On Air - Joel Ryan

Advantages: Great songs
Disadvantages: None

...Last night I was cleaning my CD rack and I tried to rearrange my CD's. I noticed this 52nd Street album of Billy Joel. I realized that I haven't played it for such a long time. As this album is one of my favorites, I played it and I was again mesmerized by most of the songs. Tracks Listing 1. Big Shot 4:05 2. Honesty 3:53 3. My Life 4:44 4. Zanzibar 5:10 5. Stiletto 4;44 6. Rosalinda's Eyes 4:40 7. Half A Mile 4:09 8. Until The Night 6:36 9. 52nd Street 2:26 About Each Track Big Shot Because you had to be a big shot, didn't you? You had to open up your mouth You had to be a big shot, didn't you? This track has a Billy Joel trademark with overpowering exhibition of guitars. I always love it when he sings the line 'big shot' with great enthusiasm. This song never bores me. Billy sings this song with full energy... Read review

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Advantages: Great Album That Shows Off Some Of His Best Lyrics And Songs
Disadvantages: Perhaps Too Short, But Really Not Much of A Complaint

...Turnstiles is Joel's fourth studio effort and finds him at his peak in terms of song writing, just before the release of his landmark The Stranger. But as with most of his work, this is not the same in terms of feel as his next album, with Joel taking more of a hands-on approach for this album, choosing his own instrumentalists and producing it himself, thus giving him freedom in the studio for his own vision. After life in LA, Joel was becoming restless with the music scene, as seen in some of the songs on the album, notably Say Goodbye to Hollywood, and he decided to up sticks to New York. He originally recorded this with some of Elton John's entourage, but was dissatisfied with the results and thus came to the decision that this was an album best done by himself. The song writing itself feels a bit more expansive than some of his... Read review

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Advantages: affordable
Disadvantages: no come back or way of winning an argument

...my husband and i took our two boys aged three and five down to london from glasgow prestwick, to see chitty chitty bang bang, the flight down was on time and perfectly fine for a budget airline . On the way back however my five year old son had taken ill and was quite sick, we arrived at the airport in plenty of time having been told by ryan air to be at check in 1 hour before our flight . As we approached the correct check in desk we could see there was a reasonably long que, so we walked over to join it . While carrying our children over we were met by one of the staff telling us we were late and the gate was closed ! to which we replyed but we are standing in the que? after basically arguing that we were not late and our boys were needing home as they were not well the very rude employee told us to pay 120 pounds to be put... Read review

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