Comments on: Chubby Checker, Psycho… http://blog.newsarama.com/2008/01/09/chubby-checker-psycho/ The Blog@ Team and prominent comics personalities share what’s on their minds. Tue, 21 May 2013 12:58:05 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.1 By: Shaun http://blog.newsarama.com/2008/01/09/chubby-checker-psycho/comment-page-1/#comment-255101 Shaun Wed, 09 Jan 2008 23:51:16 +0000 http://blog.newsarama.com/2008/01/09/chubby-checker-psycho/#comment-255101 Randy, even if you don't care for Joel's music. Over 100 million albums sold, several dozen hit singles, and a guy who can still sellout the largest arenas more than 30 years after his first hit isn't shabby. Hell, he's been covered by artists as diverse as Sinatra, Barry White, Garth Brooks and the Beastie Boys. I don't care for any of those people, but that's pretty amazing too. Not many newer artists who are ever gonna be able to make any of those claims above. He didn't suck after he got married (We Didn't Start the Fire and Uptown Girl aside), and neither did Spidey (Clone Saga and Sins Past aside, as I understand it). Randy, even if you don’t care for Joel’s music. Over 100 million albums sold, several dozen hit singles, and a guy who can still sellout the largest arenas more than 30 years after his first hit isn’t shabby.

Hell, he’s been covered by artists as diverse as Sinatra, Barry White, Garth Brooks and the Beastie Boys. I don’t care for any of those people, but that’s pretty amazing too.

Not many newer artists who are ever gonna be able to make any of those claims above.

He didn’t suck after he got married (We Didn’t Start the Fire and Uptown Girl aside), and neither did Spidey (Clone Saga and Sins Past aside, as I understand it).

]]> By: Shaun http://blog.newsarama.com/2008/01/09/chubby-checker-psycho/comment-page-1/#comment-255100 Shaun Wed, 09 Jan 2008 23:47:33 +0000 http://blog.newsarama.com/2008/01/09/chubby-checker-psycho/#comment-255100 BTW, I've heard Weird Al's "It's Still Rock & Roll To Me" parody. Never released commerically, but it did get played on Dr. Demento years and years ago. I like Al, but he was wrong. Glass Houses certainly wasn't Billy's best album, but I wouldn't say it totally sucked either. Almost 30 (!) years later, songs like ISR&RTM, You May Be Right and Sometimes a Fantasy (oh, oh, oh, oh!) are still classics. Weird Al's still that guy who does funny parody songs and does equally silly movie cameos now and then. BTW, I’ve heard Weird Al’s “It’s Still Rock & Roll To Me” parody. Never released commerically, but it did get played on Dr. Demento years and years ago.

I like Al, but he was wrong. Glass Houses certainly wasn’t Billy’s best album, but I wouldn’t say it totally sucked either. Almost 30 (!) years later, songs like ISR&RTM, You May Be Right and Sometimes a Fantasy (oh, oh, oh, oh!) are still classics. Weird Al’s still that guy who does funny parody songs and does equally silly movie cameos now and then.

]]> By: Shaun http://blog.newsarama.com/2008/01/09/chubby-checker-psycho/comment-page-1/#comment-255097 Shaun Wed, 09 Jan 2008 23:40:49 +0000 http://blog.newsarama.com/2008/01/09/chubby-checker-psycho/#comment-255097 Want a further connection? Check out the video for the song "A Matter of Trust" if you get the chance. There's a small Spider-Man poster on a wall of the room the band is playing in. I'm a big fan of Billy's, though it's been hard to stay one when he stopped making new music and let himself an oldies act (not to mention tabloid fodder, for his alcoholism). Want a further connection? Check out the video for the song “A Matter of Trust” if you get the chance. There’s a small Spider-Man poster on a wall of the room the band is playing in.

I’m a big fan of Billy’s, though it’s been hard to stay one when he stopped making new music and let himself an oldies act (not to mention tabloid fodder, for his alcoholism).

]]> By: Alex Hart http://blog.newsarama.com/2008/01/09/chubby-checker-psycho/comment-page-1/#comment-254797 Alex Hart Wed, 09 Jan 2008 18:04:18 +0000 http://blog.newsarama.com/2008/01/09/chubby-checker-psycho/#comment-254797 Strangely appropriate, then, that Weird Al wrote a Spider-Man-themed parody of "Piano Man." (Al also wrote an unreleased song called "It's Still Billy Joel to Me," about how Billy Joel's then-new style sucked. Not surprisingly, Billy Joel wouldn't give him permission to release it.) Strangely appropriate, then, that Weird Al wrote a Spider-Man-themed parody of “Piano Man.” (Al also wrote an unreleased song called “It’s Still Billy Joel to Me,” about how Billy Joel’s then-new style sucked. Not surprisingly, Billy Joel wouldn’t give him permission to release it.)

]]> By: Dan Coyle in Real Life http://blog.newsarama.com/2008/01/09/chubby-checker-psycho/comment-page-1/#comment-254785 Dan Coyle in Real Life Wed, 09 Jan 2008 17:45:15 +0000 http://blog.newsarama.com/2008/01/09/chubby-checker-psycho/#comment-254785 "BIll I believe this is killing me... as the smile went away from his face... but I KNOW I could be a movie star... <I>IF I COULD GET OUT OF THIS PLACE</I>..." “BIll I believe this is killing me…

as the smile went away from his face…

but I KNOW I could be a movie star…

IF I COULD GET OUT OF THIS PLACE…”

]]> By: Laura Miello http://blog.newsarama.com/2008/01/09/chubby-checker-psycho/comment-page-1/#comment-254779 Laura Miello Wed, 09 Jan 2008 17:38:34 +0000 http://blog.newsarama.com/2008/01/09/chubby-checker-psycho/#comment-254779 By that logic, Billy Joel would have had to start being good again once he stopped being married, which wasn't the case. He just stopped making pop music. By that logic, Billy Joel would have had to start being good again once he stopped being married, which wasn’t the case. He just stopped making pop music.

]]> By: Randy http://blog.newsarama.com/2008/01/09/chubby-checker-psycho/comment-page-1/#comment-254650 Randy Wed, 09 Jan 2008 14:37:47 +0000 http://blog.newsarama.com/2008/01/09/chubby-checker-psycho/#comment-254650 "Bitten by a radioactive piano" might make for a nice absurdist origin story, but otherwise I don't care much for the analogy. Billy Joel was pretty mediocre to start with. “Bitten by a radioactive piano” might make for a nice absurdist origin story, but otherwise I don’t care much for the analogy. Billy Joel was pretty mediocre to start with.

]]> By: Ed Cunard http://blog.newsarama.com/2008/01/09/chubby-checker-psycho/comment-page-1/#comment-254647 Ed Cunard Wed, 09 Jan 2008 14:31:31 +0000 http://blog.newsarama.com/2008/01/09/chubby-checker-psycho/#comment-254647 "Harry Osborn Mary Jane Gwen Stacy Marcy Kane Doppelganger Venom Carnage and Mysterio Daily Bugle Jackal's clone Crusher Hogan Tombstone Green Goblin Hobgoblin deals with Mephisto." “Harry Osborn Mary Jane Gwen Stacy Marcy Kane
Doppelganger Venom Carnage and Mysterio
Daily Bugle Jackal’s clone Crusher Hogan Tombstone
Green Goblin Hobgoblin deals with Mephisto.”

]]> By: ejulp http://blog.newsarama.com/2008/01/09/chubby-checker-psycho/comment-page-1/#comment-254623 ejulp Wed, 09 Jan 2008 14:15:35 +0000 http://blog.newsarama.com/2008/01/09/chubby-checker-psycho/#comment-254623 Joe Q made this analogy years ago. Joe Q made this analogy years ago.

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