Streetlife Serenade
by Billy Joel
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Billy Joel bestography
Streetlife Serenade is ranked 14th 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 6,588.
(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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Streetlife Serenade track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 76 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
Streetlife Serenade rankings
Calculated from aggregate positions across 60,000 charts (2 million album rankings). Click to see how the rankings are calculated (Last updated: 6 hours ago)
| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | Siromynian | Top 25 Music Albums of 1974 | 21/25 | 1 |
| 2026 | fabm0 | Platinum year 1974 | 41/49 | - |
| 2026 |  ExTeaSea | Top 71 Music Albums of 1974 | 36/71 | 3 |
| 2026 |  AAL2014 | 1974: Part 2 (#101-200) | 10/21 | - |
| 2026 | fabm0 | List 1974 | 64/100 | - |
| 2026 | stevengnz | Top 100 Music Albums of 1974 | 48/100 | 3 |
| 2026 |  Leonard | Top 99 Music Albums of 1974 | 52/99 | 2 |
| 2026 | lanadeleswift | Top 42 Music Albums of 1974 | 39/42 | 0 |
| 2026 | Olli | Top 100 Music Albums of 1974 | 65/100 | 2 |
| 2026 |  Romanelli | My Overall Chart: 2301-2400 | 28/100 | - |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 52 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 84 | |||
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Streetlife Serenade ratings
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 09/30/2026 07:34 | Siromynian | 1,789 | 74/100 |
| ! | 07/06/2026 18:36 | AAL2014 | 4,347 | 75/100 |
| ! | 04/03/2026 06:25 | Olli | 7,970 | 62/100 |
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This album has a Bayesian average rating of 70.7/100, a mean average of 69.9/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 70.5/100. The standard deviation for this album is 13.2.
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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.
Crumpet 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.
Brandon8 TOP 100 COMMENTER 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.
Bork TOP 100 COMMENTER 06/11/2013 02:45 | #78571
Most likely Billy Joel's strongest album.
Leonard 01/28/2017 14:19 | #184433
This album can not convince me...
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