Reply #40: i'll give billy joel plenty of credit.... [View All]

...some of his earlier stuff ripped off elton john, but in a good way. (hey, i love ben folds even though he couldn't exist without cribbing joe jackson, who in turn couldn't have existed without cribbing off of elvis costello....) and there is plenty of stuff off of "glass houses" and "nylon curtain" that i'll listen to if'n it's on the radio.

but seriously, this song is a list of words whose unifying theme is "wow isn't history/politics/pop culture/life just craaaaaaaazy!" my pathetic 9th grade attempts at poetry and lyric writing were about as effective. and not even a decent hook in the whole thing to make up for the banal lyrics.

gimme "scenes from an italian restaurant" or "laura" over this.