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...

browndoll 03.09.2009 · Read review
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Review of 52nd Street [ECD] [Remastered] - Billy Joel

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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Review of Turnstiles - Billy Joel

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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Review of Lost Histories - Joel Levy

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...

nigelpm 24.06.2001 · Read review
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Review of Innocent Man, An [Remastered] - Billy Joel

Silver Tower

Advantages: Definitely action-packed! (+) a good, shorter read (+) enjoyable (+) not typical characters
Disadvantages: takes a little while to get going (-) slightly dated (-) limited space/science knowledge in parts

...the technological details he uses throughout. The majority - if not all - of Brown's work is set in near future periods. His novels have gained him several awards, probably the most notable being New York Times Bestseller! He studied Western European History at Penn State University and had a commission in the US Air Force in 1978. He was awarded many times during his time in the armed forces. This is probably related to his famous hobby and love of space and science! He currently lives in Lake Tahoe, Nevada with his wife and son and even owns a private jet! BASIC DETAILS ABOUT THE BOOK I only own the paperback version of Silver Tower; it is 400 pages in length which, in my opinion, is a sufficient amount for something you just want to pick up and read as a very short-term 'project', so to speak. It didn't take me long to complete...

vcarina88x 18.02.2009 · Read review
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Review of Silver Tower - Dale Brown

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

Silver side up, Nickelback side down

Advantages: Great riffs, vocals
Disadvantages: Not followed up well

...**Introduction** I'm sure all of you have at least one cd in your collection from an artist you really only like that album from them. One such band that I feel this way about Is Nickelback. Although I do like some of their other stuff there is not enough consistency on any of their other albums for me to buy any other Nickelback albums. Nickelback Chad Kroeger - vocals, rhythm guitar, production Ryan Peake -lead guitar, backing vocals, production Mike Kroeger - bass, production Ryan Vikadel - drums, production **Silver Side Up. They released their third studio album Silver Side Up on that fateful day 11th September 2001. This album is wrongly given as their debut because of the success of the album compared to their previous two albums which performed badly. Chad Kroeger wrote the lyrics and the whole band wrote the music...

jcneil 08.07.2009 · Read review
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Review of Silver Side Up - Nickelback

silver cross pop!

Advantages: folds easily, comfortable
Disadvantages: brake is not the best, rain cover also not too great

...When I first had my baby I bought a huge travel system which came with the car seat, a pram and a pushchair. The wheels were huge and so it was always awkward getting through small spaces on pavements and negotiating shops. They were also really heavy so I decided it was time to start looking for a pushchair, or a stroller as they seem to be called now thanks to the American influence. I had always been told that Silver Cross is a name that you can trust and that it is reliable and the best on the market. My parents recalled a time when you were 'someone' if you had Silver Cross, however the market is much more competitive now with the likes of Maclaren and Mamas and Papas having some really decent push chairs too. I didn't really know where to start looking, all I knew was that I wanted something that was simple to use, much...

lorriellah 24.07.2009 · Read review
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Review of Silver Cross Pop Single Pushchair

Solid Silver

Advantages: sturdy, comfy for baby, lovely to push
Disadvantages: slightly heavier than others

...Silver Cross Classic Sleepover Pram/Travel System When I found out I was pregnant, my husband and I were over the moon and wanted to buy everything possible for our new arrival! It's so easy to pick out cute little outfits etc but the first time we went looking for Prams we were both at a complete loss - The choice is unreal. Do you choose a travel system? A carry cot? A standard Pram? A lie-flat push chair? Do you want it to face backwards? Forward? both??? Crikey! Most Prams we looked at however just didn't do it for us. We knew that we would like a proper pram, that faced us, but we also knew that in time our little one would want to be in a pushchair facing outwards and looking out on the world. When we first saw an advert for The Silver Cross Sleepover in "Pregnancy and Birth" Magazine, we set about finding out what we...

lebel 24.05.2006 · Read review
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Review of Silver Cross Buugy

Shiny Shiny Silver!

Advantages: Engrossing, great scenery
Disadvantages: Quite linear, and mad (RSI) combat system, can't cope on XP

...THE PLOT:- The game begins in the docklands of Haven in the mystical world of Jarrah where Fuge, the son of the evil ruler Silver, is overseeing his father's wicked plot to round up all of Jarrah's women to select a new wife for himself, or so we are lead to believe? The player takes on the role of David, whose wife Jennifer is seized during the capture of the Jarrah's females. Aided by his Grandfather, our hero heads off to rescue his wife and unravel the evil plan of Silver and his henchmen. Silver also seeks to find 8 mystical orbs scattered throughout Jarrah? But for what? Answers must be sought? Silver is aided in his evilness by his son Fuge, Daughter Glass, and various other henchmen and even more 'draconic' helpers. You'll have to battle them all to rescue Jennifer (whose role in the game is a cameo at best). Some may say...

skipperdave 11.06.2006 · Read review
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Review of Silver (PC)