{"id":25143,"date":"2016-12-07T12:58:20","date_gmt":"2016-12-07T17:58:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=25143"},"modified":"2016-12-07T13:36:14","modified_gmt":"2016-12-07T18:36:14","slug":"attila","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=25143","title":{"rendered":"Attila"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Before he became The Piano Man, Billy Joel was half of a Deep Purple-esque proto-metal band called <b>Attila<\/b>. And they made an album. <\/p>\n<p>You can, if you want to, listen to the whole thing, below.<\/p>\n<div class=\"lyte-wrapper fourthree\" title=\"Attila (Billy Joel) - Self Titled Album (1970) COMPLETE\" style=\"width:640px;max-width:100%;margin:5px;\"><div class=\"lyMe\" id=\"WYL_L7s8PHnCTGI\" itemprop=\"video\" itemscope itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/VideoObject\"><div><meta itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\" content=\"https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/L7s8PHnCTGI\/hqdefault.jpg\" \/><meta itemprop=\"embedURL\" content=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/L7s8PHnCTGI\" \/><meta itemprop=\"duration\" content=\"PT40M19S\" \/><meta itemprop=\"uploadDate\" content=\"2013-03-10T05:06:04Z\" \/><\/div><div id=\"lyte_L7s8PHnCTGI\" data-src=\"https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/L7s8PHnCTGI\/hqdefault.jpg\" class=\"pL\"><div class=\"tC\"><div class=\"tT\" itemprop=\"name\">Attila (Billy Joel) - Self Titled Album (1970) COMPLETE<\/div><\/div><div class=\"play\"><\/div><div class=\"ctrl\"><div class=\"Lctrl\"><\/div><div class=\"Rctrl\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><noscript><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/L7s8PHnCTGI\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/L7s8PHnCTGI\/0.jpg\" alt=\"Attila (Billy Joel) - Self Titled Album (1970) COMPLETE\" width=\"640\" height=\"460\" \/><br \/>Watch this video on YouTube<\/a><\/noscript><meta itemprop=\"description\" content=\"Before going solo, Billy Joel was one half of a Psychedelic \/ Heavy Metal band called Attila. They released their one and only album in 1970. It is considered by many critics to be the worst rock album ever made. I tend to disagree, but you be the judge. The track listing is as follows: 1. &quot;Wonder Woman&quot; (3:38) 2. &quot;California Flash&quot; (3:32) 3. &quot;Revenge is Sweet&quot; (4:00) 4. &quot;Amplifier Fire (Part I: Godzilla\/Part II: March Of The Huns)&quot; (7:39) 5. &quot;Rollin&#039; Home&quot; (4:52) 6. &quot;Tear This Castle Down&quot; (5:49) 7. &quot;Holy Moses&quot; (4:30) 8. &quot;Brain Invasion&quot; (5:41) All songs written by Billy Joel and Jon Small.\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"lL\" style=\"max-width:100%;width:640px;margin:5px;\"><\/div><\/p>\n<p>1. \"Wonder Woman\" (3:38)<br \/>\n2. \"California Flash\" (3:32)<br \/>\n3. \"Revenge is Sweet\" (4:00)<br \/>\n4. \"Amplifier Fire (Part I: Godzilla\/Part II: March Of The Huns)\" (7:39)<br \/>\n5. \"Rollin' Home\" (4:52)<br \/>\n6. \"Tear This Castle Down\" (5:49)<br \/>\n7. \"Holy Moses\" (4:30)<br \/>\n8. \"Brain Invasion\" (5:41)<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/bandjack.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/attila-jon-and-billy-enlarged.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>I made it through Part I of Amplifier Fire.<\/p>\n<p>That's Joel singing.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/bjoel.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"649\" height=\"597\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-25148\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/bjoel.jpg 649w, https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/bjoel-300x276.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/bjoel-624x574.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 649px) 100vw, 649px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The band broke up when Billy Joel ran off with the other guy's wife.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/bjoel2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"649\" height=\"597\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-25148\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Brain invasion.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/bjoel3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-25155\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/bjoel3.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/bjoel3-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/bjoel3-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before he became The Piano Man, Billy Joel was half of a Deep Purple-esque proto-metal band called Attila. And they made an album. You can, if you want to, listen to the whole thing, below. 1. \"Wonder Woman\" (3:38) 2. \"California Flash\" (3:32) 3. \"Revenge is Sweet\" (4:00) 4. \"Amplifier Fire (Part I: Godzilla\/Part II: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25143"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25143\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25156,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25143\/revisions\/25156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}