Cold Spring Harbor
by Billy Joel
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Billy Joel bestography
Cold Spring Harbor is ranked 10th 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 6,666.
(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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Cold Spring Harbor track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 78 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
Cold Spring Harbor rankings
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Cold Spring Harbor ratings
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 07/13/2026 16:42 | ChrisM75633 | 22 | 98/100 |
| ! | 07/06/2026 18:03 |  AAL2014 | 4,190 | 75/100 |
| ! | 05/26/2026 09:36 | marcoserra1966 | 870 | 59/100 |
| ! | 05/06/2026 19:10 | Jakor | 5,518 | 70/100 |
| ! | 02/26/2026 23:26 | daCritic | 4,600 | 73/100 |
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This album has a Bayesian average rating of 69.9/100, a mean average of 68.7/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 69.7/100. The standard deviation for this album is 15.1.
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Jboy56 04/08/2023 13:01 | #295869 | TOP COMMENT
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The beginning of a fine career, solid and solemn songwriting and singing
Eh, it's his first and not his finest. Has it's moments of being quite lovely but overall can be safely overlooked.
Brandon8 03/01/2017 04:30 | #186572 | TOP COMMENT
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She's Got A Way, Everybody Loves You Now and Why Judy Why are really good the rest of the album is at least decent. Billy proved from the beginning he can write great songs.
Best Track: Everybody Loves You Now
Few albums move me as deeply as this one.
His voice on this album is so pure, and so is the album.
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