We didn’t start the Fire won the next spot! We’re almost there…

I’m a younger fan so I’m sure my answer won’t be as good as some of yours but it’s Leave a Tender Moment Alone for me. I remember when I first got into Billy I wasn’t super into this song, it was fine but it just didn’t really stick out to me. I even remember years ago watching a YouTube video where some guy said it was his favorite Billy song and thinking that was a really out there pick. Couple years later I’m obsessed with it, I don’t know why but it just clicked with me recently. I don’t even listen to Billy as much anymore (still my goat, just have a broader music taste now) but this songs been in heavy rotation. Honestly at least top 3 on Innocent Man and that album as a whole has been growing on me a lot recently. What about you guys?

A Matter of Trust smashed the poll! What’s next

I’m making a Billy playlist with one song from every album he’s made. I can edit where they are played, but I can only get one pick.

1-Cold Spring Harbor: Tomorrow is today
2-Piano Man: Captain Jack
3-Streetlife Serenade: Last of the Big Time Spenders
4- Turnstiles: Miami 2017
5- The Stranger: She’s Always a Woman
6- 52nd Street: My Life
7- Glass Houses: It’s Still Rock and Roll to Me
8- Songs in the Attic: Los Angelenos
9- The Nylon Curtain: Allentown
10- An Innocent Man: Keeping the Faith
11- GH 1&2: You’re Only Human
12- The Bridge: A Matter of Trust
13- Kohuept: Only the Good Die Young (live)
14- Storm Front: State of Grace
15- Live at Yankee Stadium: New York State of Mind (Live)
16- River of Dreams: It’s all About Soul
17- GH 3: To Make you feel my love

June 8, 2024: The ultimate MSG plot twist. Years after the lore of Billy Joel supposedly dismissing Phish as a "cover band"—which famously fueled Phish’s historic 13-night, no-repeat Baker's Dozen run to hang their own MSG banner—Trey Anastasio joined the Piano Man on his own stage. Watch Trey shred through the encore of "You May Be Right" under the Garden rafters. Pure rock & roll irony at its finest.
Did any of you already know this? Who was there?

No Surprise, Piano Man closes the main set! With 5 songs left for the Encore, I have 10 songs selected that would be best at any point. How should we open the finale?

*CSH

Okay I have the green volume 1 and volume 2 books of sheet music. However I bought them in the late 80s when I was a kid. At the time, Cold Spring Harbor songs were not included in either book, except for the ones from Songs In The Attic. However I was looking for the CSH sheet music on Amazon and it said it was included in one of the books— maybe book 1 now, though I supposed I could go either way.

Does anyone know if this is true? If so I’ll just replace the one I have which is falling apart anyway

A bit of fun about Billy's songs I found in my MAD comic Magazine the other day.

No hate if you like the song, but I honestly can't understand the hype. It felt like such an underpreformance for such a consistently cracking album. How can you put The Stranger next to a song like Vienna and not be a little bit disappointed? And then you compare to a song like Everybody Loves You Now, came from his first ever studio album and it's probably one of the best songs hes ever made.

(PS! the best Billy Joel songs: Prelude / Angry Young Man, Everybody Loves You Now, Tell Her About It, You're My Home, Don't Ask Me Why)

in 2004, SNL heard about the news of Billy Joels car crash. due to this and what Snl do, they got Lindsey Logan and other actors to take the piss on him.

the sketch was bad (as in the writing) and i think just was rude.

who else has watched it and what are your thoughts

I tried my best to fix this one up (speed correction, tape hiss remover, proper balancing, etc.). I'm personally not too pleased with the result I got (because I suck at fixing audio), but I figured I would drop this here anyway in case anyone wanted to hear a version of the song from six years prior to its official release on *The Stranger*.

Scenes from an Italian Restaurant won the day, but I’m sorry for ignoring She’s Always a Woman, I didn’t listen to the votes. My bad. I think it’d be a good intro for Scenes, so I added it in front.

Do we really need to discuss what comes after scenes? Last song of the main set

im very curious im watching billy joel and so it goes right now and before i thought maybe glass houses i mean now im thinking maybe NOWADAYS its more niche than his other bigger albums but its a really really good one that i love but watching this made me rethink how niche it may be what are yalls opinions on whats most niche?

I didnt mean for people to take it wrong. I just wanted to hear you’re guys opinions

you have all probably heard of a larper (you’re on Reddit, of course you have) but how to know when you’re talking to a Billy Joel larper.

in my opinion to catch one out is to ask them what there favourite song is. if they say we didn’t start the fire, then just punch them in the face. and then I just look at them like this.

any ideas on how to stop more?

I’ve been listening to The River of Dreams and I’m curious how other people interpret it.
On the surface, it feels like a song about searching for something deep and meaningful — almost like the “river” represents a journey through life, the subconscious, or a search for answers.
There’s also a sense that no matter how far you travel or what you discover, there’s something you’re still trying to reach or understand.
The religious imagery makes me wonder whether Billy Joel is exploring spirituality, mortality, purpose, or simply the human need to find meaning.
But I’m not sure there’s one definitive interpretation.

What do you think the river represents?

Do you see the song as being about faith, spirituality, finding purpose, love, mortality, or something completely different?