Search And Destroy: Billy Joel

Also when did Billy Joel start looking like Bruce Willis in '12 Monkeys'?

um... 1990?

haha, billy joel, you miserable bastard.

"Big Shit"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T7lgXbn3i8s

@ 1:35

In Soviet Union, piano turns YOU over!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PqY6mXULzpw&feature=player_embedded

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.

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.

I sang & danced to Only The Good Die Young in the privacy of my kitchen last night :)

<3

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

it's a pretty complete thesis on "why u should lose yr virginity to me"

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PqY6mXULzpw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_jKAksuhb2U

Worst part about that video was the part where there wasn't really a tantrum.

^^^

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.

I said 1980s but I guess both those records were actually literally 1980?

the bag ladies throw their bones in your face, eephus.

("Dirty Laundry" could go on that list.)

ooh good call

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.

These tourists from France at the bar who prove their age with passports singing along to “uptown girl” classic or dudz

how's their tipping

"Only someone who's 21 would know this song that was released 15 years before their birth..." ?

right

Party Rock Anthem has the same bpm as Uptown Girl pic.twitter.com/vt7B1mQIqA

— Stan Lewis (@StanLewis_) October 4, 2018

which means by extension that "uptown girl" has the same bpm as "cruel angel's thesis"

what a time to be alive

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

Just keepin' time.

glass houses is a pretty good album also. a bit front loaded though.

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.

the original shoegazer

Safety pins holding together clothes, Vaseline in the hair, flowerpots on the head, wristwatch on the ankle: time to get New Wave!

are we sure he isn't wearing a shoe on his hand and doing a little yoga?

Have you guys seen the thing on Instagram?

“thing” may need elaboration

Not insta, but something to do w/this?: https://finesoutherngentlemen.com/products/my-life-ships-week-of-2-14

Sorry.
https://www.instagram.com/rachellichtman/?hl=en
VG always trying to get me to communicate more clearly.

https://www.instagram.com/tv/CY6i4PQqtEs/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

DO U SEE?

That thing is some kind of insane earworm time warp time loop.

Ha that is excellent

DEE DEE: No, he isn't in the office yet... I'll give him your message.... Thank you.

BILLY suddenly appears through the door

BILLY: Holy cow, traffic was horrible! Anyone trying to buy the Brooklyn Bridge – it's definitely a seller's market!

DEE DEE: Billy...

BILLY: Not now, Dee Dee! I know I'm already late. Just make sure Big Ol' Bartlesworth doesn't know I was late!

DEE DEE: Billy...!

BILLY: What now?

MR. BARTLESWORTH: William? In my office. NOW!

BILLY: I admit, I told the client, "go ahead with your own life, leave me alone"!

MR. BARTLESWORTH: You had to be a big shot, dincha?!?

Loool!

Trying to think of alternate casting for Mr. Bartlesworth but it’s too perfect.

Totally forgot about Calucci’s Department.

I believe it is actually Mr. Balesworth.

Anyway came to say one of the things that really makes it for me is the harmonica near the end.