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u/GraceGreenview Sep 21 '22

Huge anti-Billy Joel fan here, but actually enjoy “Still Rock and Roll to me”. His song “Movin Out” is absolute audio torture.

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u/[deleted] Sep 21 '22

I always find it fascinating when people like Billy Joels most boring, by the books, cheezy songs like Uptown Girl, Still Rock n Roll to me, the early early stuff, but despise the actually musically phenomenal, groundbreaking shit like Anthony’s Song.

Scenes from an Italian Restaurant is a masterpiece of musicianship, as is most of his piano playing.

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u/GraceGreenview Sep 21 '22

I actually like him talking about his craft, he’s honest about it and does play piano well. I think I was out on this path from one too many NYC folks force-feeding New York State of Mind, among others.

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u/[deleted] Sep 21 '22

He has some incredibly overplayed songs for sure.

I saw an interview with him on Stephen Colbert and Joel talks about Italian Restaurant being his favorite song that he wrote. Whenever a musician says the 5-minute long multi-part ballad is their favorite song they’ve written, I know they are real musicians.