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- Artist: Billy Joel
- Single: Goodnight Saigon / Where's The Orchestra
- Label: CBS
- Year of Release: 1983
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on 2012-01-10 CharlesMartel Said:
This was one of Billy Joel's better efforts in the eighties, dating from a time when he had realised that being the mournful piano player didn't play the bills and certainly wasnt going to get him a supermodel wife. " Goodnight Saigon" was meant as a cross between a condemnation of the Vietnam War and its effects and as a tribute to " Apocalypse Now" , I don't think it comes off truly as either. It begins with a chopping helicopter rotor effect but the choppers never really landed and the marines never really disembarked with this one. Don't get me wrong - it's not bad. It's just not as good as it could have been. As you listen to this you keep expecting some moment of lyrical revelation - it never comes.
Joel's later career may have brought him commercial success, but it was a step down in my opinion. As far as I am concerned, he seriously blotted his credibility copybook, in my view, later when he released " We Didn't Start the Fire" . A more shameless rip off of the concept of R.E.M.'s " It's the End of the World As We Know It" could not be imagined.
Rating: 6/10
