Billy Joel - Greatest Hits, Volume 3: The Video
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List Price: $14.98
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Manufacturer: Sony
Starring: Billy Joel, Ray Charles
Directed By: Andrew Morahan, Chris Blum, Derek Horne, Ernie Fritz, Howard Deutch
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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 9786304803738
Format: Best of
ISBN: 6304803737
Label: Sony
Number Of Items: 1
Picture Format: Academy Ratio
Publisher: Sony
Region Code: 1
Release Date: 1998-03-31
Running Time: 80
Studio: Sony
Theatrical Release Date: 1997-11-18
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Summary: Billy Joel--What can I say
Comment: If you are a fan this is an enjoyable collection of videos. This contains a rare and previously unreleased Bob Dylan song. I enjoy it.
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Summary: Greates Hits Volume 3
Comment: Another quality album with gret Billy Joel Songs. All classic songs you have heard before.
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Summary: They Chopped Up The Music Videos!
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As a fan I enjoy hearing Billy speak about his music and videos, but not at the expense of the videos themselves. The person who edited this program together chopped up most of the music videos so as to intersperse Billy's comments within them. All of the music videos are chopped up, except for:
-- And So It Goes [though Billy speaks over it]
-- No Man's Land [after a false start, the real video plays complete]
-- Lullabye (Goodnight, My Angel) [though Billy speaks over the last few seconds of the video]
-- To Make Your Feel My Love [though Billy speaks over the very end of the video]
It should also be noted that the last two videos are in reverse order from how they are listed on the packaging. "Hey Girl" and "To Make Your Feel My Love" is the correct order.
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Summary: The Piano Man on the small screen again!
Comment: This package is a lot like the audio counterpart of this video album. The only differences on this album are NO MAN'S LAND,a RIVER OF DREAMS track and live versions of ALL ABOUT SOUL,also from ROD and SHAMELESS,from STORM FRONT. See the audio counterpart for other details.
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Summary: A decade of great music on DVD.....
Comment: If you like Billy Joel as much as I do and enjoy music videos, Columbia Music Video's Billy Joel Greatest Hits Volume III: The Video is a DVD you should add to your video library.
Although its running time doesn't quite allow CMV to present all the songs from the 1997 CD with the final volume of Joel's greatest hits, the DVD includes some of the best songs from that album, including "Keeping the Faith," "A Matter of Trust," "We Didn't Start the Fire," "And So It Goes," and "The River of Dreams."
Volume III covers the last 10 years of Joel's pop/adult rock and charts his artistic evolution. Creative and always exploring new musical territory, Joel is a versatile songwriter/vocalist, able to leap from style to style almost effortlessly. On this collection of videos, he goes from guitar-based rock in both "A Matter of Trust" and "We Didn't Start the Fire" to folk (the Celtic-beat-driven "The Downeaster Alexa"), to blues-tinged gospel ("The River of Dreams") and even classical, as in the hauntingly lovely "Lullabye (Good Night, My Angel)," which has a piano solo in the style of composer Edward Grieg.
While I enjoy all the videos and the interesting behind-the-song introductions by Joel, my favorites are "A Matter of Trust," particularly for its depiction of a fed-up neighbor who tells Joel and his rock-n-roll band to "Shut up!" in typical Big Apple fashion. I also take a particular shine to "The Downeaster Alexa," not only for its tale of hard-on-their-luck fishermen on Long Island, but because of its Celtic flavored backbeat and stylings. "A River of Dreams" is very catchy and I like the melody, the harmony of the gospel-styled backup singers, and the lyrics. As a Cold War kid, I loved Joel's "Leningrad," where he tells the parallel lives of Viktor, a Russian circus clown, and himself....and how they became friends when Joel toured the former Soviet Union in 1987. And because I am a sentimental person, I am always moved by both "And So It Goes" and the "Lullabye."
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