Billy Joel - The Hits - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Bon Jovi GREATEST HITS - THE ULTIMATE COLLECTION is a 28-song two-disc edition made up of the GREATEST HITS CD from the standard edition and a second disc featuring beloved fan favorites including InchBed of Roses,Inch InchBlood on Blood,Inch InchThese Days,Inch and InchKeep the FaithInch plus the third and fourth new tracks created for this project. The four new songs (InchThe More Things Change,Inch InchNo Apologies,Inch InchThis is Love, This is Life,Inch and the first single InchWhat Do You Got?Inch) were written specifically for inclusion in this compilation. Album Tracks 1. Livin' on a Prayer 2. You Give Love a Bad Name 3. It's My Life 4. Have a Nice Day 5. Wanted Dead or Alive 6. Bad Medicine 7. We Weren't Born to Follow 8. I'll Be There for You 9. Born to Be My Baby 10. Blaze of Glory 11. Who Says You Can't Go Home 12. Lay Your Hands on Me 13. Always 14. Runaway 15. What Do You Got? 16. No Apologies 1. In These Arms 2. Someday I'll Be Saturday Night 3. Lost Highway 4. Keep the Faith 5. When We Were Beautiful 6. Bed of Roses 7. This Ain't a Love Song 8. These Days 9. (You Want to) Make a Memory 10. Blood on Blood 11. This Is Love This Is Life 12. The More Things Change

Album Tracks 1. Keeping the Faith 2. An Innocent Man 3. A Matter of Trust 4. Baby Grand (Duet with Ray Charles) 5. This Is the Time 6. Leningrad 7. We Didn't Start the Fire 8. I Go to Extemes 9. And So It Goes 10. The Downeaster InchAlexaInch 11. Shameless 12. All About Soul 13. Lullabye (Goodnight, My Angel) 14. The River of Dreams 15. To Make You Feel My Love 16. Hey Girl 17. Light As the Breeze

Billy Joel 52nd Street on Numbered Edition Hybrid SACDMainstream Perfection Melodic Devices, Passionate Singing, Sophisticated Arrangements, Jazzy Backdrop Walk Down 52nd StreetSome artists embrace their success by repeating the steps that originally granted them fame. Billy Joel did the opposite, refusing to be contained by prescribed approaches or constrained by a given tag. The follow-up to the breakthrough The Stranger, 52nd Street further expands on it's predecessor's bold production techniques and inventive arrangements, incorporating more sophisticated textures as well as reflecting a jazz edge gleaned from New York City's thriving club scene.52nd Street is mastered from the original master tapes and made available on transparent hybrid SACD. The wider and deeper grooves - as well as the meticulous mastering process - yield resplendent dynamics, broad soundstages, three-dimensional perspectives, and tonal balances absent from prior editions. Indeed, Joel wouldn't sound more realistic if were playing ten rows away from you onstage. This is how you want to experience the 1978 LP that captured the Grammy Award for Album of the Year.Teaming again with producer Phil Ramone, Joel capitalizes on his momentum, churning out another direct-sounding affair replete with captivating melodic devices, showmanship accents, and penetrating lyrics. The singer's concision and focus is evident via the tune's lengths, with only 'Until the Night' breaking the six-minute mark. Hit singles 'Big Shot' and 'My Life' rattle forth with an urgency and intensity that Joel had not previously demonstrated, the combination of passionate deliveries, snide overtones, and insistent grooves setting the table for what follows.Broadening his palette, and drawing from New York's thriving jazz club scene and the city's late-70s grit, Joel splashes Latin and jazz colors on several pieces - even employ