Christmas in Fallujah - Joel, Billy

Two new Billy Joel songs in a year! After 14 or so with none, it's a windfall! Problem is this one has two things against it.

• It's not that great of a song.
• Billy doesn't sing it, he just wrote it

I got it because it was being billed as a new Billy Joel song. In an extent, that's true. However, if you search for it in the Billy Joel section of iTunes, you won't find it. You have to search for Joel Fallujah, and it turns up under the artist Cass Dillon. This is a new artist, and Billy more or less (from what I read) "gave" the song to her to record and release.

As "Billy Joel" songs go, it's not the greatest - the All My Life one from earlier this year is way better than that.

I also guess I'm tired of "messages" in my music - I just want my tunes to be entertainment, not lessons. For a Joel hardcore, it's probably worth the buck to buy it from iTunes (the only place you can get it). The proceeds of the song go to a charity to build homes for service members from Iraq who have severe disabilities, so in that regard, it's a worthy song. As a song, I don't feel it is, though.