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I'm happy to meet a fellow listener. My very favorite period from Elton's music is from his first American album, Elton John, through Captain Fantastic and The Brown Dirt Cowboy. My very least favorite period encompasses all of those albums that came out during the lowest depths of his drug and alcohol addiction (from the mid-80s through the mid-90s). He was really floundering then, and I detest Tim Rice's facile, shallow lyrics, so there's several albums from that period I won't listen to. I do like Elton and Bernie's current work, though, very much. The samples I have heard from The Diving Board take me back to the early Elton I loved, and I can't wait until I can buy that album.