Billy Joel - The Stranger (w/ guest Matt Fernicola)

The Great Albums

Bill Lambusta

Albums, Music Commentary, Criticism, Billlambusta, Brianerickson, Music

4.3 • 749 Ratings

🗓️ 20 November 2017

⏱️ 111 minutes

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Summary

Massive Albums November rolls (and rocks) on into week 3 as Bill and Brian welcome multi-talented multi-instrumentalist Matt Fernicola (Foes of Fern, Avery Mandeville and the Man Devils, the Burns, and many more) to talk about Billy Joel's the Stranger (1977, Columbia). Listener be warned: much to our delight Fern, a Berklee College of Music alum, really dives deep into music theory when describing how Joel's classical training help define his unique pop sound. Also, we compare and contrast the lyrical styles of Bruce Springsteen and Billy Joel, talk about Brian's priest singing some Billy Joel mid-mass, Liberty Devitto's timely (and possibly apocryphal) stick throwing, Phil Ramone getting the producer nod over George Martin, and much more are we make our way through the album track by track!

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Great Albums podcast, Massive Album, November Week 3.
0:05.0	I'm Bill.
0:05.6	And I'm Brian.
0:06.4	And what massive album are we talking about today, Brian?
0:09.2	The Stranger by Billy Joel.
0:32.2	The Stranger by Billy Joel. What we do here every week on the podcast is take an album of music and talk about what makes it great.
0:38.6	We try to have the conversation around the music that fans do, and then we cap it all off with a track-by-track review,
0:43.6	in which we talk about the things that we like about the songs and the things we think about while listening to them.
0:45.2	That sounds good, and we're not doing that alone today.
0:47.6	Absolutely not.
0:48.5	Who's joining us for this conversation, Brian?
0:50.5	A young man by the name of Matt Furnacola, aka Furn.
0:55.5	And he's going to tell you all about the eight different music and recording projects
1:01.5	and the nonprofit music lessons and charity work that he does when we introduce him
1:07.8	in a couple minutes, but a really great guest.
1:10.0	He's in roughly all of the bands.
1:12.0	Yeah.
1:12.4	And, you know, we talk a lot about our scene in Asbury Park and things like that in New Jersey.
1:16.9	And he's, he's a big, he's a big part of that.
1:20.2	So it's cool to kind of have someone like a good representative of that, of that on the show.
1:27.6	So what we're doing this month is we're taking all albums that have been huge, massive
1:32.4	sellers, have just been kind of like everywhere in the world.
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