― TB, Thursday, 17 April 2003 06:15 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Thursday, 17 April 2003 06:20 (twenty-one years ago) link
I think that's "Scenes from An Italian Restaurant" from The Stranger. But that's not why I'm responding to this. I think all Billy Joel songs should from here on be referred to as BJ songs. That's hilarious.
― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Thursday, 17 April 2003 06:25 (twenty-one years ago) link
I'm coming in late to this thread, and rading it in pieces, so forgive if my responses are out of order of importance.
Did he really say that? When? Because that's perfect. If he can sum himself up in such an astute way, my respect for him has just jumped three notches.
― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Thursday, 17 April 2003 06:28 (twenty-one years ago) link
He said it on Tuesday night's episode of American Idol, for which he provided the "music" (ie, they all just sang his songs). I thought it was a pretty honest self-assessment, actually. I still don't like him tho.
― Shakey Mo Collier, Thursday, 17 April 2003 15:18 (twenty-one years ago) link
I wouldn't be so sure about that. And as for that quote, it says nothing. I don't care if he's competent, for fuck's sake, I care if he (or anybody) does something that interests me, and he interests me only in the sense that I wouldn't mind browbeating him for all his albums-worth o' crap.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 17 April 2003 16:34 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Lord Custos Epsilon (Lord Custos Epsilon), Thursday, 17 April 2003 16:42 (twenty-one years ago) link
― hstencil, Thursday, 17 April 2003 16:44 (twenty-one years ago) link
And "Uptown Girl" has this Nazi-step march ham-fisted oppression that top none other. I had his greatest hits I & II when I was in 7th grade, but just because I learned to play "She's got a way" for this girl I had a crush on. He is a miserable sod, on top of everything. He must hate life. He has his few, few moments, but on the whole, the most abhorrent artist I can bring to mind. Sorry.
see: Elvis Costello
Anyone seen "Movin' Out" yet?
― david day (winslow), Thursday, 17 April 2003 16:46 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Lord Custos Epsilon (Lord Custos Epsilon), Thursday, 17 April 2003 16:48 (twenty-one years ago) link
WTF? Have you ever heard Elvis Costello?
― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Thursday, 17 April 2003 16:51 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 17 April 2003 16:51 (twenty-one years ago) link
Joel's addiction to WINE is also a bit sad. I mean, Christie won't even let him near the kids.
And that song "River Of Dreams"?
>quiver<
― david day (winslow), Thursday, 17 April 2003 16:52 (twenty-one years ago) link
― die9o (dhadis), Thursday, 17 April 2003 16:55 (twenty-one years ago) link
i've own all those "great" records he's made and really really tried to like him. really. i tried. i failed.
Maybe BJ can help me out here:
I must be looking for somethingSomething sacred I lostBut the river is wideAnd it's too hard to cross
indeed.
― david day (winslow), Thursday, 17 April 2003 16:55 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Lord Custos Epsilon (Lord Custos Epsilon), Thursday, 17 April 2003 16:56 (twenty-one years ago) link
I have a soft spot in my heart for "Pressure," "It's Still Rock n' Roll...," and the ultimate (wait for it)...
..."It's My Life." How can a guy who's song was used as the theme for "Bosom Buddies" be a dud?
― hstencil, Thursday, 17 April 2003 16:57 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Lord Custos Epsilon (Lord Custos Epsilon), Thursday, 17 April 2003 16:58 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Lord Custos Epsilon (Lord Custos Epsilon), Thursday, 17 April 2003 16:59 (twenty-one years ago) link
I wish I had it. W!nterb3rg has like two copies, the bastard.
― die9o (dhadis), Thursday, 17 April 2003 17:01 (twenty-one years ago) link
Ask Joey Scarbury.
hey d!390, we could always ask ol' W. if we could burn a copy...
― hstencil, Thursday, 17 April 2003 17:02 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Shakey Mo Collier, Thursday, 17 April 2003 17:07 (twenty-one years ago) link
― hstencil, Thursday, 17 April 2003 17:10 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Lord Custos Epsilon (Lord Custos Epsilon), Thursday, 17 April 2003 17:13 (twenty-one years ago) link
Agree 100%. Hate Costello w/ a passion. He makes my skin crawl.
― Mr. Diamond (diamond), Thursday, 17 April 2003 17:24 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Thursday, 17 April 2003 18:35 (twenty-one years ago) link
― matt riedl (veal), Thursday, 17 April 2003 19:19 (twenty-one years ago) link
― robin (robin), Thursday, 17 April 2003 19:24 (twenty-one years ago) link
― o. nate (onate), Thursday, 17 April 2003 19:28 (twenty-one years ago) link
― o. nate (onate), Thursday, 17 April 2003 19:30 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Amateurist (amateurist), Thursday, 17 April 2003 19:36 (twenty-one years ago) link
― o. nate (onate), Thursday, 17 April 2003 19:41 (twenty-one years ago) link
Naming your greatest hits collection, which was only ever released as a single package, Greatest Hits, Vols. 1 & 2 - Classic or Dud?
― Mr. Diamond (diamond), Thursday, 17 April 2003 19:42 (twenty-one years ago) link
Lonesome, lonesome men always inspire devotion, silly.
Mr.Diamond will be glad to know that since the first message of his that caught my attention was him posting several of his album covers in the smuggest covers ever thread, my mental image of him is Elvis Costello.
― Daniel_Rf (Daniel_Rf), Thursday, 17 April 2003 22:06 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Mr. Diamond (diamond), Thursday, 17 April 2003 22:10 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 17 April 2003 22:31 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Sean (Sean), Thursday, 17 April 2003 22:58 (twenty-one years ago) link
― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 17 April 2003 23:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
Until fairly recently, I took a pretty hard line against Billy Joel, but I have to admit that I like some of his songs. I also hate an awful lot of them, certainly more of them than I like. I find his persona a big problem much of the time. I don't trust him, and I'm certainly not interested in his advice. Most of his talen is wasted. "Just the Way You Are" and "Honesty" are two other songs I like. Maybe because I heard it shortly before I transformed into an adolescent music snob, but I think I wouldn't mind hearing 52nd Street occasionally, or at least maybe half of it. I wouldn't want to defend it, but I kind of like "She's Always a Woman."
But the songs that annoy me, annoy me overwhelmingly and unequivocally.
― Rockist Scientist, Thursday, 17 April 2003 23:32 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Rockist Scientist, Thursday, 17 April 2003 23:40 (twenty-one years ago) link
Good Billy Joel songs: "Allentown"
Good Cure songs: all of them except "Push", "A Thousand Hours", "Closedown", "Return" and "Mint Car"
― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 18 April 2003 00:07 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Mr. Diamond (diamond), Friday, 18 April 2003 00:15 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Amateurist (amateurist), Friday, 18 April 2003 01:56 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 18 April 2003 01:59 (twenty-one years ago) link
Anyway, yes, the song about the high school sweethearts is Scenes From An Italian Restaurant, which is a great song for the bizarre oopmah music middle bit about his sweet romantic teenage nights. The fast part is reminiscent of certain Ben Folds songs, take as you will.
The best Billy Joel song is Only The Good Die Young.
― Ally (mlescaut), Friday, 18 April 2003 02:47 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Lord Custos Epsilon (Lord Custos Epsilon), Friday, 18 April 2003 11:09 (twenty-one years ago) link
Strange but true!
― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 18 April 2003 12:18 (twenty-one years ago) link
See now, I consider this song to be full of threatening spite and anger. A perfect example of why Joel really rubs me the wrong way. On the surface is this snappin' beat, but closer examination reveals a real sinister meanness.
I mean look at these lyrics:
"The demon in your mind will rape you in your bed at night?""The moon is red and bleeding?""All the evil seem to live forever?""Only the good die young?"
waitaminit, that's iron maiden... here we go:
"don't let me wait""locked you away""Only the good die young""I run with a dangerous crowd""Only the good die young""You didn't count on me""they say there's a heaven""Some say it's better but I say it ain't""The sinners are much more fun""Don't let me wait"
I mean, it's this threat, really, couched in this kind of Greaser back-story vernacular. Liek West Side Story, on via some long-island wino. Like "Uptown Girl," which for me is the most henious of his songs.
Obviously, I have little bit of a complex with this. And I'm intentionally going over the top. But even "Always A Woman" makes me uncomfortable now, that stereotypically "fragile" song about women "changing their minds," gives me the chills just thinking about it.
― david day (winslow), Friday, 18 April 2003 14:23 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Amateurist (amateurist), Friday, 18 April 2003 15:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
missed the "Leonard Joel" / "Billy Coen" link JiC posted - thumbs up!
― Doctor Casino, Saturday, 8 August 2020 13:17 (three years ago) link
always nice to see a proud father giving away his daughter's hand in marriage
― balls, Monday, September 14, 2015 10:34 PM bookmarkflaglink
lol wait holy shit it really is. And I didn't even see the harmonica pic.
― on entre O.K. on sort K.O. (man alive), Monday, September 14, 2015 10:35 PM bookmarkflaglink
― balls,
and eating the rest of her
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, September 14, 2015 10:35 PM bookmarkflaglink
great billy joel performing cunnilingus, thx for that scenario soto
― balls, Monday, September 14, 2015 10:36 PM bookmarkflaglink
cunnilinguini at our Italian restaurant
― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Monday, September 14, 2015 10:37 PM bookmarkflaglink
― Neanderthal, Monday, 14 September 2020 05:16 (three years ago) link
Billy Joel Biopic ‘Piano Man’ Greenlit by Michael Jai White’s Jaigantic Studios
writer/director: adam ripp, son of artie ripp, the producer who signed young billy to an awful contract and then fucked up cold spring harbor
producer: a dude who believes "Billy Joel is the key figure on the Mount Rushmore of American Music.”
billy: "is not involved with this film project, and no rights in music, name/likeness or life story will be granted."
the hassles: are mentioned
i: assume this can't be any worse than rocketman or bohemian rhapsody?
― fact checking cuz, Wednesday, 9 March 2022 20:24 (two years ago) link
I didn't see either of those, but I will be seeing this.
― Les hommes de bonbons (cryptosicko), Wednesday, 9 March 2022 20:26 (two years ago) link
Also, finally a movie that should have been directed by Hal Needham.
― Les hommes de bonbons (cryptosicko), Wednesday, 9 March 2022 20:45 (two years ago) link
no rights in music, name/likeness or life story will be granted
All the characters are going to directly address the camera as "William" or "Mr. J.", and whenever the unseen protagonist sits down at the keyboard to play something, another character will run into the room to interrupt.
― Halfway there but for you, Wednesday, 9 March 2022 21:13 (two years ago) link
Billy Joel should have played himself, with or without digital de-aging
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 9 March 2022 22:08 (two years ago) link
they're gonna call him Captain Jack the entire film, with zero variation
― i read to 69 position (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 9 March 2022 22:11 (two years ago) link
Billie Jorp-Jomp, I believe
― assert (matttkkkk), Wednesday, 9 March 2022 22:13 (two years ago) link
They're going to put all his songs in the movie anyway, and then fight a legal battle that they do not formally count as "music".
― Halfway there but for you, Wednesday, 9 March 2022 22:13 (two years ago) link
so .....how is this going to work?
they're going to name him Jilly Bowl, and he's going to sing songs like "Maintaining the Belief", "For a Lot of Time", and "Shit That Happened at a Fazoli's"?
― i read to 69 position (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 9 March 2022 22:16 (two years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1QqMxXfaw0
― i read to 69 position (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 9 March 2022 22:22 (two years ago) link
This is going to be like "The Linda McCartney Story" where Wings plays "Kansas City" about a half a million times.
― pplains, Thursday, 10 March 2022 03:33 (two years ago) link
Starring new upstart singer Mikey Jim
― i read to 69 position (Neanderthal), Thursday, 10 March 2022 17:21 (two years ago) link
Exactly; skip all the music stuff and just write a movie about a Long Island neighborhood where some guy keeps crashing his car into people's houses.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Thursday, 10 March 2022 17:29 (two years ago) link
give me a call, I'm the insurance man
― i read to 69 position (Neanderthal), Thursday, 10 March 2022 17:31 (two years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eXISPB6c1pw
― MaresNest, Saturday, 11 November 2023 22:38 (six months ago) link
my mom and i don't agree on everything, but the woman just detests billy joel. that's how i know she's all right
― budo jeru, Sunday, 12 November 2023 02:24 (six months ago) link