The Stranger [Vinyl LP]

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Deluxe Box Set Library Includes First Vinyl Release of Fantasies & Delusions (2LP) and First-Ever Audio Release of Billy Joel – Live from Long Island (3LP), the Artist’s Homecoming Concert at Nassau Coliseum (December 29, 1982) Staunton, Terry (September 2008). " The Stranger: 30th Anniversary Edition | Billy Joel". Record Collector. No.353 . Retrieved January 9, 2016. The album closer, "Everybody Has A Dream", is notable for having been written around the time of Cold Spring Harbor but not released on that album. The original demo has not seen an official release and has only been available on bootlegs. Yamachan Land (Archives of the Japanese record charts) - Albums Chart Daijiten - Billy Joel" (in Japanese). Archived from the original on September 8, 2013 . Retrieved September 8, 2013.

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More Awards" (PDF). Cash Box. July 18, 1981. p.35 . Retrieved December 4, 2021– via World Radio History. Tohoshinki Set the Record For The First Time in 31 Years: Reaching the Top-3 on Both of the Singles and Albums Chart Since Billy Joel] (in Japanese) . Retrieved September 8, 2013. Spending six weeks at No.2 on the US Billboard 200, The Stranger is considered Joel's critical and commercial breakthrough. Four singles were released in the US, all of which became Top 40 hits on the Billboard Hot 100 charts: " Just the Way You Are" (No.3), " Movin' Out (Anthony's Song)", " She's Always a Woman" (both No.17), and " Only the Good Die Young" (No.24). Other songs, such as " Scenes from an Italian Restaurant" and " Vienna", have become staples of his career and are frequently performed in his live shows. The album won two awards at the 1978 Grammy Awards: Record of the Year and Song of the Year for "Just the Way You Are". It remains his best-selling non-compilation album to date, and surpassed Simon & Garfunkel's Bridge over Troubled Water to become Columbia's best-selling album release, with more than 10 million units sold worldwide. Rolling Stone later named it one of the 500 greatest albums of all time. a b Gamboa, Glenn (August 1, 2015). "Billy Joel talks 'Scenes from an Italian Restaurant': I couldn't do a show without it". Newsday . Retrieved September 28, 2018.

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In July 2008, a special "30th Anniversary Edition" of The Stranger was released. It contains two special editions: a two-CD Legacy Edition, and a Deluxe Limited Edition (which includes two CDs and a bonus DVD). The limited deluxe edition of The Stranger includes a CD of the original album in its entirety (remastered by producer Phil Ramone), and a second CD of a previously unreleased concert featuring Billy and his band, Live at Carnegie Hall 1977, recorded at the historic Manhattan venue on June 3, 1977, one month before the sessions for The Stranger album. The Deluxe Limited Edition included a DVD showcasing two live promotional videos from The Stranger; and Joel's performance on the BBC's Old Grey Whistle Test, a seldom-seen 60-minute set from 1978 that has aired only once on the UK's BBC2. Also included in this box set is a facsimile poster from the 1977 Carnegie Hall concert, and a facsimile notebook that contains copies of rough draft lyrics for many of the songs that appeared on The Stranger. charts.nz - Billy Joel - The Stranger". charts.nz. Recording Industry Association of New Zea Land . Retrieved September 8, 2013. The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time". Rolling Stone. September 22, 2020 . Retrieved October 16, 2020. a b c billyjoelVEVO (November 14, 2011). "Billy Joel – Billy Joel on The Stranger – from The Complete Albums Collection". YouTube . Retrieved September 27, 2018.

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a b Pierczynski, David (September 29, 2017). "Billy Joel's 'The Stranger' Turns 40!!!". WLS-FM. Archived from the original on September 24, 2018 . Retrieved September 24, 2018. a b Cinquemani, Sal (September 5, 2004). "Review: Billy Joel, The Stranger". Slant Magazine . Retrieved April 15, 2015. Miers, Jeff (August 3, 2008). "Billy Joel, 'The Stranger: 30th Anniversary Edition' two CDs and 1 DVD box set (Columbia/Legacy)". The Buffalo News . Retrieved October 16, 2020. As a special bonus, The Vinyl Collection, Vol. 2 presents the first-ever audio edition (3LP) of Billy Joel – Live from Long Island, the celebratory homecoming concert/party Billy and his band threw for fans at the Nassau Coliseum on December 29, 1982. A broadcast edit of the legendary show originally aired on HBO in 1983 while a longer version of the show was a massively popular VHS title. This explosive performance is highly regarded as one of Billy’s best of the era and one of the few to be professionally filmed and recorded. Its inclusion as an audio album in The Vinyl Collection, Vol. 2 is an essential addition to the classic Billy Joel catalog. Oricon Album Chart Book: Complete Edition 1970–2005. Roppongi, Tokyo: Oricon Entertainment. 2006. ISBN 4-87131-077-9.The stereo imaging is wider on the MoFi, which allows some of the instrumentals clearer and more distinct which is great. The Stranger was well-received by critics, particularly in retrospect, with many considering it to display some of Joel's best-written material. In a contemporary review of the album, Ira Mayer of Rolling Stone deemed it an improvement over Joel's previous studio efforts, praising its musical variety and Ramone's production. [28] In a less enthusiastic review, Village Voice critic Robert Christgau graded the album "B−" and held it slightly above Joel's previous works; speaking specifically of Joel himself, he wrote that the artist had "more or less grown up" with what he considered less egotistical songwriting, and that he is "now as likeable as your once-rebellious and still-tolerant uncle who has the quirk of believing that OPEC was designed to ruin his air-conditioning business". [29] a b "The Top 5 Billy Joel Songs, Ranked By Billy Joel". The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. January 9, 2017. CBS . Retrieved December 10, 2018– via YouTube.

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Murray, Noel (February 3, 2011). " Taxi, 'Vienna Waits' ". The A.V. Club . Retrieved October 16, 2020. Retrospectively, Sal Cinquemani of Slant Magazine described The Stranger as "a concept album of sorts, an ode to the singer's native New York underscored by his paranoid obsession (and resistance) to change". He called the album "a rejection of the American Dream", highlighting the pessimism expressed in some of its songs' lyrics. [26] Stephen Thomas Erlewine of AllMusic praised The Stranger as a highlight of Joel's discography, noting that its lyrical shortcomings are outweighed by Joel's musical flair, and ultimately concluding that Joel "rarely wrote a set of songs better than those on The Stranger, nor did he often deliver an album as consistently listenable". [18] Rolling Stone ranked The Stranger at number 67 on its 2003 list of the 500 greatest albums of all time. [30] It also placed on the 2012 and 2020 editions of the list at numbers 70 and 169, respectively. [31] [32] In 2000, The Stranger was voted number 246 in Colin Larkin's All Time Top 1000 Albums. [33] Browne, David (May 22, 2007). "Billy Joel: The Stranger". Blender. Archived from the original on January 31, 2010 . Retrieved October 19, 2015. The Stranger spent 17 weeks in varying positions within Billboard 200 chart's top 10 albums, first entering the bottom position on January 21, 1978 (around four months after its initial release). A month later, on February 18, the album reached its peak position at number 2 on the chart and remained there for six more weeks. The second single from the album, "Just The Way You Are", peaked at number 3 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, [7] having received a boost in popularity following Joel's performance of the song on an episode of Saturday Night Live. [13] The other three singles were all top 40 hits, with "Movin' Out (Anthony's Song)" and "She's Always a Woman" both peaking at number 17. While "Movin' Out (Anthony's Song)" was the first single released for the album, radio stations put little attention towards it, instead expressing interest in "Just the Way You Are"; thus, the latter song was released just six weeks following the debut of "Movin' Out", after which it achieved far larger success. The single for "Movin' Out" was later rereleased, after which it achieved higher success and ultimately became a hit. [14] According to Joel, "Only the Good Die Young" sold poorly when it was first put out as a single; however, following the song's release, Christian groups and archdiocese areas began calling for the song to be banned on several radio stations across the nation. The controversy helped raise the song's popularity, particularly among rebellious youth according to Joel, and the single thus fared much better as a result, ultimately peaking at number 24 in the US singles chart. [15] [16] The Stranger remains one of Joel's best-selling original studio albums to date, achieving a "Diamond" certification for surpassing sales of 10 million units. [15] At the time, it had surpassed Simon & Garfunkel's Bridge over Troubled Water to become Columbia Records’ best-selling album release. [17] In Canada the album spent 72 weeks in the Top 100 Album charts between November 1977 and April 1979.allmusic ((( The Stranger > Charts & Awards > Billboard Albums )))". AllMusic . Retrieved March 19, 2011. Top Albums/CDs - Volume 29, No. 2, April 08 1978". RPM. April 8, 1978. Archived from the original on September 3, 2014 . Retrieved September 8, 2013. a b Kent, David (1993). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992. St Ives, NSW: Australian Chart Book. ISBN 0-646-11917-6.