Hot Take/ Musical Confession Thread!

again, not sure this is a hot take. Billy Joel (Like the Eagles) is an artist for which you only need the Greatest Hits. (Unlike the Eagles, which I own none of on vinyl - I believe I have two cds; one of which is a greatest hits package, no cassettes -, I own six vinyl records of Joel - none of which are greatest hits, no cds. I did have this on cassette:
www.discogs.com

Billy Joel - California Flash

View credits, reviews, tracks and shop for the 1985 Cassette release of "California Flash" on Discogs.
www.discogs.com www.discogs.com
but that's actually the Atilla album)
 
Lee Newman said:
again, not sure this is a hot take. Billy Joel (Like the Eagles) is an artist for which you only need the Greatest Hits. (Unlike the Eagles, which I own none of on vinyl - I believe I have two cds; one of which is a greatest hits package, no cassettes -, I own six vinyl records of Joel - none of which are greatest hits, no cds. I did have this on cassette:
www.discogs.com

Billy Joel - California Flash

View credits, reviews, tracks and shop for the 1985 Cassette release of "California Flash" on Discogs.
www.discogs.com www.discogs.com
but that's actually the Atilla album)
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My ice cold take is I just don’t get why anyone would either need even that for either. Maybe it’s a uniquely American thing but I really don’t get the appeal of Billy Joel at all. It’s just kinda meh MOR mum and dad pop?
 
Joe Mac said:
My ice cold take is I just don’t get why anyone would either need even that for either. Maybe it’s a uniquely American thing but I really don’t get the appeal of Billy Joel at all. It’s just kinda meh MOR mum and dad pop?
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I love Billy Joel, but every album, even the Stranger, is full of filler despite what critics and his fans say. Also, I mean this was the music of your Mom and Dad. He hasn't put out an album of pop music since 1993. Has anyone ever listened to his classical thing?
 
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Joe Mac said:
My ice cold take is I just don’t get why anyone would either need even that for either. Maybe it’s a uniquely American thing but I really don’t get the appeal of Billy Joel at all. It’s just kinda meh MOR mum and dad pop?
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See also Neil Diamond but with added creepy peado song.
 
yukbon said:
Instead of quoting and disagreeing with personal-taste takes, I'll just offer mine and if you disagree, I -- because I am a living saint -- will let you be wrong as you go about your sauceless and tasteless day:

- ketchup is fine. the disdain that people have for it is beyond me. I don't put it on hot dogs or burgers, but I will sometimes dip a burger or fries into it. People like it, and there's a reason for it. There's like, studies and stuff.
- that said, ketcup's shining moment is in two instances: with scrambled eggs and tomato and as a sauce component (for example with ramen, or of course currywurst, or as part of a sauce like tikka masala (don't @ me until you try it, it's gangster) or BBQ).
- BBQ sauce pizza is an abomination and if you enjoy it, you are wrong and so is everyone who ever loved you.
- BBQ sauce in non-pizza contexts is wonderful -- my preference leans to mustard-y North Carolina South Carolina BBQ sauce, but there are wonderful sauces in all flavors and colors.
- yellow mustard: good on bologna and shitty hotdogs of questionable ingredients. Real meats deserve decent mustards; german is best, french and english mustards having their uses and applications.
- mayonaisse: Duke's if you must buy it, but homemade is several orders of magnitude better. It's the difference between your 3 year old niece singing a song she doesn't know the words to and hi-def audio on a system meant to play it. Please do not mention Miracle Whip or Blue Plate or whatever sugary ..... cream.... ruined your taste buds in your formative years. Those things are a hate crime and you have my condolences.
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Ketchup on eggs is the reason I now hate ketchup.
 
Lee Newman said:
again, not sure this is a hot take. Billy Joel (Like the Eagles) is an artist for which you only need the Greatest Hits. (Unlike the Eagles, which I own none of on vinyl - I believe I have two cds; one of which is a greatest hits package, no cassettes -, I own six vinyl records of Joel - none of which are greatest hits, no cds. I did have this on cassette:
www.discogs.com

Billy Joel - California Flash

View credits, reviews, tracks and shop for the 1985 Cassette release of "California Flash" on Discogs.
www.discogs.com www.discogs.com
but that's actually the Atilla album)
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False. Cold Spring Harbor is my jam.
 
The Stranger is a great album (despite filler at the end of the album). And so is An Innocent Man. Really top adult contemporary 70’s pop. But outside of those albums, he could be wildly inconsistent . A great songwriter with a solid band who could make beautiful melodies or turgid statements of defiance against… being successful?
 
David A. said:
The Stranger is a great album (despite filler at the end of the album). And so is An Innocent Man. Really top adult contemporary 70’s pop. But outside of those albums, he could be wildly inconsistent . A great songwriter with a solid band who could make beautiful melodies or turgid statements of defiance against… being successful?
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He’s an angry man!
 
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