Wow! BILLY JOEL (Miami 2017)Seen the lights go out on broadway REACTION - First time hearing
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BILLY JOEL (Miami 2017)Seen the lights go out on broadway REACTION
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This was from Billy's 1976 album, Turnstiles. It was a science fiction song
talking about an apocalypse in New York City. This was played at several benefit concerts including The Concert For New York City, post 911. Billy said he could never have imagined the horrible and unimaginable things like that came to fruition.
Beautiful tune, with his masterful piano
abilities and captivating vocals. Great reaction Harri. Thanks Harri and Cliff. Cheers from Canada 🇨🇦
The song is a science fiction point if view written about what would happen if NY had an apocalyptic event. At the time the city was having financial budgetary problems so this was Billy’s look into the future. After 9/11 when the towers actually did come down he sang this song at a benefit concert on Oct 20, 2001. He remarked that he never thought that when he wrote the song 25 years prior that the lyrics would partially come true.
Yes, this. I still remember when that concert was broadcast and Billy performed this, and as a New Yorker I've never heard it the same way again. And of course, New York State of Mind.
This was actually played (along with "New York State of Mind") at "America: A Tribute to Heroes" on September 21, 2001. The October concert was the "Concert for NYC". David Bowie performed "America" and "Heroes" there, among other acts.
Very easy to mix up the two shows, just a month apart and with similar names. I've done it myself. (Indeed, I looked it up before posting this, just to be sure I hadn't mixed them up again.) I wouldn't mention it, but I wouldn't want Harri to go looking for that performance and not be able to find it.
Peace.
We seem to be living it right now!
This sounds even better live, I've been to 3 concerts where he opened with this one. Sounds great on the Songs In The Attic album.
Yes, the Songs in the Attic version has always been the one I prefer.
Billy is as good as it gets in popular music over the past 50 years!
One of my favorites from Billy.
Billy Joel is a piano prodigy. That’s all that can be said. The good LORD blessed him with the gift of music.
two songs from this album with incredible lyrics are Summer Highland Falls & I've Loved These Days
The live at Shea version of Summer Highland Falls is a must react !
“How thoughtlessly we dissipate our energies; perhaps we don’t fulfill each other’s fantasies-so we stand upon the ledges of our lives, with our respective similarities-it’s either sadness or euphoria.”
Again a drummer who can push it and switch gears and lay back in the pocket over and over. Liberty. Love yah. Whole band Great
"To tell the world about the way lights went out and keep the memory alive" gives me chills everytime
Epic masterpiece here by Billy again love you
One of my favorite songs. The live version from Songs In The Attic is much, much better.
The live version is indeed so much better! I’ve actually not heard this version. It lacks the power and intensity, for sure, even though this still rocks.
Agreed, this song is always best live!
@@GuitarGerber Way back when, my first hearing of the song was from the Songs In the Attic album, so this version seemed so lacking.
This is great, but his live version on Songs in the Attic is amazing.
Try this song live. It takes on a life of it's own. As a Long Islander, Billy is a home grown treasure to us. It's always great to see others appreciate his talent.
This was an answer to President Ford Telling New York City to go drop dead During the New York financial crisis Of 1975
Thanks for this Cliff! This is one of my favorite BJ songs. There are so many to choose from but this one just strikes me perfectly. I knew Harri would love it too. It’s amazing to think that a little over a year ago Harri barely knew who Billy Joel was! Now he can’t get enough of him. I love it 🌺✌️
I first heard this song on an album called Songs In The Attic. Billy had the idea to record live versions of songs he’d recorded before his success with the Stranger. It’s a great live album, and his band was at their peak.
A top 10 Billy song for sure. Keep em coming and may I recommend live performances from recent years if possible. I KNOW you will LOVE "Summer Highland Falls" from live at Shea stadium. Right up your alley. Thanks for another great reaction !
This is another one of those songs just like the recent when you did “you’re my home” that I said is way better live than it is in its studio recording. This is on that same Fantastic live album of his songs from the attic.
I just saw Billy in concert last week in New York City and he opened the show with this song. Obviously with all the New York references, the crowd went crazy when he would mention one of them.
I'm glad you mentioned his piano playing. Billy Joel is a piano virtuoso and does not get enough credit for that. Also, this is a song about a fictional apocalypse. The mafia has not taken over Mexico. But yes, he uses details to really paint a picture of the disaster he's describing. What I love about this song is it still has a feeling of hope . Life goes on. We need to keep the memory alive. This is not a depressing song.
In fact it was not the Mafia that took over Mexico. But it is also an evil organized crime assoziation that rules the country.
Except that he is called the piano man 😊
Beautiful reaction/commentary. This song was written about a major blackout (there was a full blackout in the 60s and again in the 70s). Don't know which this is.
I've always loved his songs that weren't so called hits. The last time I saw him live, he played a lot of them. The crowd seemed confused but I was in the very last row in the arena singing every song at the top of my lungs. I really wish his roadies would have picked me to switch tickets for better seats (he does that) because I really appreciated that show. Keep playing these not so popular songs. They're the gems.
Leave a tender moment alone ... Duet with Tootsie Tielemans live 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
Great Choice, Cliff! This song hits me in the heart 🗽🗽🗽 it gave me the chills pre-9/11; now it’s much more; heavily missing earlier times. Loved your reaction, Harri, have fun in Mexico 😊
Have you ever heard We didn’t start the fire By Billy Joel. Now that’s a history lesson!!!
Tutti gioielli i pezzi di Piano Man ... Dal vivo poi il massimo ....., 🎹👏🎹👏
Turnstiles is such an underrated Billy Joel album but to me it was his first masterpiece.
I have expressed elsewhere that I, too, believe Turnstiles is vastly underrated. That's the album I recommend to anyone who only knows him from The Stranger forward.
@@Prof_Jeff The first 2 records I ever owned were Billy Joel An Innocent Man and Michael Jackson Thriller. But one day I go to the mall and outside of the record store are a bunch of budget vinyl albums. And one of the first things that catches my eye is Billy Joel Turnstiles. I never heard of the album. But I knew I had to have it. And as soon as I played Say Goodbye to Hollywood I was instantly hooked. And I listened to New York State of Mind twice before turning the album and listening to side 2. My favorite Billy Joel album is 52nd street. Although The Stranger is a fantastic album and I think it’s equal to 52nd Street as far as writing and the instrumentation. But I think his vocals are much better on 52nd street.
@@michaeldean846 I am quite partial to 52nd Street myself. So many great deep cuts: "Zanzibar", "Stiletto", "Rosalinda's Eyes", and my favorite, "Until the Night."
That's funny! Though, if this had happened in 2017, you probably would have heard about it.
Billy's best song is Scenes from an Italian Restaurant. IMO.
When I last saw Billy Joel in person at what it now T-Mobile Park he opened the show with this song and it was fantastic(I have to say thought that I never saw a bad show of his and I saw at least 5 maybe 6 shows in Seattle &Tacoma).
This was written when New York City was in deep financial trouble in the 1970s, Billy wrote of a future post apocalyptic remembrance of NYC as he imagined living in Miami in 2017 (which seemed far in the future in the 70s) and telling his grandchildren about what happened. Its his version of a sci-fi movie. The details are fictional.
Funny how NYC is doing way better than it was then while FL is considered crazy state USA lol
@@loadedorygun absolutely. Also funny that Billy does spend a lot of time at his home in Florida,but instead of his grandkids its his young daughters he tell stories to.
This song was written in the mid-70s when Gerald Ford was president and you had headlines like ‘'FORD TO CITY: DROP DEAD’‘ when New York was in financial trouble and crime was on the rise. Billy wrote it from the perspective of an elderly person living in Miami in 2017, looking back 40 or so years and telling their grandchild things that 'had happened' during those 40 years.
So much of it did not really materialise, such as 6:00 the Mafia did not take over Mexico, although Billy did turn out to be eerily prophetic with the line "I've seen the lights go out on Broadway, I saw the Empire State laid low" although wrong building. right outcome but did also write "I've seen the lights go out on Broadway, I watched the mighty skyline fall".
The Turnstiles album cover depicts the tracks on the album, with the grandmother and grandson for Miami 2017 (Seen the Lights Go Out on Broadway), Billy said the man with the woman wearing the fur was All You Wanna Do Is Dance, but I thought that was I've Loved These Days "Now we take our time so nonchalant, And spend our nights so bon vivant, We dress our days in silken robes, The money comes, the money goes".
So I thought maybe the girl with the headphones was All You Wanna Do Is Dance, "Well you wish you were back in the good old days, When tomatoes were cheaper, And you never heard the words of your favorite songs, Through a three inch speaker".
Then the man with the books was James, with the lyric "I went on the road, you pursued an education". Billy also said that the man to the left of James he thinks is from Prelude/Angry Young Man but I thought he looks like Shaft, as in the private detective named John Shaft that was filmed in Harlem so perhaps that was New York State of Mind.
And that the man to the right of the girl with the headphones might have been the Angry You Man, with his defensive, arms folded body language, although I suppose that he could also be a shifty film agent, as in Say Goodbye to Hollywood.
Amazing song - probably my favorite by him. I much prefer the live versions. The one on the extended version of the Stranger is the best.
The song comes from "Turnstiles" the album that is Billy Joel returning to New York City from LA. I think it is a clever counterpoint to "New York State of Mind." That song celebrates NYC and talks about staying inside the city, because who would want to vacation in Flordia or California or Colorado? But this song is a kind of science fiction apocalypse, when you can no longer enjoy NYC and stay there but are forced to move to Florida--and all that remains is memories of when the city fell. The two songs are both about attachment to New York, but one is more celebratory (the blues-jazz one) and one is more tragic (the rock-and-roll one).
Try Billy Joel...Still Rock-N-Roll to Me!!
You should look at the "Songs from the Attic" album first when someone suggests a Billy Joel song. If the song is on that Album it will be a Live version of the song and in my humble opinion the best rendition of those songs . Miami 2017 is the first song on the album and sounds much better than the studio cut. Always love your reactions and big "Take it Ezy" from of here in New York (USA)
I think you will enjoy A Matter Of Trust and The Longest Time. They show different sides of him that you have not discovered yet!
I have reacted to those songs 😉
Billy Joel resumed his residency at Madison Square Garden post Covid. He plays once a month. Someone asked how long he’ll keep this up. He said he’ll stop when the people stop coming. He sells out MSG every month. Next month will be his 86th monthly show. I was at his first residency performance and have gone twice more. Every once and a while a special guest will show up for a duet. The last time I went Joe Elliott from Def Leppard came on to so Pour Some Sugar on Me. Never thought I’d see that collaboration.
I saw #1 at MSG - Best concert of my life!!!
I saw a video of that collaboration. Caught me completely by surprise.
I've seen 3 of those shows - his catalog run so deep that it's a different show each time! Looking to go again soon, he can still rock out at his age! @Harri, plan a trip to NYC and come check him out!
The live versión if this song is dar better. You will see. Congratulations for the videos.
Shout out for the Songs From the Attic version, which is pretty juiced and in front of a NY crowd so when he references the NY landmarks and especially the Yankees they go NUTS.
There's something to be said for the "Last Play at Shea" (2008) performance, where the crowd full of Mets fans erupts in glee at "They blew the Bronx away".
Take *that* , Yankees!
This song is so underrated, even though it's from a smash hit album. You must play the album "Live at Yankee Stadium" it contains the live version, which is better!
His drummer, Liberty DeVito is underrated as well.
Songs In The Attic sir. You wont regret it.
Listen to his live album Songs From The Attic. He does a killer version of this song.
His sci-fi view of New York in 2017, written in 1976...
Thanks Harri!
Released in 1976, this terrific song took on new meaning after 9/11. Joel is such a gifted writer and musician.
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The reason people don’t mention him when they talk about great modern pianists is because he is a given as no.1, then there’s the rest that can be debated. 😅
He doesn’t show off his piano playing as much because he considers himself more of a composer. But I agree, he’s underrated as a pianist.
Actually prefer the live version from Songs in the Attic. Usually artists cut back on their vocals live, but not Billy. He really gives it welly.
"Songs in the Attic", since comments won't let me edit for some reason.
Ithink it is in his top 3 ever…
do tomorrow is today next
the storyteller once again takes us on a journey - but this time to an event no one wants to see. caution : genius at work
2nd best ever to paul mccartney
It’s dystopian fiction. Not history.
This song was also on the "Songs from the Attic" album. I tend to prefer the live version on that album. th-cam.com/video/isG3qkQXBic/w-d-xo.html
Definitely the better version. This song was one of Billy's classic anthem for arena concerts, and the live version on "Songs from the Attic" is significantly better, combining the excitement of a live performance with careful recording and mastering.
I always heard this song as a futuristic fictional reminiscence. Miami 2017, as seen from perhaps around the year 2080, when most of the people would have been gone who would have remembered.
Have you reached to the stranger?
By Billy Joel?
I think the live version on “Songs in the attic” is much more superior than this,,, I don’t think you take requests from comments but anyway, I would really recommend checking out Billy the Kidd and say goodbye to Hollywood as well as this song on songs in the attic
One thing I don’t quite get is why he didn’t exercise his vocal talents more on these early albums. As I said in another comment the live version of this features him really hitting the top of his range with power, and it would have really helped the studio version.
As others have pointed out, Billy was not reciting history; he was inventing an NYC apocalypse at a time when that great city's financial future was teetering on ruin in the 1970s: Billy was imagining what it would look like in the distant future (2017) when people had forgotten about the Big Apple -- some future time when the Mafia, bereft of NYC as its center, took over Mexico, when all New Yorkers now resided in Miami.
There is a much better recording of this on TH-cam: This song was one of Billy's classic anthems for arena concerts, and his live version on "Songs from the Attic" is significantly better, combining the energy of a live performance with careful mastering of the studio. If you want to imagine listening to Billy Joel in concert, with tens of thousands of people, that is the recording to listen to. th-cam.com/video/isG3qkQXBic/w-d-xo.html
The version as said below.... from the album "Songs in the Attic" is more powerful
This song came out in 76. It’s about someone who is living in Miami 42 hrs later and telling the story. It’s completely made up.
As good as this version is it’s lacking the enthusiasm of the crowd in the live version.
He talks about the inspiration for it here th-cam.com/video/m_tXo9IVLTk/w-d-xo.html
Your point about his skillful piano playing is well taken. This live version of "New York State of Mind" really highlights his talent: th-cam.com/video/iM4LzEcaTK0/w-d-xo.html
Not a history lesson.
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Although this is in the form of sci-fi, it was routed in real-life troubles. In the mid-1970s, New York City went into default and was refused federal funds from President Ford to keep services going.
(Infamous full-page headline in the Daily News: "Ford to City: Drop Dead")
It basically felt as though the rest of the country wanted NYC to *die* . So Billy wrote a song about a more-fanciful apocalypse, where the planned carnage and destruction didn't seem much different from what they were already experiencing.
("They burned the churches up in Harlem
Like in that Spanish Civil War
The flames were everywhere
But no one seemed to care
It always burned up there before"
-ouch!)
So it was tongue-in-cheek…and then 9/11 happened, and Billy felt like a prophet, painfully so. And no, the entire population of NY didn't move to Florida (but…) and the narco-terrorists currently running Mexico aren't *exactly* "the Mafia" (BUT…), but it was close enough, alas.
(The mid-'70s crisis was "solved" when an investment banker named Felix Rohatyn, working for the city, convinced banks to issue bonds to float the debt. And all it took for Rohatyn to appeal to his fellow vermin's better instincts was to crush the city's unions, destroy their pensions, pretty much make it impossible for workers to live in the city, and close the mental health hospitals, thus flooding the streets of NY with deranged homeless people. BANKS TO THE RESCUE!!
Almost as if they designed it that way, no?)