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| | The Stranger (album) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | While his four previous albums were moderately successful, this was his breakthrough album, peaking at #2 on the U.S. album charts. | | | The Stranger is the fifth studio album by Billy Joel, released in 1977 (see 1977 in music). | | | It remains Joel's best-selling non-compilation album to date. |
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| | Stranger Things |
| | Below is an exclusive insight into Marc's thoughts on the album, followed by a track by track description. | | | I hope this will be my most successful solo album. | | | A number of songs were originally written and co-produced with regular Neal Whitmore but the main collaborator on ‘Stranger Things’ is Icelandic producer Johann Johanson who was brought in to oversee production on the whole album and also to contribute in the writing of several songs. |
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| | Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Stranger On Earth [Hyper CD] [Edited] - Lina at Epinions.com |
| | Even the sound of the album is pretty consistent, it does change from song to song. | | | The word is that Lina’s album was finished first, but there was a rush put on Blu’s album to beat the release of Lina’s. | | | The album begins with one of it’s strongest track “Playa No Mo’” which is the single if you’ve heard of Lina, that you would most likely be familiar with. |
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| | CD Baby: PHANTOM STRANGER: Phantom Stranger |
| | The only time the album lags a bit is with the vocals. | | | Although, musically, the entire album is rock solid. | | | Since Phantom Stranger reformed, the band has returned to the Chicago and Milwaukee club scene, released their debut album and are working on a second album. |
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| | BILLY JOEL-The Stranger |
| | The album (which was his commercial breakthrough) features all of Billy Joel's strengths: a sure sense of melody and pop songcraft, affecting balladry, nimble piano playing, and dry humor. | | | The album closes out with "Get It Right the First Time" and "Everybody has a Dream," both of which are listenable but pale in comparison to the songs that preceded them. | | | The album's first half concludes with the rousing song suite "Scenes from an Italian Restaurant," which is about two old high school friends who reunite to discuss their present-day lives and fondly reminisce about days gone by. |
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| | Amazon.com: The Stranger [ENHANCED] [ORIGINAL RECORDING REMASTERED]: Music |
| | However, the album listener is not burdened by the pains of artistic growth. | | | The album is a virtual greatest hits record with most of the 9 songs being instantly recognizable. | | | All in all, this is one of the greatest rock albums of all time, even if a couple of the songs are staples on easy listening stations. |
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00000DCHC?v=glance
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| | Stranger Things Magazine Album Reviews |
| | This is not their best album, but a mediocre album from a creative band is better than most radio-ready pop. | | | The one recognizable flaw with the album is the lack of focus in the first three tracks. | | | The album is a coherent collection of writings for anyone who either reads the liner notes or listens to it many, many times. |
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http://www.strangerthingsmag.net/febalbum.html
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| | Billy Joel MP3 Downloads - Billy Joel Music Downloads - Billy Joel Music Videos |
| | They do provide The Stranger with the feel of a concept album, yet there is no true thematic connection between the pieces, and his lyrics are often vague or mean-spirited. | | | The album was also their first to be made without Bernie... | | | This album is available for download from our partnered music services. |
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http://www.mp3.com/albums/8539/summary.html
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| | Up a cliché without an oar - Arts |
| | The tracks on the album are boring and forgettable-the kind you start listening to and then can't stand after about 30 seconds. | | | At times the album's instrumentation is truer to reggae than anything else OAR has produced, but lead singer Marc Roberge's happy-go-lucky lyrics are amiss. | | | For many bands there's a make-it or break-it album where they go out on a limb and attempt to innovative their music. |
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http://www.dailyiowan.com/news/2005/10/11/Arts/Up.A-Clich.Without.An.Oar-1016119.shtml
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| | CD Baby: NATHAN: Stranger |
| | "Stranger" immediately pulls the listener in with the gently oom-pah-pah of the first track, "Measure Me," and weaves a hypnotic spell from there on in with it's loping and laid-back folky/country pop. | | | There are beautiful songs and moving stories that deserve to be heard, and with one listen you'll be bewitched. | | | band: Nathan Album: Stranger: If you hear it unexpectedly, the sound catches your ear. |
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| | SECTION 3 - brandan sweeney "stranger than you" |
| | Most of his music is acoustic guitar and vocals based. | | | For an album to sound this good, both artistically and production wise, is astounding to me. I'm only going to assume he's got a professional studio somewhere in his house. | | | Phenomenal graphic design for the packaging, amazing production for an album which was recorded at "home," cool photography, kick ass production company name (Karma Sonic), and bizarre lyrics. |
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http://www.section3.com/unsigned/sweeney.shtml
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| | The DAVID KIRTON Official Website --- "STRANGER" |
| | 'Stranger' RAS Records is a powerful first release that set a high standard of music and lyrics for this singer / songwriter. | | | Many of the songs for this new album | | | - David Kirton's debut album 'Stranger' distributed by RAS Records, Look for the release of this new artist from Barbados in your favorite record store. |
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http://www.davidkirton.com/strange.htm
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| | Icelandairwaves 2005 |
| | Accompanying Stranger, both on Paint Peace, in live performances, and on the new recordings, are some of the most experienced rock musicians of the Reykjavik music scene. | | | For the last few months Stranger has been recording new tracks in his Studio Föðurlandið, producing his second album. | | | A number of smaller concerts followed the first ever live performance at Icelandic Airwaves, October 24th 2004, either with a full band setup or Hjörvar performing by himself with an acoustic guitar. |
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http://www.icelandairwaves.com/artists.asp?pageID=&artistID=109
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| | Kings Of A&R - The National A&R Web Portal |
| | This new album showcases Uncle Kracker's knack for writing undeniably catchy melodies and his ability to create modern classics set to music. | | | The highly anticipated album follows on the heels of Uncle Kracker's 2001 chart-topping album No Stranger To Shame, which spawned several hit singles including "In A Little While" and "Drift Away." 72 and Sunny's first single, "Rescue" will be going to radio on May 17th. | | | Lava Recording artist Uncle Kracker is putting the final touches on his brand-spankin' new album 72 and Sunny, scheduled for release on June 29th, 2004. |
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| | Billy Joel - The Stranger |
| | Billy Joel's albums had always sounded a bit thin sonically -- which was part of the reason he had trouble establishing a reputation as a rocker. | | | was chosen by a panel of rock critics and music broadcasters as the #55 rock album of all time. | | | This is the first Billy Joel album in some time that has significantly expanded his repertoire. |
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| | Death Cab for Cutie: The Photo Album: Pitchfork Review |
| | The album opens quietly with the brief, sleepy "Steadier Footing," a glimpse at a relationship that seems fated not to be. | | | It seems as though Ben Gibbard, on his latest outing with Death Cab for Cutie, the band's third album in just three years, has attempted to capture in his lyrics the verbal equivalent of amateur photography. | | | Such moments haunt the remainder of the album, as well, though they're generally not too distracting. |
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http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/record-reviews/d/death-cab-for-cutie/photo-album.shtml
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| | Squeeze MP3 Downloads - Squeeze Music Downloads - Squeeze Music Videos |
| | Kissing to Be Clever is the album that put Culture Club on the musical map. | | | Check the albums tab for other downloads from Squeeze. | | | This part's easy
any time you're on a song, artist, or album page, and you see a button called "Download It," click the button. |
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| | Carla Torgerson Saint Stranger Album Review - SoundsXP |
| | By and large this album is no exception. | | | To try avoid the common solo career pitfall of sounding like a diet version of your former self, Torgerson chose to record most of this, her debut album, in Greece with the help of Akis Boyatzis a.k.a. | | | It begins with the faint promise of Pelagic, a slice of Tanya Donnelly-style indie-rock that kicks into gear when the guitars gatecrash the chorus, but the trio of so-so songs that follow are soon washed away by the wave of crud to come. |
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| | Chocobo Knights :: View topic - the red headed stranger album.willie nelson |
| | this is the first song to the album it is titled | | | this is the traditional last song but the album has 4 more in it and they are just as lovely as all of the others on this album this is my hands on the wheel | | | mwhahaha time for the 4th song of that album |
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| | Willie Nelson : Red Headed Stranger - Listen, Review and Buy at ARTISTdirect |
| | Willie Nelson's Red Headed Stranger perhaps is the strangest blockbuster country produced, a concept album about a preacher on the run after murdering his departed wife and her new lover, told entirely with brief song-poems and utterly minimal backing. | | | For all its success, it still remains a prickly, difficult album, though, making the interspersed concept of Phases and Stages sound shiny in comparison. | | | It's undoubtedly distinctive -- and it sounds more distinctive with each passing year -- but it's strictly an intellectual triumph and, after a pair of albums that were musically and intellectually sound, it's a bit of a letdown, no matter how successful it was. |
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| | www.myspace.com/thestranger |
| | Stranger performances are a twisted combination of basement punk shows, Southern Baptist evangelism, and vaudeville cabaret burlesque. | | | Hammes' vocal style is an often violent combination of Presley and Danzig crooning with Tom Waits grit, and a delivery between Screamin' Jay Hawkins and Morrissey, if such a thing is possible. | | | Marrying Keith Moon style chaos on the drum kit with Elvis' Blue Moon Boys on guitar and stand-up bass, The Stranger delivers top musicianship without sacrificing its punk roots. |
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| | * Dusted Reviews - Darren Hanlon * |
| | Probably the most touching track on the album is "He Misses You Too, You Know", a long-distance relationship lament that uses nothing more than Hanlon's voice and an acoustic guitar to detail a couple of lonely people on opposite ends of a phone line. | | | This won't sound entirely new if you've heard the aforementioned Australian bands before, especially the Lucksmiths, with whom Hanlon shares a penchant for strummy acoustic guitars and a love of everyday details in his lyrics. | | | Wilco's Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, rightly hailed as a work of brilliant production, is ultimately a great album because at the core of all its wonderful sounds lie simple, sturdy songs with strong melodies and wonderful lyrics. |
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http://www.dustedmagazine.com/reviews/374
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| | Bob Seger - Stranger In Town |
| | He was, after all, practically a rock & roll archetype: an authentic hardworking, hard-traveling man, a gambler whose best-selling album was the one on which he reviewed his life, adding up the score and deciding whether or not he was too old to play anymore. | | | Without heeling to a concept, most of the songs touch on one form of isolation or another, but Seger's loners aren't exactly heroes. | | | Seger's success was an affirmation of rock & roll's essential durability, because his homegrown, audience-honed music was derivative in the best sense. |
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| | The Stranger - Slog |
| | Rubber Soul is the best Beatles album and "I'm Looking Through You" is not just "in the top 20" as Segal puts it. | | | This is not why Revolver is better (which it is in its own right), but they are two albums where, listened to side by side, you hear the 20th Century changeover. | | | The best song on the best album is, obviously, "I'm Looking Through You," but I also recommend revisiting, for anyone who hasn't heard it in a while, "Girl," the song where they inhale incredibly loudly again and again. |
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http://www.thestranger.com/blog/archives/2005/10/30-05.php
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| | The Stranger - Billy Joel Album Review |
| | All artists have one album that you should start off with if you want to learn a bit more about them, and this is the one to do so with Billy Joel, you will get to know his music style a bit better with The Stranger. | | | The only real problem with this and most other Billy Joel albums, is his lack of any great guitar parts in his songs. | | | This is Billy Joel's best written album, yet I sometimes wonder if you had to live on Long Island at the time of its release to get all of what he was writing about here. |
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| | Red Headed Stranger by Willie Nelson CD |
| | The theme is sad, but this is not a depressing album. | | | It's a concept album, telling a story of a cowboy running from his tragic past, and the adventures he gets into. | | | Although the artwork ties in with the 1987 movie of the same name, this is the original classic Willie Nelson album from 1975. |
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| | v4n30-stranger.html |
| | Disco Stranger completed a full-length album, "Stranger Said Than Done," which was recorded in 1996. | | | Disco Stranger's music, the perfect combination of funk, acid rock, jazz, reggae and a hint of disco, is best described as ska with soul. | | | Having created a unique brand of music, this Long Beach band has attracted a diverse congregation of fans in the short time it's been around. |
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| | slant // magazine.com: Music Review - Billy Joel: The Stranger |
| | illy Joel's seminal 1977 release The Stranger is a concept album of sorts, an ode to the singer's native New York underscored by his paranoid obsession (and resistance) to change. | | | slant // magazine.com: Music Review - Billy Joel: The Stranger |
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| | Vice Records |
| | Death From Above 1979- You're A Woman, I'm A Machine (album) | | | It might not be the poppiest album you've ever heard, or the darkest, or the most likely to stir up pandemonium on the dance floor, yet Mike's MC chats offer unparalleled evocation of working class street...read more | | | "Two More Years" and "Hero" are the band's first all-new material since the release of their debut album Silent Alarm. |
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| | Martin Briley : One Night with a Stranger - Listen, Review and Buy at ARTISTdirect |
| | Perhaps feeling the influence of the new wave, Martin Briley simplified the guitar lines and speeded up the tempos on his second album. | | | one night with a stranger - similar albums | | | Briley still wasn't creating a distinctive musical persona -- sometimes he sounded like Sting, sometimes like Phil Collins -- but his writing showed enough promise that you hoped he would yet do so. |
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| | Slide Show for album :: NO STRANGER TO LOVE / ANGRY HEART |
| | Slide Show for album :: NO STRANGER TO LOVE / ANGRY HEART | | | Gallery: SABBATHLIVE COVER ART GALLERY Album: COMMERCIAL RELEASES Album: SINGLES Album: 1986 Singles Album: NO STRANGER TO LOVE / ANGRY HEART |
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| | Uncle Kracker - No Stranger to Shame Album Review |
| | The album No Stranger to Shame is a collection of willowy jangle rock with Motown and rap influences thrown in. | | | No Stranger to Shame should keep radio busy for quite some time -- most of the songs remain in the listener's mind long after the CD ends. | | | His takes on "Drift Away," a duet with Dobie Gray, and "Baby Don't Cry" showcase Uncle Kracker's blues sensibility. |
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| | Click opera - The Friendly Album: Stranger Than Kindness |
| | I'm planning my next album, "The Friendly Album". | | | I'm looking forward to The Friendly Album, but -- and I hope I'm not being rude -- I'm a little iffy on the title. | | | It wasn't until the second or third listen that I appreciated how pretty and friendly and unobtrusive it was. |
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| | Movin' Out: Information From Answers.com |
| | It comes off the 1977 album, The Stranger. | | | The Twyla Tharp musical Movin' Out featuring the songs of Billy Joel is named after this song. | | | Movin' Out is also the title of the original Broadway cast album taken from the above musical. |
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| | This is Pop Land of the Lost DVD, Brian Wilson Smile CD |
| | A newly recorded of the Beach Boys legendary, unreleased 1967 album Smile is coming out on the Nonesuch label, Billboard report. | | | The album comes on the heels of several live performances of the Smile material overseas. | | | Wilson also has a new studio album, Gettin' in Over My Head, out on June 22. |
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| | Kraft-o-Matic Bed o' Nails Playlist |
| | She seems to have happened upon a Kraft-o-Matic Bed o' Nails playlist from 2 years ago when I played Thalia Zedek's beautiful version of "1926." The song was written by Gary Gogel and originally recorded in the early 80's by his band V;. | | | Carla Bozulich, former lead singer of the Geraldine Fibbers, has recorded a version of Willie Nelson's Red Headed Stranger album. | | | They wanted to know if she would like to have Willie sing harmony on any of the tracks. |
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| | Sales increased with each album until 1994 (Stranger Than Fiction sold 400,000 copies, their record) and then started decreasing with each album. |
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| | U-Press Telegram - MUSIC |
| | Two of the categories — album of the year and best Surround Sound album — include Ramone, this year's recipient of the Technical Grammy Award and a nominee for best musical show album for "The Boy From Oz." | | | — Produced the 1993 Frank Sinatra comeback album "Duets," which was followed a year later by "Duets II." | | | — Produced Billy Joel's 1977 breakthrough album, "The Stranger," which earned Ramone a record of the year Grammy for the single "Just the Way You Are." |
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| | Billy Joel -- vienna |
| | "The Stranger" is now sold as an Enhanced CD containing both a full audio program as well as video clips for the songs "The Stranger," "Just The Way You Are," "Scenes From An Italian Restaurant" and "Only The Good Die Young." It was recorded at AandR Recording, Inc., New York, New York. | | | He's known to many as an inoffensive pop balladeer, but at the arguable peak of his career in the late '70s, Billy Joel released his darkest, most emotionally charged album. | | | "The Stranger" abandons the grandstanding and broad melodic sweep of Joel's earlier records for a more intimate, introspective sound, effectively communicating Joel's ruminations on the perils of life and love. |
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| | Acclaimed Music - The Stranger |
| | Record Mirror (UK) - Albums of the Year | | | Pause & Play (USA) - Albums Inducted into a Time Capsule, One Album per Week | | | Yediot Ahonot (Israel) - Top 99 Albums of All Time (1999) |
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| | Browse by Artist: KAOS |
| | Captain Comatose, Matt B. Safer (The Rapture), the performance artist Namosh, Nicole (Electrocute), Boy from Brazil, Eddy Cooper and Jason Friedman (from New York punk rockers The Boggs) are also featured on the album. | | | Names like Erlend Øye, Daniel Wang, Khan and Snax all appear on the album. | | | "The second single released from the internationally- acclaimed Kaos album Hello Stranger. |
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| | SeemsLikeSalvation News |
| | The Switchblade Symphony remix album, Sinister Nostalgia, was released this past week on the 10th. | | | "All in all," mentioned The Ageless Stranger, "the album is very good and the Hillebrandt mix is certainly one of the best and worth checking out." | | | Marilyn Manson's "The Beautiful People" To Be Found On WWF Album |
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