River Of Dreams
by Billy Joel
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Billy Joel bestography
River Of Dreams is ranked 9th best out of 27 albums by Billy Joel on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by Billy Joel is The Stranger which is ranked number 237 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 6,582.
(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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River Of Dreams track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 78 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
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River Of Dreams rankings
Calculated from aggregate positions across 60,000 charts (2 million album rankings). Click to see how the rankings are calculated (Last updated: 4 hours ago)
| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | lanadeleswift | Top 49 Music Albums of 1993 | 14/49 | 4 |
| 2026 |  covecove | Top 100 Music Albums of 1993 | 100/100 | 0 |
| 2026 | Jakor | Top 50 Music Albums of 1993 | 31/50 | 2 |
| 2026 | fabm0 | All Time Pt 7 | 11/30 | - |
| 2026 |  Musicbuff123 | Top 44 Music Albums of the 1990s | 43/44 | 1 |
| 2026 | fabm0 | List Zone 32 America Usa 4 | 48/58 | - |
| 2026 |  ExTeaSea | Top 90 Music Albums of 1993 | 32/90 | 3 |
| 2026 | jonny5244 | Top 36 Music Albums of 1993 | 5/36 | 4 |
| 2026 | fabm0 | Platinum decade 1990s Pt 2 | 66/100 | - |
| 2026 |  DommeDamian | Favorite album covers | 2/85 | - |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 88 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 241 | |||
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 10/07/2026 09:14 | Exist-en-ciel | 16,717 | 70/100 |
| ! | 07/01/2026 04:32 | brent13 | 2,227 | 66/100 |
| ! | 06/02/2026 22:35 | BorderFreeAndrew | 15,759 | 74/100 |
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This album has a Bayesian average rating of 71.9/100, a mean average of 71.3/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 71.9/100. The standard deviation for this album is 14.3.
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neilgee 04/22/2020 05:36 in What album are you listening to right now?River Of Dreams comments
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Billy Joel's last pop/rock album, and after the dip in quality of his last two records, Joel ends his songwriting career with his best album for well over a decade. River of dreams, has a harder rock edge than all of Joel's albums since his new wave contribution, glass houses. No man's land, kicks off the album in fine style. As most tracks here, Joel's piano is certainly not the main instrumentation here, the only exception is the beautiful, lullabye (goodnight my angel). There's no weak tracks here, from the excellent, great wall of China, the brilliant, all about soul, and off course, the wonderful title track. The album ends well too with the millennium anthem, two thousand years, and his final goodbye to songwriting, famous last words. It's a perfect record to end on. Very good.
Eastwood 06/11/2015 22:34 | #143609 | TOP COMMENT
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Good album. Best 10 songs average is 85,7/100 and the album can get good 85/100. Best songs are "No man's land" and "The river of dreams" both 90/100. Most other songs good 80-85/100, except #4 and #5 average only.
Genre: Pop Rock, Pop, Piano Pop
ExTeaSea TOP 100 COMMENTER 06/25/2021 18:04 | #271027 | TOP COMMENT
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Really good and underrated! Especially for a Billy Joel album that came out in the 90s. Quite a solid farewell pop rock album. Always thought it sounded more like his earlier work which is refreshing because The Bridge and that other one strayed away from his classic sound a bit.
Its a really good solid album,the first three tracks are good start.The next two tracks are not as good, then the highlights of the album are the next four track. Billy finish his recording career on reasonable high, and he was good songwriter.
Joel stopped writing pop music after this, and its not a big surprise. It just lacks inspiration, as if he had run out of ideas.
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