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  • Why so harsh on ANY given musician as you have with B Joel ?

    '' It is a kind of mystery: Why does his music make my skin crawl in a way that other bad music doesn't?'' - Mr Rosenbaum truly asks of himself in this article. I don't pretend to be a psychologist, nor do I buy into current pop psychobabble from anyone who writes a book. If you are really asking me, Mr. Rosenbuam, I would attempt an answer ...
    Posted to The Spectator by geodeticman.5 on January 27, 2009

  • The most pointless article ever..............

    Wow...lots of big words and many years of built up anger for something so trivial and pointless to even waste our time with. Out of everything that's going on in this world of ours you have chosen to rip Billy Joel a new one? Regardless of whether one likes him or not, you should feel good about having a job where you can go to work, sit down, ...
    Posted to The Spectator by brandonj74 on January 26, 2009

  • Billy Joel: Alternative Criteria to Contempt

    Auden wrote in ''The Dyer's Hand'' - and I paraphrase because I don't have a copy at hand -- that the artist's subject is life, therefore the artist is always humbled by his subject because he knows that no matter how hard he tries, he will not do it justice; the critic's subject is a book (or songs, in this case), therefore the critic will always ...
    Posted to The Spectator by ChuckJMcMahon on January 26, 2009

  • Why do we let non-musicians critique pop music?

    Seriously. There's no way in hell that someone without any musical expertise would be allowed to review an opera for a respectable news organization. 50 years after the Beatles and others showed us the towering artistic heights possible in popular music, we still treat pop music criticism as if it were no more than the mindless fluff haters ...
    Posted to The Spectator by thesuperweasel on January 24, 2009

  • Joel...

    My girlfriend and I both graduated from Syracuse University a year apart. My commencement speaker was Jane Goodall, who spoke eloquently and with great humor. My girlfriend's commencement speaker was Billy Joel, who had just donated a large amount of cash to the school. His commencement address consisted of this: Singing a parody of one of his ...
    Posted to The Spectator by kevdiamondf on January 24, 2009

  • No Reason to Tear Down Billy Joel

    While I grant that one may criticize and that criticism is a great balancer for art, I really feel obliged to pull down Ron Rosenbaum’s especially mean attack on Billy Joel. Billy Joel’s music may fall victim to changing times and mores, but considered in its original context, a lot of the music is fine and even great. It is true that there ...
    Posted to The Spectator by rez3322 on January 24, 2009