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Billy Joel, The Stranger
Audio CD
Disk ID: 1184708
Disk length: 42m 38s (9 Tracks)
Original Release Date: 1977
Label: Unknown
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1. Movin' Out (Anthony's Song) | 3:30 |
2. The Stranger | 5:10 |
3. Just the Way You Are | 4:50 |
4. Scenes from an Italian Restaurant | 7:37 |
5. Vienna | 3:34 |
6. Only the Good Die Young | 3:55 |
7. She's Always a Woman | 3:21 |
8. Get It Right the First Time | 3:57 |
9. Everybody Has a Dream | 6:37 |
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Review
This, pop superstar Joel's breakout LP, came years after he first hit the charts with the novelty-ish "Piano Man." In the meantime, the New York-based songwriter released two lackluster and stylistically confused platters that blunted interesting songs with a sound that was neither Elton mellow nor Elton attitude. Produced by Phil Ramone, The Stranger took those who had written Joel off as a one-hit wonder by surprise ("Just the Way You Are" was among the biggest hits of 1977) and it remains a solid introduction to Joel's restless muse at a crucial point in his career. It invited a few comparisons to Bruce Springsteen, with its prominent sax breaks, hard-edged rebel-rockers ("Only the Good Die Young"), and slice-of-life dramatics ("Scenes From an Italian Restaurant"), recounting life in a lower middle-class (Eastern Urban) setting; but Joel's chameleonic, formalist approach to pop wasn't to be so easily pigeonholed (Glass Houses, The Nylon Curtain, An Innocent Man...). --Don Harrison
Albums are mined from the various public resources and can be actually the same but different in the tracks length only. We are keeping all versions now.
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Tracks: 9, Disk length: 42m 36s (-1m 58s)
Tracks: 9, Disk length: 42m 36s (-1m 58s)
Tracks: 9, Disk length: 42m 36s (-1m 58s)
Tracks: 9, Disk length: 42m 36s (-1m 58s)
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Tracks: 10 (+1 tracks), Disk length: 42m 34s (-1m 56s)
Tracks: 9, Disk length: 42m 34s (-1m 56s)
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Tracks: 10 (+1 tracks), Disk length: 1h 9m 57s (+27m 19s)
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