Reply #64: Yeah, fine, the words might be good - but the music sucks

[Rabrrrrrr]

and that is my opinion. I just can't believe he put the shitty musical arrangment he did to such wonderful (though somewhat sophomoric) lyrics. And that's the bane of Billy Joel - his music, regardless of the content or meaning of the words, is just shit.

So, fine - I'll change my mind - he's an occasional pointed and well-thought poet who happens to suck as a musician, instead of sucking in every capacity as a songwriter.

But what bothers me most about him is, he really isn't a bad musician - his first few albums are quite good - it's just that somewhere along the line he decided he wanted to be a rock musician instead of the kind of musician he is, and it's just been pure shit since then.

he should be what he was meant to be, which is not a rock musician.