Vienna (track) by Billy Joel

Vienna by Billy Joel
Year: 1977
From the album The Stranger (track #5)
Average Rating: 
88/100 (from 234 votes)
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Billy Joel - Leningrad/ Goodnight Saigon/ Vienna 7'' Vinyl EP UK
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Billy Joel - Leningrad/ Goodnight Saigon/ Vienna 7'' Vinyl EP UK
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Billy Joel CD The Stranger 1998 Columbia CK 69384 She's Always a Woman Vienna
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Average Rating: 
88/100 (from 234 votes)
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This track is rated in the top 1% of all tracks on BestEverAlbums.com. This track has a Bayesian average rating of 88.3/100, a mean average of 87.5/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 88.8/100. The standard deviation for this track is 13.1.

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From 09/30/2022 06:29
One of the greatest songs of all time. Such beautiful piano playing and perfect lyrics about tumultuous youth. I will never tire of this one.
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From 03/29/2022 17:42
Lovely song - both lyrics and music. Provides me calmness in these times of hurry.
Baffled that he speaks about slowing down and taking out your phone for a day or two in 1977!
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From 06/06/2018 01:33
Simply one of the greatest songs ever written
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From 01/25/2016 10:20
Beautiful, comforting song.
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From 11/13/2014 00:24
blasphemy that this song has no comments.

soundtrack to any tumultuous, young life. it was for mine for at least a few months.
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