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[cryptoadam]

Piano man pretty good, but this song is just so memorable.

 

[jufonuk]

Rocket man ?

 

[Dr Bass]

Rocket man ?

Peak Elton John?

 

[jufonuk]

Peak Elton John?

Staying alive?

 

[teezzy]

song is annoying ngl

 

[SegaShack]

Peak is 52nd Street album.

 

[Stiflers Mom]

Fuck no, that was Allentown.

"we didn't start the fire" was his swansong.

 

[Richard Packer]

Miami 2017.

 

[Foamy]

Peak Billy Joel was the first time he slid it into Christie Brinkley.

 

[MrS]

An Innocent Man > all

 

[Pol Pot]

The Stranger? Holy fuck. We didn't start the fire is fuck awful.

 

[Kagey K]

River of the Night probably made him more popular than the rest of his catalogue combined.

We didn’t start the Fire is badass though, and REM blatently used the fast tempo and lyrics (and current events) to propel themselves to stardom using the same ideas.

 

[StreetsofBeige]

Fun Billy Joel song when I was a kid. Then you watch the video and it's a kid jumping off a bridge.

 

[Pol Pot]

River of the Night probably made him more popular than the rest of his catalogue combined.

We didn’t start the Fire is badass though, and REM blatently used the fast tempo and lyrics (and current events) to propel themselves to stardom using the same ideas.

Are you suggesting that REM ripped off Billy Joel?

 

[MetalAlien]

 

[#Phonepunk#]

He is the ultimate goober id say this is peak Billy

 

[Master Of Illusion]

Glass Houses bro.

 

[bitbydeath]

Somewhere between The Stranger and The Nylon Curtain.

 

[Boss Mog]

Nah he had peaked already. Piano Man, My Life, Honesty, Uptown Girl... but We didn't start the Fire was a nice come back, put him back on the radar, that whole album was pretty good. I like Downeaster Alexa. If it weren't for my parents I don't think I would've known his music though, he wasn't really putting out any stuff when I was a kid getting into my own music.

 

[Tschumi]

We Didn't Start The Fire is peak contemporaneous Billy Joel.. stunk of the time it was made in.. No for me the best of Billy was the Piano Man album, or An Innocent Man. Imho.

 

[Hoya Destroyer]

I think "peak Billy Joel" is his early 80's stuff, but I still like his later stuff too - even off the River of Dreams album (though I dont like that actual song).