Billy Joel – An Innocent Man (2013)
Жанр: Rock
Носитель: SACD
Год издания: 1983/2013
Издатель: Mobile Fidelity
Номер по каталогу: UDSACD 2094
Аудиокодек: DSD64 2.0
Тип рипа: image (iso)
Продолжительность: 00:40:39
Наличие сканов в содержимом раздачи: да
Образ снят с помощью: Sony PlayStation 3 и утилиты sacd-ripper version 0.21
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Треклист:
01.Easy Money 04:05
02.An Innocent Man 05:18
03.The Longest Time 03:43
04.This Night 04:19
05.Tell Her About It 03:57
06.Uptown Girl 03:18
07.Careless Talk 03:49
08.Christie Lee 03:31
09.Leave A Tender Moment Alone 03:57
10.Keeping The Faith 04:43
An Innocent Man
An Innocent Man is the ninth album by American singer/songwriter Billy Joel, released in 1983. This album is Joel’s tribute to the music of his childhood. He considers this a “singer’s album,” and pays homage to a number of different musical styles, most notably doo-wop, a style made popular in the mid-1950s and emulated in the songs “The Longest Time,” “This Night,” and “Careless Talk.”
The album featured three Billboard Top 10 hit singles: “Tell Her About It”, which reached #1, “Uptown Girl”, which peaked at #3 and “An Innocent Man”, which peaked at #10. Four other singles were released from the album: “The Longest Time” (number 14), “Leave a Tender Moment Alone” (number 27), “Keeping the Faith” (number 18) and “This Night” (US B-Side of “Leave a Tender Moment Alone”). “Tell Her About It” and “Uptown Girl” garnered international success — “Uptown Girl” reached #1 in the UK, Australia and New Zealand. In most countries, commercial reaction to An Innocent Man was not impressive upon its release, but success of the first two singles stimulated album sales gradually. It entered the U.S. Pop chart for 111 weeks, becoming his longest charting studio album behind The Stranger. For over a year, the album had remained on the charts in the UK, Japan, and Oceanian countries.
Like his three previous efforts, An Innocent Man received a nomination for the 26th Grammy Award for Album of the Year — although it lost to Michael Jackson’s Thriller.
All Music Review
Recording The Nylon Curtain exhausted Billy Joel, and even though it had a pair of major hits, it didn’t rival its predecessors in terms of sales. Since he labored so hard at the record, he decided it was time for a break — it was time to record an album just for fun. And that’s how his homage to pre-Beatles pop, An Innocent Man, was conceived: it was designed as a breezy romp through the music of his childhood. Joel’s grasp on history isn’t remarkably astute — the opener “Easy Money” is a slice of Stax/Volt pop-soul, via the Blues Brothers (quite possibly the inspiration for the album), and the label didn’t break the pop charts until well after the British Invasion — but he’s in top form as a craftsman throughout the record. Only once does he stumble on his own ambition (“This Night,” which appropriates its chorus from Beethoven). For the rest of the record, he’s effortlessly spinning out infectious, memorable melodies in a variety of styles, from the Four Seasons send-up “Uptown Girl” and the soulful “Tell Her About It” to a pair of doo wop tributes, “The Longest Time” and “Careless Talk.” Joel has rarely sounded so carefree either in performance or writing, possibly due to “Christie Lee” Brinkley, a supermodel who became his new love prior to An Innocent Man. He can’t stop writing about her throughout the album — only three songs, including the haunted title track, aren’t about her in some form or fashion. That giddiness is infectious, helping make An Innocent Man an innocent delight that unwittingly closes Joel’s classic period.
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