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Twenty-Five Favorites: Billy Joel

So, I've been wanting to do this for a while. Pick my 25 favorite songs of various artists to make nice playlists of my favorite favorites. The first, and possibly hardest, installment:

Billy Joel

Air, "Dublinesque" from Fantasies & Delusions
Don't Ask Me Why from Glass Houses
Falling of the Rain from Cold Spring Harbor
Famous Last Words from River of Dreams
Half a Mile Away from 52nd Street
I Don't Want to be Alone from Glass Houses
Intervention in C Minor from Fantasies & Delusions
The Mexican Connection from Streetlife Serenade
My Life from 52nd Street
Nocturne from Cold Spring Harbor
Only the Good Die Young from The Stranger
Prelude/Angry Young Man from Turnstiles
River of Dreams from River of Dreams
Root Beer Rag from Streetlife Serenade
Say Goodbye to Hollywood from Turnstiles
Shades of Grey from River of Dreams
Sleeping with the Television On from Glass Houses
Stiletto from 52nd Street
Stop in Nevada from Piano Man
Summer, Highland Falls from Turnstiles
These Rhinestone Days (demo)
Travelin' Prayer from Piano Man
Two Thousand Years from River of Dreams
Worse Comes to Worst from Piano Man
Zanzibar (unfaded)

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1 remarks:

Emily said...

Here are some of my favorites!
Travelin' Prayer
Ain't No Crime
Worse Comes to Worse
Stop in Nevada
Modern Woman
Big Man on Mulberry Street (especially the Movin' Out version)
Vienna
Say Goodbye to Hollywood
Summer, Highland Falls
All You Wanna Do is Dance
You're My Home
River of Dreams

What's the song that is paired with River of Dreams in Movin' Out?

I tried to explain to Taylor on our road trip that most of the best Billy Joel songs are not on greatest hits.