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Product Identifiers
ProducerPhil Ramone
Record LabelMOFI, Mobile Fidelity
UPC0821797209366
eBay Product ID (ePID)23053078952
Product Key Features
FormatSuper Audio CD (SACD)
Release Year2012
GenrePop
ArtistBilly Joel
Release TitleThe Nylon Curtain
Dimensions
Item Height0.29 in
Item Weight0.18 lb
Item Length5.61 in
Item Width5.26 in
Additional Product Features
Number of Tracks9
TracksAllentown, Laura, Pressure, Goodnight Saigon, She's Right on Time, A Room of Our Own, Surprises, Scandinavian Skies, Where's the Orchestra?
Number of Discs1
NotesBilly Joel The Nylon Curtain on Numbered Edition Hybrid SACDLegendary Singer-Songwriter Channels John Lennon on Musically Ambitious and Socially Poignant Baby Boomer-Themed SetHaving triumphantly asserted himself as a take-no-mess singer-songwriter on 1980's hard-rocking Glass Houses, Billy Joel continues to push his creative impulses on The Nylon Curtain, a fascinating song cycle that pays tribute to John Lennon and stands as the most ambitious project of his career. Enriched by sweeping orchestral arrangements and socially conscious lyrics, the 1982 set addresses unemployment, war, and realities of the Reagan era with exacting precision. Insightful and clever, the album's Baby Boomer-themed narratives continue to resonate.The Nylon Curtain is mastered from the original master tapes and made available on fully transparent hybrid SACD. The myriad nuances amidst Phil Ramone's crisp production assume greater tonality, texture, and detail. What was a very good-sounding album is now an audiophile-caliber favorite, with transparency, clarity, and microdynamics enhancing the poignant connection between Joel's expressiveness and the listener's emotions. The Nylon Curtain is now an even more personal experience, a brilliant distillation of sadness, loss, hope, and anger. Harnessing concerns, obsessions, reflections, and feelings that consumed a majority of the Baby Boomer generation near the beginning of the Reagan Era, Joel delves into job loss ('Allentown'), wartime fallout ('Goodbye Saigon'), and, of course, romantic longing ('She's Right on Time'). Rather than take a long-view perspective, Joel gets up and close to the issues, infusing the fare with a mix of sadness, frustration, cautious optimism, and moodiness that he wears on his sleeve. Joel's melodies, too, ricochet with unmistakably personal sentiment, as he constructs arrangements in tribute to Lennon, whose ghost arises on pieces like 'Scandinavian Skies' and 'Laura.' Pop culture author Chuck Klosterman addresses the Beatles link and The Nylon Curtain's timeless appeal in Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs, writing: 'Laura' and 'Where's the Orchestra' really are as good as what's on The White Album. This is because the first song says things so directly that it's words shouldn't make sense to anyone else (and yet they do), while the latter is so metaphorically vague that anybody should be able to understand what he's implying.'But relate and understand audiences do: The Nylon Curtain remains a pop marvel, introspective juggernaut, and finally, courtesy of Mobile Fidelity, a sonic landmark. Joel's anguish, regrets, sorrow, and worries transcend both tastes and time. Somewhat underappreciated upon it's original release, the 55-minute effort is now regarded as a conceptual masterpiece.
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- 31. Jul. 2019
Billy Joel's Triumph
The Nylon Curtain is for this listener, one of Billy Joel's greatest recordings. It not only pays tribute to the Beatles (The Lennonesque sounds of Laura, Surprises; Paul McCartney on Where's the Orchestra), but addresses topical issues too (the fading manufacturing industry on Allentown; stunning tribute to Vietnam Vets and those lost on Goodnight Saigon). Also includes awesome single Pressure, and for this listener, one of Mr Joel's best rockers: A Room of Our Own. Mr Joel presents some of his best melodies and vocals. The CD layer of the hybrid SACD version provides astonishing clarity of each instrument including Mr Joel's voice. I feel immersed in the music when I listen to this hybrid SACD. A great musical achievement.Bestätigter Kauf: JaArtikelzustand: Neu
- 17. Mai. 2016
Love this CD
One of my favourite Billy Joel releases. Very personal lyrics coming after some average pop releases.Bestätigter Kauf: JaArtikelzustand: Gebraucht
