REVENGE OF THE SUBURBS
Being that you’re not here in the room with me today, Billy, allow me to toss a scrappy Joelish rock through the window for you: ROCK CRITICISM SUCKS! It’s true, your melodies may come to you as spontaneously as erections, but I’m finding it increasingly difficult to get it up to explain my rockfan preferences in the approved rational mode.
REVENGE OF THE SUBURBS
RECORDS
BILLY JOEL The Nylon Curtain (Columbia)
Richard Riegel
Being that you’re not here in the room with me today, Billy, allow me to toss a scrappy Joelish rock through the window for you: ROCK CRITICISM SUCKS! It’s true, your melodies may come to you as spontaneously as erections, but I’m finding it increasingly difficult to get it up to explain my rockfan preferences in the approved rational mode. If CREEM would authorize a pension for me, I’d willingly retreat for good to the sanctity of my car radio, where irrational, I-Know-what-I-like tuming-up of the volume for certain records (yours included, naturally) would be the only critical reality.