billy joel - it’s still rock & roll to me
all hail the king of bellyaching popstars! this is his first number one single and a reaction to the state of the music industry at the time of it’s recording. apparently,
mr. joel’s handlers at the record company thought he needed to keep pace with the upstart rockers of the day, completely forgetting the fact that they were working with billy fucking joel. alas, it appears his nails are too well-manicured to adequately dig into the flesh of someone to whom he feels the need to make a point. the sentiments are flaccid, the beat is too up-tempo and jaunty, and i can’t help but feel a strain of fellow perennial square bob seger running through this, which is never a good thing. i much prefer his late career shift where he began drunkenly taking his frustrations out on random objects on the side of the road with his car. that, and attila.
-steven, former grocery store clerk
