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...simulated performance clips tend to be dull and repetitive: lip syncs sink clips. But the best videos enhance the mood of a song and expand TV's generally unadventurous visual vocabulary. Nightmarish images from Billy Joel's subconscious accompany his shouts in the song Pressure; Stevie Nicks floats through a moving Magritte painting in Fleetwood Mac's Gypsy...
Bruce Springsteen and Billy Joel risk big and score...
...pure products of America go crazy," William Carlos Williams said. The new albums by a couple of rock's most formidable figures, Bruce Springsteen and Billy Joel, use that kind of down-home craziness as a centerpiece, setting it out for examination like a death's head on a coffee table. Springsteen's haunted and haunting Nebraska, Joel's hallucinatory The Nylon Curtain are not just tours across some nightmare landscape. They are not mere descriptions of madness. They are about the process of contemporary craziness, and they are devastating...
...That's just one heckuva football team," said dejected Brown Caoch John Anderson after Saturday's game "Especially on defense [Scott] Murrer at middle guard, and the two defensive ends. [Joel Margolis and [Pat] Fleming, are as good as any in this league. The same goes for the linebackers [Andy] Nolan and [Joe] Azelby--they're incredible. I don't think there's a team that I've seen this year that's comparable to them...
Fortunately, with-songs like "Pressure" and others exploring the riddles of Billy Joel's world, there no longer is any question about the enduring worth of this fellow's music-making. Thanks to The Nylon Curtain, we can write Billy Joel off and let other musicians entertain us without any remorse...