10 Pop Songs That Artists Want You To Forget
5. Crocodile Rock - Elton John
As for the golden age of '70s pop music, Elton John really deserves to be in a category of his own. After bursting onto the scene with Your Song, nearly every single record that he released throughout that decade always had one unstoppable single after another, whether that be the bombast living of Tiny Dancer or just whatever the hell was going on in Take Me To the Pilot. This may have been indebted to the '70s, but Elton was always an old soul at heart, and his '60s pastiche Crocodile Rock has had more than its fair share of silly moments.
From the title alone, you knew that Elton wasn't going to play this song straight or anything, going for something that was more lighthearted than almost anything on the radio. As much as Elton may have fit right in with the glam superstars of the day, even people like Marc Bolan would have told him to turn it down a notch here, sounding less like a pop song and more like something that should blaring out at the beginning of a kids' TV show.
Elton has no shame in playing the song night after night though, except that he knows why people are coming to see the show. This kind of thing might fit in between Rocket Man and Goodbye Yellow Brick Road, but it's not like your life will be changed after hearing it in concert or anything. It's just a mindless piece of pop for you to enjoy, which are what most guilty pleasures are for.