TopTenREVIEWS presents the music career and reviews of Billy Joel
Billy Joel
CAREER SPAN:
Decade
Album Score
# Albums
Ratings and rankings are based on all available critic reviews for each album.
Overall Band Score:
3.2042
Billy Joel Album Rankings
1
While Billy Joel searches his new creative impulse in the genre of classical music, the rest of us do not have to suffer.
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2
Sometimes an artist's most mature work is the one which doesn't get the most attention.
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3
For the longest time (no pun intended),An Innocent Manwas one of those Billy Joel albums that eluded purchase from me.
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4
So there I am, sitting with my eight-year-old cousin watching that Jennifer Garner movie13 Going on 30.
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5
Just as veteran rock & roller Bob Seger once attempted (successfully) to add a crisp new edge and some fiery freshness to a chunk of his time-honored repertoire with 1976'sLive Bullet, so Billy Joel h
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6
Recalling the Tokens and sweet doo-wop, the title track of Billy Joel's 15th release is his most delectable single yet.
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7
There's a reasonTurnstilesbegins with theSpector-esqueepic "Say Goodbye to Hollywood.
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8
Billy Joel isn't my favorite artist, but I certainly enjoy his work. He's fun, has a brilliant touch with songwriting, and knows how to add just the right touch of irony to his lyrics.
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9
OnceThe Strangerbecame a hit, Billy Joel quickly re-entered the studio with producerPhil Ramoneto record the follow-up,52nd Street.
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10
Embittered by legal disputes with his label and an endless tour to support a debut that was dead in the water, Billy Joel hunkered down in his adopted hometown of Los Angeles, spending six months as a
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11
We last left intrepid hero Billy Joel in December 2005 with the release ofhis career-encompassing box setMy Lives.
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12
This isn't the first time Ol' Doe Eyes has released a career-spanning set, so why bother? Well, it goes back, way back, to Billy Joel's pre-solo days.
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13
A few short months after abandoning the heavy organ-and-drums duoAttila-- partially because their sole record flopped, partially because he stole the drummer's wife -- Billy Joel reinvented himself as
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14
He came - literally - from Hicksville (Long Island), and became one of the biggest stars in the pop music firmament.
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16
Schlockmeister that he might be, Joel put together the album of his life with 1977's The Stranger .
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21
It was pretty clear that Billy Joel had run out of steam by 1993's River of Dreams.
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23
PopMatters Comics Critic In his 1989 hit single, "We Didn't Start the Fire," Billy Joel attempted to catalogue a half-century of people and events in under four minutes of music.
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31
Billy Joel's pop schmaltz occupies a stylistic no man's land where musical and lyric truisms borrowed from disparate sources are forced together.
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42
Since Joel's concerts largely reproduce his studio recordings, and since he already has a greatest hits album out, a live record is inessential.
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