Transcript
A (0:00)
What are we doing here today? We're talking. We're closing it out. We've danced around it long enough. We've edged right up until we're ready to burst.
B (0:09)
Burst.
A (0:11)
It's the end of Summer of Joel once and for all, which we're actually ending here in summer, I'm proud to say. I'm looking at the schedule right now. This episode is set to run on the 18th of September, which is just four days before the actual literal end of summer. So we call it Summer of Joel. It is the Summer of Joel.
B (0:34)
Summer.
A (0:35)
Summer is made, promises kept.
B (0:36)
Summer Joelman Falls.
A (0:39)
Yes.
B (0:40)
Joel Kerman Falls.
A (0:41)
How about that? Yeah. And we're going to do. We're going to do what we did at the end of the Randy series, what we do at the end of all of our series and countdown, our top collective favorites from the man, which we'll have available in a playlist for your enjoyment as well. And just kind of, you know, put a cap on it. Put a. Put a period here at the end of this sentence. Do you have any statements about the man in general or the music to lodge before we kick this off? Famous last words, perhaps.
B (1:14)
I feel sorry for my. Some of the things I've said in. On some level, I don't know. When I was. When we. When we had our conversation with Jake and Ezra, I think some important points were made. Ezra pointed out some things that I thought, you know, I maybe wasn't giving enough credit to, like the. The difficult position that Billy Joel is in, in terms of being hated and beloved in equal, equally compelling measure. And the fact that he's kind of found himself at the top of the heap. He made it in old New York and yet also is sort of not at the top of the heap when it comes to artistic respect. It's a complex and difficult place to be. And I think that maybe in music there is less of an a history, less example, less precedent of that happening than there is with maybe cinema. Like, seems like there's a lot of directors who, you know, are big successful movie directors and they're not necessarily considered artistically great, but it doesn't bother them or it's. It somehow it just works because movies lend themselves to, like, a kind of enjoyment that is more forgiving. Maybe. Like there's. We understand there's different types. There is, you know, big stupid movies that people love. There's big smart movies that people. Whatever, you know, there's different kinds. And I don't know that there is that much in music that or Especially at the point that Billy came up, like, I don't know that there's, There's. There was definitely less of a precedent for just a. A successful songwriter working in rock and pop mode simultaneously. I feel like we live in a world now where maybe he would be received differently and more with more grace on all fronts. And it does seem to be like, retroactively that that's the case on some level, with the children embracing him at least the 30 second snippets of him that they are introduced to on the Internet.