>Billy Joel is better than 90% of the indie crap my friends make me listen to.
There is much more in heaven and earth than Billy Joel and indie crap. Crap is crap.
>But jesus, it's just pop music!
So are the Shangri-Las and Billy Joel never came up with anything even in the same zip code as Sophisticated Boom Boom.
>He comes up with harmonic progressions other people don't think of,
>then he puts them to catchy melodies. That already puts him several
>standard deviations above the mean.
What station are you listening to?