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* SomeAnvilsNeedToBeDropped: "Second Wind", both the song and the video, are pretty obvious and perhaps cheesy about teen suicide, but that doesn't make them any less powerful.

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* MemeticMutation: "We Didn't Start The Fire" tends to be [[WeDidntStartTheBillyJoelParodies parodied quite a bit]] on the internet.

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"We Didn't Start The Fire" tends to be [[WeDidntStartTheBillyJoelParodies parodied quite a bit]] on the internet.internet.
** There are tons of YouTube videos of pianists doing their rendition of the "Prelude" to "Angry Young Man".
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* PainfulRhyme: "Uptown Girl" features both the world/girl combination, as well as walkin/talkin.

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* PainfulRhyme: "Uptown Girl" features both the world/girl combination, as well as walkin/talkin.combination.

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* TearJerker: If you live in New York--or really anywhere in the New York metro area--then "Miami 2017 (I've Seen the Lights Go Out On Broadway)" can definitely be this.

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* TearJerker: If you live in New York--or really anywhere in the New York metro area--then "Miami 2017 (I've Seen the Lights Go Out On Broadway)" can definitely be this.this.
* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: "Big Shot" sings about attending hot spots like Elaine's (it closed in 2011) and wearing Halston original dresses (Haltson died in 1990).
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Title Track fits that link better.


* GrowingTheBeard: His 1973 album, "Piano Man", containing such classics as "Captain Jack", "The Ballad of Billy the Kid" and of course [[TitleDrop Piano Man]].

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* GrowingTheBeard: His 1973 album, "Piano Man", ''Piano Man'', containing such classics as "Captain Jack", "The Ballad of Billy the Kid" and of course [[TitleDrop "[[TitleTrack Piano Man]].Man]]".



* NightmareFuel: The video for Pressure.

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* NightmareFuel: The video for Pressure."Pressure".
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* MagnumOpus: His 1977 album "The Stranger".

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* MagnumOpus: His 1977 album "The Stranger".''The Stranger''.
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* HoYay: Billy [[WordOfGod feels]] there is a lot of it in the shower scenes in his "Allentown" video, something he didn't notice at the time.

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* HoYay: Billy [[WordOfGod feels]] Billy observes]] that there is a lot of it in the shower scenes in his "Allentown" video, something he didn't notice at the time.
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* HoYay: Billy [[WordOfGod feels]] there is a lot of it in the shower scenes in his "Allentown" video, something he didn't notice at the time.
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** "Pressure", "Allentown", "Uptown Girl", "Tell Her About It", "My Life", "Big Shot", "Piano Man", "Just The Way You Are"---he is a king of ear worm-writers.

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** "Pressure", "Allentown", "Uptown Girl", "Tell Her About It", "My Life", "Big Shot", "Piano Man", "Just The Way You Are"---he Are", "It's Still Rock And Roll To Me"---he is a king of ear worm-writers.
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* TearJerker: If you live in New York--or really anywhere in the New York metro area--then "Miami 2017 "Seen the Lights Go Out On Broadway" can definitely be this.

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* TearJerker: If you live in New York--or really anywhere in the New York metro area--then "Miami 2017 "Seen (I've Seen the Lights Go Out On Broadway" Broadway)" can definitely be this.
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* CriticalDissonance: He's never been a critical favorite, but is still a major star.
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* ParanoiaFuel: "Movin' Out" is a mostly harmless song, but the sound effects of screeching tires can be heard in the middle of the song... which is not exactly a kind thing for drivers to hear on the radio.
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* NightmareFuel: The video for Pressure.
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Not a YMMV trope, and I don\'t see how this is a pun or joke at all.


* StealthPun: Possibly, in "No Mans Land". "...''B''lue suits of ''b''ankers with their ''v''ol''v''os and their ''v''alentines..." Easily assonance mixes the letters...
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...making me automatically sing \"vankers\".

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* StealthPun: Possibly, in "No Mans Land". "...''B''lue suits of ''b''ankers with their ''v''ol''v''os and their ''v''alentines..." Easily assonance mixes the letters...
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* CoveredUp: "Shameless" and "To Make You Feel My Love" are both more famous through their covers by GarthBrooks.

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* CoveredUp: "Shameless" and "To Make You Feel My Love" are both more famous through their covers by GarthBrooks.Music/GarthBrooks.
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** MagnumOpusDissonance: Billy [[WordOfGod has often claimed]] his favorite album, and the one he is most proud of, aside from ''Fantasies And Delusions'' is ''The Nylon Curtain''.
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** MagnumOpusDissonance: Billy [[WordOfGod has often claimed]] his favorite album, and the one he is most proud of, aside from ''Fantasies And Delusions'' is ''The Nylon Curtain''.
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Moved Growing the Beard and Magnum Opus here.

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* GrowingTheBeard: His 1973 album, "Piano Man", containing such classics as "Captain Jack", "The Ballad of Billy the Kid" and of course [[TitleDrop Piano Man]].


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* MagnumOpus: His 1977 album "The Stranger".
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** "Only the Good Die Young" is one of the catchiest songs of all time.
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* EarWorm: "We didn't start the fire, it was always burning since the world's been churning..." Even worse [[SomethingSomethingLeonardBernstein if you know the lyrics]].

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* EarWorm: "We didn't start the fire, it was always burning since the world's been churning...turning..." Even worse [[SomethingSomethingLeonardBernstein if you know the lyrics]].
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* EarWorm: "We didn't start the fire, it was always burning since the world's been churning..." Even worse if you know the lyrics.

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* EarWorm: "We didn't start the fire, it was always burning since the world's been churning..." Even worse [[SomethingSomethingLeonardBernstein if you know the lyrics.lyrics]].
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**No mention of I Go To Extremes? That sound is mindblowingly catchy.
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** "Pressure", "Allentown", "Uptown Girl", "Tell Her About It", "Pressure", "Piano Man", "Just The Way You Are"---he is a king of ear worm-writers.

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** "Pressure", "Allentown", "Uptown Girl", "Tell Her About It", "Pressure", "My Life", "Big Shot", "Piano Man", "Just The Way You Are"---he is a king of ear worm-writers.
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** "Pressure", "Allentown", "Uptown Girl", "Tell Her About It", "Pressure", "Piano Man", "Just The Way You Are"---he is a king of ear worm-writers.


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** "Captain Jack" counts as well.
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* TearJerker: If you live in New York or really anywhere in the New York metro area, "Miami 2017 "Seen the Lights Go Out On Broadway" can definitely be this.

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* TearJerker: If you live in New York or York--or really anywhere in the New York metro area, area--then "Miami 2017 "Seen the Lights Go Out On Broadway" can definitely be this.
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* TearJerker: If you live in New York or really anywhere in the New York metro area, "Miami 2017 "Seen the Lights Go Out On Broadway" can definitely be this.
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** More recently he sang it again at an NBC benefit concert telethon for victims of Hurricane Sandy. He even changed one line of lyrics to reference the serious damage sustained by Staten Island in the storm.
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* EarWorm: "We didn't start the fire, it was always burning since the world's been churning..." Even worse if you know the lyrics.
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Removing ptitles


* MemeticMutation: "We Didn't Start The Fire" tends to be [[{{Ptitle7beegrwp}} parodied quite a bit]] on the internet.

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* MemeticMutation: "We Didn't Start The Fire" tends to be [[{{Ptitle7beegrwp}} [[WeDidntStartTheBillyJoelParodies parodied quite a bit]] on the internet.

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