Streetlife Serenade
by Billy Joel

Streetlife Serenade by Billy Joel
Year: 1974
Overall rank: 12,734th   Overall chart history
Average Rating: 
71/100 (from 91 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top albums of 1974 (181st)
Award Top albums of the 1970s (1,841st)
Award Best albums of all time (12,734th)

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Billy Joel bestography

Streetlife Serenade is ranked 14th best out of 26 albums by Billy Joel on BestEverAlbums.com.

The best album by Billy Joel is The Stranger which is ranked number 182 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 5,025.

Billy Joel album bestography « Higher ranked (12,413th)
Songs In The Attic
This album (12,734th)
Streetlife Serenade
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Streetlife Serenade

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Streetlife Serenade rankings

Rankings summary
Overall rank: 12,734th | 1970s rank: 1,841st | 1974 rank: 181st

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Average Rating: 
71/100 (from 91 votes)
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04/03/2026 06:25 Olli  Ratings distribution  7,17163/100
 
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03/22/2026 14:12 markl73  Ratings distribution  60178/100
 
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01/02/2026 11:30 DJStuart79  Ratings distribution  5,90858/100
 
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75/100
From 05/26/2020 17:07 | #252175
Not typical Billy!
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65/100
From 01/17/2018 15:07 | #205887
Joel's worst album, Streetlife Serenade is mostly quite bland, but there are a couple of good tracks, 'The Weekend Song' and 'Last of the Big Time Spenders' are good, 'The Entertainer' and 'Root Bear Rag' are very good and 'Great Suburban Showdown' and 'Souvenir' are great.
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90/100
From 03/01/2017 04:27 | #186571
About half the album is really good especially Streetlife Seranader, Los Angelenos, The Great Suburban Showdown, and The Entertainer.
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55/100
From 01/28/2017 14:19 | #184433
This album can not convince me...
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70/100
From 04/05/2016 17:30 | #163364
An underrated Billy joel album, and quite a difficult one to get hold of. I think the main reason it's not so well thought of is because it doesn't really have any, what you call, classics, or at least famous songs on it. Las Angelenos, is an often overlooked joel track, which I think is the best track on the album. The entertainer, is probably the most well known song here, Joel's anti-music business rant. It's really his L.A album, and possibly the reason why it's not highly thought of, as Joel is predominantly new York, through and through. It is probably the oddball in Billy Joel's career, but still well worth checking out.
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From 02/05/2015 04:12 | #134024
Best Track: The Entertainer
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80/100
From 06/11/2013 02:45 | #78571
Most likely Billy Joel's strongest album.
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