Billy Joel - Glass Houses
1980, CBS Inc. / Columbia Records
The success of his piano-driven ballads like Just the Way You Are and Honesty never sat well with him. With Glass Houses, Joel attacked the new wave popularity with aplomb. The album spent 6 weeks at # 1 on the Billboard chart and yielded such classics as You May Be Right (# 7, May 1980), Close To The Borderline(flip side of the You May Be Right single), Don"t Ask Me Why (# 19, September 1980), Sometimes A Fantasy (# 36, November 1980) and It"s Still Rock & Roll to Me, which became Joel"s first Billboard # 1 song in July, 1980. Glass Houses won the Grammy for Best Rock Vocal Performance, Male. It would also win the American Music Award for Favorite Album, Pop/Rock category.
Songs:
You May Be Right
Sometimes a Fantasy
Don"t Ask Me Why
It"s Still Rock and Roll To Me
All For Leyna
I Don"t Want to Be Alone
Sleeping With The Television On
C"ETAIT TOI (You Were The One)
Close To the Borderline
Through The Long Night
To view more information about this album visit Billy Joel - Glass Houses.
No comments:
Post a Comment