Track Listing

Disc 1:

1. Piano Man
2. You're My Home
3. Captain Jack
4. Entertainer
5. Say Goodbye to Hollywood
6. Miami 2017 (Seen the Lights Go Out on Broadway)
7. New York State of Mind
8. She's Always a Woman
9. Movin' Out (Anthony's Song)
10. Only the Good Die Young
11. Just the Way You Are
12. Honesty
13. My Life
14. It's Still Rock & Roll to Me
15. You May Be Right
16. Don't Ask Me Why
17. She's Got a Way
18. Allentown

Disc 2:

1. Goodnight Saigon
2. Innocent Man
3. Uptown Girl
4. Longest Time
5. Tell Her About It
6. Leave a Tender Moment Alone
7. Matter of Trust
8. Baby Grand - Ray Charles, Billy Joel
9. I Go to Extremes
10. We Didn't Start the Fire
11. Leningrad
12. Downeaster "Alexa"
13. And So It Goes
14. River of Dreams
15. All About Soul [Remix]
16. Lullabye (Goodnight, My Angel)
17. Waltz #1 (Nunley's Carousel) - Richard Joo
18. Invention in C Minor - Richard Joo

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #38171 in Music
• Released on: 2001-10-02
• Number of discs: 2
• Formats: Import, Original recording remastered

Amazon.co.uk Review
Early in his career, Billy Joel seemed cynical about fame, even as that distrust bore strange fruit: mainstream superstardom (thanks to "Just the Way You Are", "Honesty" and "My Life") and multiple Grammy awards, as well as the critic's-whipping-boy status that went with them. Maybe it was that restlessness--or undiluted cynicism--that inspired left turns into roots and nostalgia (the spunky "It's Still Rock & Roll to Me", "You May Be Right", "Uptown Girl" and "The Longest Time") as his career peaked. Perhaps not surprisingly, not long after Joel's writing seemed to find its most satisfying balance of angst and mature reflection on songs such as "Storm Front" and "River of Dreams", he threatened to bolt the pop music business altogether. The 2001 recordings of "Waltz No. 1" and "Invention in C Minor" that round out this set are the unlikely products of Joel's commitment to classical music. Billy Joel remains both a true, if oft-lambasted, American pop icon and that rarest of animals, a bonafide crowd-pleaser with a serious case of 'tude. Both are well chronicled here. --Jerry McCulley

Customer Reviews

Masterpiece collection...
This is a masterpiece collection... and I do like the mixture of talent in lyrics and musical composition. Covers most of his best, popular hit songs, but sadly missing one of what could be considered as part of his essential past ---"Pressure", a synthesizer-driven song from 1982, about the difficulties of dealing with the stress of daily living. I haven't heard this song in years and this would have topped off this set.
There are some real timepieces here. I didn't think i'd ever forget the lyrics to a few of these classics. A very underrated artist! A must-have, if you only know a couple of more recent songs, the ones from his earlier days are amongst his greatest and worth a listen or two!

The Billy Joel State of Mind
From his session work on a Shangri Las single and a first album issued at the wrong speed Billy Joel has come a long way from the days he was touted as the New Bob Dylan.
In the days of disco and punk this music came as a breath of fresh air,music which reached back into the 60s and included the greatest single the 4 Seasons never made.
Just the way you are-the first hit in the U K in 1978-became an instant standard.
As a writer Joel is as good as Cole Porter,George Gershwin or Rodgers & Hart.
He now needs to make a covers album especially one of Beatles songs

Absolutely COOL
Billy Joel's Piano Man, New York State of Mind, She's Always A Woman,.....etc... You'll absolutely gonna LOVE all the songs in this 2 CDs pack... go for it :)