Your childhood memories of each song were central to my enjoyment actually, because so much of my Billy Joel time derives from car drives with the two-volume Greatest Hits on cassette as a kid (along with the Red and Blue albums, but of course). On the chorus of Goodnight Saigon the tape actually wore out so you could hear Anthony's Song backwards.
― in twelve parts (lamonti), Wednesday, 21 February 2018 14:45 (six years ago) link
aww thanks. and wow that sounds amazing... all washed into the helicopter noise.
― Doctor Casino, Wednesday, 21 February 2018 15:18 (six years ago) link
i realize you said the chorus but I'm picturing the big helicopter sequence
in the wild: "keeping the faith" playing on fox & friends coming out of a commercial and leading into a mention of billy graham's death. (no, i am not a regular fox & friends watcher. i assume billy isn't either.)
― fact checking cuz, Thursday, 22 February 2018 10:04 (six years ago) link
On the chorus of Goodnight Saigon the tape actually wore out so you could hear Anthony's Song backwards.
As if Anthony thought he was getting out of the daily grind...and then got drafted!
― ... (Eazy), Thursday, 22 February 2018 17:05 (six years ago) link
Ha! Fuckin hate that Anto.
― in twelve parts (lamonti), Friday, 23 February 2018 11:57 (six years ago) link
One other conclusion from the BJ binge: he wrote a middle eight on every tune. Very disciplined.
― in twelve parts (lamonti), Friday, 23 February 2018 11:58 (six years ago) link
BILLY JOEL PLAYS “PIANO MAN” FOR THE FIRST TIME AT THE BAR HE BASED THE SONG ON
― fact checking cuz, Thursday, 1 March 2018 01:42 (six years ago) link
https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/billy-joel-plays-piano-man-for-the-first-time-at-the-bar-he-based-the-song-on
OLD MAN: Hold on, are you trying to say that I requested a song without giving you the name or melody? That I just expected you to guess, like a mind reader or something? That never happened, that’s slander! And who the hell calls it a tonic and gin?
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 2 March 2018 17:18 (six years ago) link
oops i didn’t fcc had already posted itsorry :(
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 2 March 2018 17:19 (six years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DYCaz5nWAAAW3X5?format=jpg&name=900x900
― zalstarz (calstars), Sunday, 11 March 2018 22:21 (six years ago) link
Feelin’ that A minor pentatonic
― zalstarz (calstars), Sunday, 11 March 2018 22:22 (six years ago) link
Truly any caption would work
― zalstarz (calstars), Sunday, 11 March 2018 22:23 (six years ago) link
Oh wait big B’s not actually playing any note at all there
― zalstarz (calstars), Sunday, 11 March 2018 22:25 (six years ago) link
Tony Soprano subs for Silvio Dante in the E Street Band
― startled macropod (MatthewK), Sunday, 11 March 2018 22:41 (six years ago) link
Billy has always been shameless so this photo shouldn’t shock me but it does anyway. Jilly Boel
― zalstarz (calstars), Sunday, 11 March 2018 23:01 (six years ago) link
in the wild: frankie valli and the four seasons in the supermarket tonight. spent out 10 seconds trying to place the song before i realized it was billy. "uptown girl," obvi.
― fact checking cuz, Wednesday, 21 March 2018 08:21 (six years ago) link
oh man now that i have my computer back online again it's high time i opened up the spreadsheet and unveiled another late-period billy jam!
― lol dis stance dunk (Doctor Casino), Wednesday, 21 March 2018 13:15 (six years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkmj6_hufko
All My Life, not to be confused with a somewhat better-known song with a similar title, was one of two non-album singles Billy issued in 2007. It was his first original composition to see the light of day since 1993 - and Phil Ramone was back at the console! Intended as a second-anniversary tribute to third wife Katie Lee (b. 1981), it was first released as a Valentine's Day exclusive through the website of People magazine. It then became an iTunes exclusive, and eventually got some kind of limited release as a CD-single (including in Japan, where it made it to #94 on the charts). There seems to have been a video (mostly in-studio footage), but the only versions I can find online look like they were taped off the air and then digitized at some pathetically low resolution, so I won't bother.
I can't recall ever hearing it before. It's... nice? Reminds me a little of the verse from "I've Loved These Days" filtered through the Sinatra/Bennett classicist-pop sensibility he'd been exploring in some of the other post-River releases.
https://img.discogs.com/cvpMDlCbPLArPAIl1YaulBKwvrI=/fit-in/500x500/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-4149460-1356921856-2201.jpeg.jpg
― lol dis stance dunk (Doctor Casino), Wednesday, 21 March 2018 13:29 (six years ago) link
i had no idea this song existed. decent sinatra/bennett/etc imitation, but kinda terrible song. the bridge starting at 2:15 showcases some of the worst singing he's ever committed to tape and is just ugh. and, wait, there are still more than 3 minutes to go in this song? excuse me while i get a glass of milk and a snack. i'll be right back.
― fact checking cuz, Wednesday, 21 March 2018 18:44 (six years ago) link
Sounds like a cut from a Julia Roberts soundtrack.
― Dangleballs and the Ballerina (cryptosicko), Thursday, 22 March 2018 03:16 (six years ago) link
Everyone needs to go online and search "Billy Joel 69" today.
https://i.imgur.com/TGnKfKj.jpg
It's his birthday!
― pplains, Wednesday, 9 May 2018 13:14 (six years ago) link
nice
― YouTube_-_funy_cats.flv (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Wednesday, 9 May 2018 13:42 (six years ago) link
Very good this and hella illuminating about all sorts
http://www.vulture.com/2018/07/billy-joel-in-conversation.html
― piscesx, Monday, 23 July 2018 19:16 (five years ago) link
wow yeah that is a v good interview
― Οὖτις, Monday, 23 July 2018 19:46 (five years ago) link
wait, did we know before this that rick rubin wanted to do an album with him?
i would love to hear that album!
― fact checking cuz, Monday, 23 July 2018 22:01 (five years ago) link
I think you can safely assume Rick Rubin has approached every single canonical old rocker and offered them the "Johnny Cash Treatment"
― Οὖτις, Monday, 23 July 2018 22:09 (five years ago) link
ha, fair point. i do not want to hear the billy joel johnny cash roots album. but i very much do want to hear the billy joel billy joel roots album. "miami 2018."
― fact checking cuz, Monday, 23 July 2018 22:34 (five years ago) link
Or Billy Joel's tribute to the great American songbook.
Somewhere Over the Rainbow
It's Too Darn Hot
Oh What a Beautiful Mornin'
Etc.
― nonsensei (Ye Mad Puffin), Monday, 23 July 2018 23:33 (five years ago) link
this is a great interview. billy getting yessed out!
― This is a total Jeff Porcaro. (Doctor Casino), Tuesday, 24 July 2018 01:47 (five years ago) link
"I’m looking at Axl like, Aren’t you interested in, you know, meeting these women? No, he just wanted to talk about “Captain Jack.”"
― This is a total Jeff Porcaro. (Doctor Casino), Tuesday, 24 July 2018 01:49 (five years ago) link
Axl plans to sit at home and maahstabate
― Vinnie, Tuesday, 24 July 2018 07:42 (five years ago) link
lol
― nonsensei (Ye Mad Puffin), Tuesday, 24 July 2018 10:38 (five years ago) link
And look: he loves ROD too!
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 24 July 2018 11:18 (five years ago) link
I had no idea he stopped writing songs in his mid 40s.
I'd say thanks, but the damage is done.
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 24 July 2018 11:20 (five years ago) link
I forget, which movie was Christie Brinkley in, Mr. Mom or Gung Ho?
https://i.imgur.com/aen03vh.jpg
― pplains, Thursday, 9 August 2018 21:14 (five years ago) link
vacation
― YouTube_-_funy_cats.flv (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Thursday, 9 August 2018 21:54 (five years ago) link
saw billy's madison sq garden show tonite and hearing "pressure" and "say goodbye to hollywood" rendered live by this 69-year-old man who seems like he can hardly walk and who gave us a close-up shot of the hand he burned pretty badly by spilling coffee on it recently and who is prone to missing words here and there gave me serious chills. the good kind of chills.
on the other hand, my desire to never hear "piano man" again was reaffirmed. just watching him strap the harmonica around his neck gave me a mild panic attack.
on the other other hand, "and so it goes" was really nice.
― fact checking cuz, Monday, 1 October 2018 06:18 (five years ago) link
so jealous
― pplains, Monday, 1 October 2018 18:19 (five years ago) link
wow
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 1 October 2018 18:49 (five years ago) link
roberta flack-ack-ack-ack-ack-ack
― fact checking cuz, Tuesday, August 29, 2017 7:24 PM (one year ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Still loling
― Οὖτις, Sunday, 28 October 2018 00:09 (five years ago) link
loling you softly
― pplains, Sunday, 28 October 2018 00:40 (five years ago) link
X post to the annoying co worker / disgusting savages thread;“I don’t know anyone who doesn’t like BJ. Even if you don’t love him, you have to say he has a few good songs.”
― calstars, Saturday, 17 November 2018 17:22 (five years ago) link
He has roughly five good songs tbc
― Οὖτις, Saturday, 17 November 2018 17:43 (five years ago) link
I know I'm an emotional girl.
― recriminations from the nitpicking woke (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 13 May 2019 01:27 (five years ago) link
Where's "NY State of Mind"? Sometimes I think that's his best song.
― o. nate, Monday, 13 May 2019 01:32 (five years ago) link
It wasn't a single!
― recriminations from the nitpicking woke (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 13 May 2019 01:33 (five years ago) link
Ah, fair enough.
― o. nate, Monday, 13 May 2019 01:33 (five years ago) link
The longest time?
― findom haddie (jim in vancouver), Monday, 13 May 2019 01:40 (five years ago) link
Ah, yes. Corrected.
― recriminations from the nitpicking woke (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 13 May 2019 01:51 (five years ago) link