Shine on Through is another sparkling Elton piano song with some of his tender moments, while the Carribean steel drum meets Zapata horns meets flamenco guitar melange that is Return to Paradise is daring and expertly stitched together performance. While I Don't Care proves Elton can elevate cheap disco music with a exuberant melody, while the heavy downbeat It Ain't Gonna Be easy mixes Elton's towering vocals with keyboards and a sweeping string section,
Part Time Love is the 80s sounding, cheap synth sweeping pop hit with some cheesy backing vocals backed by cheesier keyboards but a spirited melody but is far from his best, easily forgettable when placed alongside his bets 70s work or even other tracks on this very album. Georgia is another circular piano melody with a church organ sounding synth and a big belts and braces chorus, Elton likes his saloon ballads and gospel edge crooning about characters in fluid vocal melody that always seems to veer from a softened country rasp and then a terse but heavenly cats meow falsetto; its a winning formula in the era of country rock and Soft Rock and Disco. Shooting Star is a forerunner to all the 'nighttime in the city' songs of the 80s with a Sax wailing away in the background to mellow piano/keyboard textures. Madness is a striking synth pop hit with a Glam styled theatrical vocal and Moroder-esque programmed keyboard lines crisscrossing in the background like a pie crust. Reverie is exactly the opposite as it puts you to sleep in a good way with it's spectral display of a sweet ARP synthesizer playing a note as it spirals and twirls like a lead instrument over some piano chords like a twilight ballet painting a magnificent landscape when its done. It continues into the equally transcendent glassy keyboard and pianos of Song for a Guy to end on the type of ELO/Yes/Renaissance styel of prog rock beyond the realms if a little out of place on this disco and RnB album.
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