Ackley wrote:
I would say that Bruce Springsteen as a worthy challenger.
This^ guy or gal gets it.
The fake blue collar guy.
And the Sag Harbor Jew pretending to be a street savvy Italian .
They both suck (Ed).
Ackley wrote:
I would say that Bruce Springsteen as a worthy challenger.
This^ guy or gal gets it.
The fake blue collar guy.
And the Sag Harbor Jew pretending to be a street savvy Italian .
They both suck (Ed).
you who don't like BJ don't have a clue......Bruce, is awesome......but....I am an old dude...so bless you all , and we all have our favorites. I actually like "The Barenaked Ladies" and the Beatles......and I am still kicking some as** beating younger dudes running at 70! Cheers you young turds!
"William Martin "Billy" Joel is an American pianist, singer-songwriter, and composer. Since releasing his first hit song, "Piano Man", in 1973, Joel has become the sixth best-selling recording artist and the third best-selling solo artist in the United States. His compilation album Greatest Hits Vol. 1 & 2 is the third best-selling album in the United States by discs shipped. Joel had Top 40 hits in the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s, achieving 33 Top 40 hits in the United States, all of which he wrote himself. He is also a six-time Grammy Award winner who has been nominated for 23 Grammy Awards throughout his career."
"Now, according to the RIAA, Joel ranks as the sixth-best-selling musician of all time, with 82.5 million units sold. He sits behind only the Beatles, Garth Brooks, Elvis Presley, Led Zeppelin, and the Eagles, and ahead of such contemporaries as Michael Jackson, Elton John, and Bruce Springsteen."
Lame.
The instruments really shine on in "The Longest Time" -- reminds me of early Pink Floyd. You'd put Billy Joel ahead of Foreigner? That is high praise.
Look It Could wrote:
If you go back to the first Columbia album, much of Joel's acclaim was based on the fact that he could REALLY play piano and that he always had an excellent drummer, guitarist, and saxophonist. None of this was true of Barry Manilow. I mean, he's not my favorite guy and I don't put his music on very much (you hear him enough just living in the universe), but there are many many people more lame. Everything Foreigner, a supposedly respectable "rock band," did was lamer than Billy Joel.
Very True! His nursery rhyme lyrics, banal chord progressions, and annoying voice somehow became "music for the masses".
I can't understand how anybody with any sense of music can stomach his garbage. Listening to it is harder to do than watching an episode of "Friends" or "The Big Bang Theory".
BTW, listen to the lyrics of "Only the Good Die Young" and substitute any other race or religion for Catholicism and you'll agree that the song would never be heard on the radio and literally condemned by all.
Tire of this wrote:
Channel 30 on Sirius just replaced David Matthews -- a true mediocrity who does not have a single song I want to hear -- with the lamest rock stare of all time, Billy Joel.
Much as Kiss is a runway as the lamest rock group ever, Billy Joel wins the title as worst rock star ever with no real challengers.
Anyone dispute this?
Not even close.
Elton John. A b;lock ahead
Who covered Crocodile Rock FFS?
William Shatner does a better Rocket Man.
At least someone plays The Piano Man on a Friday night.
Even if you don't like Billy Joel (you're weird), there are a million more lame rock stars
Billy Joel sucks.
Sincerely, Piano_Man87.
Rush.
God.
I hate them.
No one is worse than Rush.
malmo wrote:
stateroftheoblivious wrote:
Fun fact: in Billy Joel's video for "The Piano Man" - Paul The Real Estate Novelist Who Never Had Time For A Wife was played by Tommy Lee Jones in only his 3rd gig.
Amazingly he looks 40 years old. at 2:45
Fun factoid of the day. Anyone else in the video that we shoud know?
Umm, yeah. The guy whom stateroftheoblivious claims is Tommy Lee Jones is actually Hunter S Thompson.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gxEPV4kolz0Erroneous! Erroneous on all counts. Billy Joel is a legend and is in the Hall of Fame. Anyone that had a super model for a wife is either a rock star or a professional athlete, and I don't see Billy Joel slinging touchdowns. The OP is lame and should go back to listening to his Taylor Swift albums in his parent's basement.
Definitely agree. I have always referred to Bruce Springsteen as the rock version of Jimmy Buffett. As a wise man once said, if Bruce Springsteen is the boss, then I QUIT.
Winner of thread wrote:
Ackley wrote:
I would say that Bruce Springsteen as a worthy challenger.
This^ guy or gal gets it.
The fake blue collar guy.
Everything and anything BJ ever recorded doesn't plumb the depths of lameness like this song does:
think this is largely uninformed and, well, wrong. he's pop and not rock....and you could argue that he's one of the better songwriters in recent history.
Donny Osmond- nice thread but now it's over.
Billy Joel is an all-time great musician due to his singer/songwriter abilities. The term "rock star" is a stretch, but he is a star.
If you think he's lame then I feel sorry for you.
Come on, we all know it is Nickelback.
Who killed RocknRoll wrote:
Come on, we all know it is Nickelback.
You beat me to it... latest stuff is especially unbearable
mine eyes don't lie wrote:
malmo wrote:
Fun factoid of the day. Anyone else in the video that we shoud know?
Umm, yeah. The guy whom stateroftheoblivious claims is Tommy Lee Jones is actually Hunter S Thompson.
Umm, no! That is definitely NOT HST. It's easy enough to verify - took 30 seconds. Tommy Lee Jones is credited as Paul the real estate novelist in the video.
malmo wrote:
mine eyes don't lie wrote:
Umm, yeah. The guy whom stateroftheoblivious claims is Tommy Lee Jones is actually Hunter S Thompson.
Umm, no! That is definitely NOT HST. It's easy enough to verify - took 30 seconds. Tommy Lee Jones is credited as Paul the real estate novelist in the video.
30 seconds? That's lame. Made ya look though.