#bill joel

[were-coyote]

Discord server just decided queer culture was naming your instruments so rb and put what instrument you play, it's name and why in the tags

[incognito-princess]

Home Free - Quarantine

The Home Free boys feel your pain!!

[demonaltoid]

did you all know this? 🤔

[theparisreview]

An exhibition at the Royal Academy pays tribute to a famous 1932 Soviet art show, “Fifteen Years of Artists of the Russian Soviet Republic”—the last gasp of the avant-garde before the state tightened its grip and forced its artists to churn out only propaganda. Jenny Uglow writes of the new show, “This is a big, dynamic, disturbing exhibition, a blaze of artistic hope undermined by suffering, death, and despair. It is all about power and its perils … At first painters, composers, and poets thrilled to the Revolution, which seemed to offer untold freedoms, a chance to use bold new forms—Cubism, abstraction, street art, film, jazz, satire, fantasy—and to share in the making of a new nation. The mystical Wassily Kandinsky and Marc Chagall, and the Constructivists Vladimir Tatlin, Alexander Rodchenko, and Lyubov Popova, responded with equal euphoric intensity … Yet there is a sense of terror, as well as hope, in these blazing, color-filled canvases. As cosmic spheres hurtle forward in spear-like shards of light in Konstantin Yuon’s apocalyptic New Planet (1921), the dwarfed crowds seem to cower as much as to rejoice … Even the distinctive figurative paintings of Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin … feel full of a yearning nostalgia. In his huge canvas, Fantasy (1925) the peasant riding the leaping red horse of revolution does not look forward, but back, to a vanished world.”

This and more in today’s culture roundup.

[businessconsiderations]

Although I rarely seek this song out, whenever it comes on shuffle, I have to listen to it.

I rarely seek it out because I don't listen to a lot of Billy Joel or this style of music.

And maybe I should listen more to Billy Joel and this style of music. Because this song is great.

This song is so great that whenever I listen to it, I think about how it's one of my favorites, and I have to better categorize and document my favorites for reasons I can't explain.

So I open up my Favorite Songs? playlist on Apple Music and delete a bunch of them, add this song, start to type this post, decide to add one back that I'd just deleted, and now there's 7 songs on there.

And I look back at this half-baked idea of a post and try to think of something to say that hasn't already been said on the internet about this song.

I don't know, maybe something like young people now that think everything is so different, that previous generations had it better, that maybe they should listen to this song about baby boomers in 1982 comparing themselves to their parents and realize every generation goes through something similar.

But that's probably already been written and/or I'm probably wrong. I am just going to keep listening to this song and curating my favorite songs playlist.

[shes-my-kind-of-boy]

It’s February 2024 and you live on LI. The only music legally allowed to be played on the radio is Taylor Swift and the new Billy Joel song.

[throughdigitaleyes]

Best of 2019: My Top 10 Sets

2019 was a light year. I only saw 50 concerts featuring 137 artists, so I’m going with a slightly different format and eligibility this year. I’m including shows I worked security for, as long as I wasn’t too busy (so Slayer, Slipknot and Korn were disqualified; Phish, Florida Georgia Line & Jason Aldean never stood a chance). Just missing the list are: Bishop Briggs (HOB Boston, 10.16.19), Lukas Nelson & Promise of the Real (Fenway Park, 8.31.19 & 9.1.19), Jennifer Lopez (Xfinity Center, 7.16.19), Dinosaur Pile-Up (RTB Pavilion, 7.1.19), and Ellie Goulding (Kiss 108 Concert @ Xfinity Center, 6.16.19).

My Top 10 Sets of 2019 (in Chronological Oder) Are...

1. Barns Courtney (Orpheum Theatre, 2.26.19)

He opened for The Kooks and absolutely owned the joint. Such an energetic rock show from someone who’s surely just getting started.

2. Frank Turner (HOB Boston, 5.17.19)

He played ‘Poetry of the Deed’ in its entirety AND gave us his covers of ‘Barbara Allen’ and Springsteen’s ‘Thunder Road’. It was special.

3. Florence + The Machine (Xfinity Center, 5.30.19)

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She’s magical. It’s as simple as that.

4. Queen + Adam Lambert (Xfinity Center, 8.4.19)

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This shit was a religious experience. Far and away the best set to grace the Xfinity Center stage this year.

5. Cage the Elephant (Xfinity Center, 8.15.19)

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Matt Shultz is a madman, and he brought the madness to new heights with this set.

6. Chevelle (Xfinity Center, 8.25.19)

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I was never a fan. But as soon as they took the stage, they blew me away. Sure, some of it may have been thanks to their production, but overall the was probably the most surprising set (along with Dinosaur Pile-Up) of the year for me.

7. Tash Sultana (The Strand, 9.3.19)

Wow. She melted my face off time and time again, and left me completely breathless several times. What a guitarist!

8. The Who (Fenway Park, 9.13.19)

Finally got to cross them off my bucket list. It was incredible. They still got it.

9. Billy Joel (Fenway Park, 9.14.19)

Sure, it’s pretty much the same show every time he comes around. But it’s a damn great show. Dude’s a hit-machine, and he still sounds great!

10. Sleater-Kinney (HOB Boston, 10.29.19)

One of my most anticipated club shows of the year, and it also ended up being the best. These women are a force to be reckoned with; messy, intense, brilliant rock-goddesses that tore the roof off the joint with glee.

Thank you for reading… and please be sure to come back later tonight for my next Best of 2019 list, in which I’ll share My Top 10 Albums of 2019!

All Photos ©Timothy Patrick Boyer, 2019.

[advilholic]

“I have been a fool for lesser things.”

-Billy Joel