Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0828768235928
Label: Sony
Manufacturer: Sony
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: Sony
Release Date: July 14, 2008
Studio: Sony

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Disc 1:

1. Tell Her About It
2. Uptown Girl
3. Piano Man
4. New York State Of Mind
5. River Of Dreams
6. It's Still Rock 'n' Roll To Me
7. We Didn't Start The Fire
8. Goodnight Saigon
9. My Life
10. She's Always A Woman
11. She's Got A Way
12. Scenes From An Italian Restaurant
13. Innocent Man
14. Movin' Out (Anthony's Song)
15. Only The Good Die Young
16. All About Soul
17. Honesty
18. Just The Way You Are

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Rating: - Music to my Ears
this CD is really just another example of the music companies trying to fleece us the poor consumer. whilst the music of Billy Joel is superb in any format this best of is just a rehash of his Essential collection.

unless you have a burning desire to own Scenes from an Italian Resteraunt and Only the Good Die young then i would seriously recommend 'The Essential Billy Joel' 36 tracks in all and 16 of them which you get on this album.

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Rating: - Shame about the missing bits
Piano Man The Very Best of Billy Joel could only be regarded as the very best by customers who are pleased that the title track has been butchered and a great chunk of its middle removed. The rest of us might feel Sony BMG Music Entertainment should be ashamed of a shabby deception. If it's legal to sell only part of a song without making it plain that's what you're doing, then it shouldn't be. Prospective buyers who want to hear Joel sing about the real-estate novelist and Davy who's still in the ... Read More

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Rating: - Unquestionably fantastic music, but fails to deliver as a true 'very best of' Billy Joel
As somebody who has all of Billy Joel's studio albums, my opinion is that a one-CD 'very best of' just doesn't have the space to deliver what it promises and, indeed, with key tracks in Billy's career missing, this falls short as a satisfying overview of the piano man's career. 'Big Shot', 'Allentown' and 'The Longest Time' are just three examples of incredible tracks which any self-respecting Billy Joel collection shouldn't omit but this one, unfortunately, does. Of course, that just scratches the ... Read More

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