Billy Joel Turns 75 Today - What is Your Favorite Billy Joel Song?

Twitter ^ | May 9th, 2024 | Vanity

[shadowlands1960]

Happy 75th birthday to Billy Joel! What songs are you listening to in celebration?

[HamiltonJay]

I enjoy most of his catalogue but I do find myself gravitate to his earlier stuff more than his later stuff… and yes a lot of the songs that weren’t hits are great

The entertainer is another one I enjoy though I know that did get some air play in it’s day, it too is not as well known

[dfwgator]

You can only so long in your career before you start repeating yourself, and Billy was very self-conscious about that, that’s why he stopped making original songs after The River Of Dreams.

Actually I find that refreshing. And why to this day he’s as popular as ever, he didn’t wear out his welcome.

[Blue Highway]

Yeah some of his lesser known songs are killer as well. Love the “Entertainer”.

[TBP]

Ye, I love that one.

[TBP]

He was doing a concert recently, and he spotted his ex-wife in the audience, so he dedicated a song to her. (It had been written for her anyway.)

[joethedrummer]

I’ll take the whole “Nylon Curtain” album.

And like others here have said - a LOT of the “Songs From the Attic” album. (Streetlife Serenader for one..)

[dfwgator]

He was doing a concert recently, and he spotted his ex-wife in the audience, so he dedicated a song to her. (It had been written for her anyway.)

Everybody Loves You Now?

[dfwgator]

I like “A Room Of Our Own”

[scott says]

Come Sail Away

[Albion Wilde]

To many to single out one.

She’s Always a Woman
The Longest Time
Uptown Girl
Piano Man
We Didn’t Start the Fire
Tell Her About It
Captain Jack
New York State of Mind
Rosalinda’s Eyes
The Entertainer
An Innocent Man
Honesty
Just the Way You Are
Laura

[CrimsonTidegirl]

Goodnight Saigon

Say Goodbye To Hollywood (Live version)

An Innocent Man

Until The Night

Honesty

Through The Long Night

Miami 2017

The Night Is Still Young

[Yardstick]

+1

[CaptainK]

Goodnight Saigon.
Pressure.
NY State of Mind.

[shadowlands1960]

I remember that... it was funny as hell. I thought “next they’ll be fixing and passing around the needle..’

[shadowlands1960]

I relate...

[Georgia Girl 2]

Yeh, I never could into his music either.

[TBP]

It was Uptown Girl.

[Fungi]

When I first heard “Only the good die young” I was shocked by the lyrics. It is sacrilegious but I do like the song for some reason. There are a few words he merely mumbles in the song.

[married21]

“Only the Good Die Young”?

Sigh. As a young Catholic girl I found it offensive, appalling. I wondered what Catholics ever did to him for him to write a song like that. I did not know that there were many men who had no respect for chastity, for waiting for marriage, and ridiculed it. Billy Joel is talented but there is a part of him that is callous, insensitive to those who strive for Godliness. Maybe he did me a favor to wise me up and prepare me for the long slog toward meeting my husband. But as a kid it was a sock in the stomach when it came on the radio.

[Jamestown1630]

New York State of Mind.