Billy Joel - Where's The Orchestra

This song is so sweet... I can never stop listening to it... Have you ever seen him perform this live at the Night School on MTV? It was beautiful...

I don't own this song, video, or the album "The Nylon Curtain".

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[madlutist]

Another example of why Billy Joel is still the best there is and the best there has been in popular music.

Another thing; anyone else catch the self-referential joke at the end of the song, or am I loopy? You know, the melody from Allentown sneaking in at the end? Though I'm not sure which came first, so he might have liked the tune in this song and used it as part of Allentown. It sounds more like an joking allusion to a past song, though, so I feel like this was recorded after Allentown.

[mission2marsden]

The ending was purposely created that way for the album. The first track on the album "The Nylon Curtain" is infact the song Allentown, and Billy just wanted to finish off the album (the last song being Where's the Orchestra) with a bit of the song. He also played it the same way when he played this song live at his Night School interviews.

[TheAmazingAtheist]

Always read how much Chuck Klosterman had a boner for this song, but I thought it would suck becuase, frankly, Chuck is a bit of an idiot. However, this song really is pretty bad ass, oddly enough.

[HammurabisRain]

Beautiful. That's the only word that comes close to describing it.

[xxxPurplexGirlxxx]

Why the heck did I get a justin bieber ad?

[yeahsee33]

I love the Allentown ending.

[bonepaper]

does anyone else hear a bit of harry nilsson in this song? there's a great radio interview billy did promoting this album that should still be available online if you search for it...lots of interesting insights into the songs, and he said the song had a wistfulness that made him think of harry. the whole "nylon curtain" album is brilliant, but as others have noted, the way the melody from "allentown" snakes its way in there at the end is a beautiful way of bringing things full circle.

[DrSwirl]

Billy Joel-the better of the whole and the best of the better

[cjlllatt]

whenever i don't have a particular song in mind this tends to be my default song to sing even at work. some have nickelback and katy perry, i have billy joel.

[bakedzale]

The Nylon Curtain is a great album. Sometimes i think this song was written about my life,haha.

[fishe153]

This is my first time listening to this song. The rendition of "Allentown" at the end literally brought tears to my eyes. I love Allentown, but don't know much of Billy Joel's stuff outside his hits.

[nlkeeper07]

I grew up and live in the Allentown area...the song is not as widely known by my generation as it should be...it's a great song, and Billy Joel is simply amazing. People in the Lehigh Valley area are proud of our place in American history...and recently, Bethlehem Steel was in the opening scene of the Transformers movie and now it's an awesome casino.

[MegaObserver1]

I always thought the bars of "Allentown" at the end was a homage to Paul McCartney's "Band On The Run" album. On the last track of that album (Ninteen Hundred And Eighty Five) there is a very brief reprise of the title track. Billy was and is a big McCartney fan.

[achigurh]

a beautiful song that flows and wanders like a mountain stream