04/14/2019
Artist: Billy Joel
Album: The Stranger
I was fortunate enough to have this banger brought to me by a friend from work. The entire album Slap-lap-lap-lap-laps. (Moving Out reference)
The only stranger I knew about previously was when you are about to play little 5 on 1 and you sit on your hand until its numb so it feels like a stranger is in the mix. In reality, Joel is talking about the stranger in all of us. He lays down a funky beat and talks about how we don't really know exactly who we are, much less someone else's stranger. Lately, I have been getting to know my stranger. We are getting close. Everyone goes South every now and then. The stranger isn't always evil and he is not always wrong. The stranger the better, lets get weird.
Don't go changing to try and please me. I'll take you just the way are. People do need to have some things in common though. I had heard once that opposites attract so I took it to way to much of an extreme. Billy gets me. He just wants someone to talk to.
Where's the fire? What's the rush about? Vienna waits for you. As a young up and comer who just came to terms with morality, those are words of wisdom.
Only the good die young. Shout out to the those who have lost loved ones way to early. Billy knows his s**t. He knows I'd rather laugh with sinners than cry with the saints. This album may the key to halting an existential crisis. If things don't go well the first time around, pull yourself together and try again.
SLICE Vinyl awards this Album 8.1 Slices.
