This was the first time they ever did videos. It's all just Rock and roll to Me everything was new they were just rolling with it and having fun this was prior to MTV when they were places were just doing promo videos.
***** Many times a song brings back certain memories from other times in our lives. This song for me is one of those cases. And perhaps for that reason alone I love this song. It's not realistic to be unbiased about music, especially music that has history for you. For instance, there are probably people in the world that love Uptown Girl for some unknown reason.
+ohsocool I love this song, Uptown Girl and Moving Out. I don't think I'm weird or have bad taste. I also took several years of Piano and Guitar lessons so I'm not a complete idiot when it comes to music.
or "Entertainer" or "Captain JacK" or "Say Goodbye to Hollywood" or "Goodnight Saigon" or "Allentown" or "We Didn't Start the Fire" or "C'etait Toi" or "Close to the Borderline" or "Through the Long Night" or"Downeaster Alexa" or ...Oh well, fuck it!
It's so good , that it seems to me bon Jovi stole a little bit of it for one of his songs. I think the song is called died in your arms tonight you could hear it right at the start and then with the fast flickering of the piano keys
+Jakub Urbánek I can't pick one. They are all great. Every time I choose one, I change my mind. I own volumes 1,2 & 3 because someone bought them for me. I rarely listen to them because there are so many great songs not on those albums.
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 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 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 Losing my friends Making my family lose 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 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 to Leyna All to Leyna
I think Billy Joel is a freakin genius! His songs never get old and no matter what people love genre wise I have never met anyone that didn't love and appreciate his music.
In my opinion, Billy Joel is one of the most prolific and versatile of all the composers-singers-piano players and performes in many, many years gone. Greeetings to everyone from México City
Heard this in 1996. Was 13 years old then. My cousin bro was older than me and it was my job to rewind the cassette with a pencil so we could listen again and again and again.....
you know a song is truly great when the music video doesn't need to have special visuals and "stories" to sell the song. All we see here is truly epic. Simple billy joels emotion and passion when he sings and performs. I get so much more of it.
This was in the very beginning of music videos. It's fantastic because yes, it's just Billy singing & playing at his best. No gimmicks, just great music
This is an actual performance of the song with the studio recording playing in place of the live version. I'd imagine the actual performance is here on the tube
This gem of an album cut is one of Billy Joel's many masterpieces that answer the question "What would you get if Mozart or Beethoven were born in the mid-20th century and tasked to crank out a classic 80's rocker?"
this song spoke to me as a child.....i listened to it over and over on the turn table!!!! and this is the first time i listened to it in like 30 years or more and i'm dumb founded by the feelings it brings up!!!!
Joel described this as his capturing “the feeling of a 16 year old guy getting his heart broken” and how “you’re obsessed with her, you’re losing your friends, you’re driving your family crazy, and she just wants nothing to do with you”. Now I’m not failing school, but I’m turning 16 in less than a month and I’m all about this girl. Hope I don’t keep coming back to this one any time soon lol Another great tune from Billy; one of the greatest songwriters there was.
Man, this is gonna sound like those old people, but I went through the exact same thing. Don’t try to lose the feeling cause it will drive you crazy (you can’t shake love out at will), but use it to your advantage! Direct your whole self to one or many productive tasks (doesn’t need to be work related, btw) in order to show her how you have grown or can win her back or something, and then you’ll find out that all that effort was not done for her, it was all for YOU! You’ll feel pround, have a story to tell, it serves as closing when the project is done, and might actually help you meet new and interesting people in the process! Now, I’m 21 now and don’t really know if I’m getting old at this love game, but I’ll tell you that it really is worth it if you wait for the right person and work on yourself more than you work on anyone else! People are some crazy being who change their minds all the time, but even the stuff that isn’t forever can bring a smile to your face if you just give it time. Hope you do well on this which is the most amazing feeling of all. Just don’t fall for a Leyna that’s not what you deserve 😉
well im only 16 but i listen to this and i travel in the time!! because my dad used to play this ALL THE TIME when i was little!! and I love Billy Joel so much!! this is great music!!
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.
Can someone please explain to me why on God’s green earth this song is so unknown and underrated?!!! It’s a crime that this music video has under a million views and is not one of Billy Joel’s most famous!
I named my daughter Leyna because of this song!♡♡♡♡ I knew when I was 11 years old, when the Glass Houses album had come out, that if I ever had a daughter, this would be her name.
The greatest Billy Joel song , All For Leyna!!!!! The lyrics are just fantastic!!!! There's nothing in it for you, because I'm giving it all to Leyna. Magic, you can't beat it!
Sir Billy's got it all - the music, the band, the words, the voice, the fun. And that's on a bad day ... Love from Barry in Melbourne, Australia ;--) (P.S. Any Melburnians remember Sir Billy at Kooyong, November '87? He jumped off the piano!)
....What an immense Artist this guy is.....God bless Him for his Talent. I love Him since the beginning of his incredible Artistic Career. As we say in Italy: "...Billy Joel is like a good old red wine....the older He gets the better He tastes!" Carus Alambra 🙂
Madly in love with a girl at the time this came out. Played it to make the pain go away as she hadn't the same feelings for me. Bitter sweet memories and part of growing up. Sound familiar?
Incredibly catchy melody, magic piano work and energetic vocals, plus the arresting stop sequence. Best Billy Joel song hands down (only competing with the epic "Goodnight Saigon"). The music video is a bit dated, but I can watch this all day long, blindfolded… :-)
Innteresting how with this album Billy Joel adopted the late seventies skinny-tie new wave look and attitude. That kind of punk-influenced, nervy, ironic Elvis Costello- type presentation. Brilliant song, in any case
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Why is no one taking about how Billy just pops up at the beginning and stares into the cameras soul
Yeah he does that
Mine. My soul.
IT'S ALL FOR LEYNA!
This was the first time they ever did videos. It's all just Rock and roll to Me everything was new they were just rolling with it and having fun this was prior to MTV when they were places were just doing promo videos.
He's doing that to stalk Leyna.
Best Billy Joel song ever. Or maybe Piano Man. Or maybe Scenes from an Italian Restaurant. Or New York State of Mind. Or.... Damn you Billy Joel.
My apologies that my opinion does not concur with yours. I will try to do better next time.
***** Many times a song brings back certain memories from other times in our lives. This song for me is one of those cases. And perhaps for that reason alone I love this song. It's not realistic to be unbiased about music, especially music that has history for you. For instance, there are probably people in the world that love Uptown Girl for some unknown reason.
+ohsocool I love this song, Uptown Girl and Moving Out. I don't think I'm weird or have bad taste. I also took several years of Piano and Guitar lessons so I'm not a complete idiot when it comes to music.
or "Entertainer" or "Captain JacK" or "Say Goodbye to Hollywood" or "Goodnight Saigon" or "Allentown" or "We Didn't Start the Fire" or "C'etait Toi" or "Close to the Borderline" or "Through the Long Night" or"Downeaster Alexa" or ...Oh well, fuck it!
my favorite albums are "the Stranger", "52nd Street", and "Turnstiles"
Dad named me after this beautiful song!!!
Same :p
ME TOO LETS GET IT
Cool
Wait mine too!!!
Kewl dad, giving you a name that will continue to resonate and promote wonderful memories. Dad's are special like that!😊
This song is so underrated! It's one of Billy's best songs
100 % .... woooooooo!!
It's so good , that it seems to me bon Jovi stole a little bit of it for one of his songs. I think the song is called died in your arms tonight you could hear it right at the start and then with the fast flickering of the piano keys
@@shawnrichards4565 the cutting crew is the group you r thinking of ... not jon bovi :-}
@@shawnrichards4565 you’re thinking of Bob jovi runaway
@@MegaHello202 yes but the other song is by another band same piano blend
Glass Houses is one of the best albums of all time
by anyone!!!!
Paul Carr I personally think "The Nylon Curtain" and "The Stranger" is his best work.
+belaC_Plague You're both right! And 52nd Street, Turnstiles and River of Dreams. Best albums in the universe.
+Jakub Urbánek I can't pick one. They are all great. Every time I choose one, I change my mind. I own volumes 1,2 & 3 because someone bought them for me. I rarely listen to them because there are so many great songs not on those albums.
+norman chadwick I meant to say Greatest Hits 1, 2 &3
Leyna is Sometimes a Fantasy but I prefer an Uptown Girl for the longest time. I wanted to tell her about it but I’m movin out. Goodnight Saigon.
My favorite Billy Joel song. A lot of people had a “Leyna” once in their life and can relate.
Just one Leyna? You're so lucky, I've had only Leynas...
Exactly!!!!
This is really interestingly awkward for me
and i sung this to her
“Leyna” ruined my 20s
Criminally underrated song
my name is leyna and this is beautiful, he even pronounces it correctly
hey lol 😏
Anyone else listen to this one over and over?
Back then and now, especially this song.
My son does. Never heard it until he listened to it
walshy
Throughout my senior year in college, class of '80.
I've been playing it 10 times while walking through fue streets of Prague. A very exciting combination.
Tim Loubser no se no se a ablar español Abla español
My 12 year old son is obsessed with this song and wore his "Glass Houses" t-shirt proudly to school today.
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
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
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
Losing my friends
Making my family lose 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 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 to Leyna
All to Leyna
Spiderboy Sir
Thank you
Thank you!!!
TY
I think Billy Joel is a freakin genius! His songs never get old and no matter what people love genre wise I have never met anyone that didn't love and appreciate his music.
I thought this was much newer than Glass House because it has such a new feel to it
In my opinion, Billy Joel is one of the most prolific and versatile of all the composers-singers-piano players and performes in many, many years gone.
Greeetings to everyone from México City
I’m so happy to be able to say my name is the title of a Billy Joel song, one of the greatest musicians of all time
simply one of the coolest musicians of all time imo
Billy Joel is a confident artist, and this is evident in his work.
love angry Billy Joel tunes...Pressure, Big Shot etc...
I do too 😉
+bucky468 Right on!!!
+nrgimages Me too lol!
Ironic that “Angry young man” isn’t a angry song
Laura is another one
Great song, underestimated and under played.😊
Glass Houses. Every song in that album is great. A prefect album.
His best, along with _The Nylon Curtain_ .
I prefer The Stranger album
Glasshouses and innocent man
Should be an amazing double album
Yeah...
The best is Turnstiles for me
My favorite Billy song
Under appreciated Billy Joel song, for certain.
Keyboard & vocal on this is just pure magic.
Heard this in 1996. Was 13 years old then. My cousin bro was older than me and it was my job to rewind the cassette with a pencil so we could listen again and again and again.....
Lol the slow rise from the keyboards. Such a funny guy.
Have you seen the video for "She's Right on Time"? Total himbo, love him
you know a song is truly great when the music video doesn't need to have special visuals and "stories" to sell the song.
All we see here is truly epic. Simple billy joels emotion and passion when he sings and performs. I get so much more of it.
This was in the very beginning of music videos. It's fantastic because yes, it's just Billy singing & playing at his best. No gimmicks, just great music
This is an actual performance of the song with the studio recording playing in place of the live version. I'd imagine the actual performance is here on the tube
The forgotten song from Side 1 of the 1980 album Glass Houses, arguably one of the greatest album sides of all time.
Billy Joel’s most under appreciated song. God, it’s just the best.
yes, totally underrated!
Glass Houses is such a great album. All For Leyna is still one of my favorite Billy Joel songs.
My name is Leyna so this song makes me feel special 😆😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
The beginning with him standing up is so weird and so 80s I love it
By far a hidden gem that never was made into a hit. One of his greatest songs and far better than alot of his other songs that were hits.
Never released as a single in the USA.
Released as a single in the UK but didn't chart well
This is my undisputed FAVORITE Billy Joel song of all time 💓🙌💓
So under-rated!!!
Not sure about the instruments, but the vocal on this is definitely live, no lip synch or autotune. Top notch performance.
This gem of an album cut is one of Billy Joel's many masterpieces that answer the question "What would you get if Mozart or Beethoven were born in the mid-20th century and tasked to crank out a classic 80's rocker?"
👍
I couldn't agree more!💕
0:03; That glance kills me ...and no blink...
this song spoke to me as a child.....i listened to it over and over on the turn table!!!! and this is the first time i listened to it in like 30 years or more and i'm dumb founded by the feelings it brings up!!!!
Joel described this as his capturing “the feeling of a 16 year old guy getting his heart broken” and how “you’re obsessed with her, you’re losing your friends, you’re driving your family crazy, and she just wants nothing to do with you”. Now I’m not failing school, but I’m turning 16 in less than a month and I’m all about this girl. Hope I don’t keep coming back to this one any time soon lol
Another great tune from Billy; one of the greatest songwriters there was.
Man, this is gonna sound like those old people, but I went through the exact same thing. Don’t try to lose the feeling cause it will drive you crazy (you can’t shake love out at will), but use it to your advantage! Direct your whole self to one or many productive tasks (doesn’t need to be work related, btw) in order to show her how you have grown or can win her back or something, and then you’ll find out that all that effort was not done for her, it was all for YOU! You’ll feel pround, have a story to tell, it serves as closing when the project is done, and might actually help you meet new and interesting people in the process! Now, I’m 21 now and don’t really know if I’m getting old at this love game, but I’ll tell you that it really is worth it if you wait for the right person and work on yourself more than you work on anyone else! People are some crazy being who change their minds all the time, but even the stuff that isn’t forever can bring a smile to your face if you just give it time. Hope you do well on this which is the most amazing feeling of all. Just don’t fall for a Leyna that’s not what you deserve 😉
He's a simp
I like how there’s one guy giving a paragraph of advice then there’s just “simp”
@@smogre5143 No it's "I'm a Simp"😫 There fixed it for you 👍😎
enjoy the moment man, with this unforgettable soundtrack - from my youth x
well im only 16 but i listen to this and i travel in the time!! because my dad used to play this ALL THE TIME when i was little!! and I love Billy Joel so much!! this is great music!!
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.
Billy Joel is just a channel from the supernatural.
Not only is he musical talented, he is also a hunky comic💞
If it wasn't for my dad I would have missed out on one of the best in music.
The best line-up on the best Billy Joel album. He never should have fired these guys.
They still tour with a look and sound alike. Awesome show.
This is a forgotten song by many. What an awesome piece of music and what an awesome piano player and entertainer!
I just got my own copy of Glass Houses on vinyl....and this has been stuck in my head ever since. I can't stop listening to it lol
What a GREAT band Joel had...
Great song around the 80s, I love it, I wish it was 1980 again!
My favorite track on the wonderful Glass Houses album
Can someone please explain to me why on God’s green earth this song is so unknown and underrated?!!! It’s a crime that this music video has under a million views and is not one of Billy Joel’s most famous!
Because it was not released as a single bar the UK.
its been with me since it came out.
It was about his wife, so when he took up with Ms. Brinkley it wasn't top of his list of songs to be promoted...
@@richardkyne2746I remember hearing this as a single in the UK back in 1980
I just heard it for the first time.
My parents named my sister leyna♥ and me melody♥ music was huge to my father...n now a big part of us..we all love billy joel♥
Not one bad song on the album. This is the best song.
The synth solo just sends me into bliss every time. It's frickin genius.
I named my daughter Leyna because of this song!♡♡♡♡ I knew when I was 11 years old, when the Glass Houses album had come out, that if I ever had a daughter, this would be her name.
As a Minor, And a Die hard billy joel fan, If i ever have a Daughter, I would have to name her either Christie Lee or Laura.
My older sister's album, but I played it over and over... this song/lyrics, my favorite off Glass Houses!
Underrated
Absolutely love this 🥰
The greatest Billy Joel song , All For Leyna!!!!! The lyrics are just fantastic!!!! There's nothing in it for you, because I'm giving it all to Leyna. Magic, you can't beat it!
The vocal is live!. He proved he was am excellent since not much different a studio version.
He’s one the greatest song writers of all time. Been listening to him about 40 years. Incredible.
I need a Leyna. He was so young. I saw him a few Years ago in Sag Harbor and he smiled at me. He was parking his motorcycle.
Not one bad track on this album. In fact, every song on this album is killer!
I love those early 80s performance-based music videos.
Perfection from Billy Joel, this is one of his best 👌👌
Been there, done that... Can relate!
Love love love this song. What a great story! Liberty DeVito should always be mentioned in the list of greatest drummers.
I agree!
Yes he sure should!! He’s amazing!,
My favourite. Glass Houses was on my Walkman constantly. Great to hear it again. Boom Radio played it the other day, thus bringing me here.
Beautifull song Billy thank you !
Sir Billy's got it all - the music, the band, the words, the voice, the fun. And that's on a bad day ... Love from Barry in Melbourne, Australia ;--) (P.S. Any Melburnians remember Sir Billy at Kooyong, November '87? He jumped off the piano!)
Billy Joel one of the best musicians of the 70's and the 80's nearly every song he wrote and sang was a hit
Wow. What a jam!
My favorite Billy Joel song, and I love a bunch of his songs.
演奏風景が見られてよかったです！ありがとうございます。
Underrated song !
I love this, why haven’t I listened to this before? Well done Billy 👍😊
Very well done song
This is my favorite Billy Joel song!
this is my favorite* most favorite isn't a thing
@@epicness203 you can have favorites
This is strange
@@epicness203 I was 11 when I posted that comment shut up lmao
One of my absolute favorites!!
My son was listening to this on Spotify. I never heard of it...It’s great! Billy Joel is Timeless
All For Leyna, my favourite and the best Billy Joel song of all! All For Leyna, PERIOD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Saw this on Solid Gold one night-life would never be the same again. Very much in the conversation of best Billy albums.
One of the nicest people that I have ever worked with. A genuine gentleman. Generous and kind hearted. Good dude! Absolute genius!
Fantastic early 80's track. He has the cool new wave look with black shirt and tie. The video is full of punk rock mentality. Love it!
Love Billy Joel ❤
"Glass houses" is for me a masterpiece
I love the energy of this Billy Joel torpedo.
Billy's best rock moment. Great band.
Another great underrated song by Billy Joel.
The best Billy JOEL song of all. And Sleeping with the television on.
I imagine Jon Bongiovi and maybe his keyboard player had this album.
The intro just would not "run away" from his subconscious. Not even a "little."
his best band. RIP Doug Stegmeyer.
RIP David Brown now too sadly.
He looks so young here too.
....What an immense Artist this guy is.....God bless Him for his Talent.
I love Him since the beginning of his incredible Artistic Career.
As we say in Italy: "...Billy Joel is like a good old red wine....the older He gets the better He tastes!"
Carus Alambra 🙂
Some really hard lyrics there... great song.
Billy Joel is a madman on the keyboards/piano
Magnificent.
Amazing UNDERRATED song.
Madly in love with a girl at the time this came out. Played it to make the pain go away as she hadn't the same feelings for me. Bitter sweet memories and part of growing up. Sound familiar?
Round up the usual suspects, Melancholy and young love. 💓
Yes it does sound VERY familiar!😀
THE best song on Glass Houses!!
+Michelle Romans I agree with ya....best tune on GH.
+Sharkbiteleft hard to believe someone actually agrees with me!! YAY!! LOVE THIS SONG! Such great memories!!
Incredibly catchy melody, magic piano work and energetic vocals, plus the arresting stop sequence. Best Billy Joel song hands down (only competing with the epic "Goodnight Saigon"). The music video is a bit dated, but I can watch this all day long, blindfolded… :-)
Per A.J. Andersson ME TOO!! HE'S WONDERFUL!!
I could watch it all day, but not blindfolded. I love watching his goofiness.
This album should have been called The Bridge...because every single song has a fantastic, iconic, melodic bridge.
the bass in this song is awesome!!!!! rock on Billy Joel \m/
Innteresting how with this album Billy Joel adopted the late seventies skinny-tie new wave look and attitude. That kind of punk-influenced, nervy, ironic Elvis Costello- type presentation. Brilliant song, in any case
I love this performance and song.