Product Description: The enhanced portion contains 2 videos on disc 1: You're only human, and The night is still young. No Track Information Available Media Type: CD Artist: JOEL,BILLY Title: VOL. 1-2-GREATEST HITS Street Release Date: 10/20/1998 Domestic Genre: ROCK/POP
Amazon.com essential recording: It's one of the cruel ironies of music today that Billy Joel has been relegated to a kind of adult-contemporary hell, where his legacy is measured by soft-rock staples such as "Just the Way You Are," "Piano Man," and "New York State of Mind." To be sure, well-crafted ballads are a part of his legacy, but they're hardly the whole story, as this collection of his early and mid-period hits amply demonstrates. From the unbridled biographical boasting of "The Entertainer" and the ambitious storytelling of "Scenes from an Italian Restaurant" to the careening abandon of "Only the Good Die Young" and the thoughtful social commentary of "Allentown," Joel was as complete an artist as the last three decades have produced. --Daniel Durchholz
Binding: Audio CD Brand: JOEL,BILLY EAN: 0074646939123 Format: Enhanced, Original recording reissued, Original recording remastered Item Dimensions:27 Label: Sony Manufacturer: Sony MPN: 69391 Number Of Discs: 2 Publisher: Sony Release Date: October 20, 1998 Studio: Sony
Customer Reviews
Oldie but goodie
I bought this CD of Billy Joel's after attending one of the Face2Face concerts he gave with Elton John. Talk about a concert!! Anyway, I'd had the old cassette tape of Billy's album years ago, and loved the selection of songs. So I bought this CD in order to be able to hear it somewhere besides our 1997 car with the tape player.... He sounds so young on it (which he was), and several of the songs have become real classics. Buy it if you want a blast from the past.