Billy Joel songs: My Life,Honesty,Big Shot,You May be right,Still Rock n Roll to me,Through the long night,Uptown Girl,Innocent Man,Allentown,Say goodbye to Hollywood,Just the way you are,She's always a woman to me,Piano Man,Only the good die young,Stiletto,Zanzibar, Movin' out,A matter of time.Tell her about it,She's got a way, and Don't ask me why
As a teacher, I play this song in my class a lot. And then once they decided they like the song, I had them identify why each event was important. Or why each person was important. The kids love it!
That was the first time that i heard it also, after he rewound and reacted to it, never noticed it before that as many times as I have listened to it. Well done.
I was a freshman in high school when this was released. I have never heard the 'Psycho' music either until just now. Wow, you definitely learn something new every day🙂
He wrote it in studio. Julian Lennon came in the studio with a friend who just turned 21. The friend told Billy" You guys had it easier than we do now." And then Billy wrote this right then and there as a response. LOVE Billy Joel. This song was always played by my teacher in the 6th grade. This song and the fall of the Berlin Wall always went together for me. I think of one and hear/remember the other.
Some kid told him everything wrong in the world was his generation's fault. He told the kid, no, this has been going on since the start of time, then wrote this song.
Wikipedia at least claims that it was a friend of John Lennon's other son, Sean Lennon, who lamented how bad it was to be a 21 year old at that time. Joel then started asking this friend of Sean's if he had heard about various things that went on when Joel was 21 years old. And that's how the song began to take form.
What Joel said is true it has been burning since the world's been turning. But damn, Joel could take just the events of 2020 and have a version of the song just as long.
That would’ve saved me a lot of stress when I studied history in high school 🤟😉 I ended up passing, but for some time, it was one of my weakest subjects. Overall grades “struck gold” when I hit the 10th grade ☝️😋👍✅✅✅
My history high school teacher did play this song in class. We had to write down as many things as we could and then we had a discussion about them. I was already familiar with the song but it was a great tool to help us learn.
@@mohamedbazeddi3943 nope, just a love of history. I remember the interviews with him when it was released. But lots of history teachers have since used this song. :)
My daughter graduated hs in 2001..she chose the lyrics of this song for her history special report..she walked around the house constantly saying the lyrics..i felt like i knew it by heart also..Shes a doctor now..pat myself on the back...
I came across this song again and haven't listened to it in about 5 yrs. I've always loved this song. I can relate to, being a Boomer born in 1954. Love Billy Joel!
The events in the song begin with the year he was born and continue to the year the song was written. My social studies teacher actually had us learn the lyrics when it came out, and then had us update date it current events that had occurred since it was recorded.
I had one teacher called Mr Newbold, he did things differently and he's the only one I really remember 25years later. Unfortunately he passed away the year after I left education, rip Mr Newbold
Took forever to memorize this song when it came out. A few years ago it came on the radio at work and my coworkers couldn't believe I could sing along and never missed a word. 30 years and I still love Billy Joel. Love to see you do a reaction to his Goodnight Saigon.
Being a huge history buff, this has always been one of my favorite songs. Even if you don't understand the reference, the music is catchy. It's my understanding that he was talking to a boy in his 20's who didn't know about the Korean War or the Suez Canal Crisis. He wrote this toe-tapper from the Headlines of the day.
Christi Moisant I was a school librarian and the computer teacher and I used this to teach research skills to 8th grade, then they made a PowerPoint synced to the song.
As I recall, it's been a while, when the song was released the people of Allentown were not very fond of the song. I think they saw it as exploitative.
This is the de facto Boomer Generation anthem. I'm 70 now and every time I hear this song, i can recall almost every single name and event. We were a strong, ethically based generation that stood tall and showed the strength of our convictions. We were, though, just a mooncast shadow of the generation that preceded us. They were forged in the Great Depression and WWII....they were made of iron and honor.
You are mad if you think that,those characteristics only stand for the principles you gave listed. That's where the term "k,boomer" comes from.and neither of us are boomers.ffs!
@@jensm4026 Boomer stand for the "baby boom" which includes anyone born between 1946 and 1964. There was an explosion of population in North America after WW2 that led to the use of this expression.
When they interviewed Billy he said he came up with this song because he got in an argument with some younger guys saying you guys had it easy we got reall problems . so the song is him listing all the crap his generation dealt with.
My history teacher in High School had us do a report on this song. We had to go through and write a small piece about the significance of each of these events.
just a little history lesson from billy - one of the great songwriters of our time. saw him in 1971 before anyone knew who he was - the lead act before taj mahal - absolutely blew everyone's minds and a year later EVERYONE knew who he was
When this song came, a lot of history teachers used it as a teaching aid to get kids interested in 20th century history. You should check out the lyric video, but I'm glad you watched the official video first. #keepgreatmusicalive
Billy on a talk show said his fav song is Vienna. he did a top 10 of his own songs,but yes you cant go wrong with Billy Joel a master of his craft huge talent writer musician just a joy !
The only one I didn't get was Malenkov. Must have had something to do with Russia. Never noticed the mention of the Rosenbergs before. Its a fascinating song!
zbagz01 Malenkov was Premiere after Stalin, but got outmaneuvered by Kruschev, who ousted him. Who knows if the Cuban Missile crisis would have happened under Malenkov. I think not.
Truthfully I got about 85% of them. I had to look a few things like Richard Starkweather and thalidomide, (Much of this start before I was born. It runs from the 50s to the 80s
Listening to this never gets old. it has to be one of the top 10 best songs of the 1980s. I'm a Genx'r The reason I love this is because I lived through the events in the later parts of the song. My nostalgia really kicks in whenever I play this.
For a while, I had no idea what he was singing in the verses. I recently discovered he’s singing about events that happened from 1949-1989. From his birth year to the date when he recorded the song. I love the fact he’s a talented musician who can make such a unique song. Haven’t any songs to my knowledge like it. I enjoy watching your videos 👍😎
Billy Joel is one of of those artists who I always seem to forget about when talking about the all time greats. Until you go back and start listening to his stuff. He's got smash hit after smash hit after smash hit. Songs that you've known your whole life and are in your DNA, but haven't necessarily listened to in decades.
When I was in high school, we tried to learn this song by heart so we could perform it for history class. Imagine... 40 teenagers shouting this song as loud and as fast as they can on a school bus five days a week until we got it all down perfectly...
One of the lyrics in this song is the title of my favorite book, "Stranger in a Strange Land" which was written by Robert Heinlein. I remember the first time I heard this song, it gave me a feeling of connected-ness, knowing that Billy Joel must have liked the book too.
I was born in '68 so I've lived through a lot of this history and either seen it or learned about it in school as recent history. No wonder I feel burned out. That fire is still burning, dammit.
Born the year after you, and yeah. I'm not surprised HST killed himself when he did, he was an aware adult though most of it and saw it all coming back around. First as tragedy, then as farce.
This is one of Billy Joel's greatest. I've heard it countless times, but this time through was a first -- I'd never heard the Psycho notes in the background before! Good catch - thanks for pointing them out!
This song in particular got so much media coverage when it came out! The lyrics and video are on point of what the entire world was going through during the decades!
Just heard Billy Joels "Pressure" again in the show The Boys. An incredible song, and no one on YT reacted to it. You know... keep great music alive hm? ;)
Billy Joel: The Longest Time (My favourite of his), Uptown Girl, It's Still Rock and Roll To Me, Only the Good Die Young, Sometimes A Fantasy, River of Dreams, My Life, Matter of Trust, Pressure.
Some of my favorite Billy Joel Songs you need to listen to: Scenes of an Italian Restaurant, Storm Front, River of Dreams, Matter of Trust, Downeaster Alexa, Allentown, Goodnight Saigon, I Go to Extremes, Still Rock N Roll to Me, Travelin' Prayer, Stop In Nevada, Los Angelenos, Weekend Song, New York State of Mind, Only The Good Die Young, Moving Out (Anthony's Song), Prelude/Angry Young Man, Miami 2017 (I've Seen the Lights Go Out on Broadway), The Stranger, Big Shot, My Life, Zanzibar, Stiletto, You May Be Right, Easy Money, An Innocent Man, The Longest Time, Tell Her About It, Baby Grand, Big Man on Mulberry Street, Shameless, No Man's Land, Blonde Over Blue, Shades of Grey, All About Soul, Pressure, The Entertainer, Captain Jack, Running on Ice
It's all the stuff he has live through in each decade From the late 40s up to the time this was recorded in the late 80s it's a really good history lesson for the younger generation to go back and look at some the events he touched on.
"We didn't start the fire, it's still been burnin' since the world's been turnin'. And it will still go on & on & on." For everyone who thinks the current state of the planet is something new and disastrous, should REALLY listen to this song! The topics sung are for JUST the 20th Century. As I keep quoting, "if we don't learn from history, then we are doomed to repeat it." And repeat, repeat, and repeat. Billy Joel slapped us all in the face with this one by saying "WAKE UP". Man I love Billy Joel!
Not really. The idea was sparked when he met Sean Lennon and during their conversation Sean said "nothing happened in the 50's." Billy Joel replied back "Wait a minute, didn't you hear of the Korean War or the Suez Canal Crisis?"
I actually like when you pause the videos. I already know the songs and enjoy seeing your reaction to a certain line, verse or maybe an instrumental solo. Stay safe. Stay happy.
Oh my gosh, Jamel, you got me thinking how old I am, and wondering how young you are. But you did say you remember some of this stuff. I remember too much of it, and can only despair at history repeating itself, often literally on fire. If you've ever watched one of Billy Joel's master classes, you would appreciate even more his astounding musicality.
Lyle😂Soooooo True!!!🤣 During high school, my sister and I worked part-time at Stuckey’s back in the day and the married managers (who lived in a provided apartment on the premises) names were Brender ‘an Eddie😆😃👍🏻 ~Wonder if they’re still going steady🤔😆
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Oh hell yeah been waiting for you do this one. Jamal gonna trip out lol. Thanks. Made my night.
Billy Joel songs: My Life,Honesty,Big Shot,You May be right,Still Rock n Roll to me,Through the long night,Uptown Girl,Innocent Man,Allentown,Say goodbye to Hollywood,Just the way you are,She's always a woman to me,Piano Man,Only the good die young,Stiletto,Zanzibar, Movin' out,A matter of time.Tell her about it,She's got a way, and Don't ask me why
@@evilvolts sweet list of killer tunes. Most of my favs in it.
Also check out Billy Joel's song 'Goodnight Saigon' it's about the Vietnam War
As a teacher, I play this song in my class a lot. And then once they decided they like the song, I had them identify why each event was important. Or why each person was important. The kids love it!
my teacher did that,my mom helped me there was no internet yet
When I was.a senior in high school (1990) we did that exact thing for extra credit in one of my classes!
Animaniacs helped me learn geography. Your way sounds awesome.
Fabulous!!!
When I was growing up I did a project on this song!
And that was only 40 years worth of history.
Imagine an updated version.
2020 would be its own song.
Or the prior 5k years before modern history. lol
I do everyday
Remaster
We didn't start the virus!
The hundreds of times I've listened to the song. The memorizing of the lyrics. And I NEVER caught the Psycho sound!! You've got good ears!!
That is one of the things I love about Jamel - he is really observant when it comes to music.
That was the first time that i heard it also, after he rewound and reacted to it, never noticed it before that as many times as I have listened to it. Well done.
I was a freshman in high school when this was released. I have never heard the 'Psycho' music either until just now. Wow, you definitely learn something new every day🙂
Same here.
Me neither.
He wrote it in studio. Julian Lennon came in the studio with a friend who just turned 21. The friend told Billy" You guys had it easier than we do now." And then Billy wrote this right then and there as a response. LOVE Billy Joel. This song was always played by my teacher in the 6th grade. This song and the fall of the Berlin Wall always went together for me. I think of one and hear/remember the other.
Some kid told him everything wrong in the world was his generation's fault. He told the kid, no, this has been going on since the start of time, then wrote this song.
The kid was actually John Lennon’s son (I think Julian Lennon).
@@Rockesb888 😮 cool!
I believe the kid told Billy the world is going crazy, and he wished he grew up when Billy did because nothing really happened back then.
Wikipedia at least claims that it was a friend of John Lennon's other son, Sean Lennon, who lamented how bad it was to be a 21 year old at that time. Joel then started asking this friend of Sean's if he had heard about various things that went on when Joel was 21 years old. And that's how the song began to take form.
What Joel said is true it has been burning since the world's been turning.
But damn, Joel could take just the events of 2020 and have a version of the song just as long.
"JFK BLOWN AWAY!
WHAT ELSE DO I HAVE TO SAY?!"
That part.... Makes me tear up-every time 😣
me too
Right? 😪
JFK the last REAL Democrat.
@@saltywinchester1600 The last *REAL* President.
@@hazelanderson1479exactly why he died. He was too good.
I could teach two years of history to high school kids with this one song.
That would’ve saved me a lot of stress when I studied history in high school 🤟😉 I ended up passing, but for some time, it was one of my weakest subjects. Overall grades “struck gold” when I hit the 10th grade ☝️😋👍✅✅✅
I think he has a degree in history amd maybe did some teaching. Not sure how accurate that is.
My history high school teacher did play this song in class. We had to write down as many things as we could and then we had a discussion about them. I was already familiar with the song but it was a great tool to help us learn.
@@oodlesloodles8930 Mine did too
@@mohamedbazeddi3943 nope, just a love of history. I remember the interviews with him when it was released.
But lots of history teachers have since used this song. :)
The running joke of 2020 was that Billy Joel needed to do a sequel. On twitter they had threads of world events to the cadence of the song.
A guy named Dylan White made one and it was fantastic!
@@ryansheehan9462 There's a couple modern parodies and some are just hilarious
fall out boy made one like a year ago but it kinda sucked
My daughter graduated hs in 2001..she chose the lyrics of this song for her history special report..she walked around the house constantly saying the lyrics..i felt like i knew it by heart also..Shes a doctor now..pat myself on the back...
Curious what she thought of the thalidomide reference.
Good job!!
His catalog is DEEP.
Welcome to the rabbit hole that is Billy Joel.
2020 alone could have its own version of this song.
someone did a song called this " year's been a dumpster fire". parody of this song or " We didn't want the virus"
@@bkurtz8770 that’s hilarious, I’ll check it out!
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Unfortunately true...
@@SonshineLady7 thats the wrong one
I came across this song again and haven't listened to it in about 5 yrs. I've always loved this song. I can relate to, being a Boomer born in 1954. Love Billy Joel!
"She's always a woman to me" and "Goodnight Saigon" I mean jeeze, he's got a massive library of great songs.
Goodnight Saigon is one of the most amazing songs ever. Love it.
"Allen Town" "Up town girl" "only the good die young" "big shot" so many good songs I could go on lol
Everybody has a dream definitely
Only the good die young
Yes, one of the very best performers..............ever
R.E.M. - It's The End of the World as we Know it, is a lot like this song.
It pretty much picks up where this left off.
Lenard Bernstein!!!
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@@europa_bambaataa I was looking for this reply
The events in the song begin with the year he was born and continue to the year the song was written. My social studies teacher actually had us learn the lyrics when it came out, and then had us update date it current events that had occurred since it was recorded.
What a great story!
zbagz01 sounds like a great teacher!
I had one teacher called Mr Newbold, he did things differently and he's the only one I really remember 25years later. Unfortunately he passed away the year after I left education, rip Mr Newbold
John K niiiice
Cool teacher!
Took forever to memorize this song when it came out. A few years ago it came on the radio at work and my coworkers couldn't believe I could sing along and never missed a word. 30 years and I still love Billy Joel. Love to see you do a reaction to his Goodnight Saigon.
It took me a long time to get All the words -- video was awesome!!
Another Billy Joel Classic... "It's still rock and roll to me"
Thanks for reminding me of that song!
Billy has some of the greatest songs ever written, in my opinion.
Being a huge history buff, this has always been one of my favorite songs. Even if you don't understand the reference, the music is catchy. It's my understanding that he was talking to a boy in his 20's who didn't know about the Korean War or the Suez Canal Crisis. He wrote this toe-tapper from the Headlines of the day.
The kid was a friend of Julian Lennon
One of the greatest songs ever written, especially in terms of the lyrics.
This song came out my sophomore year of college and it was literally part of our history class. One of my favorite songs ever.
I think it's one of his worst songs. To each their own.
It would definitely be a good video to show to bring in the different decades for kids that are visual learners.
da324 oh I agree in terms of his catalog, but for reason I just spark up when I hear this one
I was in high school and my history teacher did the same thing.
Christi Moisant I was a school librarian and the computer teacher and I used this to teach research skills to 8th grade, then they made a PowerPoint synced to the song.
Billy Joel- "Allentown" is a great and melancholic song to check out. The death of small towns that had the bad luck to only have one industry.
Good call!
Allentown is small? Besides the song is more about Bethlehem Steel. :)
Downeaster Alexa is another amazing song in the same vein as Allentown.
As I recall, it's been a while, when the song was released the people of Allentown were not very fond of the song. I think they saw it as exploitative.
Billy Joel "You May Be Right" "All For Leyna" & "Honesty" just to name a few. Super artist.
Downeaster Alexa is a good one.
@@VKrulikoski Another favorite for sure.
Laura!
He needs to hear Goodnight Saigon
Piano man
This is the de facto Boomer Generation anthem. I'm 70 now and every time I hear this song, i can recall almost every single name and event. We were a strong, ethically based generation that stood tall and showed the strength of our convictions. We were, though, just a mooncast shadow of the generation that preceded us. They were forged in the Great Depression and WWII....they were made of iron and honor.
You are mad if you think that,those characteristics only stand for the principles you gave listed. That's where the term "k,boomer" comes from.and neither of us are boomers.ffs!
It's not whether you can recall an event,its how it affected it you. Cultural etc.
@@jensm4026 Boomer stand for the "baby boom" which includes anyone born between 1946 and 1964. There was an explosion of population in North America after WW2 that led to the use of this expression.
He is a brilliant songwriter...love him !!!!!!!
I remember the first time I heard this back in the 80’s. Such a great message.
I don't think people really got the song when it first came out. Now we know.
VH1 put it on one of their 100 worst songs lists. 🤨 Along with Kokomo.
@@savyjett whaaat, is that true?! That's crazy. Thanks
He hits so many of the pivotal moments of the 20th century!
When they interviewed Billy he said he came up with this song because he got in an argument with some younger guys saying you guys had it easy we got reall problems . so the song is him listing all the crap his generation dealt with.
The younger people were stupid
He just did an interview with 60 Minutes Australia and talks about his conversation with John Lennon’s son.
I had a history teacher in HS that had us write a version of this for our lifetime. Loved that assignment!
That’s a good teacher!
What a great idea!
More Billy Joel!!!! Not my favorite Billy Joel song, but like most of his stuff, it’s still good.
History of the world crom the 1950s to the 1980s. He hit everything!
But somehow he omitted Muhammad Ali.
My history teacher in High School had us do a report on this song. We had to go through and write a small piece about the significance of each of these events.
Same here
Me too! And of course, we didn't have the Internet back then to help us!
Wow, I hope it was a group project, because that's a lot lol.
Great idea
Even the Cola Wars in the 80's? Those were tough times.
I REMEMBER a lot of what he is talking about. He is amazing.
Please do "For the longest time" AND "Uptown Girl"... Billy Joel.
2 worse billy Joel songs
Hayden Robert...agree. A little too syrup-y
Hayden Robert 2 GOOD songs!!! Not worse!! That’s only your opinion!! I like all that music it’s TONS better than the crap on the radios nowadays
For The Longest Time is my number one favourite song of Billy's. Also love Uptown Girl. But he has so many great ones.
@@haydenrobert7362 I agree. These were two of Billy's worst.
The best he ever did and deeply profound!
Only the good die young - Billy Joel
Good one
banger!
100% my first song of his I was obsessed with.
just a little history lesson from billy - one of the great songwriters of our time. saw him in 1971 before anyone knew who he was - the lead act before taj mahal - absolutely blew everyone's minds and a year later EVERYONE knew who he was
An amazing songwriter, tells a complete story in 3-4 minutes, truly a great
He's saying "look what we were handed in our lives to fight to make right"... And when we are gone it'll still burn on, & on! 😢
When this song came, a lot of history teachers used it as a teaching aid to get kids interested in 20th century history. You should check out the lyric video, but I'm glad you watched the official video first. #keepgreatmusicalive
IMHO as a singer/songwriter/composer/performer, Billy Joel = 🐐
A brilliant history lesson from genius Billy Joel! Love it! #1 record for him♥️🎼🎶🎵🇨🇦
Billy on a talk show said his fav song is Vienna. he did a top 10 of his own songs,but yes you cant go wrong with Billy Joel a master of his craft huge talent writer musician just a joy !
Check out Billy Joel's "Longest Time"
The River of Dreams too
I love that one!!! Longest time
inf82nd and Uptown Girl
@@BeautyandGoreGalore and The Ballad of Billy the Kid
#Scenes from an Italian Restaurant "
Yes!! Please, TRAVELIN' PRAYER - It's been forgotten. Let's keep it alive. It's awesome!
I'll be 52 in November I am well-rehearsed in this song one of my favorite ones
Mr. Joel certainly has a way with words. And putting them to a melody.
"Sounds like he started rapping or something..." I love it! The lyrics in this song require a lot of articulation!
billy joel has it all great music loads of it too love you all big hugs
I get all the references in this song.
Definitely dating myself!
The only one I didn't get was Malenkov. Must have had something to do with Russia. Never noticed the mention of the Rosenbergs before. Its a fascinating song!
zbagz01 Malenkov was Premiere after Stalin, but got outmaneuvered by Kruschev, who ousted him. Who knows if the Cuban Missile crisis would have happened under Malenkov. I think not.
You and me both!
Truthfully I got about 85% of them. I had to look a few things like Richard Starkweather and thalidomide, (Much of this start before I was born. It runs from the 50s to the 80s
yep
Listening to this never gets old. it has to be one of the top 10 best songs of the 1980s. I'm a Genx'r The reason I love this is because I lived through the events in the later parts of the song. My nostalgia really kicks in whenever I play this.
For a while, I had no idea what he was singing in the verses. I recently discovered he’s singing about events that happened from 1949-1989. From his birth year to the date when he recorded the song. I love the fact he’s a talented musician who can make such a unique song. Haven’t any songs to my knowledge like it.
I enjoy watching your videos 👍😎
What about belgians in the congo?
ah nvm
The absolute genius that is Billy Joel. I seen him at Shea stadium in 83.
Jamel says “and look at us today”. It seems, we haven’t become much more enlightened. Great song. Great reaction.
Billy Joel is one of of those artists who I always seem to forget about when talking about the all time greats. Until you go back and start listening to his stuff. He's got smash hit after smash hit after smash hit. Songs that you've known your whole life and are in your DNA, but haven't necessarily listened to in decades.
When I was in high school, we tried to learn this song by heart so we could perform it for history class. Imagine... 40 teenagers shouting this song as loud and as fast as they can on a school bus five days a week until we got it all down perfectly...
Lol, it took me a while to get all the words, can follow it in my head, but can't sing it with him!
It's basically a shopping list that contains important foot notes in history... Bloody brilliant song! One of his best if you ask me 👌🏻😁🎵
One of the lyrics in this song is the title of my favorite book, "Stranger in a Strange Land" which was written by Robert Heinlein. I remember the first time I heard this song, it gave me a feeling of connected-ness, knowing that Billy Joel must have liked the book too.
Also an Iron Maiden song!
My favorite book, also!
Billy Joel’s “Vienna” is one of my favorite songs of all time, cannot recommend it enough!
Someone should cover this with modern lyrics/events and a good music video. would be interesting
No.
@@ninline2000 don't worry most of the issues still exist so the song won't be changing too much
The band Chance did this in Cleveland about 18 years ago.
I’m sure people HAVE especially post-9/11
There's tons of parodies
My mom is a huge Billy Joel fan so I heard this song a lot growing up. Absolutely amazing.
I was born in '68 so I've lived through a lot of this history and either seen it or learned about it in school as recent history. No wonder I feel burned out. That fire is still burning, dammit.
Born the year after you, and yeah. I'm not surprised HST killed himself when he did, he was an aware adult though most of it and saw it all coming back around. First as tragedy, then as farce.
This is one of Billy Joel's greatest. I've heard it countless times, but this time through was a first -- I'd never heard the Psycho notes in the background before! Good catch - thanks for pointing them out!
"Goodnight Siagon" great song and he always has veterans on stage singing backup for him during this song in concerts
Totally a genius Kennedy blown away what else do I have to say
"Scene From An Italian Restaurant," please. 🙂🙂
Ah yes
One of his best for sure
There’s a long list of Billy Joel hits to keep you busy for a while. Enjoy them all and thanks for all the reaction videos. You’re a joy to watch.
This song in particular got so much media coverage when it came out!
The lyrics and video are on point of what the entire world was going through during the decades!
Just heard Billy Joels "Pressure" again in the show The Boys. An incredible song, and no one on YT reacted to it. You know... keep great music alive hm? ;)
Billy Joel: The Longest Time (My favourite of his), Uptown Girl, It's Still Rock and Roll To Me, Only the Good Die Young, Sometimes A Fantasy, River of Dreams, My Life, Matter of Trust, Pressure.
Matter of Trust ans Always A Woman are my favorites. I believe his ex-wife inspired both.
I love all those. And So It Goes too.
American history the good, the bad and the ugly. One of my favorite Billy Joel songs out of an amazing catalog of songs.
Try again! This is about world history and not American history only!
Some of my favorite Billy Joel Songs you need to listen to: Scenes of an Italian Restaurant, Storm Front, River of Dreams, Matter of Trust, Downeaster Alexa, Allentown, Goodnight Saigon, I Go to Extremes, Still Rock N Roll to Me, Travelin' Prayer, Stop In Nevada, Los Angelenos, Weekend Song, New York State of Mind, Only The Good Die Young, Moving Out (Anthony's Song), Prelude/Angry Young Man, Miami 2017 (I've Seen the Lights Go Out on Broadway), The Stranger, Big Shot, My Life, Zanzibar, Stiletto, You May Be Right, Easy Money, An Innocent Man, The Longest Time, Tell Her About It, Baby Grand, Big Man on Mulberry Street, Shameless, No Man's Land, Blonde Over Blue, Shades of Grey, All About Soul, Pressure, The Entertainer, Captain Jack, Running on Ice
Vero ... Ma anche Summer Highland falls. I love these days .... The great wall of china She's got a Way and so it Goes .... Ecc .. Ecc ecc
Until The night
Love all those and also And So It Goes.
For a Billy Joel song that’s the complete opposite of this one in tempo, check out “Leave A Tender Moment Alone”. A very mellow song.
That is one song you don't hear a lot requests for.
I love this song so much. It's the best Billy Joel song ever!
Just The Way You Are. One of the most beautiful songs ever. And my wedding song ❤️
Billy Joel- “.SCENE FROM AN ITALIAN RESTAURANT ” Is such a great song, Jamel, you must check it out!
Probably his best, depending on your mood. Though my favorite is Captain Jack.
Yes!
What an epic song !
Finally back to Billy Joel! Looking forward to "Uptown Girl," "Scenes From an Italian Restaurant" and "A Matter of Trust" next.
I'm 69 Years Old .... This Song IS My Life's History!
Love this! Your reactions are priceless 🎵🎶💖💖🎶🎵
Love Billy Joel! It’s still rock and roll to me is one of my favorites!
Always loved the Malcolm X shoutout.
Billy Joel is my FAVORITE artist
You need to do his gospel-tinged song....River of Dreams!
It's all the stuff he has live through in each decade From the late 40s up to the time this was recorded in the late 80s it's a really good history lesson for the younger generation to go back and look at some the events he touched on.
Billy Joel - Uptown girl
Dude the 80s were just kick ass man!!!!
Imagine the remake of that starting from when that finished in the 80’s to now.
I've seen people posting new lyrics just covering 2020. Definitely a lot going on this year.
I would love for billy to do an add on from the time he ended this song until now
"We didn't start the fire, it's still been burnin' since the world's been turnin'. And it will still go on & on & on." For everyone who thinks the current state of the planet is something new and disastrous, should REALLY listen to this song! The topics sung are for JUST the 20th Century. As I keep quoting, "if we don't learn from history, then we are doomed to repeat it." And repeat, repeat, and repeat. Billy Joel slapped us all in the face with this one by saying "WAKE UP". Man I love Billy Joel!
Billy Joel wrote this when he turned forty- and he thought about what had happened in his life?
Some younger fan gave him crap about his generation doing nothing, so he wrote this as a response
Not really. The idea was sparked when he met Sean Lennon and during their conversation Sean said "nothing happened in the 50's." Billy Joel replied back "Wait a minute, didn't you hear of the Korean War or the Suez Canal Crisis?"
Hes saying this world we live in is Insane and amazing, its always been that way
One of the ongoing memes this year has been trying to write the 2020 verse of "We Didn't Start the Fire." Twitter is full of them.
How about the whole last 3 decades?
Desert Storm, Grunge rock,
Lewinsky, Y2K, social networks,
9/11, #MeToo, Covid-19, BLM...
...just for starters.
One of the most beautiful song and true 😫 songs in world
I actually like when you pause the videos. I already know the songs and enjoy seeing your reaction to a certain line, verse or maybe an instrumental solo. Stay safe. Stay happy.
Billy Joel the All American singer!!!!!!
Oh my gosh, Jamel, you got me thinking how old I am, and wondering how young you are. But you did say you remember some of this stuff. I remember too much of it, and can only despair at history repeating itself, often literally on fire.
If you've ever watched one of Billy Joel's master classes, you would appreciate even more his astounding musicality.
I was today-years-old when I found out the theme from "Psycho" played in this song when mentioned. Thanks! :D
Billy Joel’s Italian Restaurant (aka: Brenda and Eddie)
That's Brender.....LOL - always one of my favorites, especially in concert
Lyle😂Soooooo True!!!🤣
During high school, my sister and I worked
part-time at Stuckey’s back in the day and the married managers (who lived in a provided apartment on the premises) names were Brender ‘an Eddie😆😃👍🏻 ~Wonder if they’re still going steady🤔😆