― 57 7th (calstars), Tuesday, 28 September 2004 20:27 (nineteen years ago) link
The man hath not an ounce of talent in his entire being.
― Burr (Burr), Tuesday, 28 September 2004 23:27 (nineteen years ago) link
Guilty pleasure: "For the Longest Time," his Doo Wop number, mid-'80s?
― shookout (shookout), Tuesday, 28 September 2004 23:42 (nineteen years ago) link
Not as you define it, evidently.
― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Wednesday, 29 September 2004 00:31 (nineteen years ago) link
― Mr. Snrub, Wednesday, 29 September 2004 00:57 (nineteen years ago) link
http://www.thevillager.com/villager_12/billy.jpg
― Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Wednesday, 29 September 2004 02:41 (nineteen years ago) link
http://www.oakridgeboys.com/Media/Boys_Billy_Joel.jpeg
Look, all I'm saying is that some of you all's anger could probably be placed somewhere else.
― Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Wednesday, 29 September 2004 03:08 (nineteen years ago) link
Billy Joel - Oh, the squandered genius!
― o. nate (onate), Thursday, 1 December 2005 19:50 (eighteen years ago) link
― edd s hurt (ddduncan), Thursday, 1 December 2005 19:56 (eighteen years ago) link
― pdf (Phil Freeman), Thursday, 1 December 2005 20:15 (eighteen years ago) link
D: "We Didn't Start..."
― Eazy (Eazy), Thursday, 1 December 2005 20:39 (eighteen years ago) link
― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Thursday, 1 December 2005 20:46 (eighteen years ago) link
― o. nate (onate), Thursday, 1 December 2005 20:50 (eighteen years ago) link
― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Thursday, 1 December 2005 21:00 (eighteen years ago) link
(I did think that it was weird that she was talking about "twenty years ago".)
― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Thursday, 1 December 2005 21:01 (eighteen years ago) link
― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Thursday, 1 December 2005 21:06 (eighteen years ago) link
― o. nate (onate), Thursday, 1 December 2005 21:08 (eighteen years ago) link
― j blount (papa la bas), Thursday, 1 December 2005 21:13 (eighteen years ago) link
― k/l (Ken L), Thursday, 1 December 2005 21:14 (eighteen years ago) link
― j blount (papa la bas), Thursday, 1 December 2005 21:16 (eighteen years ago) link
― k/l (Ken L), Thursday, 1 December 2005 21:35 (eighteen years ago) link
Hi. Jody (not Beth) Rosen here. As it happens, no, I don't think Elvis is above the criticisms I level at Joel. He's even more pretentious in some respects, and even more of a promiscuous genre-hopping hack, particularly in the post-1980 phase of his career. I mainly invoked Costello in the piece in the context of my embarrassing high school epiphany, when the scales were lifted from my eyes and I realized how monstrously wack it was to worship Billy Joel.
I could go on for hours about Costello's problems -- biggest problem: despite his exalted reputation, his lyrics are pretty atrocious -- but I do think it's pretty inarguable that EC made AT LEAST four fantastic albums (I can think of eight that I love); AND he does have a certain toughness about him, at least on the early albums; AND he was an original, at least back in '77-'79. Whereas Joel has always been derivative and gauche.
Do love BJ's tunes, though -- esp. "Movin' Out." (Also, Billy's "Sometimes a Fantasy" is my third favorite Cars song.)
― Jody, Thursday, 1 December 2005 21:36 (eighteen years ago) link
― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Thursday, 1 December 2005 21:39 (eighteen years ago) link
― j blount (papa la bas), Thursday, 1 December 2005 21:42 (eighteen years ago) link
― o. nate (onate), Thursday, 1 December 2005 21:46 (eighteen years ago) link
I'd add this:
- My biggest problem with Costello's lyrics is that they're suffocatingly pseudo-poetical. The guy just can't say anything straight. (Notice that when he comes close to simplicity -- e.g., "I Want You" -- it's great.) The lyrics mostly worked on the first several albums, because they were just plain sharper, and more evocatively ambiguous. But they've gotten increasingly baroque and pretentious and just plain crap. Of course, on the best records the the lyrics don't really matter because his tunes are so great, and most importantly, because he has Bruce and Pete Thomas playing the shit out everything. Those guys are GODS.
― Jody, Thursday, 1 December 2005 21:56 (eighteen years ago) link
― o. nate (onate), Thursday, 1 December 2005 22:01 (eighteen years ago) link
― k/l (Ken L), Thursday, 1 December 2005 22:15 (eighteen years ago) link
― o. nate (onate), Thursday, 1 December 2005 22:25 (eighteen years ago) link
― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Thursday, 1 December 2005 22:32 (eighteen years ago) link
Which one?
― Edward Bax (EdBax), Friday, 2 December 2005 02:54 (eighteen years ago) link
― danielle the animal steel (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 17 January 2006 21:11 (eighteen years ago) link
― A Radio Picture (Rrrickey), Friday, 5 January 2007 01:43 (seventeen years ago) link
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― PappaWheelie MMCMXL (PappaWheelie 2), Friday, 5 January 2007 02:44 (seventeen years ago) link
― Pleasant Plains, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 16:56 (seventeen years ago) link
OLD ILM WAS WRONG: Part #1 in an ongoing series
― Dom Passantino, Monday, 25 June 2007 13:23 (sixteen years ago) link
lower bottom right = my dude
― sanskrit, Thursday, 12 July 2007 23:21 (sixteen years ago) link
the days of old, the days of fixed img
"and every time i've held a rose, it seems i only felt the thorns...and so it goeeees. and so it goes. and so will you soon, i suppose. but if my silence made you leave then that would be my worst mistake. so i will share this room with you, and you can have this heart to break."
― Tape Store, Thursday, 5 June 2008 05:19 (sixteen years ago) link
That fixed image is my proudest achievement on ILM.
― Pleasant Plains, Thursday, 5 June 2008 15:08 (sixteen years ago) link
my best song is Summer Highland Falls― Bill Joel, Monday, April 12, 2004 12:35 PM (4 years ago)
you are so so right
― Cocktor Dassantino (k3vin k.), Wednesday, 14 January 2009 22:41 (fifteen years ago) link
No love for "Allentown"?
― Tantrum The Cat, Thursday, 15 January 2009 01:06 (fifteen years ago) link
All about Piano Man.
― chap, Thursday, 15 January 2009 01:22 (fifteen years ago) link
my dad told me a story abt "S,HF" song when we were listening to turnstiles in the car. he said he saw an interview with BJ in which he (joel) kinda laughed at this song, saying something to the effect of "it shows how little i knew about songwriting at the time, with the lyrics being all melancholy and the piano being all peppy and upbeat." maybe it's just me but uh thats's part of why this song works!
― Cocktor Dassantino (k3vin k.), Thursday, 15 January 2009 02:06 (fifteen years ago) link
lol @ the pic btw
Piano Man is the ultimate wanna-be Bob Dylan song.
― thirdalternative, Thursday, 15 January 2009 05:07 (fifteen years ago) link
Jody Rosen and JBR are not the same person. I think that's mentioned in the FAQ somewhere.
― o. nate (onate), Friday, 2 December 2005 07:50 (3 years ago) Bookmark
loool
― Lemonade In Hammocks (electricsound), Thursday, 15 January 2009 05:25 (fifteen years ago) link
Search "Laura."Search "Allentown."
The rest depends on mood.
― billstevejim, Thursday, 15 January 2009 06:57 (fifteen years ago) link