Name a bad Billy Joel song

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I fucking love Billy but he's had plenty of bad songs.

>Falling of The Rain
>Los Angelenos
>Weekend Song
>Don't Ask Me Why
> most of The Bridge
>We Didn't Start The Fire
>When In Rome
>The Great Wall of China

>> We Didn't Start the Fire

>>Don't Ask Me Why

What is it like being retarded?

What's it like choosing to like the worst song on Glass Houses.

Don't pretend you haven't heard that before.

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>I fucking love Billy but he's had plenty of bad songs
Yeah, that's tru-
>Don't Ask me Why
Fuck off

>We Didn't Start The Fire
>The Great Wall of China
>Don't Ask Me Why

what the fuck
He has bad songs but not those three

[spoiler]fucking newfag[/spoiler]

Well let's see your 'bad Billy Joel' songs, matey.
Show us your taste.

The Stranger is a top 10 album of the 70's. Not one bad song.

Haven't heard them all yet, but I've been going in order recently.

The Nylon Curtain was the last one I heard, and it fuckin' sucked. Only songs worth keeping were the last two and maybe Laura.

Want a challenge that's actually difficult?

Name a good Billy Joel song

Well that's just wrong. Pressure is a top-Billy song.

>The Nylon Curtain
>fuckin' sucked

Holy fuck this is the worst opinion I have ever read on Sup Forums.
And I'm reading a thread about Never Let Me Down being David Bowie's best work so that's saying something.

Pretty much all of the other songs on that list. I wouldn't say Billy Joel necessarily has a lot of bad songs, just a lot of forgettable ones.
>shitting on his best album

post your top 5 Billy Joel songs

1. Vienna
2. Allentown
3. Matter of Trust
4. All About Soul
5. Scenes From an Italian Restaurant

>Pretty much all of the other songs on that list.
Oh...well alright then.
I'm cool with you.

And hey we agree on the best album so that's also nice.

Holy fuck do you *actually* think that's his best album?!?

1. Where's the Orchestra
2. Zanzibar
3. Lullabye (Goodnight, My Angel)
4. Leave A Tender Moment Alone
5. And So It Goes

It's pretty easy to. One of his strongest musically and lyrically. And the darker/sadder themes worked well for it.

It's even Billy's favorite.
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Yup. Side 2 is a little weak, but it has more of a personality than any other Joel album. Only song I sometimes skip is Goodnight Saigon. It isn't bad, but it breaks up the flow of the album for me.
Allentown, Laura, Pressure, and Where's the Orchestra are all fantastic songs

>that was the gayest video
kek I love this man. He's one of the first artists I really got into and most of his music still holds up. Nylon Curtain is so underappreciated

Rank his albums, Sup Forums.

He was my first concert last summer and he was fantastic.
One of my favorite bits from the live performance:
>He finished playing 'Just The Way You Are'
>"And then we got divorced!"

Nylon Curtain > Stranger > Piano Man > Glass Houses > Innocent Man > 52nd Street > River of Dreams > Storm Front > Cold Spring Harbor > Turnstiles > Streetlife Srenade > The Bridge

Last two are the only ones I never really go back to

and yeah, he's amazing live. He was my first real concert in 2016. Such an energetic and lively personality

Holy god damn this flabbergasts me to hear that from him. I really don't hear the "so much going on in this record; it's very, very rich" on most of the record.

Allentown & A Room of Our Own are the definition of filler to me! She's Right On Time is so rousing, but the verses really fall flat in trying to match the quality of the chorus. Goodnight Saigon is affecting and all, but my god...after hearing it once, I can't see how you'd want to hear it again. Quite the trodding 7 minutes!

Pressure's synth hook sounds to children's-Halloween-compilation and so annoys the crap out of me. At least the keys for the bridge were cool?
Surprises is just passable, but with nothing memorable about it.

It's so weird, cause those last two tracks are *so* fucking good. That Beatles stomp part in the verses on "Scandinavian Skies" paired with the vocal melody he does & those strings... delicious.

Are there b-sides from this period? I would love a chance to swap out Allentown, Pressure, Goodnight Saigon, and A Room of Our Own to make a release I like better :/

So far,
The Stranger > 52nd Street > Turnstiles > Streetlife Serenade > Piano Man ≥ Songs in the Attic (Live) > Glass Houses > Cold Spring Harbor > The Nylon Curtain

The only B Side from the era I can think of was Elvis Presley BLVD. Wasn’t that big of a fan of it.

I can see where you're coming from with most of your points, but I feel there's more of a unity to Nylon Curtain than any other Joel record. I have no idea how you think Allentown is filler though. It's a fantastic opening and sets the overarching theme of the album into motion (The hopelessness children growing up post-WWII had to look forward to) and in a strangely fun way.

1. Sleeping With the Television On
2. All For Leyna
3. Zanzibar
4. Scenes from an Italian Restaurant
5. Goodnight Saigon

Well thanks for understanding, haha.
I need to pay more attention to lyrics. They are always my last-noted part to a song – I can love a track with terrible lyrics if the melodies are good or the instrumentation is good. So I remember not being particularly stricken by the instrumentation on that one, but I should know better with an artist like Billy that the lyrics are worth getting to know :P

So I'll try and pay more attention to the lyrics as I go through TNC again soon.

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Just did as I heard Allentown again – definitely improved for me substantially! I can appreciate how it sounds happy-go-lucky, whereas he's describing the down-on-our-luck life all around America. So I was obviously missing the cream of that Oreo, lol

So thank you much, user! I'll cruise through the rest of the album again now with better spirits going in! :)

Checked it out now; definitely not a necessary tune :p

>all these We Didn’t Start the Fire defenders

It’s universally considered a bad song.

No problem user. Allentown is a definite top 5 Joel track for me. There are certainly a couple skippable tracks and a couple that won't be for everyone, but like I said, I just really appreciate the concept of the album as a whole.

It's a novelty song for sure, but it's not bad.