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Billy Joel - Glass Houses


Billy Joel
Glass Houses

    Considered at the time to be Joel's answer to New Wave, Glass Houses remains his most rocking album. All ready a big star, Joel made plenty of AOR headway with the hits "You May Be Right" and "It's Still Rock & Roll To Me," but the album has time for a couple of gentle moments.

Class Houses, Billy Joel's all-out attempt at a rock & roll album, is just about as convincing and exciting as Linda Ronstadt's recent Mad Love, though the latter sounds a lot more game and likable than the former ever will. Ronstadt may never understand what songwriters like Elvis Costello and Warren Zevon are talking about, but at least she knows who they are and that they represent something
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both honorable and artistic. She's not a complete de adbeat. Joel, on the other hand, always comes off like a particularly obnoxious frat boy who's hoisted a few too many while trying to put the make on an airline stewardess. His profundity is singles-bar deep. As Danny Fields, Steve Forbert's and lggy Pop's manager, said long ago about a Pointer Sisters LP: "I thought we invented rock & roll to get away from crap like this." At any rate, since Mad Love and Glass Houses–MOR-pop-rock by superstars – will surely sell millions of copies, perhaps a new music-biz trophy is in order. Let's award Billy Joel a polyester record and hope he'll go away.

Two rock-critic friends of mine, both part-time Joel admirers, actually like Glass Houses "because there's nothing overtly stupid on it" (meaning there certainly was on 52nd Street, The Stranger, et al.). Some defense. Yet, in a way, I suppose they're right: unless you consider the entire album one bland and endless bad joke–as I do–there aren't any real howlers. Just fake this and fake that. Listen to Billy Joel take on the Rolling Stones, muffing a Mick Jagger inflection at the end of the third line in every verse of "You May Be Right," while the band dutifully cranks out what it considers raunch. Depressing, huh? Then there's fake Paul Simon ("Don't Ask Me Why"), fake Beatles circa their Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band period ("All for Leyna," especially the choruses) and a godawful sort of Eagles-go-punk state of the union message called "Close to the Borderline," in which Joel reaches the heady conclusion that "Life is tough."

What's most annoying about Joel is his holier-than-thou sneakiness, his insistence to have it both ways. In "You May Be Right," the singer strikes one of the silliest tough-guy poses ever ("I've been stranded in the combat zone/I walked through Bedford Stuy alone/Even rode my motorcycle in the rain"), in general behaves like a perfect asshole, blames his girl for his actions when she points out that he's nuts, and then sums up everything with the logic of an egomaniac:

You may be right

I may be crazy

But it just may be a lunatic you're looking for ...

You may be wrong for all I know

But you may be right.

I guess what Joel's trying to do here is picture himself as a lovable loony, a teddy bear with a zip gun, but this brand of madness is snug enough–and smug enough–to make someone like Art Garfunkel look like Iggy Pop.

Billy Joel Records and CDs:
52nd Street
All About Soul
All For Leyna
An Innocent Man
Cold Spring Harbor
Glass Houses
I Go To Extremes
It's Still Rock And Roll To Me
  Just The Way You Are
Kohuept
Leave A Tender Moment Alone
Modern Woman
My Life
No Man's Land
Piano Man
  River Of Dreams
Songs In The Attic
Storm Front
Streetlife Serenade
Tell Her About It
The Bridge
The Nylon Curtain
  The Stranger
This Is The Time
Turnstiles
Uptown Girl
We Didn't Start The Fire

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/ 1980 Nl catalog Number: 450087 1 Cbs
M-/M- LP   $6.95   H&E Records
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Near Mont Usa, Columbia, Fc36384, 1980
n/m LP   $7.11   pepechango
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Columbia, 1980. Fc 36384. Ex/ex
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Lp + Cdr Copy: Ex Nl 1980 Nl Cbs:4500871: This Is An Excellent Lp That We Will Acquire Through O Special Order
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Billy Joel - Glass Houses (rmst) (enh) Upc: 074646938621 You May Be Right Sometimes Sony, 10...
Brand New CD   $6.37   BetamOnline
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You May Be Right Sometimes A Fantasy Don't Ask Me Why It's Still Roc Col, 10/20/1998
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CD   $9.12   Action
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Col (sony Music), 5099749118621, 1998-05-25 Special Order
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509974911862 record ed: 1980 Cdx1 Edition: 1980 Glass Houses Barcode: 509974911862 Special Order
CD   $41.55   CDExpress
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Billy Joel Glass Houses Lp Record Number 36384 And In Vg= Condition Columbia, 36384
vg+ LP   $1.19   rarencheap
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USED VINYL LP   $1.60   Musica Auton
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Cbs86108 + Lyric Bag
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Light Rubs To Vinyl. Plastic Still On Cover. One Corner Chewed. Cbs, 1980
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S feel Free To E-mail With Any Questions Usa, Columbia, 36384, 1980
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The Back-to-back Success Of The Stranger And 52nd Street May Have Brought Billy Joel Fame And For...
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Columbia, Fc 36384, 1980
M- VG+ LP   $3.45   Brothers
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Cover Very Nice, Has A Name Written In Upper Right Only. Usa, Cbs, 36384, 1980
Ex LP   $3.99   Alfred Carte
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/ 1980 Nl catalog Number: 86108 Cbs
M-/VG+ LP   $3.96   H&E Records
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Ten Tarck Lp. Uk Pressing. 1980 Cbs, 86108
ex LP   $4.02   Billys Vinyl
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VG+/EX LP   $4.82   Bside the
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Canada, Columbia, 36384, 1/1/1980
VG+ VG LP   $4.41   Never Ending
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Holland, Cbs 86108, 1980
vg+/vg+ LP   $5.10   De Saffel
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C.b.s., 86108, 1980
EX LP   $6.12   Vinylshop
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You May Be Right/sometimes A Fantasy/don't Ask Me Why/it's Still Rock And Roll To Me/all For Leyn...
VG Ex LP   $7.65   Vinyl Soluti
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Recs Cbs, Cb 271, 1980
LP   $8.04   salter
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Near Mint LP   $6.75   groove2groov
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Very Good LP   $8.34   Devil
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Columbia Records, 36384, 1980
VG LP   $8.00   Ron Sulaski
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Uk, Cbs, S Cbs 86108, 1980
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1980, Cbs, Australia
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Brazil, Cbs, 138183, 80
ex- LP   $9.00   Faunus
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Rare Orig 10 Track 1980 Lp Issue U.k., Cbs
EX/M LP   $10.51   Disc Covery
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Peru, Cbs, 8471, 1980
ex+/nm LP   $9.99   Sudamerica
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Inner, Shrink Columbia, 36384
M- LP   $10.00   Craig Moerer
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VG VG LP   $12.07   sebo do disc
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ex/ex LP   $11.82   Acousticsoup
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Usa, Columbia 36384, 1980
Excellent LP   $12.23   Don Hartman
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Orig s original Shrink! Columbia Fc-36384, 1980
M- NM LP   $13.80   Earth Wave
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Columbia-3638 glass Houses Style: Rock Special Order
LP   $15.15   CDExpress
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Holland Sleeve Vg Small Surface Tear With Inner Cbs, Cbs86108
EX LP   $16.08   Sweet Memori
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Cbs, 86108
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Cbs, Cbs 86108 Special Order
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Canada, Columbia, Fct 36384, 1980
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