The Stranger [Vinyl LP]

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Nielsen Business Media, Inc (December 22, 1979). Billboard.com – Year End Charts – Year-end Albums – The Billboard 200 . Retrieved May 1, 2014. {{ cite book}}: |last1= has generic name ( help) 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. Leopold, Todd (July 8, 2008). "When Billy Joel met 'The Stranger' ". CNN . Retrieved October 16, 2020. Columbia Records and Legacy Recordings Celebrating 50+ Years of Billy Joel’s Musical Artistry with Release of Billy Joel – The Vinyl Collection, Vol. 2 on Friday, November 3 Along with the rest of Joel's catalogue, the album was remastered and re-released in 1998, including a multimedia component that included four live videos.

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] Oricon Album Chart Book: Complete Edition 1970–2005. Roppongi, Tokyo: Oricon Entertainment. 2006. ISBN 4-87131-077-9. 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. O'Hare, Kevin (July 6, 2008). "Billy Joel – The Republican interview". The Republican . Retrieved October 16, 2020. Murray, Noel (February 3, 2011). " Taxi, 'Vienna Waits' ". The A.V. Club . Retrieved October 16, 2020.

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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. 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. 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. Scenes from an Italian Restaurant (Conclusion)" - "Get It Right the First Time" – "Everyone Has a Dream" More Awards" (PDF). Cash Box. July 18, 1981. p.35 . Retrieved December 4, 2021– via World Radio History.

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