{"id":33368,"date":"2013-01-11T12:30:24","date_gmt":"2013-01-11T18:30:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=33368"},"modified":"2013-01-11T06:40:19","modified_gmt":"2013-01-11T12:40:19","slug":"say-goodbye-to-billy-joel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=33368","title":{"rendered":"Say Goodbye To Billy Joel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not a huge Billy Joel fan.<\/p>\n<p>But there are scads of artists out there that I don&#8217;t much care for that still manage to grind out a song or two that I love.<\/p>\n<p>And for Billy Joel, that short list is pretty much &#8220;Captain Jack&#8221; (the live version; the studio original annoys me), &#8220;Only The Good Die Young&#8221;, most of the &#8220;An Innocent Man&#8221; album, watching people singing &#8220;Piano Man&#8221; at karaoke night getting beaten with pool sticks (which isn&#8217;t actually an endorsement of the song)&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;and &#8220;Say Goodbye To Hollywood.<\/p>\n<p>So how do you make that song perfect?<\/p>\n<p>Have it covered by Ronnie Spector, backed by the E Street Band, in a cover that I&#8217;d forgotten ever existed:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/F9oDysH6g5M\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"450\" height=\"253\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>And for one moment, all is forgiven.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not a huge Billy Joel fan. But there are scads of artists out there that I don&#8217;t much care for that still manage to grind out a song or two that I love. And for Billy Joel, that short list is pretty much &#8220;Captain Jack&#8221; (the live version; the studio original annoys me), &#8220;Only [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33368"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33368\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33370,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33368\/revisions\/33370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}