“White Wedding” (1982) is Billy Idol’s best song

Dancing with Myself is his best

Rebel Yell rocks!!

For me, it's a tie between Dancing with Myself and Rebel Yell. Then, White Wedding at second place.

Rebel Yell is more iconic and the atmospheric Eyes Without a Face makes it superior as well. Honorable mention to Hot in the City, which is also great.

I agree that White Wedding is an incredible song.

But Eyes Without A Face is a masterpiece. There is nothing else like it. It's genius.

And Rebel Yell is about as iconic as it gets.

So sexy in this video (and love the song).

Dollface alert

Did you hear he died?

I adore Billy Idol, but this was not it.

A meme has ruined his song for me.

Rebel Yell for me.

His cyberpunk album was pretty good. And it anticipated the importance of the internet

Eyes Without A Face is my personal favorite.

r6 He was so hot in that video

Op doesn’t know Billy idols music very well

not a bad single until LA Woman, and I'm even including Soul Standing By because it was scheduled to be the original lead single to Whiplash Smile, which also has my fave Billy single, Don't Need A Gun

r15 Meaning?

Eyes Without A Face is my favorite Billy Idol song but Dancing With Myself is a fucking banger anthem and the video is so great. He is just my type. I go gooey for a skinny uninhibited punk rocker with bleach blond hair and leather pants. Fucking yum!

Love "Catch My Fall"

FLESH for Fantasy!!!

Hole In The Wall

(not a gloryhole)

Eyes Without a Face is next-level brilliant.

My least favorite of his hits is “Mony, Mony”, his only US #1. I didn’t even like it back then.

“Dancing with mySelf” is my favorite.

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I think I'd forgotten how many hits he had, most of which he wrote. It seems weird that he's a grandfather now. I remember being a little kid and thinking he was so hot - his videos were like porn to me.

Flesh For Fantasy is another banger. An instrumental version of Catch My Fall was used in the movie SOME KIND OF WONDERFUL.

I prefer Hot in the City - it's the best New York City summer song!

Rebel Yell always got people out on the dance floor. I also like Rob the Cradle of Love.

He's one of the few Brit performers I can think of with perfect looking teeth. He escaped the curse of the British fangs.

P.s., I can only imagine what his bedroom sessions with Vanity were like.

Gigolo cool .....woo...

Rock the Cradle and Dancing with Myself for me.

R26: It's "White Wedding" & "Hot in the City" for me.

Jeez, I'd forgotten how many absolute smashes Billy Idol knocked out of the park. You've all got me wanting to listen to him tonight!

I wonder how Perri Lister is holding up. Or what their son looks like

This is apparently a recent pic of Perri, r33.

Forgot about Don't Need A Gun, R16. Gosh he really cranked out some great songs. Good lord.

I just listened to the entire Rebel Yell album on a whim a few days before this thread was posted. I love every single track. The deep cuts are equally as brilliant as the hits. And Flesh For Fantasy is fucking next level sexy amazing.

Side One:

Rebel Yell

Daytime Drama

Eyes Without A Face

Blue Highway

Side Two:

Flesh For Fantasy

Catch My Fall

Crank Call

(Do Not) Stand In The Shadows

The Dead Next Door

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Every song a WINNER. Billy Idol is underrated as a songwriter, totally.

I always felt bad for Perri Lister, R34. Seemed that they were a match made in heaven, but he could not keep it in his pants. He did her so dirty!

Oh man, I’d forgotten about Do Not Dance in the Shadows!

**Stand** in the Shadows

Total. Banger. Such an anthem, R38.

I love the hilarious Robin Quivers parody song set to “Eyes Without a Face.”

That's so fucked up, R40.

^LOL!

White Wedding was featured in MTV ads but seemed to be very scarce in their rotation—it took me months of obsessive viewing to finally catch it. Worth waiting for.

For the longest time I didn’t know “Eyes Without a Face” was Billy Idol.

To me all his other hits feel novelty.

Dancing With Myself is my favorite of his songs, but my favorite video was Catch My Fall. When I was 15 I used to jack off to Billy's shower scene in that video a lot.

A LOT.

So is that to say that "Eyes Without A Face" is your favorite song of his, R44?

It's my fave. There is nothing else like it in the world.

R45 I have never fucking seen the Catch My Fall video! If I had, I too would have jacked off to it on the daily. Thank you so much for posting. I'm too old to engage my sex organ while watching it, but he is totally my younger self's type in it.

Young Billy Idol used to be my type, but I learned that boys like that are too fucked up and will never love you as much as they love themselves and their drugs. I still miss the 80s though.

T-Boz from TLC is a big fan of Billy and dyed her hair platinum because of him.

He used to band Dowtown Julie Brown back in the day.

BANG her

I just noticed what nice teeth he had. I don’t know why that surprises me for the 1980s.

You can't tell me he hasn't had cock in his mouth at least once.

I want to see his dick

The biggest hit from his punk band Generation X.

Their best song.

He had his teeth fixed.

I always felt he looked like a very small guy. Short and skinny.

Adore Billy Idol. One of my favorites from the 80s.

I, too, had forgotten how many hits he had from that time.

My favorite is Eyes without a Face, without a doubt. But Rebel Yell and White Wedding would definitely be close behind.

I would agree about White Wedding. Not just for Idol's vocals there, but also the guitar work within.

I also loved how Hollyoaks used it in the show's trailer to their memorable "Black Wedding" episode.

[quote] I prefer Hot in the City - it's the best New York City summer song!

Love this one! There is a fantastic extended mix of it that is on my cardio playlist. I used to have a shirtless poster of him on my wall when I was in high school -- when my father saw it he didn't say a word, he just had a sad look on his face that said "Oh God, my son is a f@ggot."

Do you know he tried for years to get Olivia Newton-John to do a duet with him? Could have been interesting.

His partner is China Chow, daughter of the late AIDS and fashion victim Tina Chow and Michael, proprietor of Mr Chow.

My very religious uncle caught my sister looking at a centerfold of Billy wearing a leather codpiece. He said Billy's hair was spiked to hide his horns.

He released a Christmas album two years ago that no one heard about or bought. It may have only been released in the Uk. Either way, his voice is shot. Probably from many years of having terrible technique.

He does look better here though than he did for many years prior though. Maybe he got some subtle work done.

I used to like “Catch My Fall” a lot from his Rebel Yell album