Billy Joel: “A bottle of red. A bottle of white. Whatever kind of mood you’re in tonight…”
Former supermodel Christie Brinkley: “Oh for Chrissakes, must we do this every time, Billy? Just give me my goddamn check, okay?”
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Peyote?
Oh, ouch.
Pretty song, though.
I think she’s been living in her Uptown World far, far too long.
No wonder it ended for them.
And I refuse to share webspace with any commenter who offers uironic praise to a Billy Joel song.
Unless it’s “We Didn’t Start The Fire,” of course.
Crazy man. That song is from one of the greatest albums of all time.
No, no, no, not “We Didn’t Start the Fire.”
Former supermodel? Supermodel is forever.
My all-time favorite song from my all-time favorite album, The Stranger.
Was that sarcasm, Jeff?
Nope. Quite serious.
I knew there was something special about you Mr. Protein Wisdom.
Things are okay with me these days
Got a good job, got a good office
Got a new wife, got a new life
And the family’s fine
We lost touch long ago
You lost weight, I did not know
From working out in those infomercials
With that Rat Bastard
Chuck “Walker, Texas Ranger†Norris
Then you have the gall to come here,
To our restauant with your
Greasy super model hand held out!
You don’t want me anymore, but dammit! You’ll sure as hell take my money!
Your old man was worse… yes, I said worse than Dan Rather!
So take that…
Uptown Girl, my ass.
Shit. I haven’t even thought of Christie Brinkley since her heli-skiing copter did a face plant near here in ‘94.
And now I’m to understand there’s a Billy Joel connection? Are innocent smashed-up trees involved?
Hey, Billy loves her just the way she is. Of course, that’s easy when you’re talking about Christie Brinkley. I’d be more impressed if his chick looked more like David Brinkley.
living room in which Billy crashed his Volkswagen a few months ago:
“Jesus Billy. You’re like five foot one for chrissakes. Let it go man. I mean really, you could be knee deep in Jersey shore t-shirt groupies….what the hell is a matter with you?”
Jeez–a thread about Billy Joel and it took 14 comments before somebody made a joke about him crashing his car into someone’s house? Somewhere in Connecticut, Conan O’Brien is quietly weeping.
My freshman year in college my roomate played Billy Joel albums 24/7. I can’t even listen to a song without wanting to scream. It is like getting truly drunk drunk on something like tequila, you can’t even smell it for years without getting feeling queasy.
RWS,
Are you typing while drunk drunk right now?
If that’s movin’ up, then I’m movin’ out.
“People think the entertainment industry is all fluff. But we do so much and give so much back. I can’t think of another industry that gives so much or does so much… We’re not Prince Charles and Princess Di. We don’t think of ourselves as royalty. We happen to be working people.”—Supermodel Christie
Brinkley
“My butt slides sideways, but I’ll have to live with that.”
Supermodel Christie Brinkley
In the words of Weird Al, in tribute to My Sharonna:
She was fat and stinky
Fat and stinky
But she lokked like Christy Brinkley
After nine Coronas
Bow, wow, wow, wow, WOW!
oops! “Looked”
that’s what 9 Coronas’ll do to ya!
Was that sarcasm, Jeff?
If you’re speaking to Jeff Goldstein, then he has already answered. If you’re talking to me, then it’s dripping sarcasm. “We Didn’t Start The Fire” is an abomination. In fact, all Billy Joel songs are abominations, mostly. (Though I’ll admit, girls always seem to like it when I sing “Lullabye” at the piano…instant frickin’ aphrodisiac, buddy. Screw integrity, I’ll play it for ‘em!)
And heck, okay…”Scenes From An Italian Restaurant” is actually decent as far as Joel songs go. That bit about buying a couple of paintings from Sears is pretty sharp.
But if I have to participate in one more drunken singalong of “Piano Man” I’m going to riot.
You should probably not go drinking with Jeff G, then. You never know what you’ll end up singing.
I’d like to believe we’d exhaust the back catalogues of The Cure, Genesis, XTC, and Winger before we got to Billy Joel.
[drunken, off-key belting]
JUST WHEN I THAWWWT IT WAS GOIN’ ALL RIGHT
FOUND OUT I’M WRAWWNG WHEN I THOUGHT I WAS RIGHT
‘SALWAYS THE SAME, ‘SJUST A SHAME, THAT’S AWWWL!!
I must admit that much of Billy’s old stuff is quite good. And the Stranger is a great album. He went down hill later, no doubt.
I always liked Cold Spring Harbor.
Other than Captain Jack and Piano Man, it just doesn’t work anymore. His music didn’t hold up that well, unlike Christie.
Just for that, I’m listening to “Goodnight Saigon” right now.
That’ll show you.
zombyboy, if the last blogger meeting was any indication, the answer is Buffalo Springfield.
Heh.
To tell the truth, I”m most fond of the “Love Boat”/”Dukes of Hazzard” portion of the evening. But that’s only because Jeff’s knowledge of the Screaming Trees is woefully inadequate.
All grown up and no place to go.
Psych 1, Psych 2,
What do you know?
All your life is Channel 13,
Sesame Street,
What does it mean?
A friend of mine from Levittown, PA, told me that Allentown was really about Levittown, but Levittown just didn’t cut it as a song title. So there.
A bottle of red. A bottle of white.
Based on Billy’s driving record, and his behavior at Trump’s latest wedding, I think the answer is most likely “one of each, and keep ‘em coming.”
If man were meant to drink only one at a time, he wouldn’t have two hands.
“Rosalinda’s Eyes” from the 52nd Street album is my favorite Billy Joel song.
Could be worse, Jeff could’ve liked Bob “Like a Chevy Commercial” Seger.
PS: Billy did some dam fine pop songs in his time. You shoulda seen him when. Now, he’s trapped in Scott Fitzgerald’s Second Act Hell.
Heh, ya’ll should hear Billy doing heavy metal, way back in his younger days, when he was in Attila. We didn’t start the fire was when he stopped being good.
Oh yeah, I almost forgot that Billy Joel and Elton John have the most popular tour out right now….yeah if his music sucks, then you’re all a bunch of fucking morons
Well, I think most people here really like Billy Joel. At least, I do, and this is my site. In fact, further up the thread I call The Stranger the greatest album of all time.
Oh, and somebody who comments on a thread four months after the fact without understanding what he’s doing shouldn’t be throwing around the word “moron” so readily…
i think this is the best song of Billy Joel’s next to “Veinna”
How are you guys dissing Billy Joel, but you are constantly referring to his songs and quoting his lyrics? He’s one of the most talented music artists ever. If you can’t appreciate classic music like that then you must be retarded, I see that you entertain yourselves by sitting around hating on a great artist like Billy Joel, and listening to what probably is a bunch of bullshit, talentless music.