IT'S BETTER THAN DRINKIN' ALONE: The Official ILM Track-by-Track BILLY JOEL Listening Thread

lol

i loled (whole thread is p good)

The man who works at Mister Cacciatore's down on Sullivan Street was arrested for selling bootleg Neil Young records and marijuana paraphernalia in 1977. He cut a deal and cooperated with authorities to bust a drug ring. The man was and will always be a rat.

— Jake Fogelnest (@jakefogelnest) May 30, 2022

Something tells me there's going to be some pretty sparkling fenders.

— Jon Wurster (@jonwurster) May 30, 2022

The fuck, mr cacciatores was an actual place?

I think it's a comedy riff on the song

Idgi

You oughta know by now!

well i thought it was funny :/

you should never argue with a crazy mind

Seems like a waste of time.

A heart attackmatttkkk

the diner I'm at is tuned into some Sirius station that basically plays one Billy Joel song for every one oldie. over lunch, i've heard Uptown Girl, Movin' Out, We Didn't Start the Fire, and Only the Good Die Young, alternated with Blue Moon, Walk Like a Man, Do You Love Me and Stand By Me. the burger was not great but i think i may return.

Is it... the Parkway Diner perchance?

HUWUNN
TWOOOO
HWUN TWOO THREEE FAWW

― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, November 8, 2017 1

lol

Squire's Diner in Lower Manhattan, sadly.

https://i.imgur.com/Ey9p5Un.jpg

Someone’s had enough of Billy and frankly I can’t blame them

i forgot to report that i went back to that diner the following week, and got almost the same lineup of songs. paying closer attention, i took them down in full, with Joel tracks in bold. quite a ratio!

Sherry, I Feel Good, Uptown Girl, Blue Moon, Don't Be Cruel, The Way You Do The Things You Do, We Didn't Start the Fire, A Hard Day's Night, Do You Love Me, Walk Like a Man, Get Ready, Stay, Only the Good Die Young, My Girl, (Sittin' On) The Dock of the Bay, Movin' Out.

during "We Didn't Start the Fire," someone in the next booth proclaimed "Billy Joel is really just dumb Bruce Springsteen." i refrained from enlightening them.

Sounds like a BJ Pandora station.

Mama Leone left a note on the door,
Said, "Sonny, move out to the country,"

Was this a THREAT? "Hey, Sonny. Get your ass to the sticks if you know what's what."

Who leaves a note like this?

xp Following the Bob Lefsetz thread, BJ Pandora station now sounds like an intergalactic whorehouse.

_Mama Leone left a note on the door,
Said, "Sonny, move out to the country,"_

Was this a THREAT? "Hey, Sonny. Get your ass to the sticks if you know what's what."

Who leaves a note like this?

I don't drink them, but I do make love to them.

I assumed Mama Leone's time to be similar to a grandma insisting you gotta eat some more, you're all skin and bones, you look at your brother Billy, he's big and strong, etc. etc.

Er, Mama Leone's TONE.

DON: Well, yeah.

she's warning him to stay away from the Long Island tollbooth

Gotta say, I do love every detail of the Sergeant O'Leary verse.

https://i.imgur.com/ghVT67H.jpg

"and that one lyric, 'You can pay Uncle Sam with the overtime,' haha, no one even comes close to you, Billy!"

"Well, that's nice of you to say, Mike..."

band class outcasts

dyin @ pplains

Lol

I mean, the whole idea that a second job makes up for what's withheld from your full-time job's paycheck...that's fitting a lot into a line!

pplains, think about when they sent Wallace out to the Eastern Shore--same deal

Wouldn't be the first time I've heard *crickets* on this thread.

https://i.imgur.com/pXrN9wY.jpg

NO THANKS

you'd 86 that monthly residency eh

Just think, if each show had represented a year of the 20th century, he'd be up to The Bridge by now.

lol

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dzi_0d240Uk

tickets are... $150-160 with fees. yeesh. i'd kinda get a kick out of going, but that's rough.

Heard 'Uptown Girl' in a DIY store yesterday.

D.I.Y.

You know I seen her with a hardware guy

I bet her plumber never told her why

I got a crowbar and I aim to pry

And when she knows what she wants from her toolboxes

She'll see my wrenches and hinges and padlockses*

She'll see I'm not so raw

Just because I have a saw

And I D.I.Y...

* = sorry

Wow!
So much better than the original

https://imgur.com/Wawj5V5

Aw crud, supposed to be the splendid headlight polishing gif

https://imgur.com/Wawj5V5

I got a crowbar and I aim to pry

We didn't buy the pliers

They were always turning

I mean, he’s not half-assing it!

Last night’s set list:
Miami 2017 (Seen the Lights Go Out on Broadway)
Pressure
Rule, Britannia! (Thomas Arne cover) (Instrumental in honor of Queen Elizabeth.)
Everybody Loves You Now
Vienna
Running on Ice (Extract)
The Entertainer
An Innocent Man (Intro tease of ‘I’m Too Sexy’)
Don't Ask Me Why
Root Beer Rag
Big Man on Mulberry Street
Movin' Out (Anthony's Song)
The Downeaster Alexa
New York State of Mind
Allentown
My Life (With “Ode to Joy” intro)
She's Always a Woman (Syd Ruggles, daughter of sound guy Brian, on stage to play the flute)
Sometimes a Fantasy
Only the Good Die Young
Your Song/The Bitch is Back/Goodbye Yellow Brick Road/Ruby Tuesday
The River of Dreams (with ‘Dancing in the Street’ interlude sung by Crystal Taliefero)
Nessun dorma (Giacomo Puccini cover) (Sung by Michael Delguidice)
Scenes From an Italian Restaurant
Piano Man

Encore:
We Didn't Start the Fire
Uptown Girl
It's Still Rock and Roll to Me (With “Be Bop a Lula” intro)
Big Shot
You May Be Right (With interlude of Rock And Roll Led Zeppelin sung by Michael Delguidice)

whole lotta Billy

omg i had no idea this existed:

We Didn't Start the Fire: The History Podcast

apologies if someone who did know posted it two years ago or something. but new to me, and they're still making new episodes. current episode: "heavy metal suicide"!

just... wow