Piano Man (track)
by Billy Joel
Piano Man appears on the following album(s) by Billy Joel:
- Piano Man (track #2) (this album) (1973)
- Greatest Hits - Volume I & Volume II (track #1) (compilation) (1985)
- The Essential Billy Joel (track #1) (compilation) (2001)
- 12 Gardens Live (track #30) (2006)
- Piano Man: The Very Best Of Billy Joel (track #3) (compilation) (2004)
- The Hits (track #2) (compilation) (2010)
- Live At Shea Stadium: The Concert (track #25) (2011)
- The Ultimate Collection (track #5) (compilation) (2000)
- A Matter Of Trust - The Bridge To Russia (track #27) (2014)
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Track ratings | Avg. track rating |
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| ! | 07/11/2026 15:03 | Siromynian | 18,971 | 71/100 |
| ! | 05/13/2026 14:01 | Leginlists | 615 | 84/100 |
| ! | 05/03/2026 22:26 | mash | 4,606 | 92/100 |
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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 90.7/100, a mean average of 90.7/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 91.3/100. The standard deviation for this track is 11.3.
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The microphone sounds like a beer is my favourite Billy Joel lyric.
TheDude85 10/01/2021 16:07 | #274536
An all-time sing-a-long favorite, best sung with a 1/4 full beer stein in hand
Absolutely legendary, if he had released only this one song, it would be enough.
Billy Joel's brilliant autobiographical masterpiece. A superb song, probably Joel's greatest ever composition and an out and out classic of the seventies. Amazing track. (Edited)
paladisiac 02/08/2013 14:23 | #64479
This is one great, close-the-bar-down romp of a song, a big favorite of college house parties back in the day. Play it again, Billy.
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