always be closing the nylon curtain
I've no truck with so-called guilty pleasures.
I honestly don't have time to pretend to like stuff that I don't care about for the sake of some irony or fear of seriousness.
I'm deadly serious about music.
Like Keith Richards said, it's about discernement.
Knowing what the shit is, and what isn't the shit.
I love the first four or five Billy Joel albums. Maybe even six.
They are most definitely the shit.
He never became big in the UK really until 'Uptown Girl', but his best stuff predates that.
Check out this interview Billy did with Alec Baldwin for WNYC's 'Here's The Thing'. The two of them riffing off of each other like a Long Island version of Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon.
Even if you're not a fan I guarantee you'll hear him differently afterwards.
Alec Baldwin is the shit too. If only because he's responsible for one of the finest 8 minutes or so of cinema history in GlenGarry Glen Ross, as the salesman with balls of steel.
Always. Be. Closing.
Billy also knows a thing or two about what's important to the artist, or communicator who wants to connect an audience.
