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List Price: $31.98 | | Label: Sony
Salesrank: 840
Released: October 20, 1998 |
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| Media: Audio CD |
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Editorial Review:
The enhanced portion contains 2 videos on disc 1: You're only human, and The night is still young.
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Media Type: CD
Artist: JOEL,BILLY
Title: VOL. 1-2-GREATEST HITS
Street Release Date: 10/20/1998
Domestic
Genre: ROCK/POP
Description of Billy Joel Greatest Hits: Vol. 1-2 (2CD):
It's one of the cruel ironies of music today that Billy Joel has been relegated to a kind of adult-contemporary hell, where his legacy is measured by soft-rock staples such as "Just the Way You Are," "Piano Man," and "New York State of Mind." To be sure, well-crafted ballads are a part of his legacy, but they're hardly the whole story, as this collection of his early and mid-period hits amply demonstrates. From the unbridled biographical boasting of "The Entertainer" and the ambitious storytelling of "Scenes from an Italian Restaurant" to the careening abandon of "Only the Good Die Young" and the thoughtful social commentary of "Allentown," Joel was as complete an artist as the last three decades have produced. --Daniel Durchholz
Billy Joel Greatest Hits: Vol. 1-2 (2CD) Reviews:
Good Stuff - Billy Joel 
2009-12-13 - I missed having these songs and this just suppressed the hunger. And it was nice to be introduced to three songs I'd never heard before. Good stuff!
Encore!
2009-10-27 - I bought this for a friend. She absolutely loved it! It arrived promptly and in excellent condition. The price was affordable. Thank you so much.
Had forgotten how much I like his music
2009-10-09 - It has been years since I've listened to Billy Joel - had tapes that died, but never got replaced. My new CD is wonderful, I've been bopping and singing along for days now to songs I had forgotten I knew. This has cheered the heck out of me in the gloomy days of Autumn, it's a really great compilation.
Quality Product but Hits Missing 
2009-08-15 - I was impressed with the quality of the music, but I was disappointed to see some hits from the singles charts missing, like "An Innocent Man" (1983) and "Honesty" (1979).
There are 25 songs on this two-CD set. Billy Joel had 31 songs on the singles charts.
Billy Joel
2009-07-04 - This set has every big hit I know of that Joel made and it's top notch in my and my wife's book! It was well worth the price and as all my experience with Amazon's delivery it arrived on time and in good shape. I would buy it again.
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