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Friday, May 20, 2011

If You Didn't Like Billy Joel Before...

You will after you listen to these awesome live recordings!!! By request, here are couple of the numbers from his album Songs In The Attic, which I recently bought!

Captain Jack- play it loud and hear the crowd surge with the music. It'll make the hairs stand up on the back of your neck!

Say Goodbye To Hollywood- I fell in love with this recording of the song the moment I heard it. Fantastic backing harmonies in the chorus, it's so lively and happy!

  
Miami 2017- Super awesome, post-apocalyptic-themed song! Has some scary resonances with the 9/11 attacks, since it was written 30 years before. Billy sang it as a tribute to the victims at the Concert for NYC.

Those are the three awesome songs from the album. The rest are pretty good too!! Here are a couple more I'll throw in because they're cool and I've also just learned how to embed youtube videos! 

The Stranger- Definitely one of his most underrated songs, this one is awesome and comes from (probably) his best album, of the same name!

 
Stiletto- Another great underrated song, from the awesomely cool jazzy album 52nd Street. 

So there you go- some great Billy Joel songs! But believe me, there are plenty more where that came from. If you can listen to all of them and tell me you don't like him, then you're a brave person indeed!

Q.E.D. 

2 comments:

  1. Awww... you shouldn't have, but I'm glad you did,it was an awesome trip down memory lane for me! :)
    THANK YOU SOOOOO MUCH FOR SHARING!

    Im going to have to say that "Captain Jack" is my favorite of all your choices, but MY real favorites are:

    Just The Way You Are
    The Longest Time
    Only The Good Die Young
    Its Still Rock and Roll to Me
    Big Shot

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  2. Absolutely agree! Those are all classics, definitely some of his best! I could share so many.. I guess I was focusing on the less well-known ones or at least the ones not included on the 'best of' type albums. Glad you enjoyed them :)

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