Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
by Elton John

Goodbye Yellow Brick Road by Elton John
Year: 1973
Release date: 1973-10-05
Overall rank: 203rd   Overall chart history
Average Rating: 
81/100 (from 1,164 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top 5 albums of 1973 (5th)
Award Top 50 albums of the 1970s (48th)
Award Top 500 albums of all time (203rd)

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Goodbye Yellow Brick Road is ranked as the best album by Elton John.

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This album (203rd)
Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
Lower ranked (1,064th) »
Madman Across The Water

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Goodbye Yellow Brick Road track list

  Track ratings The tracks on this album have an average rating of 82 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).

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Rankings summary
Overall rank: 203rd | 1970s rank: 48th | 1973 rank: 5th

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Average Rating: 
81/100 (from 1,164 votes)
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04/14/2026 09:03 Liks_on_music  Ratings distribution  47581/100
 
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03/31/2026 07:41 Strixen  Ratings distribution  4689/100
 
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03/31/2026 03:15 gregthealien  Ratings distribution  1,06575/100
 
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03/16/2026 16:51 Christian889  Ratings distribution  7094/100
 
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02/27/2026 18:31 classicjoe  Ratings distribution  27279/100

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This album is rated in the top 1% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 80.9/100, a mean average of 79.9/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 81.0/100. The standard deviation for this album is 15.5.

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80/100
From 02/24/2026 13:09 | #313264
A recent purchase because Elton John is one of my favorites. It might not be as high as Madman Across The Water but it is typical him with his beautiful piano and vocals. It's his early stuff before he went a little to pop for me that I listen to.
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From 02/24/2026 07:30 | #313256
The 40th anniversary set is, if that is even conceivably possible, better than the original 1973 release. Elton has had many fine musical moments. This is his finest.
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From 05/22/2025 23:49 | #309104
Pushed to choose one Elton John album to keep, it would probably be this one or "ELTON JOHN". Great artist, great albums. 70s Pop Music at its very best.
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45/100
From 11/16/2023 19:11 | #300000
With 17 songs they're never all going to be gems, A couple of duds (Jamaica Jerkoff, Roy Rogers) but it is a very enjoyable album. Highlights are Love Lies Bleeding and Saturday Night's Alright.
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95/100
From 10/22/2023 01:54 | #299579
All 4 sides were very good. Rare for a double album.
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85/100
From 07/13/2023 00:57 | #298094
First time listening. Excellent!
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80/100
From 03/09/2023 11:30 | #294843
The big hits on here are absolutely outstanding and the rest kind of just guide you through and act as a bridge between the better songs. None of these songs are bad but they aren't anything mind blowing either. They fall into a decent to good category which makes this quite a consistent listen as there isn't any mediocre songs. The piano work is brilliant and Elton's singing is as phenomenal as ever with him giving his greatest ever performance on this album. This release is almost like a comfort record as you know you can stick it on and just enjoy as he has such an easy style of music to fall in love with. However, this record does not need to be this long in my opinion and could definitely be cut. Furthermore, whilst there are some outstanding tracks there isn't enough to put it amongst the truly elite of records. Overall, I love revisiting this album as Elton John has such a huge personality that just floods out of the record which makes it so easy to enjoy this album time and time again.
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80/100
From 10/25/2022 14:27 | #290789
Really good album.
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From 09/06/2022 17:42 | #289431
Great record
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From 06/29/2022 09:57 | #286779
This album has everything I love about music. I enjoy listening to piano and a great vocalist. Great vocal harmonies backed by one of most underrated bands of all-time! A great mix in styles of music. I particularly love the hard rockers and the opening track! 100
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