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Billy Joel & Elton John Must Die! (An Evening Of Piano Music -- 2 cd set)

Side A
Artist Song
Apples In Stereo  Ruby 
Wilco  A Shot In The Arm  
Neil Young  Don't Let It Bring You Down  
The Clash  The Card Cheat  
Modern Lovers  Girlfriend 
Pete Townshend  And I Moved 
Ladybug Transistor  Meadowport Arch 
Brian Eno  Dead Finks Don't Talk  
Death Cab For Cutie  Summer Skin  
The Monkees  Randy Scouse Git  
The Rutles  Cheese & Onions 
Genesis  Harold The Barrel  
Hnsker Dn  Books About UFOs 
Beach Boys  Surf's Up (orig.) 
Ben Folds Five  Battle Of Who Could Care Less  
Magnetic Fields  Busby Berkeley Dreams 
Rolling Stones  She's A Rainbow 
Bob Dylan  Queen Jane Approximately  
Kirsty McColl  They Don't Know 
The Kinks  This Time Tomorrow  
The Replacements  Androgynous  
Pretty Things  Trust 
Grateful Dead  U.S. Blues  
Side B
ArtistSongBuy
Elvis Costello  Oliver's Army 
Dukes Of Stratosphear  Brainiac's Daughter 
The Who  Drowned  
John Lennon  Isolation  
Elliott Smith  Baby Britain 
David Bowie  Star  
Harry Nilsson  Girlfriend  
Quasi  You F*cked Yourself 
Bruce Springsteen  Thunder Road  
Sufjan Stevens  John Wayne Gacy, Jr.  
Squeeze  Piccadilly  
The Left Banke  Pretty Ballerina  
The Chills  Tied Up In Chain 
Olivia Tremor Control  Marking Time 
Billy Bragg  Waiting For The Great Leap Forwards  
The Zombies  Hung Up On A Dream  
R.E.M.  Electrolite  
Traffic  Heaven Is In Your Mind  
Robyn Hitchcock  One Long Pair Of Eyes 
Phish  Water in The Sky  
Pink Floyd  Stay  
Beatles  Golden Slumbers medley 

Comment:

A sequel of sorts to my recent mix of rock songs featuring saxophones, this time around we've got rock & roll with a healthy dose of piano. Thought it would be another down & dirty mix, but ended up with enough for two discs (and still had to cut a few tracks). Tried to do enough era/subgenre hopping to keep things interesting.
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Feedback:

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Mark Petruccelli
Date: 3/25/2006
Great stuff, coverin alot of ground here.
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musicgnome
Date: 3/25/2006
This looks great...and I couldn't agree more about your disdain for these two artist mentioned in the title. Though I like some of their earliest material...their overall book of music and most recent material is the epitome of crap, imho.
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locovinagre
Date: 3/25/2006
Excellent concept and musical selection.
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p the swede
Date: 3/25/2006
looks good, hope you get the same comments that I got for my "Eric Clapton must die" mix a couple of years ago
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Siobhan
Date: 3/25/2006
Excellent; loads and loads and loads of great picks, a lot of which I'd never have thought of - really love the Billy Bragg, Clash and Elvis Costello, and it's good to see Quasi and Magnetic Fields there too. Thinking about it, while I can think of an Elton John pick that I like (Benny And The Jets) I can't even think of one where Mr. Joel is concerned.
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Nest of Vipers
Date: 3/25/2006
Hmmm... a piano-heavy mix with no Elton or Billy Joel... Still and all, looks pretty fantastic, you brown dirt cowboy!
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Little Spencer Boys
Date: 3/26/2006
Oh fine mix. Watch out though... Billy sent me an email and Elton called. They both said that you must die.
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Barrydali
Date: 3/26/2006
What no Bruce Hornsby or Marc Cohn? Its an outrage! ;) Some great picks here. Lovely and oft overlooked R.E.M track too.
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hemizen
Date: 3/26/2006
Superb!
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Bear
Date: 3/26/2006
Nice stuff! Great Sufjan and Zombies picks.
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joey de vivre
Date: 3/26/2006
hmm - this would be interesting to hear, as I haven't ever listened much for the paino in rock -- it almost seems antithetical -- well, except for Jerry Lee Lewis of course -- but maybe that just goes to show that rock can absorb anything - sitars, theremins, why not piano?

P.S. Scary cover art!!
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Sean Lally
Date: 3/26/2006
Great selections all around.
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Sean Lally
Date: 3/26/2006
I can't get behind your anti-Elton stand, though. His 70s stuff is pretty unbeatable. And Billy Joel - while I'm no fan, some of the songs (though not the production) through 52nd Street (or maybe even Glass Houses) aren't terrible. But hey, I'm not trying to pick a fight (unless you're looking for one!)
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G-Sphere
Date: 3/26/2006
Loads of great picks but early Elton is a glaring omission IMHO.
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Air Raid
Date: 3/26/2006
Great idea! I am with Sean though with Elton's 70's stuff. Also I would have added Warren Zevon's song 'Piano Fighter'.
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dice
Date: 3/26/2006
goregous! I'd love to hear this :)
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Pop Kulcher
Date: 3/26/2006
So I guess my anti-Elton stand isn't entirely without controversy. Yet, while I think "Rocket Man" is one of the prettier melodies ever composed, beyond that I can't say there's much of his work I have a need for. But I'll at least admit that his first decade's work was unobjectionable, just not my style; come the 80's, though, and he became truly wretched. As for Billy... well, I kinda like "Captain Jack," and there was that Beatles pastiche from later on, "Scandanavian Skies"... but, again, I have little use for him.
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sammyg123
Date: 3/27/2006
This mix is fantastic. No question about that. However, I also must object to the title. Firstly, and I may be alone in having this opinion, I always thought Ben Folds Five music was very reminiscent of Billy Joel. I spot a track by them on here. As far as Elton goes 'Madman Across The Water' is a fine album, and I think he made some decent tracks certainly pre 1975. But, hey it's only an opinion, and everyone's entitled to one. And nobody in the music industry, apart from Gary Glitter desrves to die. Oh, and Celine Dion...
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Moe
Date: 3/27/2006
The most amazing thing about this mix is that you found so many pictures of Billy and Elton together. I guess that Google image search works pretty well. As for the music, you've compiled some of the best 150+ minutes of piano music since Joel and John last released their greatest hits CDs ;)
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tornadoZ
Date: 3/27/2006
don't worry, it won't be long (see photo, bottom right). Elton is starting to look like Judi Dench. great list of music, sir, but where's Tori Amos? [kidding.]
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hallelujahlogic
Date: 3/27/2006
this is beautiful. great mix.
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DiCarlo
Date: 3/28/2006
Being a piano player myself and fellow hater of Sir Elton and Billy Joel, I would love to hear this. Anything I have in trade would be yours. Did I mention I would love to hear this?
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French Connection
Date: 3/28/2006
Siobhan beat me to the comment re Benny & The Jets after that I've no beef with your sentiments at all. Some excellent selections, no Mrs.Mills tho?
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Rob Conroy
Date: 3/29/2006
I agree with your title's sentiment completely (minus Elton's first five years of his solo career). This is great. Let me know what I can send you for these...
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Dom1
Date: 3/29/2006
Lol! A most eclectic set of piano based songs!
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rachel stardust
Date: 4/1/2006
some of my favorites are on here. this is fantastic.
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Mr. Bun
Date: 5/16/2006
What a superb compilation. I was listening to Pretty Ballerina not an hour ago; I'd classify it as more of a harpsichord song. Also, if I were to choose a Rutles song, it would be "Another Day" - it's what I always choose to play when trying to convince people (including myself) I can actually play piano decently. Electrolite, Braniac's Daughter, Surf's Up, and They Don't Know are 4 favourites - many kudods for compiling them in one place.