Billy Joel - 52nd Street
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Artist: Billy JoelEdition: Music CD
Format: Enhanced, Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 1998-10-20
Music Label: Sony
Soundtracks:
- Big Shot
- Honesty
- My Life
- Zanzibar
- Stiletto
- Rosalinda's Eyes
- Half A Mile Away
- Until The Night
- 52nd Street
Free Music Notes for 52nd Street
Free Music Review: urban music
Hit: 5 Stars
This is the original urban sound of New York.
Billy Joel interjects Rock, Soul, Latin, Jazz, Italian pop and at the same time funking it to various rhythms in this wonderful album of the urban Latin-Italian experience in New York or any other major North American city.
52nd Street is conceptualized like a musical and Billy's vocals have the characterizations of a young urban Latino. The infectious melodic passages with their rhythmic variations and precise lyrics make you feel and live the life on 52nd street; visiting bars, hanging around rooftops, cruising waitresses, complaining about loudmouth girlfriends at fancy parties, claiming your independence, drinking with friends and falling in love.
The second to last song culminates in a big passionate number, like you would hear in a musical and the title song only comes in at the end after a long silent pause and is a short jazzy number like the closing credits of a show.
One of my favourite albums.
52nd Street Poster
Following up his 1977 breakthrough smash The Stranger was no easy task for Billy Joel; 52nd Street shows he wasn't quite up to the challenge, though it sold similarly well and kept the momentum for his fast- track career until the more impressive Glass Houses appeared in 1980. 52nd Street isn't without its moments: "My Life" remains one of Joel's most memorable hit singles, "Half a Mile Away" is a wonderful slice of infectiously upbeat pop, and "Rosalinda's Eyes" sways to an alluringly airy Latin feel. But macho poseur numbers such as "Big Shot" and "Stiletto" are embarrassingly overwrought, while the arty "Zanzibar" ultimately comes across more as pretentious than adventurous. The closing title track fails to convince anyone Joel is a cool blues hound. --Peter BlackstockPop Music CDs
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