At times like this it's hard to remember that Billy Joel also brought us the incredibly depressing "Allentown"* (about waiting for your factory to be closed) and "The Down-Easter Alexa" (about being a struggling Rhode Island day-boat fisherman when the fish stocks have crashed). The video manages the difficult feat of making the Ashes to Ashes parody look sensible by comparison!



* Though admittedly when Billy Joel sings about industrial decay in Pennsylvania, it's much more perky than when Bruce Springsteen does the same for New Jersey.