Joel's Often Overlooked Masterpiece

Advantages: Great Album That Shows Off Some Of His Best Lyrics And Songs
Disadvantages: Perhaps Too Short, But Really Not Much of A Complaint

...Turnstiles is Joel's fourth studio effort and finds him at his peak in terms of song writing, just before the release of his landmark The Stranger. But as with most of his work, this is not the same in terms of feel as his next album, with Joel taking more of a hands-on approach for this album, choosing his own instrumentalists and producing it himself, thus giving him freedom in the studio for his own vision. After life in LA, Joel was becoming restless with the music scene, as seen in some of the songs on the album, notably Say Goodbye to Hollywood, and he decided to up sticks to New York. He originally recorded this with some of Elton John's entourage, but was dissatisfied with the results and thus came to the decision that this was an album best done by himself. The song writing itself feels a bit more expansive than some of his...

Robin_Hod12 09.03.2009 · Read review
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Timeless Album by Billy Joel

Advantages: Great songs
Disadvantages: None

...Last night I was cleaning my CD rack and I tried to rearrange my CD's. I noticed this 52nd Street album of Billy Joel. I realized that I haven't played it for such a long time. As this album is one of my favorites, I played it and I was again mesmerized by most of the songs. Tracks Listing 1. Big Shot 4:05 2. Honesty 3:53 3. My Life 4:44 4. Zanzibar 5:10 5. Stiletto 4;44 6. Rosalinda's Eyes 4:40 7. Half A Mile 4:09 8. Until The Night 6:36 9. 52nd Street 2:26 About Each Track Big Shot Because you had to be a big shot, didn't you? You had to open up your mouth You had to be a big shot, didn't you? This track has a Billy Joel trademark with overpowering exhibition of guitars. I always love it when he sings the line 'big shot' with great enthusiasm. This song never bores me. Billy sings this song with full energy...

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Lost Histories by Joel Levy

Advantages: Few and far between
Disadvantages: Buyer beware!

...When I ordered this book I thought: "Great! This is really going to be fun! A book called 'Lost Histories'! The full title intrigued me even more. 'Exploring the World's Most Famous Mysteries'. Sadly, this book by Joel Levy (published by Vision Paperbacks at £10.99) really did disappoint me. The book is divided into five blocks. Not actually chapters, but rather blocks. These are: Lost Places, Lost Artefacts Lost Treasure, Lost People and lost Wrecks. This is where the book starts to fall down. Each story is divided up into sections with irritating horizontal black lines. The problem is that Levy and his designers use the same horizontal black lines to divide each individual story, so there is room for confusion. It is easy -and very irritating- to find that you had accidentally strayed into an entirely different story...

Martinscholes 17.07.2006 · Read review
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Disadvantages: see review

...I like movies and I like freebies, so when you get offered both in one swoop you?re bound to accept! I used my two week free trial with this company and remained with them for a couple of monthsbefore moving on to try many other companies free trials (and winning a new DVD player on Tesco DVD rental site on their free trial offer). I then had an email from DVDs 365 asking me to go back, and offering me a free DVD if I did so. I had just left Tesco (with my new DVD player) so I chose to go back with them. ∆◊◊ THE SERVICE THEY OFFER ∆◊◊ Basically it?s like going to a video shop and hiring films on DVD, except you don?t pay for each film you chose ? rather a monthly fee for which you can watch as many movies as you can fit in, for us this is usually around 8 a month (2 a week usually weekends...

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Surprising Picture Quality - Panasonic DVD-S54

Advantages: Incredible picture quality when compared to my old non-upscaling player with a scart lead
Disadvantages: Sometimes disc drive can be really noisy when DVD's initially load.

...At first I wasn't convinced by up-scaling DVD player technology but was persuaded after reading an article in "What Hi-Fi? Sound and Vision" magazine. Unable to afford a Blu-Ray player my sister and I bought the Panasonic DVD-S54 to match our parents brand new Panasonic TX-32LZD80 LCD television as their Christmas 2008 present. Admittedly it was a slightly selfish purchase as we both live at home and wanted to watch DVDs on the big new TV ourselves! We bought the player from the electrical retailer Comet for about £100 just before Christmas so there were no discounts applied. On Christmas day when opened we found a relatively small box tightly packed with the player in polystyrene packaging. All the components such as cables, remote and manuals were well presented in their own protective plastic bags, to keep them protected. The player...

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Innocent Joel

Advantages: A classic
Disadvantages: a few slightly weaker tracks

...In my opinion this is Billy Joel's best album. 'An Innocent Man' is Billy Joel's tribute to a genre of music that he constantly speaks of with affection; the doo-wop and soul music of his youth in New York City. It has a big 50's feel to it with fresh sounds. The album starts off with 'Easy Money', a nice rock track which was also the title song to the 1983 movie starring Rodney Dangerfield. 'An Innocent Man' and 'The Longest Time' are 'old skool' R&B. 'This Night' is a ballad that is beautifully constructed. 'Tell Her About It' and 'Uptown Girl' were both hits that are played at clubs throughout the land and are great party tracks. 'Careless Talk' is funky and upbeat. "Christie Lee" is a piano/saxophone/drums combo which has great lyrics but is still possibly the weakest track on the album. 'Leave a Tender...

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Review of Innocent Man, An [Remastered] - Billy Joel

Robbo 2000: "It's cool to like Billy Joel"

Advantages: Very good songs
Disadvantages: Not as strangely attractive as Supernanny

...If you read the music press these days, you would be forgiven for believing that tofu-eating popsters Coldplay invented the piano. They did not: the piano has been around since olden times, and was actually invented by Jesus, probably. Or someone called John Piano. But I digress - the piano was a common tool of the trade for many of the wealth of singer-songwriters who cropped up in the seventies, of which Billy Joel was one. Famous mainly for 1983's wedding disco favourite Uptown Girl, Billy finds himself in the unfortunate position of being thought a bit crap by a good many people. But those people are just silly, and I'm going to tell you why. A BIT ABOUT BILLY The son of classically trained musicians, Billy had piano lessons forced upon him from the age of 4. He may not have liked this at the time, but when he grew up to be...

robbo2000 12.03.2006 · Read review
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Review of Stranger, The [ECD] [Remastered] - Billy Joel

The Piano Man Goes Down A Storm

Advantages: Really well written and produced. The best of his later albums
Disadvantages: One or two tracks not to my liking.

...INTRODUCTION I spent my teenage years in New York, growing up on Long Island, and there are certain sights, sounds and smells I will always associate with my time there ? things like going for a slice of Sicilian at Vinny?s Pizzeria with friends after school, the intoxicating smell of new books and comics at Creation Science Fiction on Northern Boulevard, and listening to the strains of New York native Billy Joel?s ?Scenes From an Italian Restaurant? on the coin-operated booth-top jukebox at the Scobee Diner, while making a rich, thick banana milkshake last all afternoon. Billy Joel seemed to be part of the fabric of Long Island living, one of few singer songwriters to be so indelibly connected to his home state. His talent for telling a good story in his songs (the semi-autobiographical ?Piano Man?, ?Goodnight Saigon...

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Review of Storm Front - Billy Joel

YAMAHA DVD-S 557 this is THE DVD player of all time.

Advantages: Brilliant DVD player, perfect quality
Disadvantages: cant think of any

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And I Present To You, The Piano Man!

Advantages: Some Nice Tracks That Show The Beginnings Of A Great Artist
Disadvantages: Not Quite A Classic

...Piano Man is the first album Joel released after his time in piano bars and playing in clubs, which lends itself to the title. This period occurred after the poor showing of his first album, Cold Spring Harbour, an album that was originally released at the wrong speed, thus giving his voice a rather squeaky quality. But even though you will find a few gems on his debut, this can in reality be considered his unofficial debut album, where he begins to come into his own and provides quite a few good tracks. This was his first album to be released on Columbia records after his struggles with his previous contract with Family Records, one of the factors driving him to go into hiding in piano bars. The album consists of a lot of material which could in truth be considered influenced by the Wild West, with a few tracks lending either there...

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