A thread titled “Billy Joel’s Ultimate Song” on the Hello! Project board had fans rattling off classics like Piano Man and We Didn’t Start the Fire one after another. The discussion even touched on how the Japanese hit “Ai wa Katsu” (Love Will Win) was inspired by Billy Joel’s “Uptown Girl,” and how the Up-Front group of labels — Hello! Project included — covered it in the wake of the Great East Japan Earthquake, sparking excitement over this unexpected link between Western music and Hello! Project.
Uh… 'York State of Mind'?
"The Longest Time" (punned here as "long hair" [ロン毛] + "suto")
Piano Man
Change the World
The Stranger
Honesty
Smoke on the Water
New York City Serenade
Livin' on a Prayer
Beat It
I read the Japanese translation of Honesty's lyrics and it just didn't do it for me.
Maybe Just the Way You Are is better.
Maybe Just the Way You Are is better.
>>1
We Didn't Start the Fire
We Didn't Start the Fire
An arrangement of Beethoven's 'Pathétique'
This Night
This Night
Apparently he's still alive at 77 (kiju).
But he announced a tour cancellation last year due to illness.
But he announced a tour cancellation last year due to illness.
We Didn't Start The Fire
>>50
Lol, "consciously"?
It's so blatant you can tell it's Billy Joel the instant you hear Ai wa Katsu.
Lol, "consciously"?
It's so blatant you can tell it's Billy Joel the instant you hear Ai wa Katsu.
Girls, Girls, Girls
Do They Know It's Christmas?
Nobody's brought up Welcome to the Jungle yet
>>50
Wasn't it Morning Musume up through the 9th generation that just barely made the cut to join in?
Wasn't it Morning Musume up through the 9th generation that just barely made the cut to join in?
>>50
Even Billy Joel ends up tying back to Hello! Project.
That's wild.
Even Billy Joel ends up tying back to Hello! Project.
That's wild.
>>64
If just echoing someone's style counts as a "connection," then anything goes.
Hoshibe (a Hello! Project songwriter) will hook you up with connections like that all day.
If just echoing someone's style counts as a "connection," then anything goes.
Hoshibe (a Hello! Project songwriter) will hook you up with connections like that all day.
I first found out about Billy Joel from that Honda scooter commercial ("Honda Kau Boy")
He's a genius, huh
>>68
I read somewhere that he's a genius, but his early work was so good he struggled to ever top himself.
Apparently he'd hit slumps because nothing he wrote could beat his early stuff.
I read somewhere that he's a genius, but his early work was so good he struggled to ever top himself.
Apparently he'd hit slumps because nothing he wrote could beat his early stuff.
All About Soul
My favorite Billy Joel song from the '90s
My favorite Billy Joel song from the '90s
>>87
Source, please
Source, please
>>88
Where'd you wander in from?
Anyway, take Kobushi Factory's song "Nen ni wa Nen" for starters
It's basically just T.Rex's "20th Century Boy" riff sped up.
And the call-and-response chorus in the verse is lifted straight from The Who's "My Generation."
You could probably find a whole list if you Google it.
Where'd you wander in from?
Anyway, take Kobushi Factory's song "Nen ni wa Nen" for starters
It's basically just T.Rex's "20th Century Boy" riff sped up.
And the call-and-response chorus in the verse is lifted straight from The Who's "My Generation."
You could probably find a whole list if you Google it.
>>90
Whoa, hold on, hold on.
This is about how "Ai wa Katsu" — the massive domestic hit born out of Billy Joel's worldwide smash "Uptown Girl" — got renewed attention when the whole Up-Front stable, Hello! Project included, covered it after the Great East Japan Earthquake.
And here you are countering with some obscure song Hoshibe wrote for some random group? I'm honestly amazed you'd even bring that up.
Whoa, hold on, hold on.
This is about how "Ai wa Katsu" — the massive domestic hit born out of Billy Joel's worldwide smash "Uptown Girl" — got renewed attention when the whole Up-Front stable, Hello! Project included, covered it after the Great East Japan Earthquake.
And here you are countering with some obscure song Hoshibe wrote for some random group? I'm honestly amazed you'd even bring that up.
The commercial jingle that got me into Western music — This Night, off the Innocent Man album
>>89
I love Innocent Man
I love Innocent Man
Piano Man, hands down.
It used to play all the time at boys' bars (host clubs).
It used to play all the time at boys' bars (host clubs).
Your Song
>>94
That's the UK's "Piano Man" (i.e., Elton John), not Billy Joel
That's the UK's "Piano Man" (i.e., Elton John), not Billy Joel
>>92
So it only counts as a connection if it was a hit?
What about Love Machine's "Venus," Happy Summer Wedding's "Donna Summer," or "Genghis Khan"?
Or does Misora Hibari's "Omatsuri Mambo" not count as a hit either?
So it only counts as a connection if it was a hit?
What about Love Machine's "Venus," Happy Summer Wedding's "Donna Summer," or "Genghis Khan"?
Or does Misora Hibari's "Omatsuri Mambo" not count as a hit either?
Frisco is a Rock City
>>101
Starship?
Starship?
I'm in a New York state of mind
Just the Way You Are
*This article is excerpted and summarized from the 5ch (Hello! Project board) thread “Billy Joel’s Ultimate Song.”
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