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
it's a pretty complete thesis on "why u should lose yr virginity to me"
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 30 November 2014 06:46 (nine years ago) link
having been a non-catholic kid who went to catholic school and dated the girls there, that song was always otm to me as a teen
― you fuck one chud... (stevie), Sunday, 30 November 2014 07:42 (nine years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PqY6mXULzpw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_jKAksuhb2U
― Hellmann's All-Beef Bolognnaise (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 28 October 2015 16:06 (eight years ago) link
Worst part about that video was the part where there wasn't really a tantrum.
― pplains, Wednesday, 28 October 2015 17:46 (eight years ago) link
^^^
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 28 October 2015 17:53 (eight years ago) link
this thread sadly lacking in praise for "Close To The Borderline," perhaps the most perfect document of a certain 1980s i'm-an-angry-white-liberal-and-i'm-not-gonna-take-it-anymore stance on record. Styx "Rockin' The Paradise" also a contender. No one who has not studied both these songs can hope to understand what it was to be alive in the Reagan administration.
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Wednesday, 28 October 2015 19:17 (eight years ago) link
I said 1980s but I guess both those records were actually literally 1980?
the bag ladies throw their bones in your face, eephus.
― pplains, Wednesday, 28 October 2015 19:22 (eight years ago) link
("Dirty Laundry" could go on that list.)
― I know some Civil War re-enactors you might want to talk to (Eazy), Wednesday, 28 October 2015 19:22 (eight years ago) link
ooh good call
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Saturday, 31 October 2015 15:39 (eight years ago) link
One day, I'm going to feel Bowie while the rest of the world goes Frey.
But it's all right. We're all the same even though we're alone.
― pplains, Tuesday, 19 January 2016 01:42 (eight years ago) link
These tourists from France at the bar who prove their age with passports singing along to “uptown girl” classic or dudz
― calstars, Saturday, 13 October 2018 20:19 (five years ago) link
how's their tipping
― |Restore| |Restart| |Quit| (Doctor Casino), Saturday, 13 October 2018 20:23 (five years ago) link
"Only someone who's 21 would know this song that was released 15 years before their birth..." ?
― pplains, Saturday, 13 October 2018 21:25 (five years ago) link
right
― calstars, Saturday, 13 October 2018 21:58 (five years ago) link
Party Rock Anthem has the same bpm as Uptown Girl pic.twitter.com/vt7B1mQIqA— Stan Lewis (@StanLewis_) October 4, 2018
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Monday, 15 October 2018 21:54 (five years ago) link
which means by extension that "uptown girl" has the same bpm as "cruel angel's thesis"
what a time to be alive
― |Restore| |Restart| |Quit| (Doctor Casino), Monday, 15 October 2018 22:33 (five years ago) link
the inlay of the glass houses lp has a picture of the band. the drummer, liberty devitto, is wearing a watch on his ankle for some reason
http://bp0.blogger.com/_K5vOM2unmkw/Rf6HsBnY8oI/AAAAAAAAAPs/aH3mFvE4k_s/s1600/liberty+devitto.jpg
― Seany's too Dyche to mention (jim in vancouver), Tuesday, 15 October 2019 19:26 (four years ago) link
Just keepin' time.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 15 October 2019 19:26 (four years ago) link
glass houses is a pretty good album also. a bit front loaded though.
― Seany's too Dyche to mention (jim in vancouver), Tuesday, 15 October 2019 19:30 (four years ago) link
i really like the song "don't ask me why" which is like mccartney doing a brazilian influenced number
• Why would you wear it on your right ankle?
• Why would you wear it with the face facing out?
He just smiled and wouldn't say why.
― pplains, Tuesday, 15 October 2019 19:48 (four years ago) link
the original shoegazer
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 15 October 2019 19:49 (four years ago) link
Safety pins holding together clothes, Vaseline in the hair, flowerpots on the head, wristwatch on the ankle: time to get New Wave!
― bendy, Tuesday, 15 October 2019 20:34 (four years ago) link
are we sure he isn't wearing a shoe on his hand and doing a little yoga?
― fact checking cuz, Tuesday, 15 October 2019 21:29 (four years ago) link
Have you guys seen the thing on Instagram?
― Ferryboat Bill Jr. (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 9 February 2022 04:29 (two years ago) link
“thing” may need elaboration
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 9 February 2022 04:38 (two years ago) link
Not insta, but something to do w/this?: https://finesoutherngentlemen.com/products/my-life-ships-week-of-2-14
― Precious, Grace, Hill & Beard LTD. (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 9 February 2022 04:41 (two years ago) link
Sorry.https://www.instagram.com/rachellichtman/?hl=enVG always trying to get me to communicate more clearly.
― Ferryboat Bill Jr. (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 9 February 2022 05:32 (two years ago) link
https://www.instagram.com/tv/CY6i4PQqtEs/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link
DO U SEE?
― Ferryboat Bill Jr. (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 9 February 2022 05:36 (two years ago) link
That thing is some kind of insane earworm time warp time loop.
― Ferryboat Bill Jr. (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 9 February 2022 05:59 (two years ago) link