Caribou (album)

Infobox Album |
Name = Caribou
Type = Album
Artist = Elton John


Released = June 24 1974 (U.S.)
June 28 1974 (UK)
Recorded = Caribou Ranch, Nederland, Colorado, January 1974
Genre = Pop
Rock
Glam Rock
Length = 45:13
Label = MCA (US/Canada) DJM Records
Producer = Gus Dudgeon
Reviews =
* Allmusic Rating|3.5|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:1c841v7jzzza~T1 link]
*Robert Christgau (B+) [http://www.robertchristgau.com/get_artist.php?name=elton+john link]
* "Rolling Stone" (not rated) [http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/eltonjohn/albums/album/229028/review/5942844/caribou link]
Last album = "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road"
(1973)
This album = "Caribou"
(1974)
Next album = "Elton John's Greatest Hits"
(1974)

"Caribou" is the eighth studio album by British singer/songwriter Elton John, released in 1974 (see 1974 in music). It was John's fourth chart-topping album in the US and his third in the UK. The album contains the singles "Don't Let the Sun Go Down on Me," which reached number 16 in the UK Singles Chart and number 2 in the US, and "The Bitch Is Back," which reached number 15 in the UK and number 4 in the US. The album is named for the Caribou Ranch recording studio, where the album was recorded.

Track listing

All songs by Elton John and Bernie Taupin, except where noted

ide one

#"The Bitch is Back" – 3:44
#"Pinky" – 3:54
#"Grimsby" – 3:47
#"Dixie Lily" – 2:54
#"Solar Prestige a Gammon" – 2:52
#"You're So Static" – 4:52

ide two

#"I've Seen the Saucers" – 4:48
#"Stinker" – 5:20
#"Don't Let the Sun Go Down on Me" – 5:36
#"Ticking" – 7:28

Bonus tracks (1995 CD reissue)

#

"Pinball Wizard" (Pete Townshend) – 5:09
#"Sick City" – 5:23
#"Cold Highway" – 3:25
#"Step into Christmas" – 4:32

When MCA Records re-issued this album on cassette tape in the 1980s, "You're So Static" and "Stinker" were swapped in the album running order.

At one point the title of this album was to be "Ol' Pink Eyes Is Back" a pun on Frank Sinatra's "Ol' Blue Eyes Is Back".

B-sides

succession box
before = "Sundown" by Gordon Lightfoot
title = "Billboard" 200 number-one album
years = July 13 - August 9 1974
after = "Back Home Again" by John Denversuccession box
before = "The Sting (soundtrack)" by Various artists
title = Australian Kent Music Report number-one album
years = August 12 - October 20 1974
after = "Quatro" by Suzi Quatro