Billy Joel - The Stranger
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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:
- Movin' Out (Anthony's Song)
- The Stranger
- Just The Way You Are
- Scenes From An Italian Restaurant
- Vienna
- Only The Good Die Young
- She's Always A Woman
- Get It Right The First Time
- Everybody Has A Dream
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Free Music Review: No Stranger? Get It
Hit: 4 Stars
Billy Joel is kind of my guilty pleasure - He's one of the most revered musicians or at least very popular of today yet I never quite got him. Until more recently when I decided there was a time I really liked some of his tunes, the years of 77-84 really spring to mind. I had a few of his cassettes when I was little and I always liked the late 70s, early 80s Billy songs and this is the album where I remember paying attention to him.
This is the first remastered version was released a few years ago and it was only $8 so I bought it in a heartbeat and I really like it. The long and scene stealing "Scenes From An Italian Restaraunt" and the cool title track make it more than just pop music, there's elements of grandeur here but not over the top. Plus it has hit after hit - "Only The Good Die Young", "Movin' Out", "She's Always A Woman" and "Just The Way You Are" and most importantly, my pal Amy idolizes Billy and since I idolize my petite pal with large bosoms, I too love Billy Joel.
The Stranger Poster
This, pop superstar Joel's breakout LP, came years after he first hit the charts with the novelty-ish "Piano Man." In the meantime, the New York-based songwriter released two lackluster and stylistically confused platters that blunted interesting songs with a sound that was neither Elton mellow nor Elton attitude. Produced by Phil Ramone, The Stranger took those who had written Joel off as a one-hit wonder by surprise ("Just the Way You Are" was among the biggest hits of 1977) and it remains a solid introduction to Joel's restless muse at a crucial point in his career. It invited a few comparisons to Bruce Springsteen, with its prominent sax breaks, hard-edged rebel-rockers ("Only the Good Die Young"), and slice-of-life dramatics ("Scenes From an Italian Restaurant"), recounting life in a lower middle-class (Eastern Urban) setting; but Joel's chameleonic, formalist approach to pop wasn't to be so easily pigeonholed (Glass Houses, The Nylon Curtain, An Innocent Man...). --Don HarrisonPop Music CDs
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