted Lady
24. Bennie and the Jets
25. Saturday's Alright for Fighting
26. Harmony
27. Roy Rogers
28. The Bitch is Back
29. Don't Let the Sun Go Down on Me
30. Step Into Christmas
31. Tower of Babel
32. Someone Saved My Life Tonight
33. Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds- It's superior to the Beatles version
34. Philadelphia Freedom
35. Island Girl
36. Grow Some Funk of Your Own
37. I Feel Like a Bullet in the Gun of Robert Ford
38. Hard Luck Story
39. One Horse Town
40. Crazy Water
41. Sorry Seems to be the Hardest Word
42. Bite Your Lip
43. Part-Time Love
44. Song for Guy
45. Little Jeannie
46. Sartorial Elegance
47. The Fox
48. Empty Garden
49. Blue Eyes
50. Cold as Christmas
51. I'm Still Standing
52. Too Low for Zero
53. I Guess That's Why They Call it the Blues
54. One More Arrow
55. Passengers
56. Sad Songs
57. Nikita
58. A Word in Spanish
59. I Don't Wanna Go on With You Like That
60. Mona Lisas and Mad Hatters Part 2
61. Healing Hands
62. Club at the End of the Street
63. Sacrifice
64. Whispers
65. The One
66. Runaway Train- not THAT one
67. The Last Song
68. Circle of Life
69. Believe
70. Made in England
71. Blessed
72. Please
73. Something About the Way You Look Tonight
74. If the River Can Bend
75. Someday Out of the Blue
76. Dark Diamond
77. Love Her Like Me
78. Original Sin
79. Look Ma, No Hands
80. I Want Love
81. This Train Don't Stop There Anymore
82. Weight of the World
83. Porch Swing in Tupelo
84. Turn the Lights Out When You Leave
85. They Call Her the Cat
86. All That I'm Allowed
87. Postcards from Richard Nixon
88. The Bridge
89. Wouldn't Have You Any Other Way
90. I Must Have Lost it in the Wind
91. Hey Ahab
92. Oceans Away
93. Home Again
94. A Town Called Jubilee
95. Wonderful Crazy Night
96. In the Name of You
97. Claw Hammer
98. Blue Wonderful
99. The Open Chord
100. Mama Can't Buy You Love
101. Joseph, Better You Than Me
I could probably name some more songs, but I would have to go back through his discography and listen to the songs I don't know as well. My point, "Don't Go Breaking My Heart" is only considered good because it's catchy. The weak attempt to do a Motown song is not a success.
