Billy Joel - The Nylon Curtain
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Artist: Billy JoelEdition: Music CD
Format: Enhanced, Original recording reissued, Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 1998-10-20
Music Label: Sony
Soundtracks:
- Allentown
- Laura
- Pressure
- Goodnight Saigon
- She's Right On Time
- A Room Of Our Own
- Surprises
- Scandinavian Skies
- Where's The Orchestra?
Free Music Notes for The Nylon Curtain
Free Music Review: The centerpiece of Joel's work
Hit: 5 Stars
In all of Billy Joel's talents, some of his work seemed a product of its time, for better or worse. Even fans have to admit to cringing after hearing "Just the Way You Are" for the millionth time. Joel was good at churning out a lot of single-friendly pop fair. While the public ate it up, little of his work screamed to be heard like "The Nylon Curtain," where Joel finds himself at a creative peak, while paying homage to his heroes the Beatles.
Much of the production on Nylon Curtain sounds like Sgt. Pepper era Beatles. It's vast, melodic, and full of hooks. But the Piano Man isn't just here to pay tribute. This is a well crafted piece that shows off some of Joel's best songwriting. "Allentown," and "Goodnight Saigon" are sincere political remarks, while the stress driven "Pressure" is a synthesizer laden track that remarkably doesn't sound dated.
The Beatles influence comes in on the very ambitious "Scandinavian Skies," where Joel's vocal even emulates Lennon. But I was always replaying another Beatles homage "Where's the Orchestra," the album's melancholic closer. Joel's quiet vocal comes through on only one speaker channel while Joel remarks 'Wasn't this supposed to be a musical?' Well, the Nylon Curtain sounds like one. Musically, it's Joel's best crafted album, and like the Beatles' work, it transcends time and is worthy of repeat listens.
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Billy Joel's chameleonlike leaps from style to style have never resulted in a more audacious album than 1982's Nylon Curtain. Gloriously overreaching both musically--Joel seems compelled to act as both Lennon and McCartney on this heavily Beatles-influenced disc--and thematically, he takes on everything from romance in an age of alienation ("Laura," "A Room of Our Own") to the sociopolitical causes of that alienation ("Goodnight Saigon," the moving recession saga "Allentown"). And it all works. As a portrait of a pop artist getting the Big Ideas out of his system, The Nylon Curtain is hard to beat. --Rickey WrightPop Music CDs
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