The Nylon Curtain
| Billy Joel
The Nylon Curtain
The Nylon Curtain is the eighth studio album by American singer-songwriter Billy Joel, released on June 23, 1982 and produced by Phil Ramone. The Nylon Curtain peaked at number seven in the Billboard albums chart, with two million sales in the United States. It was one of the first albums to be digitally recorded, mixed, and mastered. - Wikipedia
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Rolling Stone
The Nylon Curtain finds Billy Joel on higher artistic ground than ever before.
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Ultimate Classic Rock
It's the deeper tracks that make The Nylon Curtain stand out among Joel's albums. The Nylon Curtain is his underrated masterpiece.
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Sputnik Music
Oddly nostalgic; though not for the reasons you might suspect.
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Pop Matters
What is most likely his weirdest album, The Nylon Curtain, has yet to make the Great List, and probably never will.
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Blogcritics
The Nylon Curtain may not be the place to start when exploring the music of Billy Joel but if you want a change of pace from his usual pop fare then this is the album for you.
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Classic Rock Review
On this album, the artist ventures out towards more electronic instrumentation, richer compositional arrangements as well as more complex lyrical content.
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All Music
In short, The Nylon Curtain is where Billy Joel went serious, consciously crafting a song cycle about Baby Boomers in the Reagan era.
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Daily Vault
Is it still a good album? By all means. If nothing else, it contains three of Joel's greatest songs ever. Could it have been better? Probably. But it remains a testament to a dark, bleak time in America.
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One Final Serenade
Billy Joel's 1982 album, The Nylon Curtain, is widely considered to be his most ambitious and mature album.
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Critical Playground
Billy Joel may have better individual songs than those on The Nylon Curtain, but he has never before or since put together such an ambitious and meaningful work.
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People
Musically, most of the album is vintage Joel with clever hooks. This time he has experimented with some string and horn arrangements that add depth and aural color to his style.
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Album Reviews
Joel intended The Nylon Curtain to be his major statement; he does at least succeed in creating a near-great pop album.
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Steven Maginnis
But no matter how much Beatlesque production Joel relies on, his songs have to stand up to it, and they mostly don't
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W.L. Swarts Reviews The Universe
The Nylon Curtain might not be a bad album, but it is the first truly unremarkable album by Billy Joel I have yet heard.
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