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  • Ron Rosenbaum is the Billy Joel of writers.

    He thinks he's being hip in mocking a guy less hip than him. What is getting under your skin, Ron, is that you see yourself reflected in Joel's striving to be considered hip. You have made a career out of trying to be as profound as your literary betters, like Mailer, etc., but the fact is, you never had the guts to lay it all out on the line ...
    Posted to The Spectator by cheesemoose on January 24, 2009

  • No Reason to Tear Down Billy Joel

    While I grant that one may criticize and that criticism is a great balancer for art, I really feel obliged to pull down Ron Rosenbaum’s especially mean attack on Billy Joel. Billy Joel’s music may fall victim to changing times and mores, but considered in its original context, a lot of the music is fine and even great. It is true that there ...
    Posted to The Spectator by rez3322 on January 24, 2009

  • The worst song ever written...

    Wow, Ron Rosenbaum did a perfect job summing up how bad B.J. is without even getting into ''We Didn't Start the Fire''. My god that's a bad song! Talk about phony contempt. Empty lamentation of every third historical trend since the end of WWII, tragic benign or otherwise, has never sounded so annoyingly catchy. Is he attempting to find some ...
    Posted to The Spectator by jerpeck on January 24, 2009

  • earlier takedown in New York Times Magazine

    The New York Times Magazine had a much sharper takedown of Mr. Joel six years ago. The comments of Robert Christgau were especially telling. http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9E00EFDA1F3EF936A2575AC0A9649C8B63&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=all
    Posted to The Spectator by babysneaks on January 24, 2009

  • BJ's "The Longest Day"?!!!

    This sound of this song, along with the smell of hot tar and bus exhaust, used to make me violently ill in my days and nights of morning sickness. Now, however, like the thought of a big mac I hurled one during those times, it only makes me mildly nauseous. The Longest Day has the added of effect of making me annoyed. I would compared BJ, instead ...
    Posted to The Spectator by violettedepp on January 24, 2009

  • i have to laugh

    at a writer who is so determined to slice and dice an artist, he will spend hours torturing himself listening to their music! i have loved billy joel since i first heard him when i was a child - it isnt rational. i love to sing along to his lyrics, love singing the swoop of his melodies. to me, he is an artist who loves words and how they can ...
    Posted to The Spectator by Lonster on January 24, 2009
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