Billy Joel
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Billy Joel (born 1949) is a Primate-polarizing piano man.
PRIMATES WHO ARE PRO-BILLY JOEL:
- Dan Werr
- Buford J. Sharkley (Who plays a mean Root Beer Rag. Owns four different Joel books of sheet music.)
- deJesusFreak (sometimes)
- John Brattain (who also unashamedly loves U2 past and present)
- Larry Mahnken, who wants "She's Got a Way" to be played at his wedding to Sleepover Girl, or whoever the hell he ends up with.
- Chris J will admit to really liking 6-10 Billy Joel songs
- Matt who thinks River of Dreams is a classic.
- John Murphy (though he's not a fanatic of his music; he owns a couple of his greatest hits CDs and that's it)
- SMK
- J Lεεds (oi!)
- Johnny Tuttle Sing us a song, you're the piano man!
PRIMATES WHO ARE ANTI-BILLY JOEL:
- rLr (or is it Barry Manilow he hates? Aren't they the same guy?)
- penguinmobile, who was recently made physically ill by being subjected to an instrumental version of "Always a Woman to Me" in a restaurant. You know, that poser twit dumped his first wife after writing that song for her. He's just Newt Gingrich with a piano.
- Repoz
- vortex of dissipation
- HCO, who once threw away $90 seeing the bastard at Madison Square Garden.
- Voxter believes that Billy Joel is an alien soul-sucker sent to earth to subjugate mankind.
- Paul Mazurkiewicz
- tfbg9
PRIMATES WHO ARE BILLY JOEL NEUTRAL:
- Jon Daly
- Craig Calcaterra: "Joel is one of those guys who has managed to put out both pretty good (yeah, I'll admit it) and simply terrible product over the course of his career, and I can't immediately think of anyone approaching his stature who has done the same."[1] (http://www.baseballthinkfactory.org/files/newsstand/discussion/billboard_billy_joel_to_be_sheas_last_play/#2685695)
OTHER OPINIONS:
- As of 9/16/2006, Google reports "about 582" hits for "i love billy joel" and "about 579" for "i hate billy joel"
- Deeper inspection shows that a number of hits for "i love billy joel" are to pages with the lyrics of a parody song by that title, sung to the tune of "I Love Rock and Roll." The qualified number of hits for the phrase is 555, showing that the universe leans to the side of hating Billy Joel.
- Frankie Avalon may fall in a unique category for having reportedly said "I love Billy Joel's music, but let's put it this way - I think this is a frustrated, ugly man."
- On March 8, 2007, Joe Posnanski interviewed New York Post columnist Mike Vaccaro and wrote the following: "Over the years, about the only thing we have strongly disagreed about is Billy Joel. Mike thinks Bill Joel is a fine singer/songwriter, and I think he's the Devil. No, that's an exaggeration. I just think he sucks." [2] (http://thesoulofbaseball.blogspot.com/2007/03/nl-east-with-mike-vaccaro.html)
Also see: List of bands
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