If you like Billy Joel you should get this, and if you aren't familiar with him, you might want to check it out.

As cliche as it may sound to pick the big chart success breakthrough as Billy Joel's second best album ("Glass Houses" being the best), I must do it.

This is almost certainly "The Classic Billy Joel" album.

This is the most stellar Billy Joel album, and it includes my favorite Joel song, Vienna

30th Annversary edition is a great buy not just for die hard Billy Joel fans who just love him for the way he really is, a great pianist

Billy Joel had tasted some success before the release of The Stranger, with the hit single "Piano Man", but this is the album that made him a superstar

Billy Joel is a national treasure.

In conclussion this is my favorite Joel album, if you hasn't heard anything about Billy Joel or you've heard everything, this is certainly the perfect album for hearing

I'm glad Billy Joel is still writing songs to bring us even more wonderful music today!

After all, though it may not contain, "Piano Man", it contains a wealth of other classics that are just as strong and that is why this album pushed the already famous Billy Joel even further into the spotlight.

It dose'nt have but one of my favorite Billy Joel

Not only are these great songs with entertaining lyrics and melodies, Joel uses these songs to portray common life experiences for people in today's world: Anger, disillusionment, the struggle to be truly vulnerable with a lover, despair, love for another, the temptation of drugs, raw sexuality and hope for the future

Joel rivals James Joyce as a master of putting into words the complex human desires of the brain."The Stranger" describes how all humans have a secret side of themselves that they keep hidden from the public but bring out in private to sexually gratify themselves.

Billy Joel has been criticized over the years by rock critics who have pigeonholed him as a formalist hack.

Enjoy this vintage Billy Joel.

Has always been one of my favorite Billy Joel albums

Not only are these great songs with entertaining, memorable lyrics and melodies, Joel uses these songs to portray common life experiences for people in today's world: Anger, disillusionment, the struggle to be truly vulnerable with a lover, despair, love for another, the temptation of drugs, raw sexuality and hope for the future

Scenes From An Italian Restaurant: my favorite Joel's song ever

Classic Billy Joel!

more than one edition of this music on CD including a box set with two CDs and one DVD.Billy Joel gained much status as a result of this album-deservedly so

Billy Joel gained much status as a result of this album-deservedly so

I loved listening to all my favorite Billy Joel songs again!

Joel is a master of his art, and many would argue that this is his masterpiece.

Love Billy Joel

My favorite Billy Joel

Mr. Joel never ceases to amaze us with all his talent.

Billy Joel is a unique pop talent who must have appealed to millions of listeners, as his record sales attest to.

I picked up this SACD mostly because it's my wife's favorite Billy Joel record, so I don't have any deep spiritual attachment to the music, other than I

Billy Joel is the best

Joel describes in this track the empty aspirations of the middle class and low class in New York.2

This could have been my favorite Billy Joel album, but I heard 52nd Street long before I ever heard The Stranger

who doesnt like billy joel?

30th Annversary edition is a great buy not just for die hard Billy Joel fans who just love him for the way he really is, a great pianist

I admit I'm a casual fan of his, but if I had to narrow down my favorite Billy Joel songs to one album, "The Stranger" would easily be it

Joel's characters either are hopelessly naive ("Vienna"), favor lust over love ("Only the Good Die Young"), peaked too early ("Scenes From An Italian Restaurant") or face a desperate need to escape("Movin' Out").

, this is a track where Joel expresses a lot more espontaneous mood and catchy rythms.9

This is the classic Billy Joel album, and if you want to understand what he was trying to achieve as a musician, you need look no further than this.

This album here, contains 8 songs that would be in my Top 20 Billy Joel songs of all time

Love me some Billy Joel

If you like Billy Joel, you'll love this CD.

Just The Way You Are" and most importantly, my pal Amy idolizes Billy and since I idolize my petite pal with large bosoms, I too love Billy Joel.

She's Always A Woman: a full piano song singed with great but simple style, also among my favorites Joel's songs

I bought it as a gift for dad because he loves Billy Joel's music

But Joel has a certain flair to him that separates his work from the bunch

It is classic Billy Joel, Billy Joel goes to the dark side...

Joel proves his extreme talent in this album

I received the new release of The Stranger yesterday and echo earlier reviews of this classic Billy Joel album

My girlfriend's favorite Billy Joel song.8.

The song is written based on a strange, non-seen before feeling of a given situation that Joel recites as "the stranger".3

Throughout the 1970s, Billy Joel had been knocking on the door for a while.

One of Billy Joel"s greatest albums

This is the best Billy Joel album I've heard.

And they became so enormous that six of it's nine songs became included on Billy Joel Greatest Hits

However, The Stranger stands as Billy Joel's finest hour.

I almost feel like this is Billy Joel telling his younger self about how he won't make it in his dreams, but he did

If you love Billy Joel, you will love this Album