Advantages: variety of great songs Disadvantages: a couple of naff songs and shortened version of Piano man
Billy Joel is without a doubt at times a GENIUS! The unfortunate thing is he tends to be a musician who makes good songs, not good albums. That is why i chose to buy this compilation of the best of.
For 8£ you get a variety of his hits, some even live recordings which is a bonus. The songs range throughout his timeline of classics, some not as good as others i will admit.
Tracks like Good Night Saigon (sp?) are amazing and emotional and as epic as the great bearded man can get. She's always a woman, i'm ashamed to say, is one of my favourite songs which is hard for a jazz pianist to admit without feeling slightly demasculated.
As a pianist Billy Joel's unique and resourceful solo's and backing make for effective and easy listening.
On the downside his more comercial, tracks such as Uptown girl grace the line up which i ...
Advantages: Some Nice Tracks That Show The Beginnings Of A Great Artist Disadvantages: Not Quite A Classic
music or lyrics to this, notably the Ballad of Billy the Kid. But it is also an album with quite a few undertones of a young man looking for his place in the world and in the music business. Some consider his first attempt at the epic to be Miami 2017, but I would say that Captain Jack off this album is much more of an epic and supersedes it by a few years. Much of the material on the album though never flowered much success, and it was only through Piano Man, now a signature song for Joel, that any true glint of stardom could be seen, but many of the tracks still remain concert favourites, and as such should be heard by any Billy Joel fan to see where it all began.
1. Travelling Prayer ****
This is the first example of a Wild West influence, coming in through the music, which is upbeat and almost march like, as Joel quickly recites ...
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