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| From | "david henwood" <henwooddavid@hotmail.com> |
| Subject | Re: Billy Joel |
| Date | Thu, 19 Jun 2003 13:10:13 -0400 |
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I have alway thought that Billy Joel was one of the greatest 70's pop song
writers out there. At his best he successfully brought together Mccartney
type melodies with more tradional american jazz elements. These jazz
elements actually enriched the meodies. Obviously this is most evident in
his 70s stuff. I agree with Kerry that a lot of his later album material
started to go the way of many 70s pop songwriters (throw away tracks ).
There are exceptions. "Good night My Angel" and "and so it goes" are lovely
ballads from the 90s. "Just the Way you are" also still hits me with
memories of my early teens as well.
Great stuff
David
<KChicoine@WHITEHAT.COM>
>Reply-To: audities@smoe.org
>To: <audities@smoe.org>
>Subject: Re: Billy Joel
>Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2003 09:26:53 -0700
>
>"Just The Way You Are" mangles me (in a good way). When I was a lad of 15,
>I
>helped my Dad move one of my college-bound older sisters from Burlington,
>Vermont to Detroit Rock City; driving the U-Haul van through upstate New
>York and through the province of Ontario, that song was on the radio
>*constantly* (sheesh, that ALBUM (The Stranger) was everywhere that fall,
>IIRC). Definitely one of those "soundtrack to a moment" songs: I can still
>smell the rain and see the wet highway, can still taste the interstate food
>and see my Dad's goofy grin, when I hear it.
>
>Other than JTWYA -- like interstate food -- there's not a whole hell of a
>lot of Billy Joel that I can stomach these days.
>
>Saturday Night Live, bicycle handle-bar mounted AM radios, beanbag
>'chairs',
>macramé owls, space food sticks, lime-green shag carpet: this was my
>adolescence. I bear no shame for my avocado-n-rust, trash-white origins.
>
>Have a nice day.
>
>kErrY kOMpOsT
>
>www.mp3.com/kompost
>
>NP: A Fair Forgery of Pink Floyd - Various Artists
>
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