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ok Im going to admit it: I love Billy Joel He has hits for days. Fuck it. Leave A Tender Moment Alone, Allentown, Laura, Just Th e Way You Are, Only The Good Die Young, Movin Out, Baby Grand, A Matter of trust, Tell her About it...
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I've always loved Billy Joel. If I'm not mistaken he like Prince recorded al of his voice overs himself. To Sir, with Love | |
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I used to like Billy in the 80's, but over time, I realized I just don't like him. I don't care for his voice, his music is just not interesting to me anymore. I don't think it ever really was except for An Innocent Man, which was just his quintessential 80's album. | |
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I like a handful from him: NY State of Mind, Vienna, Piano Man... always preferred Barry White's version of Just the Way You Are though...   I never met you, but I LOVE you & I will forever!! Thank you for being YOU - my little Princey, the best to EVER do it | |
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i used to like him alot now i just listen to him occasionally. | |
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My fave of Billy's....
 Music, sweet music, I wish I could caress and...kiss, kiss... | |
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52nd Street is still amazing to me, but since a dear friend of mine passed this year (who was as much a fan of Billy Joel as he was Frank Zappa), it's still too painful to listen to these beautiful songs for all the memories they conjure up. [Edited 8/12/09 2:51am] | |
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exenn said: 52nd Street is still amazing to me, but since a dear friend of mine passed this year (who was as much a fan of Billy Joel as he was Frank Zappa), it's still too painful to listen to these beautiful songs for all the memories they conjure up. [Edited 8/12/09 2:51am] 52nd Street, is my all time favorite Billy Joel, album. I play it at least once a week. "Love is like peeing in your pants, everyone sees it but only you feel its warmth" |
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Billy's the bomb. | |
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I don't understand why people feel the need to apologize for liking him.
To me, you should be apologetic if you don't like him. | |
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I'm not a big fan, but I like a number of his songs. This one is easily my favorite:
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I like him.
I was in a record store on a vinyl dig and bought GLASS HOUSES, THE STRANGER, PIANO MAN & 52ND STREET for $1.00 a piece. 
I was at his 10th MSG show a couple of years ago. It was a really good show!  "Love Hurts. Your lies, they cut me. Now your words don't mean a thing. I don't give a damn if you ever loved me..." -Cher, "Woman's World" | |
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Who doesn't love Billy Joel?  | |
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nd33 said: My fave of Billy's....
My favorite, too!
I also like this one... ... " I've got six things on my mind --you're no longer one of them." - Paddy McAloon, Prefab Sprout | |
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me too! She Don't Speak..But She Remembers | |
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Luv "Just the way you are" and "Leave a tender moment alone" 
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He gets a bad rap, but he is a real pro. Very talented guy, despite turning in some terrible stuff come the mid/late 80's.
He also comes across as pretty arrogant, despite much self deprecating comments. But hell yes he has a lot of good songs, great even. My Legacy
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xlr8r said: Ill play Radiohead later to cleanse
lol... I've had my moments when I swore off Billy Joel, sold his CDs, said he was garbage. But I came back. I couldn't resist - just has so many well written, great songs that are fun to blast. Like you said, hits for days. Don't forget I Go To Extremes, That's Not Her Style, Uptown Girl, You May Be Right, Italian Restaurant, the whole Nylon Curtain album. Stand at the crossroads, and look, and ask for the ancient paths...(Jeremiah 6:16) www.ancientfaithradio.com
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abigail05 said: I don't understand why people feel the need to apologize for liking him.
To me, you should be apologetic if you don't like him. I guess I was infleunced by many whove stated he was written of as sort of a hack which gacve off the vibe that it wasnt cool to enjoy hi smusic. Which is beynd me apologizing because I like what I likes even bland pap for what it is so I guess I was giving myself a 'cushion' in case I got the music snob vitriol. Which is again odd for em to do, so with that... Viva B Joel! 
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NOt a big JOel fan but I love this song
Did Prince ever deny he had sex with his sister? I believe not. So there U have it..
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xlr8r said: abigail05 said: I don't understand why people feel the need to apologize for liking him.
To me, you should be apologetic if you don't like him. I guess I was infleunced by many whove stated he was written of as sort of a hack which gacve off the vibe that it wasnt cool to enjoy hi smusic. Which is beynd me apologizing because I like what I likes even bland pap for what it is so I guess I was giving myself a 'cushion' in case I got the music snob vitriol. Which is again odd for em to do, so with that... Viva B Joel!
props to the tin pan alley/pop song style I've gotten that from some people too and I was like, you're free to like what you like I guess, but to call him a hack? really?? | |
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Billy to me had one of the greatest album runs with "The Stranger" "52nd Street" and then "Glass Houses" i mean hell if you throw in the next 2 "Nylon Curtain and An Innocent Man" i dont reall think anyone has had 5 top notch, and i mean top notch albums in that short of a period of time (and when i say TOP NOTCH, i mean you dont hit skip) other than him Elton John would be another to have that kind of run, IRONICALLY this was all going on early to mid 70's which was one of the most "talented" decades ever. Thats competition when u talk Billy Joel,Elton John,Stevie Wonder and tons of others that were all doing 1-2 albums a year "We went where our music was appreciated, and that was everywhere but the USA, we knew we had fans, but there is only so much of the world you can play at once" Magne F | |
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abigail05 said: I don't understand why people feel the need to apologize for liking him.
To me, you should be apologetic if you don't like him. 100% agree "We went where our music was appreciated, and that was everywhere but the USA, we knew we had fans, but there is only so much of the world you can play at once" Magne F | |
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Why apologize? He's the shit.  | |
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Timmy84 said: Why apologize? He's the shit.
Exactly, between him and Elton those two were considered POP back in that time along with Manilow and Neil Diamond and Paul Simon, that was the POP scene! "We went where our music was appreciated, and that was everywhere but the USA, we knew we had fans, but there is only so much of the world you can play at once" Magne F | |
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lastdecember said: Timmy84 said: Why apologize? He's the shit.
Exactly, between him and Elton those two were considered POP back in that time along with Manilow and Neil Diamond and Paul Simon, that was the POP scene!  They wrote some great songs, all of them.  | |
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lastdecember said: Billy to me had one of the greatest album runs with "The Stranger" "52nd Street" and then "Glass Houses" i mean hell if you throw in the next 2 "Nylon Curtain and An Innocent Man" i dont reall think anyone has had 5 top notch, and i mean top notch albums in that short of a period of time (and when i say TOP NOTCH, i mean you dont hit skip) other than him Elton John would be another to have that kind of run, IRONICALLY this was all going on early to mid 70's which was one of the most "talented" decades ever. Thats competition when u talk Billy Joel,Elton John,Stevie Wonder and tons of others that were all doing 1-2 albums a year
The thing is, even if U weren't totally into him, U still know the words to at least 5-10 of his songs just from hearing them around. When I went to the concert, I knew just about all of the songs he performed. If U had asked me, "Do U know ***?" I would have said "no" until he started playing them. Billy Joel is part of the soundtrack of our lives. "Love Hurts. Your lies, they cut me. Now your words don't mean a thing. I don't give a damn if you ever loved me..." -Cher, "Woman's World" | |
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The greatest hits of Billy Joel:
Piano Man New York State of Mind Just the Way You Are Movin' Out Only the Good Die Young My Life It's Still Rock & Roll to Me Don't Ask Me Why She's Got a Way Pressure Allentown Uptown Girl Keeping the Faith For the Longest Time (loved that doo-wop feel to it!) Tell Her About It (his tribute to Marvin Gaye/The Motown Sound )
A Matter of Trust We Didn't Start the Fire I Go to Extremes The River of Dreams ---- | |
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