River of Dreams
| Billy Joel
River of Dreams
River of Dreams is the twelfth studio album by American singer-songwriter Billy Joel, released on August 10, 1993. He stopped recording new music as a performer after this album although he has subsequently released live albums and composed the music for an instrumental album performed by Hyung-ki Joo. - Wikipedia
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Rolling Stone
He raises the stakes with River of Dreams, diving further into the philosophical abyss of middle age with the fury of a dreamer searching for an answer before time fades away.
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All Music
River of Dreams feels like a sad close to an otherwise strong career.
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Sputnik Music
Joel allows his music to mature and progress, resulting in his best album since The Stranger.
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blogcritics
The album came across as very serious which reflected his life situation at the time. What it all added up to was a work that may not have been as memorable as his earlier classics but it was solid throughout.
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One Final Serenade
The album has on an overreaching arc to it.
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Huffington Post
Yet after diving deep into his catalog for the past few weeks, this album doesn’t sound like a swan song so much as a fresh start.
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The Paper Masque
This is an album about brutal honesty. This leads us to one of the most identifiable traits that this record has obtained: the amount of critical backlash these factors managed to provoke.
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Daily Vault
Unfortunately, the too often pedestrian songs on this album show that Joel's personal troubles took their toll on his musical inspiration.
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Album Reviews
Like Storm Front, River of Dreams is another po-faced effort from Joel.
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EW
River of Dreams is a popmeister’s epiphany, a pensive record that also manages to be irresistible. But when he probes this far into himself, it becomes something stronger, almost a state of musical grace.
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W.L. Swarts Reviews The Universe
In the end, River Of Dreams manages not to be dated and most of the tracks are distinctive and interesting, which is more than can be said for the bulk of many artist’s works.
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