Streetlife Serenade - Billy Joel - MP3 instrumental karaoke

A waterfall of silky piano forms the beginning of this pop-rock track from legendary New Yorker Billy Joel, the nearly-title track from third studio album Streetlife Serenade, which notably saw him pick up the Moog synthesizer for the first time. On the melancholic "Streetlife Serenader," piano chords and vivid wordplay frame the song's central message, lamenting the trappings of the music industry and looking to the apparently simple freedoms that come with life as a busker: "Streetlife serenader / Never sang on stages / Needs no orchestration / Melody comes easy." Streetlife Serenade explores similar ideas across its 10 tracks and paints multiple portraits of New York and Los Angeles, sending out sonic postcards like the electric piano-powered "Los Angelenos," and music industry critique "The Entertainer," as well as ragtime workout, the Scott Joplin-inspired "Root Beer Rag."