Billy Joel - Turnstiles
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Artist: Billy JoelEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown)
Format: Enhanced, Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 2008-02-01
Music Label: SBME SPECIAL MKTS.
Soundtracks:
- Say Goodbye to Hollywood
- Summer, Highland Falls
- All You Wanna Do Is Dance
- New York State of Mind
- James
- Prelude/Angry Young Man
- I've Loved These Days
- Miami 2017 (Seen the Lights Go out on Broadway)
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Billy Joel just happened to emmerge as a major entity right around the same time as people such as Elton John,Rod Stewart,Bruce Springsteen and other rock artists who came at this style of music in a different way than a lot of others. Unlike those two Billy had received a lot of flack even earlier in his career. His previous album Streetlife Serenade actually illustrated this heavily not merely in the musical sense but lyrically as he was seeking to reconcile his influences. Here,for the first time in his career Billy Joel makes his intent and vision very clear. The eight songs on this album,while not sounding exactly alike musically or having no breaks between them all flow together in a musical brew where Billy knows what he is: a New York singer-songwriter inspired by about equal levels George Gershswin,Duke Ellington,Ray Charles and Beatles. Most of these songs proudly rely on Billy's trademark tin pan alley pop/rock style of piano playing and,even though all the songs as mentioned do present a strong level of variety this quality shines through in all of them. Speaking individually each song has a charm all it's own. The Wall Of Sound wallup,already a huge aspect of Bruce Springsteen's mid 70's sound makes itself present in a huge way on "Say Goodbye To Hollywood" whereas "Summer,Highland Falls" and "Prelude/Angry Young Man" both showcase the jazzier aspect of his sound in two jazz-pop-rock fusion style pieces which,with their many chord and harmonic changes allow for the changing mood of the songs to be felt more fully. "New York State Of Mind" and "I'm Loved These Days" both display the Ray Charles jazz,soul and pop busting eclecticism in his sound. Now at the time these songs probably didn't exactly do much to please the more snobbish rock critics of the day but they spoke volumes for Billy's songwriting style. Same goes "James" and "Miami 2017" which bring these different styles together. There's even a "Mother And Child Reunion" type pop-reggae turn on "All You Wanna Do Is Dance". Lyrically this album actually explores Billy's awkward musical standpoint,his general view on the changing American culture during the mid 70's and how they all interelated to each other to inspire thoughts to return to the city where he got his start:NYC. Stories of escapism,love affairs,exhausted social revolutionaries and dreams of moving on his life show up here in many possible forms. Considering that Billy was about to break through commercially with his blockbuster album The Stranger this less commercially powerful transitional album made it's point not only by marking the midpoint of Billy's 70's career but also was part of a slew up albums that came out around this time that caught music in a state of transition as well.
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