(Dodging that "anti-HNC" Stinger missile fired by the Ndubbinistas...<g>,
I respond);
Jon wrote;
> I dunno, Dan; I don't think I've ever seen anything but dismissals of
> Garth's "Shameless" or "The Fever," and not because people argued that they
> were bad jobs or that he didn't do a good job on them. The very *idea*
that
> he was covering Billy Joel and (?) seemed to elicit plenty of vilification
> all by itself.
Was this from rock crits or country crits? Probably the rock ones, I
would guess. Either way I just think it's silly, because I think Billy
Joel's a damn good writer and performer, and I guess it doesn't surprise me
because there's a lotta dumb and hung-up hipster critics out there. I just
don't think the fans-alt.country or not-are as hung up on a sort of 70's pop
hit/ironic attachment thing as we might think (even tho I think a lot of what
Jake wrote had merit).
I haven't heard either of those Garth songs (I have actually, but
they're just not coming back into my memory), so I don't know if they're good
versions or not.
And finally, Billy Joel married Christie-damned-Brinkley and you gotta
give the man props for that alone!
dan "a supermodel in every pot" bentele
