Posted on 12/07/2007 10:09:27 AM PST by RDTF
I caught “From A Distance” (Bette Midler) the other day on an all-”holiday” radio station. As I listened to it, something didn’t seem quite right. It turns out that Midler re-did it and released it as the Christmas Version last year. Here are part of her new lyrics:
From a distance
You, you look like my friend
Even though we are at war
From a distance
I just I cannot comprehend
What all this fighting’s for
From a distance
...
In the season of
Universal love
This is the song of every man
It seems she just doesn’t understand that our administration wants to save her sorry behind from wearing the “Universal Love” and the “Universal” uniform—the burka.
Is he talking about the soldiers of Islam?
“Typical New York liberal dimocrat”
You got that right. New York pusses like David Letterman were breaking down on TV in the days following 9-11-01 . . .
So Dubya gets after them hammer-and-tongs and as time goes by they revert to form: liberal wet-ends.
I don’t have any use for any of them.
In other words, if it was any good I would have kept it for myself.
I'd say The Stranger and Turnstiles are his best works, with Glass Houses and An Innocent Man not far behind.
This is a disgusting song. My nephew was in Fallujah last September to May. At first, he believed it was unwinnable..and something amazing happened. You’ve all read about it, but he lived it. He saw the change. The problem with this song is that it is no longer the case.
During WWII, this song would have been sung by Tokyo Rose. It’s terrible!
His music had more in common with MCartney and Randy Newman then EJ anyway.
I’ve seen the lights go out on Broadway
I watched the mighty skyline fall
The boats were waiting at the battery
The union went on strike
They never sailed at all
They sent a carrier out from Norfolk
And picked the Yankees up for free
They said that Queens could stay
And blew the Bronx away
And sank Manhattan out at sea
My favorite Billy Joel song (the version from ‘Songs In the Attic’)
They were playing that shortly after 9/11.
To think my wife and I requested to play “New York State of Mind” as a tribute to my Brother-in-law at my wedding 10/06/01 in honor of the 3 men killed in his squad NYPD Truck #2 on 9/11
Now I feel like the whole tribute has just been cheapened by an old fool that feels he needs to keep hip with the left wing crowd.
That’s what I was pointing out in an earlier post. The guy is now so brain-addled, and uniformed, that he has no clue what he’s talking about!
This is such sophomoric crap.
somehow I think that he thinks he is supporting the troops by doing something like this. He think it helps them to write a song about their pain out there on the battlefield. He probably thinks he is their voice. Most of the artists that do this crap are misguided. We here know that he dishing out much more harm than good, but he probably just doesn’t get it.
What's next, "The First Joel"?
Leni
ha!
You got it! If not for Jann Wenner of Rolling Stone mag fame this dude would be singing in Holiday Inn lounges. Who needs a Four Seasons imitator? Frankie Valli, by the way, has a new album out. I'll take Neil Diamond over this guy any day, and Marshall Crenshaw is really the unappreciated master of the pop rock genre..
Billy Joel will always get a pass from me I guess. He also did the “angry young man” song which excellently skewered the big mouths.
Looks like a list of cliches in search of an idea.
Pray for W and Our Victorious Troops
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