#goodnight saigon

[niff-of-crows]

dude what fucking sauce did billy joel put in goodnight saigon???? just sitting here and we will all go down together???????

[setaflow]

Since Billy Joel is trending now, here are my favorites in no particular order:

New York man is fucking pissed

Why you shouldn't marry right out of high school

Don't trust anyone, not even yourself your lover

Tied with Alicia Keys for "Most Overplayed song at any given NYC sports game" award

Barbershop quartet serenades you so sweetly under the moonlight

Never live in Hackensack, New Jersey

Hey remember the Vietnam War? Yeah that was bad.

I wanna have sex with a Catholic girl

I wanna have sex with an Upper East Side girl

Solo by The Artful Dodger from the hit 1830's bestseller Oliver Twist

Shit's fucked

The only reason I know about the existence of Wheeling, West Virginia

"Hey, Billi! Looks to me like you're on the WRONG SIDE OF THE RIVER"

[pnchingwalls101]

I am 27. My vote was other- and it’s definitely Goodnight Saigon.

If you vote please reblog and maybe put your age I'm the tags because I'm curious as to who this reaches.

[crispyflowerblaze]

why are ~7 minute long billy joel songs so good. like why are they so amazing what's up with that

[thebreakfastgenie]

I came across an interview where Billy Joel tacitly admitted to Goodnight Saigon being an anti-war song but unfortunately I didn't save it or even note which one it was. But his reasoning was if you just depict war honestly, which is what he was trying to do, it ends up being an anti-war story because war is terrible. He brought up All Quiet on the Western Front.

[movietonight]

My favourite lyrics on The Nylon Curtain

inspired by @thebreakfastgenie

Allentown Met our mothers at the USO Asked them to dance, danced with them slow

Laura

If she had to She would put herself in my chair (self in my chair, ah) Even though I faced electrocution

Pressure

I'm sure you'll have Some cosmic rationale

Goodnight Saigon

We met as soul mates on Parris Island We left as inmates from an asylum

She's Right On Time

Left to my own device I can always make believe

A Room of Our Own

You've got pills And I've got razor blades

Surprises

The sins of the fathers Are the sins of the sons

Scandinavian Skies

On the plane We were mainly sound and lights

Where's the Orchestra

How the hell could I have missed the overture?

[moonstrider9904]

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The Bad Batch Season 1

Soft!Crosshair meeting Omega

Hunter gives me Hozier vibes sometimes

Crosshair gets Wreck'd and Lula'd

Crosshair in the battle simulation

Imperial Crosshair

Tech Tuesday

Crosshair for May the 4th

Crosshair's different helmets

Wow I was in denial about Crosshair's chip lol

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Crosshair in Reunion

Crosshair in Return to Kamino

Crosshair in Aftermath

Imperial Crosshair (remake)

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Tech

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Tech's more deviant than defective

Crosshair no

Season 1 Crosshair (remake)

Crosshair on Ryloth (remake)

The Bad Batch Season 2

Tech in Faster

Crosshair across season 2

Crosshair - epiphany by Taylor Swift

The Bad Batch Season 3

Crosshair and Omega - Safe and Sound by Taylor Swift

Batcher with her dads

Crosshair in The Return

Crosshair in Point of No Return

"How Touching"

Crosshair's sparkling personality

I can fix Crosshair, no really, I can

Crosshair in Aftermath + Crosshair in The Cavalry Has Arrived

Crosshair, Omega, and Hunter hug

The Bad Batch - Eye of the Universe by McKane Davis

Hunter in Aftermath + Hunter in The Cavalry Has Arrived

Hunter and Omega in The Cavalry Has Arrived

Crosshair - Every Step and Between by McKane Davis

Hunter and Omega in Aftermath and The Cavalry Has Arrived

The Clone Wars

The Clones - Goodnight, Saigon by Billy Joel

Wolffe, my beloved

Wrecker vs. The Decimator

Arcane

Steb in Act 1, I

Steb in Act 1, II

Steb in Killing is a Cycle

Steb in The Dirt Under Your Nails, I

Steb in The Dirt Under Your Nails, II

Star Wars Rebels

Ezra says goodbye to Kanan

The Book of Boba Fett

Jumpy Grogu

Kenobi

Space Jesus

Leia's Skywalker genes run rampant

The Legend of Vox Machina

Percy de Rolo

Percival

Lord Percival Fredrickstein Von Mussel Klossowski III

Bad News

Percy de Blorbo

The long lost De Rolo

Percy in A Silver Tongue

The duality of Percy

Percy's righteous anger

A set of Percy gifs I made for my birthday

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[skellymom]

A TRIBUTE TO THE CLONES

As The Bad Batch Season 3 Comes To A Close...

"Goodnight Kamino"

(Taken from the Billy Joel song "Goodnight Saigon". I chose this song in particular as George Lucas wrote Star Wars with Vietnam in mind. EVERYONE...I WAS 6 YEARS OLD WHEN THE VIETNAM WAR ENDED! In my mind, the Clones are singing this song together...)

We met as soul mates on Kamino Island We left as inmates from an asylum And we were sharp as sharp as knives And we were so gung ho to lay down our lives

We came as highly engineered forces Sacrificed men as numbered corpses And we learned fast to travel light Our arms were heavy, but our bellies were tight

We had no home front, but we learned to cope They sent us holos, that gave us some hope We dug in deep and shot on sight And bet on the Force and the Light

We fought the Clankers on the landscape We passed the Spotchka and played our Jizz tapes And it was dark, so dark at night And we held on to each other, brother to brother We promised our Jedi's we'd fight

And we would all go down together We said we'd all go down together Yes, we would all go down together

Remember Jessie, remember Fives Tech fell on Eriadu, the end of their lives And who was wrong? And who was right? It didn't matter in the thick of the fight

We held the day in the palm of our hands They ruled the night, and the night Seemed to last as long as six cycles On Kamino Island

We killed with blaster fire, now serving the Empire And they were sharp, as sharp as knives They activated our chips, we killed Jedi on their ships Execute Order 66 had arrived

And we will all go down together We said we'd all go down together Yes, we would all go down together

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[purple-is-great]

Tag game

✨🤍write out your tumblr url with the first letters in song titles, then pass it on to your favorite mutuals/followers/people you are slightly intimidated by🤍✨

I can very rarely be bothered to do tag games but @kadharonon 's tag caught me at just the right moment! The following was just me scrolling through my Spotify library attempting to select songs from artists that I regularly listen to and showcasing the range of stuff I listen to.

I tag @plangentia @fabcreature @bophtelophti and anyone who wants to do this (you three are the first mutuals I noticed on a quick scroll of my activity, but no pressure to do this!)

P - Prove It All Night (Bruce Springsteen)

U - Unelmia ja toimistohommia (Leevi and the Leavings)

R - Ramon Casiano (Drive-By Truckers)

P - Pocahontas (Neil Young)

L - Last Train to Nuremberg (Pete Seeger)

E - Ett juni-tåg (Vasas flora och fauna)

I - I'm Not Okay (I Promise) (My Chemical Romance)

S -Say Goodbye To Montana (Don Edwards)

G - Goodnight Saigon (Billy Joel)

R - Rappiolla (Hassisen kone)

E - Extraordinary Girl / Letterbomb (Green Day)

A - Absolute Lithops Effect (The Mountain Goats)

T - Terrible Thing (The Killers)

[billy-joel-ultimate-song-bracket]

Round 1 Poll 9

Please listen to both songs before voting!

Propaganda is allowed!

[wonderlandleighleigh]

7

He doesn't sleep.

He's only been home a week, and he just can't fucking sleep, and it's...

Fuck.

He sits in his mother's kitchen, drinking a beer at three in the morning, reading the obituaries, which he knows he shouldn't be doing, but for whatever reason he just can't figure out what else to do with himself, despite the TV, and the piles upon piles of his stepfather's book he has open access to.

"There's porn," Lenny had offered. "Actually, there's a lot of porn, but there's other stuff, too."

He'd laughed at that. It is pretty funny.

This insomnia, however, is not.

He frowns deeply when there's a soft knock at the door, and when he opens it, his Zeyde is standing there, grinning at him.

Ethan blinks, confused. "Uh..."

"Get your shoes, let's go for a walk," the older man tells him.

"What are you doing here?"

"I was a soldier," Moishe reminds him. "I remember what it's like to come home and feel like dog shit. Get your shoes."

He does, and soon, the two of them are walking down the quiet street.

"I don't know why your mother needed such a big house," Moishe comments lightly. "You all were getting along fine in the apartment."

"I think Mama wanted to host bigger parties," Ethan shrugs. "And she wanted a bigger kitchen. I don't know. They seem happy."

"Well, that's the important thing, I suppose," Moishe nods. "So? Not sleeping?"

"Nope."

"What are you doing instead?"

"Drinking beer," Ethan responds honestly. "reading obituaries."

"Christ, Ethan."

"I know."

"Stop breaking your own heart, kid," Moishe advises him. "If you want to get your heart broken, go find a girl."

He chuckles a little. "You're probably right."

"I know I am, I have a lot of experience," Moishe reminds him. "Look, it's going to be very hard to put this behind you and keep moving forward."

"Somebody called me a baby killer at the airport when I got home," Ethan tells him. "When you came home from the war, you got a hero's welcome. You beat Nazis. You helped keep the world safe. I fought in a war no one asked for, and I feel...genuinely hated. You've always been proud of your war service. I...I feel like I fought for nothing. Fought for...what?"

"Times certainly have changed," Moishe agrees quietly. "But if you focus on that and let it get you down too much, it's not going to get you anywhere. What's the plan going forward?"

"Try to figure out how to sleep."

"And then?"

"...It's a good question."

Moishe sighs and pats his back. "We'll figure it out."

[aggravatetheaxe]

HIII 💥💥💥🗣🗣🗣💥💥💥 I saw your reblog.. what is your favorite billy joel song...

probably goodnight saigon :]]]]] but here are my other favs:

-uptown girl

-only the good die young

-the longest time

-big shot

-tell her about it

-allentown

-it's still rock and roll to me

-movin out

-we didnt start the fire

[ayotofu]

ok last billy joel thought of the nite..... i always fucking loved goodnight saigon. like i have this memory in my head of being in the car with the fam and we were all just belting out AND WE WILL ALL GO DOWN TOGETHER

anyway now I like. live in saigon. and I feel differently about that song these days lol

[reallylilyreally]

HI! I was listening to my little playlists and "when u love somebody" by the fruit bats was playing and it got me in my feels like it's such a Brady song to me and third eye blind's cover of "funeral singers" 😭 as well.

Which made me curious if there are any songs you associate with Mr. John Brady? or could you share what you've listened to while writing 'Second String'? 😘😘

hoooo boy this is an interesting question because my taste in music is like a batshit scattershot approach across 9 decades and 1208270184 different genres.

As standard, if I'm ever writing anything about war, I'm usually listening to Goodnight Saigon, at least once, because man Billy Joel wrote a song designed to make you cry and you need that if you're writing war.

For Brady, there's something about him and his desperation and dedication that makes me a little feral, so Francesca, by Hozier, is an absolute given.

Other songs that I was vaguely obsessed with through this...

The Old Style Raiders - I'm fucking feral about Jamie T and there's something about the beat to this and the pace of his vocals and the way the chorus soars to me that encapsulates some of the steady/wild that is very Brady, and the lyrics are chilling and timeless and did i mention i fucking love Jamie T?

The Comeback - anthem to Brady's insomnia spiral and Benny's rescue

So High School - i just love this. tell me Bucky doesn't think this is the best song TSwift ever wrote. Tell me, i dare you.

Tell Her This - this is a Brady to Benny song, to me, without a shadow of a doubt, all the things he can't say to him, and the wistfulness and sadness of it feels very "breathe through the bruises"

[persianflaw]

streetlight serenade and the bridge are my knee-jerk favorites, and SS in particular is something i'd gladly hang on my wall, but i had to vote for the nylon curtain anyway because high school nostalgia power

clarifying edit: these are my picks as someone who has only ever really listened to a few of billy joel's individual songs as opposed to whole albums