The Nylon Curtain
by Billy Joel
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Billy Joel bestography
The Nylon Curtain is ranked 7th best out of 26 albums by Billy Joel on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by Billy Joel is The Stranger which is ranked number 236 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 6,825.
(N.B. Bestographies include all albums by an artist (and their variations), but do not include albums ranked outside the top 100,000).
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The Nylon Curtain track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 82 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 5 days ago | Bluedog | 165 | 73/100 |
| ! | 01/14/2026 19:29 | cicadelic | 11,741 | 73/100 |
| ! | 01/09/2026 17:29 | Vinyl | 493 | 80/100 |
| ! | 12/05/2025 15:44 | Siromynian | 1,600 | 78/100 |
| ! | 11/12/2025 23:34 | NYAndreas | 1,433 | 44/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 7% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 75.2/100, a mean average of 73.8/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 75.4/100. The standard deviation for this album is 16.2.
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Jboy56 03/26/2024 08:49 | #302685
BJ stands so well in line and side by side with the best singer-songwriters of this world, that this album should be ranked higher on any list.
Way underrated piece of work, Goodnight Saigon is a great song about Vietnam. Allentown is a great song about American decline. The B Side is a great tribute to the Beatles. All in all I think this album should be considered Joel's second best and reach the top 500 of any list.
Crumpet 01/17/2018 14:54 | #205884
By far Joel's best album, Nylon Curtain is an inspired and eclectic work that takes influence from the Vietnam war, the Beatles and (Of course) drugs.
The best tracks on here are 'Where's the Orchestra', 'Allentown', 'Scandinavian Skies' and 'Laura'
This is a really good album, almost sounds like a Beatles' tribute/pastiche at times especially on the wonderful Laura, a kind of John Lennon psychedelic ballad, and the drony, Scandinavian skies. The middle eight of surprises sounds just like George Harrison too. The first half of the album is perfect with Joel classics such as the protest song, Allentown, the excellent, pressure and the Vietnam anthem, goodnight Saigon. Second side/half is not as great but room of our own is excellent. There's certainly nothing bad on here, but it does tend to run out of steam before the end. Where's the orchestra, ends the album. It's definitely an interesting album if you're a Beatles fan. A fine Billy Joel album.
Billy Joel has a near nervous breakdown on this great album. Give it a listen it's not to bad,
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