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

And look: he loves ROD too!

I had no idea he stopped writing songs in his mid 40s.

I'd say thanks, but the damage is done.

I forget, which movie was Christie Brinkley in, Mr. Mom or Gung Ho?

https://i.imgur.com/aen03vh.jpg

vacation

saw billy's madison sq garden show tonite and hearing "pressure" and "say goodbye to hollywood" rendered live by this 69-year-old man who seems like he can hardly walk and who gave us a close-up shot of the hand he burned pretty badly by spilling coffee on it recently and who is prone to missing words here and there gave me serious chills. the good kind of chills.

on the other hand, my desire to never hear "piano man" again was reaffirmed. just watching him strap the harmonica around his neck gave me a mild panic attack.

on the other other hand, "and so it goes" was really nice.

so jealous

wow

roberta flack-ack-ack-ack-ack-ack

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Still loling

loling you softly

X post to the annoying co worker / disgusting savages thread;
“I don’t know anyone who doesn’t like BJ. Even if you don’t love him, you have to say he has a few good songs.”

He has roughly five good songs tbc

I know I'm an emotional girl.

Where's "NY State of Mind"? Sometimes I think that's his best song.

It wasn't a single!

Ah, fair enough.

The longest time?

Ah, yes. Corrected.

this is really good!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6e4UYUYFV3c

https://i.imgur.com/yDz5n0q.jpg

TROUBLE IN THE SEWEHS!

wow yeah, cool link fcc! for those who haven't clicked: don't mind all the radio-DJ trappings - it's a deep dive on the "We Didn't Start the Fire" mix, playing with the sliders to pull out all kinds of details somehow panini-pressed into that mix. super interesting imo.

For those geoblocked by YouTube:
https://soundcloud.com/theklossessions/billy-joel-we-didnt-start-the-fire
I dug into the series after that - some are amazing, check out "Once in a Lifetime" and "Killer Queen":
https://audioboom.com/channel/the-session-with-christian-james-hand

omg, the once in a lifetime episode is fantastic.

The "Panama" one was fantastic.

jfc, listen to bob costas defend billy joel with his very heart and soul in his interview with dave marsh, looooooool

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

it's a wide-ranging interview, but the billy joel bit is at the beginning.

actually, at the very beginning is...

the youtube comments, too

the whole thing with billy joel, his fans, and the critical perception of billy joel, and his fans reactions to that...i love all of it.

Billy Joel stiff?! You're joking...

habyss
habyss
3 years ago
I agree with him.

Brian Holt
Brian Holt
8 years ago
Dave Marsh sucks! He couldn't do what Billy Joel did ... He should retire his big mouth!

what's crazy is that bob costas argues that the critics dislike billy joel because he's too popular, and has had too much success. but if you watch part 1, which is mostly about Bruce Springsteen, Costas takes the exact OPPOSITE stance - that Bruce Springsteen is bad (in 1989) because he’s too popular now. it’s such a ridiculous hypocritical take, on both Costas, in both cases.

you know what. FUCK YOU BOB COSTAS

This Bob Costas hatred must be a Missouri expat thing.

If you think I'm ever going to take Dave Marsh's side in an argument, then you're going to have to see me LATER.
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WITH BOB COSTAS.

And you can not handle COSTAS

lol pplains

just seeing his name is pavlovian for me, regardless of whatever opinion he has (inevitably smug & wrong)
FUCK YOU BOB COSTAS

"You know, Ivan Pavlov put his name in the history books with a series of experiments on conditioning, that quite frankly and by his own admission, was completely accidental. However on the opposite side of the spectrum, it was hard work and determination that paid for greats like Lou Brock, Steve Carlton, and one William Martin Joel of Hicksville, Long Island..."

Ivan Pavlov

Nasser and Prokofiev

Bob didn't start the fiyah

oh man

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YT1ExN7ugxw

71 years young today!

https://i.imgur.com/opIcHLi.png

It's been a while since I've seen a keyboard player dancing like that while playing. Reminds me of my '80s youth. I have to wonder if he's actually playing anything though, or if the volume's all the way down on his keyboard.

Well, there IS that spider web keyb pattern so popular in the mid '80s; you can hear it on the original.

HWUNN
TWOOOO
HWUN TWOOOO THREE FAWWWH

otm

O mate, I think that's Dave Lebolt?

I'll be honest, I'd never heard of Dave Lebolt before, but I found another video of him playing with Joel so yeah, seems quite possible. I was just impressed he can hit the right keys while jumping around like that. I guess that's why he's a pro.

Henley singing "She's Got a Way" at the Kennedy Center Honors, listening thread singularity!

LIBERTY SPEAKS.

“I was the ‘angry old man,'” he tells Rolling Stone...

fun read, thanks!

and cool that they're on better terms now.

that is so great

<3

It turns out that he heard something that he thought was true, but wasn’t true. I never heard that, so I couldn’t have defended myself. It was one of those things. If it was true, it would have been cause for dismissal, definitely, but it wasn’t true.
Q: I imagine you don’t want to share what it was publicly.
A: No.

Cross-posted w/ election thread just for a giggle

From 538:

Another small batch of Pennsylvania ballots has been reported in Lehigh County (home of Allentown), and once again Biden is winning enough of them to possibly take the lead in the Keystone State.

Well we're waiting here in Allentown