Old Enough to Forget

I'm still trying to dig out from under my pile of treasures. I'm finding there are a little more to go through than I expected, but I'm trying to nest my thoughts and at least get to the core of what I'm trying to express. Likely as not I'm sort of all over the place. That's fine. This is as much for me as anyone, so the typos and grammatical landmines come with the territory. Sometimes I'll come back and fix things more often than not they'll just remain as a testament to my inability to proofread. As always have fun and remember to keep you arms and head inside the vehicle at all times. Billy Joel - The Nylon Curtain (1982) The Inmates - Shot in the Dark (1980) Steven Schlaks - Dream With Steven Schlaks (1976) Baron Longfellow - Baron Longfellow (1980) Doucette - The Douce is Loose (1979) Billy Joel - The Nylon Curtain (1982) Billy Joel is a bit of an odd duck. Often pigeonholed as the "Piano Man" he would go on a tear through the late...

I suppose there's a "Piano Man" pun somewhere to be had here - and I'm trying my best to type one but I'm using the wrong kind of keyboard. Yeah, sorry. Back in the summer of 1980 Glass Houses had firmly become part of my musical landscape. Oddly enough I didn't have my own copy at the time - everyone I knew had one, so I figured I was in the clear. I remember people talking about how Billy Joel had gone new wave and there are some tunes where he's playing things pretty close to the flavour of the day - then again a song like "Don't Ask Me Why" would have been right at home on his 1977 release The Stranger .  Looking back with the benefit of hindsight you can hear Billy Joel as he slowly moved with the times. Glass Houses was truly the logical successor to 52nd Street where songs like "Big Shot" and "My Life" to a lesser degree were setting the stage for what was to come. This was a guy who could basically do what he wan...