Achtung! Fight Me: Uptown Girl Is Billy Joel's Best Song And Actually The Only Good One He Ever Made

[smurfco]

You may think this is a joke but I am dead serious. I mean DEADLY serious. The melody, the chord progression, the drumbeat, the harmonies.... perfect. It makes me feel like I'm riding shotgun in a Dodge Omni.

 

[Andrew Sak]

I'm a Piano Man man, man.

 

[jelloman]

It makes me feel like I'm riding shotgun in a Dodge Omni

That's supposed to be a good thing?

 

[smurfco]

That's supposed to be a good thing?

Yesssss

 

[shoeless]

Maybe my favorite song from BIlly.

 

[Tig]

Billy says you're wrong!


I'm partial to

 

[jp_nyc]

I sat through the Chipmunk’s version once when I was a kid. I could never get through the entire video on VH1 without changing the channel. As for the rest of his oeuvre, I can take it or…actually I can just leave it. All of it. Billy Joel is awful.

 

[emmaporkchop]

I know a band you might be interested in.

 

[tiger roach]

I’m more of a “You May Be Right” guy.

 

[Chicken Man]

That album was one of, like, 6 tapes my parents had, so judging a song on it would be like judging oxygen.

 

[dodgechargerfan]

I’m more of a “You May Be Right” guy.

That’s the one where he plays guitar more than the piano. Right?
At least in the video.

Of all his songs, I like that one most.

 

[DdBob]

He’s no Taylor Swift

 

[dmn23]

By any objective measure that's simply not true and I don't even like Billy Joel. But you do you.

 

[DinoMikeSr]

52nd Street is one of his best albums. I have Glass Houses which is my favorite.

 

[bsman]

I like a BJ song now and then, but I doubt I'd ever want to listen to an entire album.

 

[cuffdc]

I have an attachment to "Piano Man" because my son would ironically sing it for his friends when he was in high school.

 

[Honkridge]

I like Anthony's Song...River of Dreams is good and yes, Upton Sinclair is great.

 

[Motorik]

I have an attachment to "Piano Man" because my son would ironically sing it for his friends when he was in high school.

Now Paul is a real estate novelist
Who never had time for a wife
And he’s talkin’ with Davy, who’s still in the navy
And probably will be for life

I like the theory that it's a gay bar and Billy Joel is so straight and square that he is oblivous to all the gay guys around him.

 

[Motorik]

Oh yeah, 'Uptown Girl' is the best song.

 

[Acadiafall]

I wonder what rank Davy achieved ed after his long service in the navy