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Billy Joel Audio

Why Des Devlin noticed that Billy Joel is a guy who likes to say "woh-oh-oh" a lot is something only he, and his court-appointed psychiatrist, can answer. Comprising 32 separate Billy Joel song clips, each with the Piano Man warbling a variation of "oh" or "woh," it was presented to Nasty Big PointedTeeth as a finished entity. A lucky thing, too. It's tough to imagine how one could describe the conceptual premise in the abstract, and not get pelted with sharp rocks.

But from peculiarity, triumph! This oddball bonus definitely made a greater impact than the average audio. Almost everybody who played the Spring 1985 contest seems to recall the Billy Joel tape. It was also an early (if not the earliest) audio bonus to possess a clear "beginning" clip and "ending" clip in purely sonic terms.

Some shockingly good performances on this, considering the incredibly narrow topic. One of the two 10 scores was a one-man stunner, in which he called the Hour Bonus Phone Line, reeled off 31 of the 32 with virtually no pauses, and then asked if the unnamed song was (humorously enough) "Get It Right The First Time." It was.

(All guttural mutterings very approximate)

  1. Wo-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh, woh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh

  2. Woh-oh-oh

  3. Woh-woh-woh-woh-woh-woh

  4. Woh, oh-oh-oh

  5. Oh-oh-oh-oh, oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh

  6. Noh-oh-woh-oh-woh, woh-woh, woh-oh

  7. Ohhhhhhh

  8. Woh-woh-woh

  9. Oh-woh-hoh-hohhhhhh

  10. A-woh-ooh-wohhhh, woh-woh

  11. Woh-oh-oh

  12. A-woh-ooh-woh-oh-wohhh

  13. Oh-oh-oh-ooh-oh-oh

  14. Ohhhh-oh-oh-ooh-oh-oh-oh, oh-ooh-oh-oh-uh

  15. Woh-oh, oh-ooh-oh, ugh!

  16. Oh, oh, woh

  17. Woh-woh, oh-woh, oh-oh-ooh-woh-oh-woh, oh-oh, oh-oh, oh-oh-oh-oh-oh

  18. Ohhh, oh-oh-oh

  19. Wohhhhhhh-ohhh-oh-ohhhhh

  20. A-woh-oh-oh-oh-oh

  21. Oh-oh, oh-oh, oh-oh-oh

  22. oh-oh-oh-oh

  23. Oh-oh-oh-ohhhhh-oh, oh yeah, yeah

  24. I knowwww-oh-woh-wohhhh

  25. A-woh-woh-woh-woh-woh-woh-woh-woh

  26. Oh-oh-oh, a-woh-woh, oh-oh-oh, a-woh-oh-woh-oh-oh, oh-oh-oh, a-woh-woh, oh-oh-oh, a-woh

  27. Oh-whoh-oh-oh-oh-oh

  28. Oh-oh-oh-oh

  29. Oh-oh-oh, oh-oh-oh, oh-oh-whoh, oh-oh-oh, oh-oh-oh, oh-oh-hoh

  30. Whoh-oh-oh-oh-ohhhh, oh-oh-oh-oh, whoh-oh-oh-oh-ohhhh

  31. A-woh-oh-oh-oh-oh, a-woh-oh-oh-oh-oh

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