# What is your second favourite Billy Joel song? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 7, 2011, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-second-favourite-billy-joel-song/595465 "2011-09-07T03:05:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2011, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-second-favourite-billy-joel-song/595465/21 "2011-09-07T17:34:03Z")
> [@GuanoLad](#): > > I may be the only one who says _River of Dreams_. Nope, that’s what I came in to post ---
**Author:** ![Satchmo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/satchmo/32/4223_2.png) [@Satchmo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Satchmo)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2011, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-second-favourite-billy-joel-song/595465/22 "2011-09-07T19:34:05Z")
_Downeaster Alexa_ for me, but close with _Goodnight Saigon_ and _Captain Jack_ close behind. ---
**Author:** ![kevja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/aeb1de/32.png) [@kevja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kevja)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2011, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-second-favourite-billy-joel-song/595465/23 "2011-09-07T22:15:20Z")
Uptown Girl and the answer to the thread question - second favorite - Tell Her About It ---
**Author:** ![K364](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/k364/32/5_2.png) [@K364](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/K364)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2011, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-second-favourite-billy-joel-song/595465/24 "2011-09-07T22:58:42Z")
> [@Alessan](#): > > First of all, “Piano Man” isn’t my favorite Billy Joel song. “Vienna” is. > > My second favorite is probably “Miami 2017 (Seen the Lights Go Out on Broadway)”, with “New York State of Mind” a close third. > > “Piano Man” isn’t in my top 5. Ditto - “Vienna” is #1 “Only The Good Die Young” is second. ---
**Author:** ![Apollyon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/apollyon/32/4238_2.png) [@Apollyon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Apollyon)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2011, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-second-favourite-billy-joel-song/595465/25 "2011-09-08T00:44:24Z")
> [@BaneSidhe](#): > > Second fave…hands down, “Pressure.” +1 🙂 I’ve immediately gone searching my iPod… _guns in your face_… _Peter Pan advice_… ahhh… 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![dalej42](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/67e7ee/32.png) [@dalej42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dalej42)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2011, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-second-favourite-billy-joel-song/595465/26 "2011-09-08T01:38:15Z")
Favorite: The Entertainer (and it isn’t close) 2nd: Pressure Honorable Mention: Root Beer Rag. I’ve probably listened to it more than any other Joel song. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2011, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-second-favourite-billy-joel-song/595465/27 "2011-09-08T01:38:21Z")
Well, _Piano Man_ ain’t first for me. I give that to _The Entertainer_. My second favorite is _Honesty_, because during the first few years of doing karaoke (beginning around 1989), it was the ONLY Billy Joel song I could find in the catalog, no matter what venue I was in. ---
**Author:** ![Scarlett67](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scarlett67/32/7387_2.png) [@Scarlett67](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scarlett67)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2011, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-second-favourite-billy-joel-song/595465/28 "2011-09-08T02:30:10Z")
> [@Alessan](#): > > First of all, “Piano Man” isn’t my favorite Billy Joel song. “Vienna” is. > > My second favorite is probably “Miami 2017 (Seen the Lights Go Out on Broadway)”, with “New York State of Mind” a close third. > > “Piano Man” isn’t in my top 5. Funny, I don’t remember logging in as you. :dubious: I’d probably have “Somewhere Along the Line” pretty high in the top 5. But “Vienna” definitely on top. For a long time I considered it my personal anthem. I’m thinking that a person whose favorite Billy Joel song is “Piano Man” probably hasn’t listened to many other Billy Joel songs, and especially not the ones that never made radio airplay. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-second-favourite-billy-joel-song/595465.md?page=1)