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By Pages:   1    2    Add Your New Review About The Song The Reviews about Scenes from an Italian Restaurant (page 1/ 2) ------ performed by Billy Joel My fave Billy Joel song ! | Reviewer: ML | 1/27/09 Heck, I LOVE this song so much- been SO privileged to have heard Billy perform 'Scenes from an Italian restaurant' live twice now- last time was 4th Dec 08 when he played here in Brisbane. The lyrics to me are all about just how meaningless the worldly perspective on romance & relationships is, based on the totally superficial foundation of Brenda & Eddie's relationship as the most popular couple in highschool which in turn causes their marriage to just fall apart later. A corollary of this whole context is that, as Billy himself commented in his 1994 Live at Princeton interview, it doesn't matter whatever happens after highschool, cos the most popular people from back then end up dysfunctional as they go into the real world, and those of us who had it bad back then (as I did) can just move on with our lives in the best we can regardless of all that superficial popularity crap from school days... Yeah, that's my take from a phenomenal 3-in-1 song ! Billy joel is my Hero! | Reviewer: Freya | 12/31/08 What! whoever said that it was Brenda and Eddie talking in the restaurant you are so wrong. its two friends catching up after a long time and they're talking about Brenda and Eddie. Da hence "Brenda you know that your much to lazy" and all the they did and she did y would thay be talking about if it was them...gosh It's all releative | Reviewer: A fan | 12/18/08 Now I see why Steven Wilson (Porcupine Tree) is so tight lipped about the meaning of his lyrics. Maybe words written on a page have some sort of significance to the lyricist, but the real importance is to extract your own meaning. 'What does it mean to me?' I think that this is the question that we all need to ask ourselves. Maybe the beauty of poetry is not in the analyzing thereof, but in reading it for the first time. How does it make you feel? What did it make you think of? There is no incorrect interpretation. Warm regards and happy holidays, A fan Get real people | Reviewer: Jeff | 9/17/08 I have read these reviews and my thought on it is this! we meet this exceptional girl we fall in love we realize that maybe the descion we made was'nt the greatist and we part civil and still remain as freinds the we go on with our life we fall in love with a more practical person and we get a good job get a new office and things finaly fall into place for us .. every time i hear this song i totally realize that these lyrics are the best i have ever herd and so much meaning ,,,, happy, sad and finally a peice of mind!!! Not dead | Reviewer: snowcat | 7/14/08 ...i dont think there dead at the end. the song is about them meeting again in the resteraunt, (a bottle of red a bottle of white, like asking which do u want) then it changes to his life now (things are ok for me these days.....got a new wife) ok then goes in to there story....and then at the end its the to of them in the resteraunt. and the waving brenda and eddie goodbye bit is the owner of the hotel saying goodbye to them again for the second time. but this time they depart as friends and not as lovers....Jeez people. wowww. | Reviewer: jeannurrr | 1/14/08 uhm, yeah the village green is a real place in hicksville, NY. and that Sears is still there. lol. i greww up in hicksville. probably the best place in the world. my uncle used to be really good friends with billy joel... The Village Green | Reviewer: Joan Decker | 11/25/07 Every time I hear this song, it reminds me of the town I lived in when I was a teenager. Billy Joel went to my old high school, Hicksville High. He writes about real places in this song. The Village Green was a small shopping center (with an Italian restaurant) built around a Levittown community. We swam at the Levittown pool. We all lived in Levitt (ticky tacky) houses. That diner really existed. Now I live in Bethlehem, PA, and listen to another song by Billy called "Allentown". I love the way Billy interjects things into his songs about places he's been to or lived in. The locals love it. And Hicksville is particularly proud of their native son, Billy. I actually spoke to Billy About this tune | Reviewer: Billy Fan | 11/20/07 In 1982, I met Billy Joel through a friend who worked with one of the producers on "The Stranger" (He calls himself "Bill") - I asked Billy about this song and he told me it was actually three songs - rather, unfinished pieces of three songs. He tied them all together into the medley we all love today as an homage to the B side of Abby Road. The song, as Billy himself told me, is based LOOSELY on some High School chums of his, not the King and Queen of the prom (that was just some added flair he said), but lovers who had a passionate relationship that fizzled after real-life set in. He continued to say that the song is about how we are changed by time, circumstance, and love; and also about how we adapt to those changes as we get older and our own circumstances change around us. These words are from the man himself. naw | Reviewer: Anonymous | 8/5/07 we've all known people like these. We've all been the geeks at high school. He's talking about how the people that seem that have it together in small towns lose everything because they're all stuck in the same small-town rat-race. Get a grip people - it's not that complicated! GREAT | Reviewer: Wully | 6/30/07 the song is about him owning an italian resaurant and brenda and eddie come in and he starts talkin to them nd he then tells the stories of their high school days and then tells brenda and eddies story Add Your New Review About The Song By Pages:   1    2