Rock of the Westies Rock of the Westies Rock of the Westies, released in October 1975, is the tenth studio album release for Elton John. As with "Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy", "Rock of the Westies" debuted on the US "Billboard" 200 chart at No. 1, the only two albums at that time to have done so. It was less successful in the artist's home territory of the UK, where it reached No. 5 on the UK Albums Chart. Robert Christgau ranked it as No. 7 on his list of the best albums of 1975. The title is a play on the
Fantastic Plastic (album) studio albums recorded by this incarnation of the band ("Shake Some Action", "Flamin' Groovies Now", and "Jumpin' in the Night"), along with the group's greatest hits album focused on that period "(Groovies' Greatest Grooves)". Fantastic Plastic (album) Fantastic Plastic is the ninth studio album by The Flamin' Groovies, released on September 22, 2017 and produced by Cyril Jordan and J. Jaffe. The album, the first new album from the Groovies since 1993, features the reunion of the Groovies most commercially successful lineup, the classic 1970s lineup of guitarists/vocalists Jordan and Chris Wilson and bassist George Alexander, who recorded three albums