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Avg. Customer Rating:  (based on 11 reviews)
Sales Rank: 1051
Category: Music
Artist: Billy Joel
Publisher: Sony Legacy
Studio: Sony Legacy
Manufacturer: Sony Legacy
Label: Sony Legacy
Format: Extra Tracks, Original Recording Remastered
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 2
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 5.4 x 4.9 x 0.6
MPN: 722581
UPC: 886972258126
EAN: 0886972258126
ASIN: B00168PTFQ
Release Date: July 8, 2008
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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Disc 1
| • | 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 A Dream |
Disc 2
| • | Miami 2017 (Seen The Lights Go Out On Broadway) | | • | Prelude/Angry Young Man | | • | New York State Of Mind | | • | Just The Way You Are | | • | She's Got A Way | | • | The Entertainer | | • | Scenes From An Italian Restaurant | | • | Band Introductions | | • | Captain Jack | | • | I've Loved These Days | | • | Say Goodbye To Hollywood | | • | Souvenir |
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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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| Customer Reviews: Read 6 more reviews...
 Billy Joel's breakthrough gets a big 30th birthday celebration August 14, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
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 have been recorded for a Bogart film before giving way into another great rocker. Next we slow things down with the album's famous ballad "Just The Way You Are" (which won the 1978 Record of the Year Grammy) and was Billy's biggest hit up until that point. He almost left it off the album had it not been for female singers Phoebe Snow (who appears on the album's last track) and Linda Ronstadt persuaded Billy to release it and the rest is history. The first half ends with the epic centerpiece of the album is "Scenes From An Italian Restaurant" which is almost like listening to one of the medleys on The Beatles' Abbey Road as it's three songs stitched into one and one of the sections told the tale of the rise and fall of Brenda & Eddie.
"Vienna" starts the second half of the album off and was one of the lesser known songs on the album but a great number. Next is the acoustic guitar and piano driven rocker "Only the Good Die Young" which is still a great number though some religious groups cried foul and some stations banned the record. Next is another classic ballad out of "She's Always A Woman" which is a nice ballad. We then have another rocker out of "Get it Right the First Time" which is a great piece. We end with the gospel sounding ballad "Everybody Has a Dream" which is a nice track and the album ends with the reprise of The Stranger's title cut's intro and outro this time with an orchestra.
The Stranger paid off as it hit #2 on the Billboard album chart upon release and became Billy's first Platinum selling album and righfully sold to date 10 million copies in the US alone.
In 1998, The Stranger was re-released in a remastered version which soundeed better than the 1980s sterile CBS release and includes all original LP art.
Now in 2008, The Stranger was given a 30th Anniversary fit for a king in two incarnations. First is a 2-CD reissue which has The Stranger remastered by Phil Ramone. Second is a unreleased concert from the famed Carnegie Hall in New York recorded one month before The Stranger's release. Billy always delivered on stage and the versions of overlooked tracks like "Say Goodbye to Hollywood", "New York State of Mind", "Captain Jack" and "Angry Young Man" are all performed better than the studio versions. Also, you had preview versions of "Just the Way You Are" and "Scenes From an Italian Restaurant" all recorded a month before The Stranger was recorded. The other re-issue is a 3-disc package which will be reviewed next.
Recommended!
30 years? August 13, 2008
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.
Packaging gone crazy - size does matter !!! August 8, 2008
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 !!!!!!!!!!
Could have had a little more included on the CDS August 4, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
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 do for Billy what was done for Neil Diamond with his Stages cd set...a box set of live shows (more of the earlier ones that are still unreleased on cd). So far we've got concert releases from 1980, 1987, 1999, and 2005, it would be nice to have a 70s, early 80s which are complete concerts, with minimal exemptions. Why? Because Billy is one of the best performers I have ever seen... He shows his roots well in this show because at certain points in the show the Carnegie Hall technicians bring the house lights up because people are smoking, and each time that happens, Billy says "I'll play with these lights on if you don't mind!"
 hummmmmmmm........................ July 26, 2008
2 out of 9 found this review helpful
To begin: Legacy's brilliant edition, since it has us used...well, I do not try to criticize a work that has been judged for the time ... but to me it does not convince ... probably this sound type fm ... the album have good songs .. who can deny the beauty of "just the way you are", "the stranger" and "scenes from....", it is perhaps unfair .... I can not hear more than once ..... I repeat, is my way of thinking .... regarding the booklet is precious ... and the concert over the same .. .. ..
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