Billy Joel – The Stranger (1977/2012)
Жанр: Rock
Носитель: SACD
Год издания: 1977/2012
Издатель: Mobile Fidelity
Номер по каталогу: UDSACD 2089
Аудиокодек: DSD64 2.0
Тип рипа: image (iso)
Продолжительность: 00:42:35
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.Movin’ Out (Anthony’s Song) 03:30
02.The Stranger 05:10
03.Just The Way You Are 04:51
04.Scenes From An Italian Restaurant 07:40
05.Vienna 03:34
06.Only The Good Die Young 03:56
07.She’s Always A Woman 03:21
08.Get It Right The First Time 03:57
09.Everybody Has A Dream 06:37
The Stranger
The Stranger is the fifth studio album by musician Billy Joel, released in 1977.
While his four previous albums had been moderate chart successes, this was his breakthrough album, and is generally regarded by critics as his magnum opus, spending six weeks at #2 in the U.S. album charts. It remains Joel’s best-selling non-compilation album to date and was ranked number 67 on Rolling Stone magazine’s list of the 500 greatest albums of all time.
All Music Review
Billy Joel teamed with Phil Ramone, a famed engineer who had just scored his first producing hits with Art Garfunkel’s Breakaway and Paul Simon’s Still Crazy After All These Years for The Stranger, his follow-up to Turnstiles. Joel still favored big, sweeping melodies, but Ramone convinced him to streamline his arrangements and clean up the production. The results aren’t necessarily revelatory, since he covered so much ground on Turnstiles, but the commercialism of The Stranger is a bit of a surprise. None of his ballads have been as sweet or slick as “Just the Way You Are”; he never had created a rocker as bouncy or infectious as “Only the Good Die Young”; and the glossy production of “She’s Always a Woman” disguises its latent misogynist streak. Joel balanced such radio-ready material with a series of New York vignettes, seemingly inspired by Springsteen’s working-class fables and clearly intended to be the artistic centerpieces of the album. They do provide The Stranger with the feel of a concept album, yet there is no true thematic connection between the pieces, and his lyrics are often vague or mean-spirited. His lyrical shortcomings are overshadowed by his musical strengths. Even if his melodies sound more Broadway than Beatles — the epic suite “Scenes From an Italian Restaurant” feels like a show-stopping closer — there’s no denying that the melodies of each song on The Stranger are memorable, so much so that they strengthen the weaker portions of the album. Joel rarely wrote a set of songs better than those on The Stranger, nor did he often deliver an album as consistently listenable.
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