Billy Joel C/D?

I think its pretty obv that the guy selling out stadiums more than 20 years after his last album is the outlier more than the hack who hit it rich for a couple years

(Btw nobody tell Richard I called him a hack its just shorthand I mean him no ill)

shit, croup, you just sealed your death sentence unless you can persuade Richard to meet you at a sports bar

That IS the death sentence

Richard's still having hits, for other people! Say too many bad things about him and he'll have Keith Urban hold your arms while he punches you.

wtf are we arguing about

"He's still getting checks behind the scenes in Nashville" soooo not making Richard more novel than billy in terms of MOR singer-songwriters

Oh I'm just pointing out the inconsistencies in rockist logic, quixotic i know

To be clear I'm not saying billy joel doesn't suck, I just like ideological clarity

you can't go the distance with too much resistance

Ha, I'm not even making an effort at clarity! You can have them all. Just saying that BJ plays his songs like he doesn't like them either is all. As opposed to the Eagles, who seemingly lack such self destructive self consciousness.

we're talking about Don Henley here

men get lost sometimes as years unfurl

If there is any self-loathing to Don Henley it's only because he hates everybody, and is duty bound by ego to include himself.

well, yeah

I find Joel difficult to have an all-encompassing opinion on. I grew up on him cos my dad grew up near where Joel did, and fed us his music. and some of the singles I still like a lot, though they tend to be his less ubiquitous hits, ie "Pressure", "Allentown"...and yeah I'm one of those dudes who likes "Goodnight Saigon" which somehow became the artcock's favorite Joel song over the years.

"For the Longest Time" rings the right chords as an a capella choir boy, "Uptown Girl" is plenty jaunty. but then I hear something like "Don't Ask Me Why" or "You May Be Right" and I'd rather be playing mini-golf.

Actually, I can think of a few artists better suited to mini golf.

They should build a Billy Joel themed mini golf course in Long Island. So much potential...

for the longest putt

y'all done yet?

http://i.imgur.com/nMKAeD1.gif

love 'don't ask me why', fantastic fake mccartney song

He even sings some really bad French on that album, just like McCartney.

'you may be right' is pretty good fake stones too

prob the rhyme of answers/chances

xxp

still wish we'd done a track-a-day joel thread

it took Sinatra decades to record a self-blowjob as horrendous as Piano Man, but of course he didn't write My Way.

go for it, bro

xpost

Sunny tells me the other day about how she and her mom were stopped at a light after "A Matter of Trust" was out. 13-year-old Sunny for some reason starts belting out the intro, "a-ONE, a-TWO, a-ONE-TWO-THREE-FOUR"

and on FOUR, her mom pulls away from the light into the intersection, even though the light was still red.

i think i could hang w/ joel, i could probably hang w/ frey but we'd have to talk about sports a lot. henley i don't think i could hang w/.

The fact that Joel represents Long Island and Springsteen represents Jersey is pretty much a perfect personification of my affection for Jersey and hatred of Long Island.

haha pplains that story is awesome. i remember my parents, uncles, etc being 'yeahhh- that's what i'm talking about' w/ that song and somehow making me think that joel had been a hard rocker when he first started having hits and this hard rocker was him getting back to that. not quite! no idea why i got that impression or why i thought 'a matter of trust' was a hard rocker, thing rocks like solo tom cochrane.

http://i.imgur.com/pqi1jnQ.jpg

"Come have a seat, Mr. Balls."

Man, Lou Reed looked cool in the 80s.

http://i.imgur.com/nmjSjao.jpg

"i'm a soul man"

solo tom cochrane rock (not as much as red rider admittedly), "TELL EM WE'RE SURVIVORRRRS" is closer to iggy than it is to james taylor

so disappointed to learn he doesn't really play guitar on that song

damn you to hell for that soto

i don't believe anything anymore

I know you're an emotional girl!

http://d3rm69wky8vagu.cloudfront.net/photos/large/10.204847.jpg

lol at bruce there 'why did they ask me to put my keys in a bowl???'

damn, al. take your henley shirt off while you're in here.

didn't know Paul Giamatti was bros with der Sting and Bruce.

paul giamatti, malcolm mcdowell, vinny testeverde

didn't know Paul Giamatti played Vader without the mask in ROTJ

^ winner

Oh come on. That's a freaking meme by this point.

Hey Billy! You're an ugly little man!

http://i.imgur.com/6XIHZDy.jpg

"Gosh. However will I recover?"

i don't follow fuckyeahemperorpalpajoel on the tumblr or whatever

Ha, all I've done is type in the words "Billy Joel" into Google and seen that pic a dozen times.