I can't help but smile when the soloist starts.

In reply to this comment by deedub81:
I love this song. I sang this arrangement with a quartet years ago. Ahhh memories.

...and I think their accents are cute.

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Cool. Good for you.

I was more concerned with the vulnerability of the system than you getting one star point, but yeah, they either mean something or they don't. We either get star points for contributing to the community or we're all playing some meaningless MMOG trying to farm them any way we can.

In reply to this comment by Zonbie:
I fixed
http://www.videosift.com/video/Billy-Joel-Piano-Man
to restore balance in the siftiverse

(this is the correct video incidentally! )

This way no bad feeling about my star point awarded for a wrong fix.

Cheers.

I fixed
http://www.videosift.com/video/Billy-Joel-Piano-Man
to restore balance in the siftiverse

(this is the correct video incidentally! )

This way no bad feeling about my star point awarded for a wrong fix.

Cheers.

In reply to this comment by gorillaman:
Bullshit. Not fixed.

*discuss

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I drove my sister NUTS listening to this song over and over again as a kid. Actually Billy Joel's River of Dreams tour was the first concert I ever went to, it was on a school night at that OOOOH!. He did this thing where he climbed up onto his piano and acted like he was going to do a back flip off of it. He eventually just hopped down... it was pretty lame.
on a side note the next time anyone listens to Billy's song "The Longest Time" listen for the really high pitched voice guy in the back ground. cracks me up every time!!!!

Some of my parents records that I liked:

-Herb Alpert - Whipped Cream (I can't tell you how many hours I stared at that album cover)
-Nat King Cole
-John Denver
-Kenny Rogers
-Simon and Garfunkel - Bridge Over Troubled Water - I practically memorized every word to every song on that album, because it had the lyrics on the back
-LOTS of traditional Irish music records. My dad's parents were both from Ireland. The Irish Rovers were one of his favorites.
-Dean Martin

In reply to this comment by schmawy:
Ditto! Just replace Styx with Jethro Tull and Kansas with Motorhead, Maiden, and Priest. Prior to that it was my parent's records, Fats Domino, Beachboys, and Johnny Cash.

In reply to this comment by kronosposeidon:
Did you ever have an extension cord for those big puffy cans? I had a 25-foot extension cord for my phones, so that I could wander all over my bedroom while I rocked out on "Glass Houses", my very first vinyl record. Followed by:

2. Styx - Paradise Theatre
3. AC/DC - Back In Black
4. Styx - Grand Illusion
5. Rush - Moving Pictures
6. Pink Floyd - The Wall
7. Van Halen - I
8. Pink Floyd - Dark Side Of The Moon
9. Pink Floyd - Meddle
10. Kansas - Leftoverture
11. Pink Floyd -Wish You Were Here
12. Rush - Permanent Waves

And the rest are kind of blur after that, but those were my first 12 disciples. I'll always remember.

You may be right, I may be crazy.

In reply to this comment by schmawy:
Nor did I fall asleep every night wearing big puffy headphones with the curly cord listening to an 8-track copy of Songs From the Attic that I bought at Bradlees with my lawn-mowing money. If you ever hear this rumor it is a complete fabrication.

*promote

Ditto! Just replace Styx with Jethro Tull and Kansas with Motorhead, Maiden, and Priest. Prior to that it was my parent's records, Fats Domino, Beachboys, and Johnny Cash.

In reply to this comment by kronosposeidon:
Did you ever have an extension cord for those big puffy cans? I had a 25-foot extension cord for my phones, so that I could wander all over my bedroom while I rocked out on "Glass Houses", my very first vinyl record. Followed by:

2. Styx - Paradise Theatre
3. AC/DC - Back In Black
4. Styx - Grand Illusion
5. Rush - Moving Pictures
6. Pink Floyd - The Wall
7. Van Halen - I
8. Pink Floyd - Dark Side Of The Moon
9. Pink Floyd - Meddle
10. Kansas - Leftoverture
11. Pink Floyd -Wish You Were Here
12. Rush - Permanent Waves

And the rest are kind of blur after that, but those were my first 12 disciples. I'll always remember.

You may be right, I may be crazy.

In reply to this comment by schmawy:
Nor did I fall asleep every night wearing big puffy headphones with the curly cord listening to an 8-track copy of Songs From the Attic that I bought at Bradlees with my lawn-mowing money. If you ever hear this rumor it is a complete fabrication.

*promote

Did you ever have an extension cord for those big puffy cans? I had a 25-foot extension cord for my phones, so that I could wander all over my bedroom while I rocked out on "Glass Houses", my very first vinyl record. Followed by:

2. Styx - Paradise Theatre
3. AC/DC - Back In Black
4. Styx - Grand Illusion
5. Rush - Moving Pictures
6. Pink Floyd - The Wall
7. Van Halen - I
8. Pink Floyd - Dark Side Of The Moon
9. Pink Floyd - Meddle
10. Kansas - Leftoverture
11. Pink Floyd -Wish You Were Here
12. Rush - Permanent Waves

And the rest are kind of a blur after that, but those were my first 12 disciples. I'll always remember.

You may be right, I may be crazy.

In reply to this comment by schmawy:
Nor did I fall asleep every night wearing big puffy headphones with the curly cord listening to an 8-track copy of Songs From the Attic that I bought at Bradlees with my lawn-mowing money. If you ever hear this rumor it is a complete fabrication.

*promote

I only voted for this because I am the poster's crony. I do not have a secret life-long love of Billy Joel.

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Some critics say Billy Joel's work is banal, but I think he's a great song writer and performer.

Those who can, do. Those who can't, teach. Those who can't teach, criticize.

I wish I knew who said that.

Billy Joel is a musical genius, there I said it.

^ * terrible

even worse than my uselessly-obscure Billy Joel reference.

Billy Joel once said in an interview that he was struggling with writer's block, and a maid came into his room. She noticed that he was visibly stressed out and said to him, "Wow, you must really be under a lot of pressure. He responded with "Thank you!"

True story.