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Contains Mild Peril · **Joined:** Wed Oct 13, 2010 6:24 am **Posts:** 192

Yousha wrote:

dude , there's no radio, tv, or anything here that would air popular classic rock tunes ... i didnt know of a band called the who till i was 16 .... youd be shocked to know the songs that i dont know, simply cause unless i make an effort to listen to them , i never will ...

Thank God for the internet!

P.S. I like American Pie too.

Arcade · **Joined:** Sun Jul 03, 2011 11:38 am **Posts:** 16

I really think "Piano Man" is the worst song ever.

ClashWho · **Posted:** Thu Jul 07, 2011 4:52 pm

Timitzii wrote:

Arcade wrote:

"Piano Man" is the worst song ever.

Nah.

I'm sure there's some Attila stuff that's much worse.

pnoom · **Joined:** Tue Oct 12, 2010 11:11 am **Posts:** 6217

Attila is awful on all sorts of levels, but something that's truly worthy of being called the worst of all time has to at least have a veneer of apparent respectability. Anyone can make something as awful as Attila or Knife the Puppets simply by not trying. It takes a special talent to make something awful in the way Piano Man is awful, and that's what makes it so much worse than Joel's work with Attila.

batman · **Posted:** Thu Jul 07, 2011 6:13 pm

I agree, plus you never have to hear Attila, whereas Piano Man is playing all the time.

SanTropez · **Posted:** Thu Jul 07, 2011 6:45 pm

I don't really even like Billy Joel (and I think We Didn't Start the Fire is fucking AWFUL), but I don't mind Piano Man at all.

trains · **Joined:** Wed Oct 13, 2010 9:19 pm **Posts:** 1798

The real answer is Movin' Out.

chicken sandwich · **Joined:** Mon Oct 18, 2010 12:28 am **Posts:** 3104

Quote:

A lot of people think [I] just came out of the piano bar... I did a lot of heavy metal for a while. We had about a dozen gigs and nobody could stay in the room when we were playing. It was too loud. We drove people literally out of clubs. -Billy Joel

I laughed

trains · **Joined:** Wed Oct 13, 2010 9:19 pm **Posts:** 1798

HEART ATTACKACKACKACKACKACK

pnoom · **Joined:** Tue Oct 12, 2010 11:11 am **Posts:** 6217

My point is less about Piano Man than it is about music generally, though Piano Man is pretty terrible.

pnoom · **Joined:** Tue Oct 12, 2010 11:11 am **Posts:** 6217

Sure, in roughly the same sense that serial rape is worse than serial murder. At some point distinguishing which is worse really becomes entirely pointless, and both songs are well past that point.

pgm · **Posted:** Sat Jul 09, 2011 1:24 am

Timitzii wrote:

I feel sorry for whoever said that their history teacher used to play this track in their classroom.... :lol:

I had to write a response paper about it for history class.

ClashWho · **Posted:** Mon Jul 18, 2011 9:55 pm

"Piano Man" ain't bad. It's got some decent lyrics. "We Didn't Start the Fire" is a catchy little pop song. I guess on repeated listens both songs can swerve hard into the annoying category, but I haven't heard them all that often. I think stuff like "The Entertainer" and "Big Shot" are far worse. I loathe "Big Shot". Joel does have some really good stuff, though, like "Scenes From an Italian Restaurant", "Rootbeer Rag", "Pressure" and "Miami 2017 (Seen the Lights Go Out on Broadway)".

The Man · **Posted:** Mon Jul 18, 2011 11:22 pm

Arcade wrote:

I really think "Piano Man" is the worst song ever.

That is completely incorrect. Billy Joel has made some bad music in his day but Piano Man is a beautiful song.

pgm · **Posted:** Mon Jul 18, 2011 11:33 pm

I never expected this board to talk so much about Billy Joel.

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