Greatest Hits, Vols. 1 & 2 (1973-1985)

Artist: Billy Joel
Label: Sony
Category: Music

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Format: Enhanced
Media: Audio Cassette

UPC: 074646939147
EAN: 0074646939147
ASIN: B00000EJ4I

Release Date: 1998-10-20

Greatest Hits, Vols. 1 & 2 (1973-1985)

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Tracks:

Piano Man
Captain Jack
Entertainer
Say Goodbye to Hollywood
New York State of Mind
Stranger
Scenes from an Italian Restaurant
Just the Way You Are
Movin' Out (Anthony's Song)
Only the Good Die Young
She's Always a Woman

Tracks:

My Life
Big Shot
You May Be Right
It's Still Rock & Roll to Me
Don't Ask Me Why
She's Got a Way
Pressure
Allentown
Goodnight Saigon
Tell Her About It
Uptown Girl
Longest Time
You're Only Human (Second Wind)
Night Is Still Young

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It's one of the cruel ironies of music today that Billy Joel has been relegated to a kind of adult-contemporary hell, where his legacy is measured by soft-rock staples such as "Just the Way You Are," "Piano Man," and "New York State of Mind." To be sure, well-crafted ballads are a part of his legacy, but they're hardly the whole story, as this collection of his early and mid-period hits amply demonstrates. From the unbridled biographical boasting of "The Entertainer" and the ambitious storytelling of "Scenes from an Italian Restaurant" to the careening abandon of "Only the Good Die Young" and the thoughtful social commentary of "Allentown," Joel was as complete an artist as the last three decades have produced. <I>--Daniel Durchholz</I>

Customer Reviews:

Greatest Hits.......2007-05-11

Many "Greatest Hits..." albums and sets are lacking or down right suck. This set is great. The songs you want to hear the way you expect to hear them.

WARNING: Not the Complete Versions.......2007-03-31

I don't often get "greatest hits" collections, preferring instead to buy original albums, but in this case I did, because there are a handful of Billy Joel songs I wanted in my collection, but I didn't want to invest enough to purchase all of his albums. Unfortunately, they don't tell you that what you get here, at least in some instances, are the "single" versions of these songs, not the full-length versions from the original albums. Case in point: One of my favorite Billy Joel songs is "Just the Way You Are," but the version on this set cuts an entire verse. I haven't done comparisons on all of the other songs, but if they'd pull that on this song, they probably did so on others as well. It's incomprehensible to me; if someone wants Billy Joel songs, the odds are that they want the complete songs, not truncated re-edits.

I love it.......2007-01-11

I was familiar with a few of Billy Joel's songs, but I thought my disc collection would not be complete if I did not own a good sample of his material.
This product proposes a chronological approach and that suited me just fine. The two discs are loaded with all the classics. All of them wonderfully digitalized. I was able to appreciate the enormous range of Billy Joel. Great songwriter, great singer, great piano player. Although I am drummer, I do understand why people like him, or Sting, or Stevie Wonder, or Elton John, are on top of the music industry food chain. It is truly difficult to be able to master so many areas of music. And I am not talking about the performing, the band leading chores, the musical direction, production, publicity, all these extra skills to own in order to arrive where they are.
Getting one hit out is already a rare feat, but 35 or 40 like the ones presented in this compilation, require a truly great mind (something many one hit wonders wish to have).
I love this compilation. A great buy!

The Billy Joel conundrum.......2006-12-13

The first time I witnessed Billy Joel was on Saturday Night Live in 1978 performing "Just the Way You Are." And being it was the first time I saw the show and Billy Joel, it caught me by surprise when I found out his performance was not one of the skits. A group of us were trying to predict the punchline during the song and we all agreed halfway through that the camera was going to pan out and Mr. Joel would be wearing no pants as the lyrics seemed to be a sardonic ode to self pleasure. To our surprise, the song ended and they cut to commercial. We still thought we were being put-on, but after watching the rest of the show and seeing Mr. Joel perform "Only the Good Die Young," we joined hands and made sure to never mention this night to anyone. To this day I always wonder how Mr. Joel could have crashed his car into trees, houses, and fire-hydrants, and the only thing that keeps coming to mind was our prediction that Mr. Joel was wearing no pants at the end of the skit. Skip this and buy a pair of Bugle Boys instead...

The new sony is very poor quality.......2006-11-10

I bought this never having problems from Amazon.com before. They did not state that this was a Sony product and when I received it, all the CD had on it was a root kit virus. It would not even play in my CD player. When I tried to read the CD to copy and burn the "WAV" files to a new CD so I could just listen to the music, all there were on the CD was executables and no sound files.

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