To my knowledge, "Weird Al" Yankovic has only ever done two song parodies that are, simply put, mean. Vicious, nasty put-downs of the song or artist being parodied. One is "Achy Breaky Song," and the other is "It's Still Billy Joel To Me."
When you've lost "Weird Al," you've lost. That said, I like the album Glass Houses quite a bit. One of my old bands even put "You May Be Right" on the b-side of a 7" 45.
I am a huge fan of Billy Joel, but, then again, I also love Zep and The Who are my favorite band. There's room for all of them in my musical closet. Summer Highland Falls is, in my opinion, his best. And, he's right -- it's either sadness or euphoria.
I related to this so much. I didn't have the baggage of being expected to like his music (I grew up in New Jersey, not Long Island), and I actually did like The Stranger and 52nd Street, at least when they came out. I didn't like Glass Houses, tried to like The Nylon Curtain and failed and despised An Innocent Man. I still sort of feel like I'm missing something for not liking those albums more -- though not anywhere close to the degree of confusion I still have for being a Jersey guy who doesn't get the vast majority of Springsteen's work.
To my knowledge, "Weird Al" Yankovic has only ever done two song parodies that are, simply put, mean. Vicious, nasty put-downs of the song or artist being parodied. One is "Achy Breaky Song," and the other is "It's Still Billy Joel To Me."
When you've lost "Weird Al," you've lost. That said, I like the album Glass Houses quite a bit. One of my old bands even put "You May Be Right" on the b-side of a 7" 45.
I am a huge fan of Billy Joel, but, then again, I also love Zep and The Who are my favorite band. There's room for all of them in my musical closet. Summer Highland Falls is, in my opinion, his best. And, he's right -- it's either sadness or euphoria.
I heard a quote recently that went along the lines of "Billy Joel is proof that Americans say they like rock music but really like show tunes".
I’m with you sister give me Led Zeppelin any day 🤣❤️
I related to this so much. I didn't have the baggage of being expected to like his music (I grew up in New Jersey, not Long Island), and I actually did like The Stranger and 52nd Street, at least when they came out. I didn't like Glass Houses, tried to like The Nylon Curtain and failed and despised An Innocent Man. I still sort of feel like I'm missing something for not liking those albums more -- though not anywhere close to the degree of confusion I still have for being a Jersey guy who doesn't get the vast majority of Springsteen's work.