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Urlacher's missing neck

Post subject: Re: Something We Can All Agree On

Posted: Sun Sep 16, 2012 12:03 am

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Keeping Score wrote:

Urlacher's missing neck wrote:

Keeping Score wrote:

I still want to pound you.

Dude

Like UFC pound. What is wrong with you?

I could go for a pound of KFC right now.

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Posted: Sun Sep 16, 2012 12:09 am

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Elton John is 100x better than Billy Joel, but he didn't write any of his songs so...

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Urlacher's missing neck

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Keeping Score wrote:

FavreFan wrote:

Elton's ok. He's better than Joel or Petty. Actually he might be equal to Joel. Probably better though.

Personally I think Elton smokes Billy Joel and probably is equal to Petty. It's just so hard to listen to some of Elton's songs knowing that he's singing to his homo lover. Anyways, Elton John:

1. Tiny Dancer
2. Candle In The Wind
3. Your Song
4. Daniel
5. Bennie & The Jets
6. Crocodile Rock
7. Rocket Man
8. Island Girl
9. Little Jeannie
10. I Guess That's Why They Call It The Blues

Tim McGraw sanduskied tiny dancer to all hell. It will never be the same.

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Posted: Sun Sep 16, 2012 12:15 am

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Keeping Score wrote:

Urlacher's missing neck wrote:

Keeping Score wrote:

FavreFan wrote:

Elton's ok. He's better than Joel or Petty. Actually he might be equal to Joel. Probably better though.

Tim McGraw sanduskied tiny dancer to all hell. It will never be the same.

Almost Famous made Tiny Dancer one of the greatest songs of all time.

It sure did. One of the best movie scenes ever.

I guess I'm glad I never heard the McGraw version. No chance he could have bastardized it worse than Green Day did with Working Class Hero or Aerosmith did with Come Together though.

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Posted: Sun Sep 16, 2012 1:21 am

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immessedup17 wrote:

1. The Downeaster Alexa
2. Stilleto
3. Captain Jack
4. The Entertainer
5. Movin' Out
6. The Stranger
7. Piano Man
8. My Life
9. Don't Ask Me Why
10. Only The Good Die Young
11. You May Be Right

This was very difficult for me.

How could two guys list ten without getting what's easily his best song?

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Posted: Sun Sep 16, 2012 1:23 am

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Piano Man is his best song JORR

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Posted: Sun Sep 16, 2012 1:25 am

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This thread is full of fail.

Prince wins, by a mile.

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Rod

Post subject: Re: Something We Can All Agree On

Posted: Sun Sep 16, 2012 1:25 am

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FavreFan wrote:

Piano Man is his best song JORR

"New York State Of Mind"

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FavreFan

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Posted: Sun Sep 16, 2012 1:26 am

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Keeping Score wrote:

FavreFan wrote:

Piano Man is his best song JORR

He could just list his fucking Top 10. I don't know what the big secret is. :lol:

JORR works in mysterious ways. The rest of us don't understand simply because we don't need to understand.

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Post subject: Re: Something We Can All Agree On

Posted: Sun Sep 16, 2012 1:29 am

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Keeping Score wrote:

Joe Orr Road Rod wrote:

FavreFan wrote:

Piano Man is his best song JORR

"New York State Of Mind"

Well now that we got that settled, can you move on to critiquing Elton John or Tom Petty? I need to know what to like in the morning.

Fuck that. Grab a few fingers of your favorite poison and join the top 10 thread JORR

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spanky

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Posted: Sun Sep 16, 2012 7:45 am

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"And so it goes" needs to be in Joel's top-10 also.

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Urlacher's missing neck wrote:

Tom Petty dominates Billy Joel.

Tom Petty?

Keep it.

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Stretch wrote:

Elton John is 100x better than Billy Joel, but he didn't write any of his songs so...

Come again? Are we not giving the people who write the music credit anymore?

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Rod

Post subject: Re: Something We Can All Agree On

Posted: Sun Sep 16, 2012 8:02 pm

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immessedup17 wrote:

Joe Orr Road Rod wrote:

FavreFan wrote:

Piano Man is his best song JORR

"New York State Of Mind"

I do not agree.

That's okay. You can be as wrong about that as you are about everything else.

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Post subject: Re: Something We Can All Agree On

Posted: Sun Sep 16, 2012 8:08 pm

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RFDC wrote:

Joe Orr Road Rod wrote:

Keeping Score wrote:

I'll try to do a Billy Joel Top 10:

1. Only The Good Die Young
2. Piano Man
3. Movin' Out
4. Just The Way You Are
5. It's Still Rock & Roll To Me
6. You May Be Right
7. We Didn't Start The Fire
8. Big Shot
9. Don't Ask Me Why
10. Sometimes A Fantasy

You don't even have his best song in there.

Which is?

Zanzibar. Not even a contest. The Stranger is closest to it .

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Curious Hair

Post subject: Re: Something We Can All Agree On

Posted: Sun Sep 16, 2012 10:23 pm

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I don't like much of Billy Joel, but "The Downeaster 'Alexa'" is a pretty cool song.

Chuck Klosterman wrote an essay on Billy Joel. It's the Klostermaniest thing he ever wrote, in which he posits that Billy Joel is great because he's not great.

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Posted: Sun Sep 16, 2012 10:32 pm

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The Downeaster 'Alexa'
Uptown Girl
Allentown
Movin' Out
Captain Jack
Piano Man
Pressure
And So It Goes

These are the only good Billy Joel songs to me. I can't make it to ten.

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Posted: Sun Sep 16, 2012 10:42 pm

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I like it because it sounds more like the Four Seasons than Billy Joel. Kinda like "Hungry Heart," which sounds more like them than the rest of the bilge on The River. (Yes, I know both songs sped up their vocals.)

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Posted: Sun Sep 16, 2012 10:57 pm

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No "Walk Like a Man"? Come on.

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Molly Lambert wrote:

The future holds the possibility to be great or terrible, and since it has not yet occurred it remains simultaneously both.

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Don Tiny

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Posted: Sun Sep 16, 2012 11:31 pm

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Keeping Score wrote:

For those that enjoy Billy Joel, particularly his older sound, check out the track called "Close to the Borderline" ... I don't know what album or all that off the top of my head, may be Glass Houses, I don't know, go ask the internet.

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Billy Joel - Scenes from an Italian Restaurant
Elton John - Levon

Glad I could help.

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Posted: Mon Sep 17, 2012 7:44 pm

Dr. Kenneth Noisewater wrote:

Billy Joel - Scenes from an Italian Restaurant

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sjboyd0137 wrote:

Yep

Billy Joel's entire career is negated by "Just the way you are".

I know you won't be shocked, but I sing this when it comes on the radio. Billy Joel is an artist whose vocal range is doable by just about anyone who has even somewhat of an ear and can carry a tune.

Douchebag wrote:

This thread is full of fail.

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Rod

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Posted: Thu Sep 27, 2012 7:27 am

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Billy Joel made me a fan for life when I saw an interview with him where he was talking about growing up in New York. He said he and his friends went to the races a lot. And then he made it a point to say that he wasn't talking about thoroughbreds. Harness racing was the king in New York. Roosevelt and Yonkers!

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Posted: Fri Mar 15, 2013 7:03 am

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immessedup17 wrote:

Usually people that really like Uptown Girl like The Longest Time and Tell Her About It.

That was my entire playlist when I was 5

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Posted: Fri Mar 15, 2013 7:09 am

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Joe Orr Road Rod wrote:

FavreFan wrote:

Piano Man is his best song JORR

"New York State Of Mind"

It's nice to see people not clouded by jealousy and hatred of things that are superior.

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Dr. Kenneth Noisewater wrote:

Billy Joel - Scenes from an Italian Restaurant
Elton John - Levon

Glad I could help.

Both very good. A few of my favorites from each would have to be:

Billy Joel -- Goodnight Saigon
Elton John -- Burn Down The Mission

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Boilermaker Rick wrote:

Joe Orr Road Rod wrote:

FavreFan wrote:

Piano Man is his best song JORR

"New York State Of Mind"

It's nice to see people not clouded by jealousy and hatred of things that are superior.

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http://www.theonion.com/articles/area-m ... joel,1582/

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What a great thread. Well done IMU. I cant make a top 10. I might have a hard time making a top 25. I celebrate his entire collection.

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