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View Poll Results: Elton John Or Billy Joel?
Elton John 27 48.21%
Billy Joel 29 51.79%
Voters: 56. You may not vote on this poll

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Old 08-20-2018, 06:53 PM
 
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Go listen to Piano Man, then to A Matter of Trust. Then get back to me.


Absolutely Piano Man and here in NY there is Billy Joel and than there is everyone else..

Billy is simply The Man !!




https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gxEPV4kolz0
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Old 08-20-2018, 07:25 PM
 
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFTLKWw542g

We Didn't Start The Fire

Harry Truman, Doris Day, Red China, Johnnie Ray
South Pacific, Walter Winchell, Joe DiMaggio
Joe McCarthy, Richard Nixon, Studebaker, Television
North Korea, South Korea, Marilyn Monroe

Rosenbergs, H-Bomb, Sugar Ray, Panmunjom
Brando, The King And I, and The Catcher In The Rye
Eisenhower, Vaccine, England's got a new queen
Marciano, Liberace, Santayana goodbye

We didn't start the fire
It was always burning
Since the world's been turning
We didn't start the fire
No, we didn't light it
But we tried to fight it

Joseph Stalin, Malenkov, Nasser and Prokofiev
Rockefeller, Campanella, Communist Bloc
Roy Cohn, Juan Peron, Toscanini, Dacron
Dien Bien Phu Falls, Rock Around the Clock
Einstein, James Dean, Brooklyn's got a winning team
Davy Crockett, Peter Pan, Elvis Presley, Disneyland
Bardot, Budapest, Alabama, Khrushchev
Princess Grace, Peyton Place, Trouble in the Suez

We didn't start the fire
It was always burning
Since the world's been turning
We didn't start the fire
No, we didn't light it
But we tried to fight it

Little Rock, Pasternak, Mickey Mantle, Kerouac
Sputnik, Chou En-Lai, Bridge On The River Kwai
Lebanon, Charles de Gaulle, California baseball
Starkweather Homicide, Children of Thalidomide...

Buddy Holly, Ben-Hur, Space Monkey, Mafia
Hula Hoops, Castro, Edsel is a no-go
U-2, Syngman Rhee, payola and Kennedy
Chubby Checker, Psycho, Belgians in the Congo

We didn't start the fire
It was always burning
Since the world's been turning
We didn't start the fire
No, we didn't light it
But we tried to fight it

Hemingway, Eichmann, Stranger in a Strange Land
Dylan, Berlin, Bay of Pigs invasion
Lawrence of Arabia, British Beatlemania
Ole Miss, John Glenn, Liston beats Patterson
Pope Paul, Malcolm X, British Politician Sex
J.F.K. blown away, what else do I have to say?

We didn't start the fire
It was always burning
Since the world's been turning
We didn't start the fire
No, we didn't light it
But we tried to fight it

Birth control, Ho Chi Minh, Richard Nixon back again
Moonshot, Woodstock, Watergate, punk rock
Begin, Reagan, Palestine, Terror on the airline
Ayatollah's in Iran, Russians in Afghanistan
Wheel of Fortune, Sally Ride, heavy metal, suicide
Foreign debts, homeless Vets, AIDS, Crack, Bernie Goetz
Hypodermics on the shores, China's under martial law
Rock and Roller Cola wars, I can't take it anymore

We didn't start the fire
It was always burning
Since the world's been turning
We didn't start the fire
But when we are gone
It will still burn on and on and on and on
And on and on and on and on...

We didn't start the fire
It was always burning
Since the world's been turning
We didn't start the fire
No, we didn't light it
But we tried to fight it

We didn't start the fire
It was always burning
Since the world's been turning
We didn't start the fire
No, we didn't light it
But we tried to fight it

We didn't start the fire
It was always burning
Since the world's been turning
We didn't start the fire
No, we didn't light it
But we tried to fight
We didn't start the fire
It was always burning since the world's been turning
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Old 08-20-2018, 08:08 PM
 
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I think Billy Joel and Elton John are pretty well tied for percentage of deep and profound lyrics and rich instrumentals in the 70s versus cheesy stuff in the 1980s.
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Old 08-20-2018, 08:13 PM
 
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Beautiful rendition.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCNqIBpO2ho
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Old 08-20-2018, 08:15 PM
 
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I think Billy Joel and Elton John are pretty well tied for percentage of deep and profound lyrics and rich instrumentals in the 70s versus cheesy stuff in the 1980s.

Billy Joel likely wrote his own lyrics.


Elton John's lyricist was Bernie Taupin.
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Old 09-03-2018, 01:09 PM
 
Location: SF Bay Area
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I think Joel's music sounds more 'dated'. Take that for what it's worth. Sometimes, dated is good. The Doors? Pink Floyd? The Clash? That's all dated as hell, and I love it for that. But Joel just hasn't aged as well, at least to my subjective assessment. I mean, Scenes from an Italian Restaurant is a great song. But... Big Shot? Uptown Girl? No thanks.

Also, We Didn't Start the Fire is a sort of musical crime against humanity. I don't think Elton ever did anything so objectionable.

Well "Island Girl" ranks in the top 10 of the most unpolitically correct songs of all time, even though it's one of my favorites by him.
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Old 09-20-2018, 10:23 PM
 
Location: The New England part of Ohio
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I'm from Long Island and I voted for Elton John. His music is original and timeless. He doesn't copy other artists, he has a unique sound. He's very talented.

Billy Joel's first two albums were pretty good - but not outstanding. After that, they were derivative and desperate. He has failed to find his own sound. Who is he trying to be? Bob Dylan? The Beatles? Joe Jackson? Bruce Springsteen?

He's always stolen from whatever is popular.

And yes, I agree with Mopac1980 - his 1980s music is very cheesy.


Joel's lyrics are far from profound. He tries for troubadour, but sadly misses the mark.

Elton John does not try to be anything other than what he is - a great pop rock artist.
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Old 09-21-2018, 05:55 PM
 
Location: Western North Carolina
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I love two Billy Joel Songs:

You're My Home (live 1981 performance)

and

Lullabye

Other than that, I have a preference for good vocals and Elton's beat Billy's by a mile, in my opinion.

I lived the better part of my youth through the era where these two artist reigned. Billy was very popular. But Elton John, in his prime, was a mega-superstar.
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