Piano Man (studio album)
by Billy Joel
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Billy Joel bestography
Piano Man is ranked 6th 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 6,854.
(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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Piano Man track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 79 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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| ! | 12/09/2025 01:42 | Exist-en-ciel | 3,950 | 70/100 |
| ! | 11/02/2025 23:59 |  Larcx13 | 2,850 | 74/100 |
| ! | 07/19/2025 14:56 | machiaj | 780 | 71/100 |
| ! | 07/17/2025 19:22 |  DommeDamian | 7,294 | 49/100 |
| ! | 05/18/2025 05:35 | matterhornrider | 4,777 | 81/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 14% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 74.3/100, a mean average of 73.3/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 74.4/100. The standard deviation for this album is 14.8.
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An excellent album. No fillers here. Worth listening to multiple times. Tracks 2, 3, 5, and 10 are my personal favorites. 9.5/10!
Jboy56 05/16/2023 14:17 | #297016
Great songs, but it also has some misfires.
Mi disco favorito de Billy Joel (y tiene unos cuantos excelentes). Piano Man me parece una canción memorable.
It might initially appear that one song carries the whole album, but actually there is more to this than meets the eye (ear in this case).
Brandon8 02/28/2017 05:53 | #186513
Very strong album with a good opener Travelin Prayer followed up the classic Piano Man. You're My Home and Billy the Kid are lesser classics and finishes with the rocker Captain Jack. The other songs are pretty good too. One of his best.
An excellent Billy joel album. Any record that has a song as good as the title track on it, is going to well worth listening to. Piano man, is probably Joel's most celebrated song, and it's easy to see why, inspired by his nights as a barroom singer, it's fantastic. Other great tracks are, the wonderful, ain't no crime, the lovely, you're my home, and the penultimate track, somewhere along the line. The ballad of Billy the kid, is one of Joel's most enjoyable tracks, but the best song, after the title track, is the glorious, captain Jack. A superb song. Piano man, is not Billy Joel's best album, but it's certainly in his top five. Very good.
Yeah, what Bork said.
Bork 04/14/2010 02:07 | #10568
Strong piano soft rock, although not as consistent as its follow-up. Piano Man is a classic and other tracks worth mentioning include Travelin' Prayer and Captain Jack. Unfortunately the mid-section does not quite hold up.
Freddie55 12/23/2009 03:24 | #7817
An unfortunate case of death by radio play. This album was a real stunner when it was first released. Used to listen to it on FM radio but couldn't buy it because of drug references.
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