Billy Joel Greatest Hits: Vol. 1-2 [1998]

Posted on November 4, 2008 | Category: Billy Joel, Rock

“Say Goodbye To Hollywood” is now the original 1976 version from “Turnstiles”. On the previous edition, it was the live version from 1981’s “Songs In The Attic”. The 1981 version became a Top 20 hit, so if you favor that one, you may want to hang on to your old non-remastered GHVI&II. I probably prefer the live version simply because I’m more familiar with it and it seems to have more energy than the original, but that alone wasn’t enough to keep me from parting with my old GHVI&II.

The bonus multimedia material included is pretty much the same kind of superfluous window dressing found on other discs of this nature - discographies, album covers, etc., all of which of course can be readily found on the Internet (if you didn’t know that, you wouldn’t be reading this right now, right?). It does however, contain the videos for the two “new” songs on this record, “You’re Only Human (Second Wind)” and “The Night Is Still Young”. “You’re Only Human” is actually a very good video for an otherwise so-so song, with Billy playing the angel role in yet another spin on “It’s A Wonderful Life”. However, one still kind of wishes they’d left off all this stuff and just used the space to add a couple more well-known songs like “Honesty”, “Prelude/Angry Young Man”, “Miami 2017 (Seen The Lights Go Out On Broadway)”, “Sometimes A Fantasy”, or “Leave A Tender Moment Alone”.

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