Just because an album has a lot of songs you like from a particular artist, it doesn't necessarily make it a good one. Hotel California by The Eagles is a good example - half hits, half shit. Storm Front isn't as bad as that, but if it were for some reason necessary to cull a couple of songs from the album for say, brevity purposes, I could easily think of two or three songs here to give a flick. The opening track, "That's Not Her Style", isn't the greatest opening to the album, and in fact I would frankly call the song downright bad. "When in Rome" and "Storm Front" are also songs this album could do much better without. Now, to offset me sounding like a negative Nelly of some sort, I'll go over what I think is actually great. "We Didn't Start the Fire" is one of my all time favorite songs, and has been since it was released way back in 1989. "The Downeaster 'Alexa'" is great, and "Leningrad" is an admirable mash-up of storytelling and Joel's very competent piano playing. "I Go to Extremes" is another goody I know from the Greatest Hits Volume III collection, and "State of Grace" proves to be the surprise hit for me here. "And So it Goes" I could see myself growing to like over time. All up, not the album I was hoping to hear, but it could have been worse. B+
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