The older I get, the less I like Billy Joel. Most of his hits are condescending at best. Once I really listened to the words to Only the Good Die Young, I realized that he was a turd.
Somebody with more time and academic funding than I needs to do an expose on all the famous 'singer-songwriters' of the early 1970's and see exactly how they all avoided Vietnam.
Never owned any Billy Joel albums but I've seen him twice in concerts. The concerts were both fantastic.
I can't stand Only the Good Die Your or Uptown Girl - yet I know all the words to both songs. Downeaster Alexa is a song I will always look for on a jukebox.
bonus CD from a box set many years ago contained tracks fro mthe school lectures he did with a version of this song - the whole disc is worth finding.
ReplyDeleteThe older I get, the less I like Billy Joel. Most of his hits are condescending at best. Once I really listened to the words to Only the Good Die Young, I realized that he was a turd.
ReplyDeleteSomebody with more time and academic funding than I needs to do an expose on all the famous 'singer-songwriters' of the early 1970's and see exactly how they all avoided Vietnam.
DeleteNever owned any Billy Joel albums but I've seen him twice in concerts. The concerts were both fantastic.
ReplyDeleteI can't stand Only the Good Die Your or Uptown Girl - yet I know all the words to both songs. Downeaster Alexa is a song I will always look for on a jukebox.
Billy Joel is a paradox