Shouting those three little words got me in big trouble at Jellyrolls, a piano bar in Atlanta. (The pianists launched into an all-Joel lineup to get back at me.) But then again, I'm still around and they're not.
This Slate article, written by a former Joel uber-fan who later wised up, makes me feel completely justified, especially in reviewing his awful "We Didn't Start The Fire," widely recognized as the third worst-song ever.
Alas, Joel is a leaden lyricist with nothing to say; the result is songs like the 1989 hit "We Didn't Start the Fire," a laundry list of historical events?"Sputnik, Chou En-Lai, Bridge on the River Kwai"?that Joel tried to pass off as a panorama of postwar American life, or a portrait of baby boomer ennui, or something.