This is another one of those Billy Joel songs that wasn't a big radio hit, but ranks high on my favorites list. You can just feel the scorned lover's pain in the lyrics.
Anyone who can write gut wrenching lyrics like this has to be basing it on personal experience. When my fiancé broke up with me, I listened to this song 500 times a day for a month.
It was rledaseded in thed UK not thed US. It was the only song on sieded oned not released in thed US in fact. "All for Leyna" is a song by Billy Joel from the 1980 album Glass Houses. "All for Leyna" was released as a single in the United Kingdom, where it reached #40 on the UK Singles Chart.[1] Billy Joedl was my favorite artist at that timed, an I wednt to his first MSG show on his Glass Houseds tour. Sat in thed blue sedats right bedhined thed staged. Not a bad viedwpoint actually.
i agree with James Edgar about the song, and i kinda' feel that way about the whole album, i don't think it got as much love as a lot of his other albums, but it's packed with really cool songs... it was kind of a transition into the "'80s Joel" sound that was so f'in' huge and out of the old-school sound everyone already knew and loved... i think it really stands out among his vast body of work with a very unique sound and style to it, and i just love the album... and that's not to say it didn't sell well or nobody liked it, it was still a big win, just that i don't feel it had the popularity i thought it should for being so unique and when people talk about Billy's music, they're usually talking about pre-Glass Houses or post-Glass Houses, while this just doesn't get the same level of recognition...
Colonel Cum Dumpster, (?) The facts follow. Songs from an LP or EP need to be released as singles along with the accompanying costly promotion -- OR -- be championed by a zealous, passionate and popular radio (or internet) DJ, replaying and personally promoting the song -- AND / OR -- captivated, moved fans who request to hear the song, en masse.
let me ask you something,, and actually all of can chime in. WHy do you supppose until this day, he is so hated by music critics? It started in the 70s, but i was too young back then. But, even in the last decade, ive seen people rip him to shreds, in articles.
This song is epic: emotion to the fore, frantic piano, rock guitar, falsetto oh, and a synth, just for good measure. Indeed, one of Billy's (many) best.
My favourite Billy Joel song. I love it when pianos are played as the percussion instruments that they are. Back in Junior High at the turn of the 90s when Billy Joel was very uncool in the teenage world, we had a lip sync contest at school and I went up on stage, sat at the piano adorned in the Glass Houses drawing I did in art class, dressed exactly as Billy on the cover, and did my best fake concert performance, pounding the keys just enough as to not make sound, but to give the visual image of my angst, and even got up during the vocal bridge to pour my heart out and slam my leather jacket on the stage. I went on to play guitar in many bands & real concerts after that. And it started All For Leyna.
She stood on the tracks Waving her arms Leading me to that third rail, SHOCK Quick as a wink She changed her mind She gave me a night That?s all it was What will it take until I STOP Kidding myself, wasting my time, whoa There?s nothing else I can do ?Cause I?m doing it All For Leyna I don?t want anyone new ?Cause I?m living it All For Leyna There?s nothing in it for you ?Cause I?m giving it all to Leyna We laid on the beach Watching the tide She didn?t tell me there were, ROCKS Under the waves Right off the shore Washed up on the sand Barely alive Wishing the undertow would, STOP How can a man take anymore, whoa There?s nothing else I can do ?Cause I?m doing it All For Leyna I don?t want anyone new ?Cause I?m living it All For Leyna There?s nothing in it for you ?Cause I?m giving it all to Leyna I?m failing in school Loosing my friends Making my family loose their minds I don?t want to eat I don?t want to sleep I only want Leyna, one more time Now, I?m in my room Watching the tube Telling myself, she still may, DROP Over to say, she?s changed her mind So, I wait in the dark Listening for her Instead of hearing my old man saying, STOP Kidding yourself, wasting your time There?s nothing else I can do ?Cause I?m doing it All For Leyna I don?t want anyone new ?Cause I?m living it All For Leyna There?s nothing in it for you ?Cause I?m giving it all to Leyna All For Leyna All For Leyna All For Leyna All For Leyna All For Leyna All For Leyna
I think this is one of his most successfully tonal songs he ever recorded. the repetitive bass, repetition in lyrics, and the fade out-- a cliche for many of the songs of that era but here l speaks of the endlessness of his memory playing endlessly in his own mind -- it all adds to the mindless obsession that he writes about. . I don't think I really understood this song until I was caught in the same type of obsession myself, when everything began to focus just on one thing to the exclusion of everything else and then she abandoned me. Everyone who has been there will appreciate this song more than most. Thanks for posting!
I remember when this came out originally. I wanted to take music lessons . Visions of star dust and Solud Gold dancers. . My dad told me to master this song. He had me do every part. Bass, piano, drums.. He said if I still liked the song at the end of the summer we could talk. I am not a musician but I still think the song is one of the best representations of obsession.
I once heard an incredible radio interview with Billy Joel going song by song through Glass Houses. I remember he said he sort of dug back into his youth to write this song about a young man being in love with a girl he just couldn't win. He said he picked the name "Leyna" because it was sort of the name you would associate with a heartbreaker! I have to concur...I once knew a "Lana" in college who was indeed a very beautiful, smart, and savvy girl who was just like Joel describes.
You can hear a lot of Big Shot and Moving Out but the staccato with the bass guitar raises it to a much more dynamic level…one of my all time favorites 🎹
All of Billy Joel music is great. The chopsticks sound of the piano makes a great sound and a great sing along at the bar. THE best piano singer EVER. Bar none!😃
One of my absolute favorites; you can feel the obsession in his voice not just the brilliant lyrics The man is a legend and always has been and is a musical poet!
Not to be argumentative, but Supertramp has got a claim there, certainly Dreamer, anyway. I’d think about Hall and Oates’ Kiss on My List, too. It’s an interesting thing to ponder.
@@hklinker Agreed, but it's not the staccato in itself that I love in the songs mentioned, it's rather the individual chord sequence played there. Fully loaded up with tension anticipating in a way that it is not a happy-go-lucky type of song that follows.
A month ago, for the first time in more than 10 years, I fell in love with an 10 years older girl. We were from different countries and we knew that soon we will be apart from each other. This song was so precise for that moment!
one of my absolute favorites, reminds me of high school football practice. someone had this 8 track and I had to hear it everyday in the summer of '79. wow I'm getting old.
For those who know Billy Joel, this is a fan favorite. It was a non-expected song on the "Glass Houses" album. It surprisingly, became one of the most memorable songs on the album. It's filled with story and emotion. Mr. Joel was great at giving that. He knocked it out of the park with this one.
When anyone I know discovers this song they always say, “Hidden gem.” He won a Grammy for this album; there was nothing hidden about the album, but this song did get buried.
Come together was a B-Side Why wasn't this a hit. It had everything a hit needed. Great melody, memorable lyrics, catchy and well put together instrumental, a chorus memorable enough to be sung in a stadium, it felt new, gripping hook enticing new listener, it just boggle my mind how this wasn't a hit.
By far his most underated song and one of my favorites and for sure a top 5 BJ song! He and Elton John have so many great songs in their back catalogs, 2 of the most talented songwriters and performers out there!
I was 13 in 1980 and head over heels in love with my classmate Sylvia Parker and she wouldn't give me the time of day and this song took the sting out of it for whatever reason! Lol!
Got this album when it first hit the shelves back in 1980. All for Leyna , You maybe right and Moving out where and still are my favorite cuts from Glass Houses.
“All For Leyna” (1980) is the fifth track on Billy Joel’s “Glass Houses” album : the one that produced the hit singles “You May Be Right,” “It’s Still Rock and Roll To Me,” “Don’t Ask Me Why,” and “Sometimes a Fantasy.” Those four scored much qhigher than “All For Leyna.”. “Glass Houses” garnered Joel a Grammy Award for Best Male Rock Vocal Performance in 1981. According to music critic Stephen Thomas Erlewine, the LP featured “a harder-edged sound” compared to Joel’s other work. The cover shows Billy Joel poised to throw a rock through what is actually the front of his own house, in Oyster Bay, New York. He moved there in 1977 after getting turned down for residency by the legendary Dakota apartments. The likes of Melanie Griffith, Antonio Banderas and Gene Simmons have also been rejected. The Dakota’s board has drawn criticism for its snobbery. “I wanted to recapture the angst of a 16-year-old guy who just had his heart broken by a girl,” stated Joel in 2016, “and that kind of obsession thing that happens when you can’t stop thinking about this girl, you’ve gotta have this girl, but she doesn’t want anything to do with you. You’re driving your parents crazy and you’re failing in school and you’re losing your friends, and everybody thinks you’re out of your mind. That TEENAGE OBSESSION - which was ALL FOR LEYNA. Everything for this girl.” 💜🎹💚
First record I actually bought with my own money from being paid to provide guitar player duties! I had $40 to spend. I remember I cased this record when my family had to go to the nearest town to shop for necessities. I had that kid peering through the window just dreaming one day of owning that record one day! I was so happy to actually go home with it under my arm! I think I was 11 or 12.
This is, perhaps, my favorite song of his. It’s truly top notch, and when you factor how relatable of a song it is, you have a true gem of a song. It expresses so lucidly, the lengths men will often go to for a woman; sacrificing his life and often sanity, just to maintain a relationship( that, let’s be honest, a an absolute waste of a man’s time in the end ). It’s only once a man reaches a certain age, that he realizes just how much time and energy he wasted for the women who most likely gave nothing in return. This song should be required listening for young men starting out in the dating world. I’d say this, and ‘always a woman’ are the 2 songs that capture women the best. In the end, they are selfish creatures, and they couldn’t care less if they completely drain a man. They really may care about themselves and their own happiness.
![Billy Joel: All For Leyna [Live at Bonnaroo '15]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/kVQyWBfkLoI/mqdefault.jpg)
This is another one of those Billy Joel songs that wasn't a big radio hit, but ranks high on my favorites list. You can just feel the scorned lover's pain in the lyrics.
Anyone who can write gut wrenching lyrics like this has to be basing it on personal experience. When my fiancé broke up with me, I listened to this song 500 times a day for a month.
It was never released as a single, but it was my favorite song on this album, and one of his best.
Ray Gordon Teaches Chess It was released as a single.
It was rledaseded in thed UK not thed US. It was the only song on sieded oned not released in thed US in fact. "All for Leyna" is a song by Billy Joel from the 1980 album Glass Houses. "All for Leyna" was released as a single in the United Kingdom, where it reached #40 on the UK Singles Chart.[1]
Billy Joedl was my favorite artist at that timed, an I wednt to his first MSG show on his Glass Houseds tour. Sat in thed blue sedats right bedhined thed staged. Not a bad viedwpoint actually.
i agree with James Edgar about the song, and i kinda' feel that way about the whole album, i don't think it got as much love as a lot of his other albums, but it's packed with really cool songs... it was kind of a transition into the "'80s Joel" sound that was so f'in' huge and out of the old-school sound everyone already knew and loved... i think it really stands out among his vast body of work with a very unique sound and style to it, and i just love the album...
and that's not to say it didn't sell well or nobody liked it, it was still a big win, just that i don't feel it had the popularity i thought it should for being so unique and when people talk about Billy's music, they're usually talking about pre-Glass Houses or post-Glass Houses, while this just doesn't get the same level of recognition...
I listen to this song when I'm failing at school, losing my friends or making my family lose their minds.
Hey Chris, give life a red hotshot, u only got one go at that, make it count.
Lmao, Chris. Agreed Will.
Those are the lyrics
I do when I don’t want to sleep and don’t want to eat
If I had a dollar for every time...
This song should have been a hit.
It only made number 40 in the UK (in April 1980) but I bought the 7" of it.
Only managed Number 40 in April 1980 (UK chart)
Agreed. One of my favorites. This whole album should have been a hit, in its entirety.
pretty much
It was,it was called Runaway by Bon Jovi.
Yes, when you have more than a couple of decades under your belt you know exactly what Billy is singing about
My man Billy be simpin
Lol
😂😂😂
How was this NOT a major hit for Billy Joel?
Ken G. No airtime.
It was the B-Side, which doesn't tend to get noticed as much, unfortunately
Colonel Cum Dumpster, (?)
The facts follow. Songs from an LP or EP need to be released as singles along with the accompanying costly promotion -- OR -- be championed by a zealous, passionate and popular radio (or internet) DJ, replaying and personally promoting the song -- AND / OR -- captivated, moved fans who request to hear the song, en masse.
Ikr
Uptown Girl and Honesty came out at the same time. Then We didn't start the fire. Great song though!😃
Most underrated song of Billy Joel's. His second most underrated song is The Stranger. Both awesome songs.
And Goodnight Saigon,and Allentown.
don't forget a matter of trust, and leningrad
One of my all-time-favorites is Close To The Borderline.
he has many underrated songs...Stiletto, until the Night, Vienna....what an amazing library of music
Glenn Levy His whole first album
I am Billy Joel obsessed and this is one of my all time favorites from him--but they all are lol He is a GENUIS!!!!!!!!!
And no one crafted a drum track to match a song writer better than Liberty Devitto
DeShawn Hatcher I’m a big fan of you
let me ask you something,, and actually all of can chime in. WHy do you supppose until this day, he is so hated by music critics? It started in the 70s, but i was too young back then. But, even in the last decade, ive seen people rip him to shreds, in articles.
you spelled genius wrong.... i guess you're judgment of intelligence is now suspect
@F@ckin Rotten* / You and I agree.....'' Lets start a super fighting force'', for music honorability. My favorite B.J. song. Billy Joel rocks!
His most underrated song. Great stuff.
This is the Song that turned me into a true lifelong Billy Joel fan 😊
This song is epic: emotion to the fore, frantic piano, rock guitar, falsetto oh, and a synth, just for good measure. Indeed, one of Billy's (many) best.
A smart man once told me: "When a woman decides she's done with a man, he is just torturing himself thinking she's not."
I wish someone told me that advice in my early 20s..
@@Rockesb888 we all had to learn that from experience... Including my dad. Lol
And that works both ways 😉
My favourite Billy Joel song. I love it when pianos are played as the percussion instruments that they are. Back in Junior High at the turn of the 90s when Billy Joel was very uncool in the teenage world, we had a lip sync contest at school and I went up on stage, sat at the piano adorned in the Glass Houses drawing I did in art class, dressed exactly as Billy on the cover, and did my best fake concert performance, pounding the keys just enough as to not make sound, but to give the visual image of my angst, and even got up during the vocal bridge to pour my heart out and slam my leather jacket on the stage. I went on to play guitar in many bands & real concerts after that. And it started All For Leyna.
Most underrated song in the universe!
I keep coming back to this one. I love it!
Oh yes
This is a top 5 favorite for me from Billy Joel. I fell in love with him and his music at 13 years old, still listening almost 40 years later.
memories of driving in my boyfriend's VW bug listening to this tape in 1982. great music.
Teenager love anguish captured perfectly.Love Billy Joel
More like an adult stalker.
“Leyna” could be substituted for any vice in your life. Brilliant song
She stood on the tracks
Waving her arms
Leading me to that third rail, SHOCK
Quick as a wink
She changed her mind
She gave me a night
That?s all it was
What will it take until I STOP
Kidding myself, wasting my time, whoa
There?s nothing else I can do
?Cause I?m doing it All For Leyna
I don?t want anyone new
?Cause I?m living it All For Leyna
There?s nothing in it for you
?Cause I?m giving it all to Leyna
We laid on the beach
Watching the tide
She didn?t tell me there were, ROCKS
Under the waves
Right off the shore
Washed up on the sand
Barely alive
Wishing the undertow would, STOP
How can a man take anymore, whoa
There?s nothing else I can do
?Cause I?m doing it All For Leyna
I don?t want anyone new
?Cause I?m living it All For Leyna
There?s nothing in it for you
?Cause I?m giving it all to Leyna
I?m failing in school
Loosing my friends
Making my family loose their minds
I don?t want to eat
I don?t want to sleep
I only want Leyna, one more time
Now, I?m in my room
Watching the tube
Telling myself, she still may, DROP
Over to say, she?s changed her mind
So, I wait in the dark
Listening for her
Instead of hearing my old man saying, STOP
Kidding yourself, wasting your time
There?s nothing else I can do
?Cause I?m doing it All For Leyna
I don?t want anyone new
?Cause I?m living it All For Leyna
There?s nothing in it for you
?Cause I?m giving it all to Leyna
All For Leyna
All For Leyna
All For Leyna
All For Leyna
All For Leyna
All For Leyna
Lose! Not loose.
Friends tight? That why you’re loosing them?
wow
what's with all the question marks where a 's should be
Instead of my old man NOT instead of hearing my old man
I think this is one of his most successfully tonal songs he ever recorded. the repetitive bass, repetition in lyrics, and the fade out-- a cliche for many of the songs of that era but here l speaks of the endlessness of his memory playing endlessly in his own mind -- it all adds to the mindless obsession that he writes about. . I don't think I really understood this song until I was caught in the same type of obsession myself, when everything began to focus just on one thing to the exclusion of everything else and then she abandoned me. Everyone who has been there will appreciate this song more than most. Thanks for posting!
hmmmm. whatever. Douche.
In my case, it was that one boy
I don't think you've grasped the meaning of repetition yet, sir
So true, when it happened to me it was as if he knew everything I was feeling and wrote this with me in mind.
I remember when this came out originally. I wanted to take music lessons . Visions of star dust and Solud Gold dancers. . My dad told me to master this song. He had me do every part. Bass, piano, drums.. He said if I still liked the song at the end of the summer we could talk.
I am not a musician but I still think the song is one of the best representations of obsession.
I once heard an incredible radio interview with Billy Joel going song by song through Glass Houses. I remember he said he sort of dug back into his youth to write this song about a young man being in love with a girl he just couldn't win. He said he picked the name "Leyna" because it was sort of the name you would associate with a heartbreaker! I have to concur...I once knew a "Lana" in college who was indeed a very beautiful, smart, and savvy girl who was just like Joel describes.
The other deep cut gem on this album.(close to the borderline) I can't help but feel 16 again when I listen to this album. A masterpiece!
My favorite Billy Joel song and one of the best songs ever. So much power. Brings me back to my youth. We all had our Leyna.
This song is FANTASTIC, one of my favorite Billy Joel's songs✨✨✨
If you came of age to 7-8 different BJ albums, you did it right. Legend, genius.
The synth stuff is brilliant too!
That's true, but the piano staccato is the hands-down winner.
That bass line makes this song....amazing.
i wish that poeple in my generation could have seen billy joel at his prime
they do
This was the first song I ever heard from him, and every lyric is incredibly relatable. By far one of my favorites from him
This song is so fired up. Billy fuckin killin it as usual
I simply love his high vocal notes. It's so catchy. A great angry tune with many twists. Someone mentioned Bon Jovi omg I agree.
I'm a big Bon Jovi fan, but Billy Joel is a much more prolific song writer.
Bon Jovi was mentioned because they ripped off the beginning of "All for Leyna" in their song "Runaway".
One of his best songs pure genius!
You can hear a lot of Big Shot and Moving Out but the staccato with the bass guitar raises it to a much more dynamic level…one of my all time favorites 🎹
Unsung hero, the drummer nails it with the small toms following the 'emergency' of the piano before each verse. Well done, Liberty.
Ultimately proves that you should listen to the entire album.
Billy's entire discography, summed up in one sentence.
one of the best tracks on the album, or any of his work actually - I think 52nd st and Glass Houses are him and his band at their best!
I saw the Glass Houses tour in April, 1981. There is a lot to be said for catching an artist at the right time.
All of Billy Joel music is great. The chopsticks sound of the piano makes a great sound and a great sing along at the bar. THE best piano singer EVER. Bar none!😃
My 8 track of this album switches tracks in the middle of this song. I was half expecting the break as I was listening. Ah, the 70s were fantastic !!
8 track? whoa!!!
This is my favorite Billy Joel track. Played it constantly when I was a wee lad. I loved the intensity and desperation.
Dated a hot blonde Russian girl named Leyna years ago, this songs brings back memories
One of my absolute favorites; you can feel the obsession in his voice not just the brilliant lyrics The man is a legend and always has been and is a musical poet!
The piano staccato is one of the best at all in rock history. Goes along with Runaway from Bon Jovi and Hold the Line from Toto.
Exactly!!!! And indont wvn know the word staccato lol
Not to be argumentative, but Supertramp has got a claim there, certainly Dreamer, anyway. I’d think about Hall and Oates’ Kiss on My List, too. It’s an interesting thing to ponder.
@@hklinker Agreed, but it's not the staccato in itself that I love in the songs mentioned, it's rather the individual chord sequence played there. Fully loaded up with tension anticipating in a way that it is not a happy-go-lucky type of song that follows.
I’ve been lost to Billy since I was a kid. For better or worse his songs hit harder now that I’m an adult
This is the sound of amazing fantasy synthesizer.
Arguably THE BEST album of the decade, in my opinion!!
this is one of billy's best songs ever.....this INTO THE NIGHT!
A month ago, for the first time in more than 10 years, I fell in love with an 10 years older girl. We were from different countries and we knew that soon we will be apart from each other. This song was so precise for that moment!
I love Billy Joel so much. This is what I’m naming my daughter after.
This is one of the best songs in the history of EVER. Jesus Oldman wants to cover it. You are Blessed. He's Cool.
one of my absolute favorites, reminds me of high school football practice. someone had this 8 track and I had to hear it everyday in the summer of '79. wow I'm getting old.
The album didn't come out until early '80...
For those who know Billy Joel, this is a fan favorite. It was a non-expected song on the "Glass Houses" album. It surprisingly, became one of the most memorable songs on the album. It's filled with story and emotion. Mr. Joel was great at giving that. He knocked it out of the park with this one.
When anyone I know discovers this song they always say, “Hidden gem.” He won a Grammy for this album; there was nothing hidden about the album, but this song did get buried.
One of his greatest bridges!
This is one of my favorite songs from this amazing musician, and I agree, this son should have been one of his hits.
This has quickly become one of my favorite songs. Raw and in your face lyrics. I luv it....
MASTERPIECE! one of his best!
My favourite Billy Joel song. My favourite Billy Joel album.
I don't know how he came up with this one. It's amazing! A major piece of work for him. Progressive rock meets new wave. Great melody too.
Even I had forgetten this one and I Present a 70s Radio Show, Glad I rediscovered this Gem.
I feel this song so much right now. Except she’s given me more than a day and I don’t know how she feels. Ugh
This song rocks so hard, really deserved to be a huge hit back in the day.
He had a fine voice back then. All those high notes clear as a bell! Rock and roll
I have this song on cassette, and I still listen to it, it's so iconic.
Come together was a B-Side
Why wasn't this a hit. It had everything a hit needed.
Great melody, memorable lyrics, catchy and well put together instrumental, a chorus memorable enough to be sung in a stadium, it felt new, gripping hook enticing new listener, it just boggle my mind how this wasn't a hit.
My favourite Billy Joel track of all time!!
I grew up listening to Billy Joel. Love this song!!
By far his most underated song and one of my favorites and for sure a top 5 BJ song! He and Elton John have so many great songs in their back catalogs, 2 of the most talented songwriters and performers out there!
My most fav song from Glass House album ❤
You can feel the passion.
me with your mom when she kisses me all soft like an tells me she wants me.
billy joel knows a lot of very modern cool piano harmony, my total admiration
This song grabbed me many moons ago. Another testament to his
genius .
Same
I was 13 in 1980 and head over heels in love with my classmate Sylvia Parker and she wouldn't give me the time of day and this song took the sting out of it for whatever reason! Lol!
I was at the Rehab/mental institution Billy Joel was at for 2 weeks in Connecticut.
Good music. I love it TommyfromtheBronx
Congratulations?
Niet echt een hit geworden in 1980, maar persoonlijk vind ik deze een van de mooiste nummers van Billy. Beluister deze vaak. Zo mooi is dit.
Whoa, haven't heard this for a while, but wow what a great sounding record.
Got this album when it first hit the shelves back in 1980. All for Leyna , You maybe right and Moving out where and still are my favorite cuts from Glass Houses.
Raymond Ward moving out is not from glass houses though
“All For Leyna” (1980) is the fifth track on Billy Joel’s “Glass Houses” album : the one that produced the hit singles “You May Be Right,” “It’s Still Rock and Roll To Me,” “Don’t Ask Me Why,” and “Sometimes a Fantasy.” Those four scored much qhigher than “All For Leyna.”.
“Glass Houses” garnered Joel a Grammy Award for Best Male Rock Vocal Performance in 1981. According to music critic Stephen Thomas Erlewine, the LP featured “a harder-edged sound” compared to Joel’s other work.
The cover shows Billy Joel poised to throw a rock through what is actually the front of his own house, in Oyster Bay, New York. He moved there in 1977 after getting turned down for residency by the legendary Dakota apartments. The likes of Melanie Griffith, Antonio Banderas and Gene Simmons have also been rejected. The Dakota’s board has drawn criticism for its snobbery.
“I wanted to recapture the angst of a 16-year-old guy who just had his heart broken by a girl,” stated Joel in 2016, “and that kind of obsession thing that happens when you can’t stop thinking about this girl, you’ve gotta have this girl, but she doesn’t want anything to do with you. You’re driving your parents crazy and you’re failing in school and you’re losing your friends, and everybody thinks you’re out of your mind. That TEENAGE OBSESSION - which was ALL FOR LEYNA. Everything for this girl.” 💜🎹💚
This was my first Billy Joel song that I was introduced to
mine too and i think it's 100% the beast on the album
Damn good start
My first one was Zanzibar wish it was this one
best song on the album
First record I actually bought with my own money from being paid to provide guitar player duties! I had $40 to spend. I remember I cased this record when my family had to go to the nearest town to shop for necessities. I had that kid peering through the window just dreaming one day of owning that record one day! I was so happy to actually go home with it under my arm! I think I was 11 or 12.
Quick as a ;) she changed her mind.
Love this song 🎵 as young man ..so relatable ! Bringing back sweet memories
Always reminds me of my mum driving me to school in her Ford Escort and me replaying the crescendo on the fast road
Whole album glass houses pure genius
I get to sing Lead on this one in my Band. It fell right into my range. Playing drums at the same time I get to drive it home! Thanks Billy!
congrats! drumming while singing is pretty hard, but aaron gillespie and roger taylor could do it pretty well so i suppose its not impossibly hard
Underrated song..
Great album track
Brilliant bass part.
Fuel for rebellion many years ago. Thank you Billy!
FANTASTICA!!!
ludovico mancosu LUPIN!
One of my favourite BJ Songs
One of his most rockinest songs of all time. It opened the 1980 album "Glass Houses" and offered a great story for guys "who've been there". Lol
This is, perhaps, my favorite song of his. It’s truly top notch, and when you factor how relatable of a song it is, you have a true gem of a song. It expresses so lucidly, the lengths men will often go to for a woman; sacrificing his life and often sanity, just to maintain a relationship( that, let’s be honest, a an absolute waste of a man’s time in the end ). It’s only once a man reaches a certain age, that he realizes just how much time and energy he wasted for the women who most likely gave nothing in return. This song should be required listening for young men starting out in the dating world. I’d say this, and ‘always a woman’ are the 2 songs that capture women the best. In the end, they are selfish creatures, and they couldn’t care less if they completely drain a man. They really may care about themselves and their own happiness.
I love this song. I honestly think it’s one of his best
Man this brings back good memories!
Not a Billy Joel fan by any means, but, I love this song!
Genius work.
This song is SO underrated
One of my fav Billy's songs.
Great song. Best on this album!
I love this synth at 3:04
Best song on the album so far