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Billy Joel Turns 75 Today - What is Your Favorite Billy Joel Song?
Twitter ^ | May 9th, 2024 | Vanity

Posted on 05/09/2024 8:47:15 AM PDT by shadowlands1960

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To: shadowlands1960

Miami 2017 (Seen the lights go out on Broadway) and I Go To Extremes.


101 posted on 05/09/2024 9:58:23 AM PDT by Fair Paul
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To: shadowlands1960
Billy Joel - We Didn't Start The Fire
102 posted on 05/09/2024 9:59:27 AM PDT by Robert DeLong
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To: Fair Paul

I like “Modern Woman” because it was featured in “Ruthless People”.


103 posted on 05/09/2024 10:00:34 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: shadowlands1960

The Stranger


104 posted on 05/09/2024 10:02:55 AM PDT by Fish Speaker (Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? Oh, and, "Let's Go Brandon!")
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To: dfwgator

Very true, but I am ever hopeful there is more coming, and that it will be more a man and his piano ;)

Tatt


105 posted on 05/09/2024 10:05:35 AM PDT by thesearethetimes... (Had I brought Christ with me, the outcome would have been different. Dr.Eric Cunningham)
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To: Fish Speaker

I was just thinking of that one. It is a really good song that many people never heard.


106 posted on 05/09/2024 10:08:45 AM PDT by Revel
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To: shadowlands1960

Being a former Long Island guy I like almost all of his songs. New York state of mind might be my favorite.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3Ps8eUuwYs


107 posted on 05/09/2024 10:11:46 AM PDT by shoff (Vote Democrat it beats thinking!)
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To: shadowlands1960

Innocent Man
Piano Man
Uptown Girl
We Didn’t Start the Fire
…I gotta stop-there’s too many!


108 posted on 05/09/2024 10:13:27 AM PDT by telescope115 (I NEED MY SPACE!!! 🔭)
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To: shadowlands1960

Piano Man


109 posted on 05/09/2024 10:14:49 AM PDT by ducttape45 (Proverbs 14:34, "Righteousness exalteth a nation: but sin is a reproach to any people.")
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To: Ciaphas Cain

Also hi lullaby to his daughter “Goodnight My Angel”.


110 posted on 05/09/2024 10:16:33 AM PDT by telescope115 (I NEED MY SPACE!!! 🔭)
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To: shoff

Los Angelenos
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iuIvYrKsvnM


111 posted on 05/09/2024 10:17:30 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: shadowlands1960
My favorite use of a Billy Joel song was in 2000 when the Hillary for Senate campaign used a Billy Joel Greatest Hits CD for crowd music before she took the stage at for a stump speech.

Clinton was running late and the CD kept playing, until "Captain Jack" came on and it reminded everyone about Bill Clinton.

-PJ

112 posted on 05/09/2024 10:19:14 AM PDT by Political Junkie Too ( * LAAP = Left-wing Activist Agitprop Press (formerly known as the MSM))
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To: dfwgator
"Stiletto is a great song."

Yes, it is.

And, from the same album, "Zanzibar" and "Rosalinda's Eyes."

"52nd Street" was the only Billy Joel album I ever owned, and it was an 8-track tape.

113 posted on 05/09/2024 10:26:24 AM PDT by Tired of Taxes
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To: Tired of Taxes

“Until the Night” is a good song too, his tribute to The Righteous Brothers.


114 posted on 05/09/2024 10:27:57 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: shadowlands1960

It’s a tie for #1:

Goodnight Saigon

I’ve Loved These Days


115 posted on 05/09/2024 10:29:49 AM PDT by Tired of Taxes
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To: dfwgator
Joel often points to that one as an example of his worst lyric writing, a "I don't know what I was thinking" moment.

From a town known
As Wheeling, West Virginia
Rode a boy with a six-gun in his hand
And his daring life of crime
Made him a legend in his time
East and west of the Rio Grande
Joel eventually figured out that the Rio Grande flows mostly south at the United States border.

But it rhymed.

-PJ

116 posted on 05/09/2024 10:30:04 AM PDT by Political Junkie Too ( * LAAP = Left-wing Activist Agitprop Press (formerly known as the MSM))
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To: telescope115
I would also have said Innocent Man.

I think the composition of that song is brilliant.

-PJ

117 posted on 05/09/2024 10:32:02 AM PDT by Political Junkie Too ( * LAAP = Left-wing Activist Agitprop Press (formerly known as the MSM))
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To: Political Junkie Too
Joel eventually figured out that the Rio Grande flows mostly south at the United States border.

Any man left on the Rio Grande, is the King of the World, as far as I know.

(Oh wait, different band)

118 posted on 05/09/2024 10:32:51 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: GSWarrior

None. I hate the conceited little imp.


119 posted on 05/09/2024 10:33:40 AM PDT by nikos1121
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To: Political Junkie Too

He really knew how to tell a story with his music.

Even though his “Billy the Kid” was inaccurate, it’s another favorite.


120 posted on 05/09/2024 10:34:45 AM PDT by Tired of Taxes
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