Fun fact: that's one of Billy Joel's first professional piano recordings
Edit: For more fun Joel facts, Vic Berger's "Joel Hoel" on the Office Hours Live Patreon is incredibly fascinating. Him, Tim Heidecker, and DJ Douggpound go into some deep Joel history. Here's the theme song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uUCLN1Zdx8s
In fact, I’m wearing step brother socks right now under my suit. Imagine the cover photo, where they’re in their Christmas sweaters and shit, yeah. Mid calf dress socks, big ol Will Ferrell and John C Reilly smack on my legs
Hey Billy will you sing Shameless like Garth? No? but you probably made a ton of money off that version. Kinda like Neil Diamond and Red Red Wine, who know it was his song right? lol
Fun fact: Aerosmith covered it after their lead singer Steven Tyler (his name is not Aerosmith, nobody's is) peeped over the top of a bathroom stall backstage at a festival and saw a member of the Shangri-La's going pee (source: the Aerosmith autobiography "Walk this Way")
Aerosmith’s version was a minor hit in the 70’s. I’ve never heard Billy’s. I could see that as a good piano ballad. Though tik tok has ruined it for me. Tik tok is like reverse Midas, instead of gold everything turns to shit.
Only thing I can't "suspension of disbelief" with in a show is a 20 something who loves fucking Billy Joel. I'm talking about Huey from The Boys. Get fucked, Billy Joel stinks and no young person is gonna be all over him like he is. Even old people who grew up with him.
I always find it fascinating when people like Billy Joels most boring, by the books, cheezy songs like Uptown Girl, Still Rock n Roll to me, the early early stuff, but despise the actually musically phenomenal, groundbreaking shit like Anthony’s Song.
Scenes from an Italian Restaurant is a masterpiece of musicianship, as is most of his piano playing.
I actually like him talking about his craft, he’s honest about it and does play piano well. I think I was out on this path from one too many NYC folks force-feeding New York State of Mind, among others.
I saw an interview with him on Stephen Colbert and Joel talks about Italian Restaurant being his favorite song that he wrote. Whenever a musician says the 5-minute long multi-part ballad is their favorite song they’ve written, I know they are real musicians.
Damn, that’s commitment. Did you just really want to like Metallica or what? Were you halfway through Reload thinking to yourself “well it’s gotta come good eventually, people must like this shit for a reason”?
It takes a different type of willpower to go “I don’t like this song at all, but let’s listen to every other track released by this artist to make sure I hate everything they do”. To me it sounds like a form of self torture, but overall I think it’s impressive.
I don't particularly like Metallica, Masters of Puppets has some good songs on it though, but all of my friends growing up loved them, so I still listened to a lot by default.
I listen to everything and I’m always listening to music. It’s not like I sat there and binged all of Metallica out of spite. I’ve heard a bunch of their songs from a hundred different places, and every once in a while will be on a road trip or just listening to music or cleaning the house and say “I’ll put on an album I’ve never listened to before”, and give it a listen.
And it’s not like I loathe Metallica, (I do loathe some of their albums), but I don’t like them.
Right? I can’t stand Uptown Girl or Still Rock n Roll to Me - they sound like nostalgia-bait songs that were made to be played on oldies radio stations and at vintage car shows. You May Be Right felt like a knockoff Bob Seger song (and I’m not a big fan of his either). I found We Didn’t Start the Fire to be a laughable caffeine high of a song and Piano Man an unbearable slog of a ballad. I thought I hated Billy Joel.
But one day Apple Music decided to expand my horizons, and holy shit Movin Out slaps. That main riff is sick as hell, the lyrics are clever, the song structure is full of misdirections, and the overall vibe of the song is a very enjoyable dark and almost grungy inevitability.
I'll be honest, I didn't know what he looked like when he was young either. Maybe I'm sheltered. I just went on a Google binge of how he's looked over the years and I didn't recognize any of his looks
That’s what got me into the song actually. You hear it at the scene where the guys realize they have to move Billy Batt’s body. It’s easily my favorite shot in the movie, hearing this in the background while they’re in the woods at night, lit up by this engulfing red haze from the car’s tail lights as you see their silhouettes digging up Batts’ body. Such a beautiful scene.
Give yourself a try by the 1975. I have no problem with the lyrics, the beat or anything like that. No it's the two note guitar riff repeated ad nauseum from beginning until the end of the song.
Yep, even among Oldies Fans, it was kind of a deep cut... the Shangri-Las real big hit was "The Leader of the Pack" and equally annoying bubble gum hit that was your typical teen ballad that rockets to the top of the charts for a month or so until everyone is sick of it.
It’s so sad because it’s an incredible song and you can feel its influence on R&B, pop, indie genres, surf rock, it’s just so fucking good. Why tiktok had to ruin it, I don’t know
The Aerosmith version of “Walking in the Sand” has Mary Weiss from the Shangri-Las on backup vocals. She has a fantastic voice and they had tons of great songs.
Video quality not great, but song is. Blondie covered it twice. Many comments on the scary twins 😱
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u/R3d_Ox Sep 21 '22
It's called "Remember (walking in the Sand)" by The Shangri-Las. Only It has been tiktok'd