Happened upon Billy Joel in conversation with Alec Baldwin on NPR today. As expected, it was pretty annoying, but also rather entertaining. Which got me wondering... why is it that I hate Billy Joel's music so much? Is it possibly because it really sucks? Yup, that's it all right!
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