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The Stranger (Vinyl)

By: Billy Joel (Artist)

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Billy Joel Artist Snapshot:

Part Jerry Lee Lewis, part George Gershwin, piano man Billy Joel combines Tin Pan Alley craftsmanship, rock-&-roll fervor, and a keen sense of vintage melodic balladry. He emerged in the 1970s as the definitive singer-songwriter for those who wanted something a little less introspective than James Taylor, and his way with a hook made him a superstar. His popularity waned in the '90s, and with it went his interest in pop music, which he eventually forsook to pursue an all-instrumental, classical-influenced direction.

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Track Listing

DISC 1 for The Stranger (Vinyl) Album By Billy Joel (Artist)
1   Movin' Out (Anthony's Song)  
2   Stranger, The  
3   Just the Way You Are  
4   Scenes From an Italian Restaurant  
5   Vienna  
6   Only the Good Die Young  
7   She's Always a Woman  
8   Get It Right the First Time  
9   Everybody Has a Dream  
 
DISC 2 for The Stranger (Vinyl) Album By Billy Joel (Artist)
1   Miami 2017 (I've Seen the Lights Go Out On Broadway - (live)  
2   Prelude/Angry Young Man - (live)  
3   New York State of Mind - (live)  
4   Just the Way You Are - (live)  
5   She's Got a Way - (live)  
6   Entertainer, The - (live)  
7   Scenes From an Italian Restaurant - (live)  
8   Band Introductions - (live)  
9   Captain Jack - (live)  
10   I've Loved These Days - (live)  
11   Say Goodbye To Hollywood - (live)  
12   Souvenir - (live)  
 

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Review

Rolling Stone (p.96) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "[T]here's impressive variety here: contemplative ballads...and impressionistic epics....Joel's melodic genius invites comparisons to Paul McCartney..."
Rolling Stone (12/11/03, p.113) - Ranked #67 in Rolling Stone's "500 Greatest Albums Of All Time" - "...The real pleasure here is the specificity of the lyrics in the rock songs located in New York..."
Q (Magazine) (p.118) - 3 stars out of 5 -- "After four albums yielded only minor-league status, Billy JOel penned the most durable songs of his career....He was at the top of his game here."
Blender (Magazine) (p.93) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "A record where saxophones trump guitars and the piano is nearly the cradle of civilization, THE STRANGER cut against any number of grains in the era just after disco and punk had broken out..."

Title Note

Personnel: Billy Joel (vocals, harmonica, piano, organ, keyboards); Hiram Bullock, Steve Burgh, Steve Khan, Hugh McCracken, David Brown (guitar); Richie Cannatta (fiddle, flute, soprano & tenor saxophones, organ, keyboards); Phil Woods (alto saxophone); Richard Tee (organ); Doug Stegmeyer (bass); Liberty DeVito (drums, percussion); Ralph MacDonald (percussion); Phoebe Snow, Lani Groves, Patti Austin (background vocals).

Recorded at A&R Recording, New York, New York.

He's known to many as an inoffensive pop balladeer, but at the arguable peak of his career in the late '70s, Billy Joel released his darkest, most emotionally charged album. THE STRANGER abandons the grandstanding and broad melodic sweep of Joel's earlier records for a more intimate, introspective sound, effectively communicating Joel's ruminations on the perils of life and love. "Movin' Out" is something of an existentialist anthem, chronicling the way people's dreams are often irreparably crushed. The ominous-sounding title tune examines the many guises with which lovers disguise themselves in their attempts to entrap and deceive each other. "Only the Good Die Young" is hedonism at it's most iconoclastic. Even "She's Always a Woman," ostensibly a romantic piano ballad, is full of thorny, less-than-complimentary observations about its subject. Joel's emotional honesty would never be this clear-eyed and unabashed again.

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