I've loved some of Billy Joel's music since the mid-late 1980s, when I was relatively wee. I even saw him in the only concert I've ever been to (it's a long story) - his Face to Face tour of 1998, along with Elton John. I loved it - I remembering thinking about how it sounded like a hard rock concert, both sound wise and in terms of the raw energy being put on display by Billy. Of course, since then I've owned all three of his Greatest Hits albums. But now I've branched out into his album catalog. An Innocent Man in particular stands out as it contains my favorite Billy Joel songs - "Uptown Girl" and "The Longest Time." They were the very first songs I had heard from him, and they are still among the first songs I usually play when I listen to his Greatest Hits I & II compilation. It also features "An Innocent Man" and "Leave A Tender Moment Alone", but the track I've been doing my best to wear out is "Christie Lee." A great song. Otherwise, there's not too much here to float my boat. Nonetheless, check it out anyway. Not a bad album. B+
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