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The Essential Billy Joel

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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 songs seemed to find their most satisfying balance of angst and mature reflection on songs like "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.

Essential Billy Joel CD DISC 1:

1. Piano Man
2. You're My Home
3. Captain Jack
4. Entertainer, The
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 and Roll to Me
15. You May Be Right
16. Don't Ask Me Why
17. She's Got a Way
18. Allentown

Essential Billy Joel Songs DISC 2:

1. Goodnight Saigon
2. Innocent Man, An
3. Uptown Girl
4. Longest Time, The
5. Tell Her About It
6. Leave a Tender Moment Alone
7. Matter of Trust, A
8. Baby Grand - (with Ray Charles)
9. I Go to Extremes
10. We Didn't Start the Fire
11. Leningrad
12. Downeaster "Alexa", The
13. And So It Goes
14. River of Dreams, The
15. All About Soul - (remix)
16. Lullabye (Goodnight, My Angel)
17. Waltz No. 1 (Nunley's Carousel)
18. Invention in C Minor

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