Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours Binding: Audio CD EAN: 0886972258126 Format: Extra tracks, Original recording remastered Label: Sony Legacy Manufacturer: Sony Legacy Number Of Discs: 2 Publisher: Sony Legacy Release Date: July 08, 2008 Sales Rank: 2274 Studio: Sony Legacy
Album Description: 2-CD 30th Anniversary Legacy Edition
CD of 'The Stranger' remastered by the original album producer, Phil Ramone
CD of 'Live At Carnegie Hall 1977'- previously unreleased
24 Page Booklet with liner notes by Rolling Stones Editor, David Fricke and un-seen photos from the original album photo shoot
The Stranger CD Tracklist: Movin' Out (Anthony's Song) The Stranger Just The Way You Are Scenes From An Italian Restaurant Vienna Only the Good Die Young She's Always A Woman Get It Right The First Time Everybody Has Dream
'Live At Carnegie Hall 1977' CD On June 3, 1977, one month prior to the recording of The Stranger album, Billy and his band performed at the historical Carnegie Hall in NYC. This show has been brilliantly restored to be released for the first time as part of the 30th Anniversary edtion of The Stranger
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Rating: - Billy Joel's breakthrough gets a big 30th birthday celebration
New York native Billy Joel released his fifth album The Stranger in November of 1977.
Prior to The Stranger, Billy was almost seen as a pop one-hit wonder thanks to the title track from his 1973 album Piano Man (despite the fact FM rock stations played "Captain Jack" and "New York State of Mind"). However, pop radio ignored him. It was in the summer of 1977 that Billy and producer Phil Ramone (famed for work with The Carpenters and Paul Simon) went into A&R Recording Studios in New York to record Billy's fourth album for Columbia, which (had it not sold) might have been his last time at bat. Is the album the classic it is or some artifact from a bygone time, read on and find out.
We start the album with a great rocker out of "Movin' Out (Anthony's Song)" which is driven by piano and guitar. Next is The Stranger's title cut which its intro and outro (also repeated at album's end) sounds like it could ... Read More
Rating: - 30 years?
Where'd it all go? Still sounds just as good, although the last song, everybody has a dream, still sounds like a left over from turnstiles or earlier.
Live piece from 77 is good although sounds almost exactly like songs in the attic.
Best Buy had a 3rd live disc with it, a piece of the famous bottom line show from around that era. I have it on tape and Billy had a grand time acting like paul simon, springsteen and others.
Rating: - Packaging gone crazy - size does matter !!!
excellent service and condition,but why did a double cd get taped into the bottom of a box 3"X12"X15" ??? This meant that it would not fit through the letter box, could not be delivered and had to be collected from the post office The double CD is great value, the live disc took me right back to a Sunday concert at Drury Lane Theatre in 1977.....Was it really that long ago? Memories !!!!!!!!!!
Rating: - Could have had a little more included on the CDS
Well ten years later, we are treated to yet another remastering of "The Stranger," this time in celebration of the 30th (actually 31st) anniversary of the album. While for most fans who owned the original CD master, then graduated to the 1998 remaster, I'm sure folks would agree there should have been more added to the first CD. There are alternate takes out there, some which made their way onto the "My Lives" boxset. Would have been nice to pad out the full length of the cd with some bonus studio tracks.
The live CD is the gem of this re-release. Why has Sony sat on this recording all these years? A remarkable performance, in a location which is notorious for making decent quality recordings (e.g. Chicago IV.) This is almost as good as "Songs in The Attic," as you get many of those songs, only slightly rearranged for this earlier performance. I am hoping that with the success of this release Legacy will ... Read More
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