Anyone like Billy Joel? I wouldn't say I was a big fan of most of his stuff, from his early ballads like, Just the way you are and My Life.

 

Hated Uptown Girl (but still better than Westlife's version :lol: ).

 

Didn't mind "Tell her about it" and "Its still rock and roll to me"

 

but I did like this one, how many famous names and events were name dropped in this song

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UtUNPyo3anQ

 

We didn't start the fire

i was never impressed personally, he probably was pretty good if you like that sort of thing but he just wasnt my bag.

I like a few of his songs :

 

Movin' Out (Anthony's Song)

My Life

All For Leyna

It's Still Rock 'N' Roll To Me

 

er, that's about it...

Really really can't stand him or his music. He wouldn't know rock n roll if it came along and booted him in the nuts (which is about all he deserves)

Put it this way. I greatly preferred him to Elton John (at least he has never come up with anything as criminal as "Candle In The Wind"!, although he loses marks for allowing Feck$h!te to cover his biggest (& one of his worst) songs, after Paul McCartney famously persuaded Stevie Wonder to not allow the Irish Karaoke kings to cover "I Just Called ....")

 

He might have ripped off classical music to come up with some of his best melodies, but he made more than a few blue collar anthems & was a really good pianist. Even if his "McCartney trying to be Lennon" lyric act let him down at times.

 

But he always did great interviews, I remember in the mid 1980s he did a Radio 1 interview with Nicky Campbell & it was pretty obvious that he was drunk, but he was very, very candid on his opinions of very subjects & people so I soon went out and got his Greatest Hits Vol 1 & Vol 2 soon after a good 5 years before I bought an Elton John compilation.

 

Plus anyone that can pull Christine Brinkley = fair play to the Italian American.

 

Anyway my 5 favourite songs of his are:

 

Allentown (1982)

 

Piano Man (1974)

 

Say Goodbye To Hollywood (1976)

 

Theme From An Italian Restaurant (1977)

 

Honesty (1978)

An Innocent Man is his best album.

Watched The South Bank Show special on him last night, excellent programme, where he

talked about his career from his early beginnings to the present.

 

He did say that 'We Didn't Start The Fire' was his worst song.

He said 'Uptown Girl' was inspired by Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons.

He said 'Uptown Girl' was inspired by Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons.

 

 

yep, i can see that! its very 'walk like a man'... (4 seasons vers not divine or whatever covered it)