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albummaster
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- #1
- Posted: 10/09/2013 20:00
- Post subject: Album of the day (#1056): The Stranger by Billy Joel
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Today's album of the day
The Stranger by Billy Joel (View album | Buy this album)
Year: 1977.
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Overall rank: 342
Average rating: 79/100 (from 229 votes).
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Tracks:
1. Movin' Out (Anthony's Song)
2. The Stranger
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
About album of the day: The BestEverAlbums.com album of the day is the album appearing most prominently in member charts in the previous 24 hours. If an album, or artist, has previously been selected within a x day period, the next highest album is picked instead (and so on) to ensure a bit of variety. A full history of album of the day can be viewed here.
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Puncture Repair
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- Posted: 10/09/2013 20:08
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It's alright, but it's a bit Mom-Rock.
She's Always A Woman is easily the standout track.
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- Posted: 10/09/2013 20:09
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I dig "Movin' Out" and "Only the Good Die Young". The rest is just kind of meh. Not bad by any means, but nothing to grab your attention.
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- #4
- Posted: 10/09/2013 20:52
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I've decided. I'm getting rid of Billy Joel's Greatest Hits Volume I and II, and replacing it with the Stranger and An Innocent Man. Those are the only two albums you really need.
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ShaneSpear
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- Posted: 10/09/2013 21:10
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| Listmeister wrote: | | I've decided. I'm getting rid of Billy Joel's Greatest Hits Volume I and II, and replacing it with the Stranger and An Innocent Man. Those are the only two albums you really need. |
Glass Houses is good too.
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SuedeSwede
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- Posted: 10/09/2013 22:01
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| Puncture Repair wrote: | It's alright, but it's a bit Mom-Rock.
She's Always A Woman is easily the standout track. |
Agree completely with this. Although Movin' Out is a good song too.
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- #7
- Posted: 10/10/2013 01:02
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| Mod wrote: | | Agree completely with this. Although Movin' Out is a good song too. |
Ack ack ack ack ack ack ack ack ack ack ack ack ack ack ack ack ack ack ack
Billy Joel was always Elton John lite...a piano guy with a bunch of mostly annoying hit singles and more album filler than Paul McCartney. Whoever said "mom rock" was dead on. Billy Joel made a career out of sappy, overly earnest ballads ("Just The Way You Are", "She's Always A Woman", "She's Got A Way"), pompous, overblown attempts to rock ("Movin' Out", "Big Shot", "You May Be Right") and downright ridiculousness ("Scenes From An Italian Restaurant", "Piano Man" and "We Didn't Start The Fire"). Remember...Paul was a real estate novelist (?), and the point where Billy couldn't take the history of the 20th century any more was...
Cola wars.
A handful of quality songs, more on this album than any of his others. In my opinion, a highly overvalued artist and career.
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revolver94
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zdwyatt
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- Posted: 10/18/2013 21:13
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Ah, nothing like a Billy Joel album to divide a room in half. Personally, I dig songs that play out like a short story, so I am a sucker for this guy. He's got his nice ballads ("She's Always a Woman") and he's got his prog-piano ("Scenes From an Italian Restaurant") but they're all tidy little tales. And this particular album is 56% hits! Gotta love it.
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- Posted: 10/18/2013 21:33
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| zdwyatt wrote: | | And this particular album is 56% hits! |
Because I'm dumb and curious: what does this even mean, and how did you calculate it? I'd love to know
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