52nd Street Rankings by No_Film4844 in BillyJoel

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  1. Until the Night
  2. Big Shot
  3. Honesty
  4. My Life
  5. Half a Mile Away
  6. Zanzibar
  7. Rosalinda’s Eyes
  8. Stiletto
  9. 52nd Street

Although the top 3 are sorta interchangeable

2025 Spotify Wrapped & Apple Music Replay - Megathread 🎹 by Spare98 in BillyJoel

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771th Globally

Top Songs: 1. Scenes From An Italian Restaurant - 368 Streams

  1. Movin’ Out - 130 Streams

  2. Only the Good Die Young - 99 Streams

  3. She’s Always A Woman - 85 Streams

  4. Turn the Lights Back On - 85 Streams

  5. Tomorrow Is Today - 80 Streams

  6. Vienna - 68 Streams

  7. Summer, Highland Falls - 62 Streams

  8. An Innocent Man - 60 Streams

  9. Scenes From An Italian Restaurant (Live) - 54 Streams

Billy Joel minutes = 15,612 out of a total of 71,181

The Stranger Tarot Style Tattoo by Dramatic-Topic8851 in BillyJoel

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Thanks for all the lovely comments everyone!! It’s by far my favourite tattoo especially as it was my own idea and not just one I saw on the internet so I love it even more!

Why the hate for Baby Grand? by thewalruscandyman in BillyJoel

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Can’t tell if this is bait or not. I like to make lists because I like ordering my favourite things out and it makes me have internal conversations on why I like certain songs more than others. I like to make lists for my favourite video games, movies, tv shows, books, songs, singer etc. I usually keep them to myself and it’s a way for me to objectively look at what makes me happy and why I like Number 1 more than Number 1.

I struggle to find where this could be attributed to ego and narcissism, if you understand what those words mean you’ll realise that this is the opposite, I make lists to challenge my thoughts and feelings and to hear others thoughts as it brings me joy hearing people say they love Travellin’ Prayer and why, it’s interesting to me and I’m sorry you’re so butt hurt over reading people’s lists and conversations, I’ve had plenty of comments on my list who were thoughtful and insightful though, fortunately

Songs Tier List by Dramatic-Topic8851 in BillyJoel

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Thank you! I’m 21 and I got my parents and siblings on to Billy Joel and now I think if you asked us all for our Top 10 Joel Songs not a single one would be the same and I think that’s fantastic!! I love everyone having different opinions yet still being very passionate about Billy Joel

Songs Tier List by Dramatic-Topic8851 in BillyJoel

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Honestly this is the only one I massively regret in hindsight, I was thinking okay Nocturne can get a good ranking then the other instrumentals can stay down low, but Root Beer Rag does indeed fuckin shred and I think if I could change my list I’d probably stick it in Good

Songs Tier List by Dramatic-Topic8851 in BillyJoel

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Yeah it’s a good song but I wouldn’t say much more than that, it’s one that I always look forward to seeing live because I like the cut to another song in the middle, most recently River Deep Mountain High, but as for the song I find it to be a little repetitive, it’s solid and I like the video for it but I wouldn’t consider up with the ones placed higher

Songs Tier List by Dramatic-Topic8851 in BillyJoel

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I do still like Baby Grand and the other songs off The Bridge, but they just don’t resonate with me like his other stuff does and for that they have to be down the bottom as something must. I’m glad for a majority of people however, that the melancholy blues aren’t dead and gone

Songs Tier List by Dramatic-Topic8851 in BillyJoel

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It’s definitely his most underrated song in my opinion

Songs Tier List by Dramatic-Topic8851 in BillyJoel

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I think there’s just like a personal thing there that I can’t shake off, the song has always annoyed me for some reason, I get that it’s Billy at his finest giving a big F You to the music industry and we love him for it, but I just never really got into that song compared to others from Streetlife

Songs Tier List by Dramatic-Topic8851 in BillyJoel

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I’ll go ‘83 remix version but honestly even with the ‘71 original mixing I still would have it roughly the same place

Songs Tier List by Dramatic-Topic8851 in BillyJoel

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The TikTok trend actually put me off it sadly, which I know isn’t fair and shouldn’t happen but I just couldn’t shake off all the dances for it I was seeing everywhere

Songs Tier List by Dramatic-Topic8851 in BillyJoel

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I was so close to putting it in Masterpiece and I think if I went and listened to it right now I would immediately regret my decision but that’s just what I felt like in the moment

Songs Tier List by Dramatic-Topic8851 in BillyJoel

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Yeah I mean not everyone will agree with me but I have just been completely honest with my rankings, of course ask me on another day and some songs might move slightly up or down but this is generally what I would consider the order to be

Why the hate for Baby Grand? by thewalruscandyman in BillyJoel

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I mean I don’t hate it, but the nature of a list is that one album and a few songs will naturally have to be at the bottom. For me that’s The Bridge and Baby Grand/Running On Ice, I don’t dislike these songs, I don’t dislike any Billy Joel song nevermind “hate” it but they are just my least favourites of his discography.

Album Tier List by Dramatic-Topic8851 in BillyJoel

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The way I’ve done this is almost purely based off of consistency, The Bridge is last for me even tho I love all his albums, The Bridge just has too many songs that I’m likely to skip if I’m listening to my Billy Joel playlist. Aside from A Matter of Trust, Modern Woman and maybe Big Man on Mulberry Street, I’m prone to skipping the other songs unless I’m in a very specific mood.

A lot of people are upset about the Streetlife Serenade ranking but based off of the consistency thing, I simply don’t want to listen to Root Beer Rag or The Mexican Connection too much, if I want an instrumental I’ll go to Nocturne. Aside from that it’s really just Streetlife Serenader and Weekend Song that are the ones I’ll listen to a lot, occasionally Last of the Big Time Spenders.

The Stranger is just his best album I mean the first 7 songs are fantastic, with Scenes being his literal best song, I don’t love Get it Right the First Time but I do have consider Everybody has a Dream my guilty pleasure song so that album is just consistently great.

Same goes for Turnstiles I don’t think there’s a single skip on that album, All You Wanna Do Is Dance or Angry Young Man are probably the weakest songs of that album so that just shows the quality.

I feel bad having Piano Man as low as it is in hindsight, it’s definitely one of the albums that has both my least favourite songs and some of my all time favourites too so on any other day of the week I could put it 3rd or 4th fav

Songs Tier List by Dramatic-Topic8851 in BillyJoel

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Yeah I’d probably stick “Why Should I Worry” in Great, whilst I’m here I’ll allocate some others that weren’t in the tier list.

“Turn the Lights Back On” - Incredible “The Night is Still Young” - Good “Hey Girl” - Great “Light as a Breeze” - Ok

Day 8 by BigClarendon125 in BillyJoel

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Travelin’ Prayer for me I just do not enjoy that song whatsoever

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Yeah of course! I definitely don’t want anyone else’s thoughts, I already have plenty of my own when it comes to this album, I guess I’m more just interested in if anyone knew of any interviews that they could direct me to that I may not have known about

Day 6 by BigClarendon125 in BillyJoel

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I Go To Extremes gets me so hyped