Billy Joel: Storm Front Trivia Quiz

Answer: a stranger

"The papers say she was seen in L.A. with a stranger. She found a perfect body with a Maserati right outside." are the lyrics. It's a song about, you guessed it, Christie Brinkley to whom Billy was married at the time. He was saying that all the newspapers and tabloids portrayed her a certain way and this was his song saying, "Hey, she's not really like that."

Answer: television

As you know, the names and events mentioned in each verse all happened in a certain year. The events/people mentioned in this question were prominent in 1950. The song starts in the year 1949, the year Billy Joel was born.

Answer: true

The lyric states: "I was a bayman like my father was before. You can't make a living as a bayman anymore."

FYI: Billy Joel did a variety of odd jobs while growing up to help his mother make ends meet. One of the odd jobs was working as a clam raker on the docks.

Answer: feeling will last

Billy Joel has described this song as the "manic-depressive song". Just as the title says, it tells about the highs and lows of people in general. Billy has also said that everyone has these highs and lows but artists (music and otherwise)have a convenient and productive outlet for the extreme mood swings; their work.

Answer: call my life my own

"I have never let anything have this much control over me. 'Cause I worked too hard to call my life my own."

This is a song about a man's total devotion to a woman. He finally realizes that he loves her so much that he's willing to do anything, even if it seems silly, if it's what she wants because he loves her. He isn't self-conscious about what he does because he's doing it because of his love for her.

Answer: Beaufort scale

Yup! The Beaufort scale measures wind speed. The Richter scale measures earthquakes. The Fujita scale measures tornados. The Kelvin scale measures temperature conversion.

Answer: off to war

This song is about Viktor, a Russian man that Billy Joel met during one of his concerts. The man was a clown in the Gorky Park Circus. Billy broke some major ground when he performed in Russia. One of his albums, "Kohuept" is the live concert of his performances there.

Answer: darling

He uses it 3 times. None of the others are used in this song.

Answer: pretty clothes

"I see you in the morning, putting on your pretty clothes. And I watch you do your makeup, like they do in all those fashion shows."

This song is about how society expects people to act a certain way but how we can be free to act naturally at home.

Answer: cautious

"I spoke to you in cautious tones. You answered me with no pretense. And still I feel I said too much. My silence is my self defense."

Billy Joel has said that this song is about a love that is doomed to fail from the beginning. It was perhaps an unrequited love, a bit one-sided and non-reciprocal. It's a sad song with this unavoidable feeling of defeat and hopelessness but a slow and quiet song to end the album on.