Is Billy Joel's "Piano Man" better than every emo song ever made?

[NOVA Green]

If BRTD would accept that The Cure is "Emo", might be a tossup in my book.

Considering that is not the case, I would certainly consider "Piano Man" to be superior to what tripe emo music that BRTD serves out for a New Years feast....

[Badger]

the song "piano man" isn't even the best song on the album piano man

Just curious,  what was in your opinion?

[Badger]

If BRTD would accept that The Cure is "Emo", might be a tossup in my book.

Considering that is not the case, I would certainly consider "Piano Man" to be superior to what tripe emo music that BRTD serves out for a New Years feast....

BRTD disputes The Cure are emo??!?

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

If BRTD would accept that The Cure is "Emo", might be a tossup in my book.

Considering that is not the case, I would certainly consider "Piano Man" to be superior to what tripe emo music that BRTD serves out for a New Years feast....

BRTD disputes The Cure are emo??!?

How is that controversial in the slightest?

The Cure started in 1978 in the UK. How can such a band be directly influenced by and linked to the Washington, DC post-hardcore scene of 1985?

[world.execute(me)]

Three Days Grace has definitely made better music than Piano Man

Also I'm sure some BRTD emo beats it too.

[NOVA Green]

If BRTD would accept that The Cure is "Emo", might be a tossup in my book.

Considering that is not the case, I would certainly consider "Piano Man" to be superior to what tripe emo music that BRTD serves out for a New Years feast....

BRTD disputes The Cure are emo??!?

How is that controversial in the slightest?

The Cure started in 1978 in the UK. How can such a band be directly influenced by and linked to the Washington, DC post-hardcore scene of 1985?

Sorry BRTD, you happen to neglect the massive overlap happening in the US and UK where the "Goth Movement" was a major subcultural thing...

Your definition of "Emo" might be considered a "Musical Purist" concept, but reality is that the Goth Movement and the Emo Movement are closely related.

One of our Granddaughters, who is 12 was over for X-Mas, and while she is bored listened to some of the wrangling going on between her Aunts and Grandma, clearly listed some of her favorite bands.

Without prompting "The Cure" was listed as one of her top four bands...

Needless to say, she is very musically inclined, and would certainly be someone who might have been classically considered "Emo" or "Goth" back in the dayz...

Yet my Grandaughter chatting on X-Mas Day never once mentioned any of those weird bands you keeo posting, despite part of the Emo / Goth subcultural scene.

[🦀🎂🦀🎂]

Make us a map, you're the atlas man
Make us a map tonight
We're all in the mood for psephology
To prove our preconceptions are right

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

If BRTD would accept that The Cure is "Emo", might be a tossup in my book.

Considering that is not the case, I would certainly consider "Piano Man" to be superior to what tripe emo music that BRTD serves out for a New Years feast....

BRTD disputes The Cure are emo??!?

How is that controversial in the slightest?

The Cure started in 1978 in the UK. How can such a band be directly influenced by and linked to the Washington, DC post-hardcore scene of 1985?

Sorry BRTD, you happen to neglect the massive overlap happening in the US and UK where the "Goth Movement" was a major subcultural thing...

Your definition of "Emo" might be considered a "Musical Purist" concept, but reality is that the Goth Movement and the Emo Movement are closely related.

One of our Granddaughters, who is 12 was over for X-Mas, and while she is bored listened to some of the wrangling going on between her Aunts and Grandma, clearly listed some of her favorite bands.

Without prompting "The Cure" was listed as one of her top four bands...

Needless to say, she is very musically inclined, and would certainly be someone who might have been classically considered "Emo" or "Goth" back in the dayz...

Yet my Grandaughter chatting on X-Mas Day never once mentioned any of those weird bands you keeo posting, despite part of the Emo / Goth subcultural scene.

What does that have to do with emo?

Emo didn't exist until 1985 and never had anything to do with goth. It was an offshoot of the DC hardcore punk scene. The first British emo bands in the early 90s didn't sound like The Cure at all.

[Crackerjack McJohnson]

No, I like Welcome To The Black Parade more.  I was never into it when it was a big song but they play it all the time on 104.5 and it rocks.

[HB]

It's great fuel for maladaptive daydreaming. Is that emo/shut-in-with-mental-health-issues enough?

[NOVA Green]

It's great fuel for maladaptive daydreaming. Is that emo/shut-in-with-mental-health-issues enough?

Welcome to the Forum Heughbeugh!

What attracted you to Atlas Forum in the first place, other than BRTD's threads about musical matters?

Ask the question, simply because in my own experience, as well as most likely many other posters started with election results threads as opposed to jumping immediately into Forum Community threads.

[HB]

Honestly, I'm just here cause a friend showed it to me. The actual Atlasia game kinda overwhelms me so I'm just messin' around in the general community

Also my political knowledge compared to said friend who showed me this amazing community is microscopic

[Kleine Scheiße]

the song "piano man" isn't even the best song on the album piano man

Just curious,  what was in your opinion?

personally top 3 on that album are captain jack; worse comes to worst; and piano man

[Battista Minola 1616]

Make us a map, you're the atlas man
Make us a map tonight
We're all in the mood for psephology
To prove our preconceptions are right

Maybe that's what the song meant when it says "And the waitress is practicing politics"...

[Interlocutor is just not there yet]

I've never been a Billy Joel fan, so no

[Lechasseur]

Yes absolutely !