# Best Billy Joel Song - Nominations **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 4, 2013, 10:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-billy-joel-song-nominations/670337 "2013-10-04T10:23:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![chrisk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6de8d8/32.png) [@chrisk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chrisk)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2013, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-billy-joel-song-nominations/670337/21 "2013-10-04T14:17:30Z")
> [@Snickers](#): > > I also vote for this - it’s his best, IMO. My name is Chris K and I support this message. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Kimballkid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b5a626/32.png) [@Kimballkid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimballkid)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2013, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-billy-joel-song-nominations/670337/22 "2013-10-04T14:17:52Z")
> [@Casey1505](#): > > _Goodnight, Saigon_ is my nomination, and I will pre-second _Piano Man_ when it gets nominated. These would be my nominations also and in the same order. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Quimby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/22d042/32.png) [@Quimby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quimby)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2013, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-billy-joel-song-nominations/670337/23 "2013-10-04T14:22:53Z")
I didn’t think “Downeaster Alexa” was going to get any love but here I am thirding it. ---
**Author:** ![cmkeller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmkeller/32/118_2.png) [@cmkeller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmkeller)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2013, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-billy-joel-song-nominations/670337/24 "2013-10-04T14:34:37Z")
Nomination: **Angry Young Man** Combine that amazing prelude with a brilliant portrait of its subject (and imagine - the World Wide Web was still two decades away!), and you get Billy Joel gold. ---
**Author:** ![Draelin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ce73a5/32.png) [@Draelin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Draelin)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2013, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-billy-joel-song-nominations/670337/25 "2013-10-04T14:36:09Z")
> [@cmkeller](#): > > Nomination: **Angry Young Man** > > Combine that amazing prelude with a brilliant portrait of its subject (and imagine - the World Wide Web was still two decades away!), and you get Billy Joel gold. I already thirded “Vienna” and nominated “The Entertainer,” but then I remembered this song existed and came in to mention it. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2013, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-billy-joel-song-nominations/670337/26 "2013-10-04T14:36:20Z")
I do like “Everybody Loves You Now” (which alerted me to him), but it’s probably too obscure, so I’ll go with “The Ballad of Billy the Kid.” ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2013, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-billy-joel-song-nominations/670337/27 "2013-10-04T14:39:37Z")
It’s a toss up between “Only the Good Die Young” and “You May Be Right.” ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2013, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-billy-joel-song-nominations/670337/28 "2013-10-04T14:56:01Z")
> [@cmkeller](#): > > Nomination: **Angry Young Man** > > Combine that amazing prelude with a brilliant portrait of its subject (and imagine - the World Wide Web was still two decades away!), and you get Billy Joel gold. I was going to pick this as my second choice but the evil OP only allowed one. So I’ll second this. ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2013, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-billy-joel-song-nominations/670337/29 "2013-10-04T15:04:57Z")
Here is a clip of him playing [two](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ThogWesUQog) of his best from the 121212 concert (that I was at). ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2013, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-billy-joel-song-nominations/670337/30 "2013-10-04T15:14:03Z")
Since I’m cruelly, unfairly limited to just ONE song, I sort of HAVE to nominate a song nobody else is likely to name, and then hope other people nominate the dozens of others I’m thinking of. I nominate: “Leningrad” I second: “Allentown,” “The Entertainer” and “And So It Goes,” third “Miami 2017” and fourth “Downeaster Alexa” And if anybody else wants to nominate “Until the Night” or “Baby Grand” or “A Matter of Trust” or “Big Shot” or “Stiletto” or “Pressure”… I daresay I won’t object ---
**Author:** ![Draelin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ce73a5/32.png) [@Draelin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Draelin)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2013, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-billy-joel-song-nominations/670337/31 "2013-10-04T15:24:07Z")
> [@astorian](#): > > And if anybody else wants to nominate “Until the Night” or “Baby Grand” or “A Matter of Trust” or “Big Shot” or “Stiletto” or “Pressure”… I daresay I won’t object Pretty sure I’m out of nominations, but again, wish I’d thought of “Stiletto.” ---
**Author:** ![koeeoaddi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/koeeoaddi/32/408_2.png) [@koeeoaddi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/koeeoaddi)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2013, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-billy-joel-song-nominations/670337/32 "2013-10-04T15:27:48Z")
[Rosalinda’s Eyes](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HNfT3ExqXLo) ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2013, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-billy-joel-song-nominations/670337/33 "2013-10-04T15:30:09Z")
No love for [Movin’ Out (Anthony’s Song)](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8buJ2-oD02E)? ---
**Author:** ![Subterraneanus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a183cd/32.png) [@Subterraneanus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Subterraneanus)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2013, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-billy-joel-song-nominations/670337/34 "2013-10-04T16:05:05Z")
The best will be his last. ---
**Author:** ![gwendee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/35a633/32.png) [@gwendee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gwendee)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2013, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-billy-joel-song-nominations/670337/35 "2013-10-04T16:06:11Z")
> [@cmkeller](#): > > Nomination: **Angry Young Man** > > Combine that amazing prelude with a brilliant portrait of its subject (and imagine - the World Wide Web was still two decades away!), and you get Billy Joel gold. That is my _favorite_ but I’m throwing my support behind **Scenes From an Italian Restaurant** for _best_. ---
**Author:** ![beagledave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6de8d8/32.png) [@beagledave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beagledave)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2013, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-billy-joel-song-nominations/670337/36 "2013-10-04T16:08:12Z")
Live version of “Summer, Highland Falls” If you don’t think that opening piano licks are sublime, then you officially have no soul. [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/wyKeAcfjmn0/hqdefault.jpg "Summer, Highland Falls") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wyKeAcfjmn0) ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2013, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-billy-joel-song-nominations/670337/37 "2013-10-04T16:29:22Z")
> [@Fear\_Itself](#): > > My personal favorite is, “The Stranger”, probably because it doesn’t get played as much as other popular favorites. > [@John\_DiFool](#): > > “River of Dreams.” Just before these two posts, I read the thread and thought to myself, “‘The Stranger’ and ‘River of Dreams’ both deserve to be nominated, but the OP limits me to one. I’d better wait and see if somebody else nominates one of them.” I also agree with “The Longest Time.” By the way, OP: not that it necessarily matters all that much, but did you mean “best song” in the sense that the Grammy Awards uses the term, for the song itself as opposed to the particular performance/recording? ---
**Author:** ![Fluffy\_PickleSniffer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/77aa72/32.png) [@Fluffy\_PickleSniffer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fluffy_PickleSniffer)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2013, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-billy-joel-song-nominations/670337/38 "2013-10-04T16:39:58Z")
> [@Aspidistra](#): > > seconded. > > My nomination: **Allentown** Thirded ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2013, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-billy-joel-song-nominations/670337/39 "2013-10-04T16:49:57Z")
> [@beagledave](#): > > Live version of “Summer, Highland Falls” > > If you don’t think that opening piano licks are sublime, then you officially have no soul. > > [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wyKeAcfjmn0](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wyKeAcfjmn0) Re: live versions, can we all agree that if a song appears in _Songs in the Attic_, then the version of the song on that album is the superior version? ---
**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2013, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-billy-joel-song-nominations/670337/40 "2013-10-04T16:54:59Z")
I’ll be the 1st to nominate “Leningrad”. (and agree with all the previous noms) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-billy-joel-song-nominations/670337.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-billy-joel-song-nominations/670337.md?page=3)