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Originally Posted by R.
Jesus H. Tapdancing Christ, how can you all forget "Just the Way You Are"?  |
Overplayed, just like a lot of his songs. I agree with Sarge- sometimes you have to not hear them for a long time before you can appreciate them again.
The last time I saw Billy Joel, he only played one "album cut" ("Zanzibar"), after he first explained to the audience what an "album cut" is.
The rest of his set was mostly greatest hits, which I'm not complaining about, but a few of the songs I'm just really tired of (yet they got a huge reaction from the crowd). "Piano Man" is even becoming cliched, but he and Elton John sang it together (It was a "Face-to-Face" show), and had the audience sing along, to the point where they stopped singing and let the audience take over. There's something about 40,000 people singing together that's just chill-inducing.
Opposed to Elton John's set , during which I loved every single song. Maybe I'm just a bigger fan of Elton than of Billy, but I felt that Elton mixed the hits with lesser-known songs better than Billy did. Although, I can't think of a single Elton John song that I'm tired of- maybe "Candle in the Wind", after the whole Princess Diana thing. (Not knocking Diana- I liked her and I felt genuinely sad when she died) But, if he'd played it that night, I'm sure I would have loved it. "Your Song" actually gave me goosebumps, even after 30+ years of hearing it.
Anyway, sorry to digress...
(Review of the show, if anyone's interested:
http://leisureblogs.chicagotribune.c...ley-field.html)
D'Oh! I take it back- he did play "Candle in the Wind"- old age, you know...
