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
― A Radio Picture (Rrrickey), Friday, 5 January 2007 01:44 (seventeen years ago) link
― 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 (seventeen years ago) link
lower bottom right = my dude
― sanskrit, Thursday, 12 July 2007 23:21 (seventeen 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
S: Glass Houses
― Nhex, Thursday, 15 January 2009 07:28 (fifteen years ago) link
oh yeah.. Search the "Pressure" video
― billstevejim, Thursday, 15 January 2009 17:07 (fifteen years ago) link
Pressure's a good song as well. As is Movin' Out.
― chap, Thursday, 15 January 2009 17:11 (fifteen years ago) link
"Vienna" for sure:
― Eazy, Thursday, 15 January 2009 17:15 (fifteen years ago) link
I always have time for "Big Shot" and his other "Italian" sounds.
― u s steel, Friday, 16 January 2009 00:45 (fifteen years ago) link
"The Stranger" is an amazing album. Other than that, at least until the mid 80s, he would come up with great single songs. "The Nylon Curtain" contains a couple of often overlooked gems in "Goodnight Saigon" and "Allentown". Both excellent. And "An Innocent Man" holds up as a great collection of 50s/60s pop pastiches.
From the mid 80s onwards, everything except "The River Of Dreams" may as well be destroyed.
― Geir Hongro, Friday, 16 January 2009 00:47 (fifteen years ago) link
S: 1. Cover of Leonard Cohen's "Light As The Breeze" - better arrangement than the original. 2. Unabashedly Brill-Building songwriting on "The Stranger".D: "We Didn't Start..."
― Eazy (Eazy), Thursday, December 1, 2005 8:39 PM (3 years ago)
Oh, and thanks YouTube, here's that cover:
― Eazy, Friday, 16 January 2009 00:55 (fifteen years ago) link
I wouldn't give half a shit personally for anything he's done but I kinda respect his unabashed-tin-pan-alleyness in the era of rock "authenticity". Despite his being, apparently, a total dick. Nonetheless, also, props for "The Longest Time" charting, the first acapella song to have done so since (when? The Fifties?) and none since, I don't think (unless there's some boyband I dunno about that did it circa 1999, bells are ringing)
DESTROY: (tho it's such a big destroy, such an awful, insufferable cornball piece of half-baked overstuffed meringue-dressed-as-steak that it might count as a Search): that Vietnam song he did. Makes "Scandinavian Skies" look like "The Bird's The Word." "We smoked our hash pipes! And played our Doors tapes!" Yeah, Billy, I saw that movie too.
― staggerlee, Friday, 16 January 2009 02:13 (fifteen years ago) link
Nonetheless, also, props for "The Longest Time" charting, the first acapella song to have done so since (when? The Fifties?) and none since, I don't think (unless there's some boyband I dunno about that did it circa 1999, bells are ringing)
"Don't Worry Be Happy"?
― Mr. Snrub, Friday, 16 January 2009 02:27 (fifteen years ago) link
dwbh is acapella, longest time is not
― Lemonade In Hammocks (electricsound), Friday, 16 January 2009 02:31 (fifteen years ago) link
I fail.
And so does Billy.
― staggerlee, Friday, 16 January 2009 05:02 (fifteen years ago) link
I seem to remember a decent proportion of a BJ thread somewhere devoted to brilliance of Rosalinda's Eyes. The drum fade out with the verbed our woodblock sound is aces.
Here's a crappy YT home made vid.
― MaresNest, Friday, 16 January 2009 12:14 (fifteen years ago) link
I find him totally inoffensive. Nobody really hates Billy Joel, it's just that some people have three CDs in their house and they are all Billy Joel. I mean, please.
― US EEL (u s steel), Tuesday, 15 December 2009 14:40 (fourteen years ago) link
He did some good new wave and I noticed it meshes well with the other new wave I have.
― US EEL (u s steel), Tuesday, 15 December 2009 14:41 (fourteen years ago) link
I recently took part in an exercise class in which 'we didn't start the fire' was played.
have you ever done burpees to the words 'chubby checker! psycho! belgians in the congo!'? it's most unsettling.
― m the g, Tuesday, 15 December 2009 14:48 (fourteen years ago) link
That sounds like a blast!!
― US EEL (u s steel), Tuesday, 15 December 2009 14:50 (fourteen years ago) link
it was preferable to the usual euro-trance mixes of taylor swift, but not by much.
― m the g, Tuesday, 15 December 2009 14:56 (fourteen years ago) link
nylon curtain is my jam
― I don't think this is funny..Much Clown Love Ya'll! (stevie), Tuesday, 15 December 2009 16:21 (fourteen years ago) link
Sounds about right.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 22 October 2010 19:58 (thirteen years ago) link
Not quite as pithy as Liberace's "I cried all the way to the bank". Also when did Billy Joel start looking like Bruce Willis in '12 Monkeys'?
― Les centimètres énigmatiques (snoball), Friday, 22 October 2010 21:12 (thirteen years ago) link
Billy Joel never takes no shit from nobody.
― http://tinyurl.com/whitepony (Pleasant Plains), Friday, 22 October 2010 21:15 (thirteen years ago) link
Also when did Billy Joel start looking like Bruce Willis in '12 Monkeys'?
um... 1990?
― O'Donnell and the Brain (HI DERE), Friday, 22 October 2010 21:21 (thirteen years ago) link
haha, billy joel, you miserable bastard.
― tylerw, Friday, 22 October 2010 21:26 (thirteen years ago) link
"Big Shit"
― Les centimètres énigmatiques (snoball), Friday, 22 October 2010 21:37 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T7lgXbn3i8s
@ 1:35
― http://tinyurl.com/whitepony (Pleasant Plains), Friday, 22 October 2010 21:43 (thirteen years ago) link
In Soviet Union, piano turns YOU over!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PqY6mXULzpw&feature=player_embedded
― Son of Sisyphus of Reaganing (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Wednesday, 24 November 2010 22:23 (thirteen years ago) link
If Mamet writes a play about the fact that no one is honest, then critics would fall over themselves to applaud its deep and searching insight, but if Joel writes a song about it, everyone dismisses it as hackery.
I've been listening to 'Honesty' over and over, and can't decide if it's genius or dreadful. It's one of those songs where how I feel about it really depends on my mood. Not hackery though.
― just like Nietzsche but with jokes (snoball), Saturday, 29 November 2014 23:02 (nine years ago) link
Any Billy Joel song is okay so long as we see it as sung by some character in a larger drama (if you can already do that as a listener to any pop singer already, more power to you). "Honesty" for example I wouldn't believe for a second coming from an actual person - talk about protesting too much! - but it would be best sung by some character that we as an audience would know was really dishonest or at least morally compromised, and it would therefore make for a profound moment.
― Vic Perry, Sunday, 30 November 2014 05:20 (nine years ago) link
I sang & danced to Only The Good Die Young in the privacy of my kitchen last night :)
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 30 November 2014 06:24 (nine years ago) link
<3
― estela, Sunday, 30 November 2014 06:26 (nine years ago) link
I just remembered hearing that one on a dedicated NYC express bus bringing me from my high school to my borough of residence and it was kind of an awesome moment
― ILB Traven (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 30 November 2014 06:35 (nine years ago) link