Songs in the Attic

I told Justin not to say anything to you and here I am just blabbing it.

Anyway, Justin, let's hear Captain Jack from Songs in the Attic.

So you go to the village in your tie-dye jeans And you stare at the junkies in the closet wings It's like some pornographic magazine And you smile

Cause Captain Jack will get you high tonight And take you to your special island Captain Jack will get you by tonight Just a little push and you'll

So she was like, I can show you a Disney movie for children.

Songs in the Attic, playing at all times.

When it wasn't an audio book, it was definitely a Billy Joel cassette tape.

Wow.

G'day everyone and thanks for tuning in to today's episode of Music From A Lifetime, the podcast where I offer you new thoughts on old albums and an old person's thoughts on new albums.

On today's episode, I'm going to take a look at the album Songs In The Attic by Billy Joel, his first live album, released on September 14, 1981.

Ignition!

I seen the lights go out on Broadway I saw the Empire State laid low And life went on beyond the palisades They all bought Cadillacs and left there long ago We held a concert out in Brooklyn to watch the island bridges blow.

Indeed, it still sold through the roof.

Perhaps not to the scale as his recent three studio albums had, but still enough to give all of those who did buy it the chance to hear songs they'd never heard before and realize there was more to Billy Joel's career than just those albums that they knew.

And that was the ultimate brilliance of the live album called Songs in the Attic.

Thank you.