Billy Joel - Great Ships and Great Oceans

[@mercedespernas]

Was in 🦪 Bay on Tuesday. Saw the harbors and Bay. So beautiful and peaceful there

[@mercedespernas]

Beautiful scenes❤

[@howtodoitdude1662]

Keep in mind, he was only around 21 years old.

[@betacall9634]

Such Awestruck talent is Billy. I’ve owned every album beginning with CSH in 1971. Even his early and later unreleased works of art are masterpieces. Thank you for blessing us with so much beautiful music that will stand the test of time.

[@betacall9634]

@Owen Franklin yes. Like at 20 years old

[@betacall9634]

@Owen Franklin you too Owen:)

[@AwesomeRobot15]

I love how the sound quality makes the piano sound like it’s underwater. It fits the song really well

[@timothymarkin4481]

Have this on a cassette of demos. Wish they had remastered it on his My Lives boxed set. Would have been great on Cold Spring Harbor.

[@veganvocalist4782]

lovely evocative images , thank you . This was so enjoyable to watch ;D

[@madisondahlager868]

It is so sad that this wasn’t on cold spring harbor where it belongs or on a later album as a bonus song or something

[@rolandofgilead43]

if i'm thinking of the right song it is on it, it's Nocturne's Original Lyrics before he took them out and made it an instrumental

[@dalty8741]

he wrote this in '72 for Piano Man

[@jacquesjenseen7355]

A shame he never put this on an album... :-(

[@riccardoangeli802]

Talento da sempre per sempre ..... Piano Man 🎹🎹🎹🎹🎹🎹🎹

[@ShakespeareWilliam1600]

This is so beautiful, I really wish he put it on his album. I still don't understand why he hated his first album.

[@WheelzOfFortune]

He didn't hate the songs on it. He hated that it was produced at the wrong speed which made everything sound "off".

[@ShakespeareWilliam1600]

@@WheelzOfFortune True. But I don't care, still a underrated gem to me.

[@seanscanlon9067]

In fairness although there in nothing wrong as such with the songs on Cold Spring Harbor and they were all pleasant enough, there were probably only two standouts and those were "Everybody Loves You Now" and "She's Got a Way" with perhaps "Nocturne" without lyrics a third.

[@seanscanlon9067]

@Owen Franklin Billy writes the vast majority of his songs bar the odd extra cover track on hits albums or guest appearances and he tends to write the music first and then adds lyrics to them later. This musically sounds a bit like Tomorrow Is Today from Cold Spring Harbor from 1971and sometimes with Billy, a complete song can be formed from earlier written parts of other songs that as full songs themselves never get completed or end up being discarded in order to become part of another full song. So maybe that is happened here and this song or the feel or parts of it ended up as Tomorrow Is Today.

[@seanscanlon9067]

@Owen Franklin No problem and you too.

[@danielmarra1555]

I prefer this over “You look so good to me” or “Turn around”.

[@Jshine7]

😊

[@Dancie.Tessie]

It’s giving Moana…

[@veganvocalist4782]

how poignant

[@kitzfamily6667]

While this an alright song by casual standards, by Billy Joel standards this belongs in the trash. Even if it had good production and arrangement, the melody just isn't strong enough. This is a good example of the crap great songwriters have to get out of the way to make way for the truly great songs. Very cool to get to hear it!

[@jimchicarella2497]

Before trashing one of the legends of our time, remember how old he was when he wrote this. Please post your music here for everyone to hear as I'm sure you've sold more than 150 million albums..

[@88EightyEights]

You may be right that this does not stand up to some of Billy's best songs (NY State of Mind, Miami 2017, Vienna, etc.) but it is certainly as good as some of the early material that wound up on Cold Spring Harbor and it is interesting from a fan perspective to hear what Billy was writing at the time when he was young and developing his style.

[@seanscanlon9067]

They're just opinions people and everyone is allowed to have one.

[@howtodoitdude1662]

Billy doesn’t write to make hits or to impress anyone. He’s a composer and expresses his art. Period.

[@SyncopateTheShot]

@@88EightyEights "You may be right." I see what you did there!