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Joel vs John by Fussbett 01/23/2009, 8:58pm PST
Fullofkittens wrote:

Billy Joel has a couple of good songs and I think that's what's the most maddening thing of all. If the only two hits he'd ever had were "Uptown Girl" and "The Longest Time" he would have been an entertaining novelty item, maybe like Joe Jackson or something. But no, on top of those songs he's got a HUGE pile of really awful songs that get played at Kmart when I go there.

What I want to know is, why these guys give Elton John a pass; he's made just as much terrible music of the same type that Billy Joel has. Does a couple of "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road"s and "Tiny Dancer"s get you a free pass for life?!

Yes. Plus it's also that, as hard as it is to imagine now, Elton John had black cred back in the day. Something like three or four songs that charted on the Billboard R&B Top 40 and the first white performer on Soul Train. That's cool shit. Compare that with Billy Joel's core audience of... Jersey Italians? Blue collar Allentowners?

Worse, look at your two examples of good Billy Joel songs. Schlocky 50s Motown do-wop tribute shit. Practically a gimmick! I'd put Elton John's worst songs up again that garbage in a blind taste test.

This post is also a good excuse to post this clip of Elton John in the early 90s singing at Howard Stern's birthday party. They gave him some replacement lyrics for Don't Let the Sun Go Down on Me but since that's a terrible idea, he instead goes "Nah, I'll just wing it."

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This sucks. by laudablepuss 01/23/2009, 5:13pm PST NEW
    I have a book called The 50 Worst Records in Rock or something like that. by Fullofkittens 01/23/2009, 7:28pm PST NEW
        Elton John has done several decent albums. by Creexuls, a monster >:3 01/23/2009, 7:47pm PST NEW
        dont shoot me Im only the piano player had way better songs than uptown girl NT by Weyoun Voidbringer 01/23/2009, 7:59pm PST NEW
            Also take your skank hooker wife and get the fuck out of here. NT by Creexuls, a monster >:3 01/23/2009, 8:05pm PST NEW
                fat skank hooker wife (fucking catalina wine mixer) NT by Weyoun Voidbringer 01/23/2009, 9:29pm PST NEW
        Joel vs John by Fussbett 01/23/2009, 8:58pm PST NEW
            WE ONLY DO LATE 80S JOEL NT by Weyoun Voidbringer 01/23/2009, 9:33pm PST NEW
            Re: Joel vs John by Creexuls, a monster >:3 01/23/2009, 9:37pm PST NEW
            I have a well-documented weakness for gay 50s doowop shit. NT by Fullofkittens 01/24/2009, 4:19am PST NEW
 
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