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Rakae 02:22 pm UTC 09/24/13 |
| In reply to: | re: Other Favorites - rockfenris2005 12:51 pm UTC 09/24/13 |
| The big thing that comes to mind regarding "The Nylon Curtain" is only playing the album when my parents weren't around, because there's an F-bomb in "Laura". Also, I remember being in the car playing the "Piano Man" album for the first time, and it goes to "Captain Jack", and Billy Joel softly croons "You're sister's gone out, She's on a date... And you just sit at home... and masturbate" and my parents both turn and glare at me, my father makes a disgusted noise and then almost hits an oncoming vehicle. Anyway. I definitely like the Nylon Curtain,though some of the "human" attributes I love Billy Joel for do get slightly boring for me on that album. There's the ode to Allentown, which is very industrial sounding and honestly it takes more to retain my attention than complaining about economics. But I like the music, and it also reminds me how much Bill and Jim both use a lot of sound effects in their music. Again, it's very theatrical... My favourite Billy Joel songs tend to be the dramatic, intense or descrptive ones. I loved the "Ballad of Billy the Kid", because it tells a story and keeps my attention. I love most of "Storm Front", talking about /Going to Extremes/, /I'm SHAMELESS!!!/, the defensive "We didn't start the fire", and "Leningrad" brings me to tears every time. "The Downeaster Alexa" is also beautiful and tragic, in a very human way; but all of the ocean and boating references make me think of the pirates in Peter Pan, so I get a ton of personal imagery when I listen to it. Typically I don't like war songs, but Siagon and Leningrad both give me very strong feelings of despair and desolation, and I don't know very much about the circumstances - and my favourite part, is it's the music as much as the words that provoke the emotion in me. The musical tension during "I was born in '49, cold-war kid in McCarthy times" sets you up perfectly to understand the sentiment, even if you know none of the facts. I also liked "Where's the Orchestra", but it always makes me sad. I used to play in theatre groups since my teens, but I am unable to play anything now. I take it kind of personally in the last couple years. It is still beautiful. > > What do you think of "The Nylon Curtain"? I've heard it's > probably his most ambitious album but it definitely has > its moments for me. I love the song "Pressure". I think > that's gold. "Goodnight Saigon" is also very poignant. > Though I can't imagine that being played on the radio > every day. "Allentown" is another good one. And one of my > favourite ever BJ songs is on that album, "Where's the > orchestra?" | |
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