Posted on 12/09/2010 12:42:36 PM PST by Tom Hawks
“Trouble in the Suez”...
Geez, Billy, we’re still having lots of trouble in the Suez Canal...
Vienna is my favorite.
I agree. I like the music and the historic premise, but as usual, it’s sort of a “it’s not OUR fault” whiny brat OT1H, and pro-lib anti-cons OTOH.
“Until the Night” is mine. Every song is great off of that album. “Zanzibar” reminds me of a Steely Dan song.
I haven’t heard Vienna in ages.
My only copy of The Stranger is on LP and I haven’t had a record player for decades. I guess I gotta head over to Napster now...
"Poison apples in the store", a reference to Alar,
but they took the apples out of the stores pretty quickly.
And then, just as quickly, China was under martial law.
They recorded the song as released it "before something else happens".
I believe that was Billy's tribute to "The Righteous Brothers."
What’s weird (at least I think) is I really like every song on the 52nd street album - except for 52nd Street track itself.
He had already lost part of his range by the late Eighties. On his tour of the Soviet Union, he had a backup singer sing the high notes on “Innocent Man” because he couldn’t hit them anymore.
That said, the live album he released from one of those concerts is one of the best live albums I’ve ever heard.
Yeah, his attempts to sing like a black guy (Everybody Has a Dream, as well), were pretty embarrassing.
They (Billy & Elton) came through Denver last summer, but I got the dates wrong! Was soooooo mad at myself!
my favorite Billy Joel song is Innocent Man... i love that song...
OMG, the wifey and me saw the duo in Cleveland. The place rocked for 3 and 1/2 hours straight. It was the greatest rock show I have ever seen!!! Will never forget it.
“I havent heard Vienna in ages.”
Haven’t you realized that it waits for you :-)?
Which was nothing more than a thinly veiled ripoff of REM's "It's the End of the World As We Know It" which came out a couple years prior (which by their own admission was heavily influenced by Dylan's "Subterranean Homesick Blues"). I despised (and still do) that song (BJ's) since day 1.
The song is on my regular playlists. I’ve used it as background to family photo shows from the era. It is like a boomer anthem.
21 years on, it could use updating.
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