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...Movin...
...Shot," the album's opening cut, is as angry and piercing a lyric as Joel has ever written, leaving no stone unturned in the world of jet-setters. But like "Movin Out" from The Stranger the words fall into a repetitive chorus set to a monotonous melody line which should make the song a radio favorite, though not one of the album's stronger cuts...
Perhaps Betty Carter put it best at Newport. She began her set with / Must Have Music and ended with Movin' On, a song whose relentless one-two rhythm propelled it forward like a speeding train...
...Movin' On: that is where Betty Carter, and jazz, are going...
...company drum and accept transfers as a means of rising. But younger executives?and their spouses ?are revolting against the stress and insecurity of the mobile society. Their rejection of the onward and upward American work ethic echoes Pop Star Billy Joel's hit: "If that's movin' up/ Then I'm movin' out." Or, as TRW Vice President James Dunlap says, "There's a feeling that work isn't everything these days. You've got to stop and smell the flowers along...