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Billy Joel - 12 Gardens: Live (2CD)
CD DetailsArtist: Billy Joel Brand: Sony Edition: Music CD Format: Live CD Release Date: 2006-06-13 Music Label: Sony Soundtracks: Music CD 1- Angry Young man
- My Life
- Everybody Loves You Now
- Billy the Kid
- The Entertainer
- Vienna
- New York State of Mind
- The Night is Still young
- Zanzibar
- Miami 2017
- The Great Wall of China
- Allentown
- She's Right on Time
- Don't Ask Me Why
- Laura
Music CD 2- Goodnight Saigon
- Movin Out
- An Innocent man
- The Downeaster Alexa
- Always a Woman
- Keeping the Faith
- River of Dreams
- A Matter of Trust
- We Didn't Start the Fire
- Big Shot
- You May Be Right
- Only the Good Die Young
- Scenes From an Italian Restaurant
- Piano Man
- And So it Goes
Music reviews of 12 Gardens: Live (2CD)Music Review: Mr. Joel Live Rating: 5 StarsI alrady owned Konzert from his earlier days. The 12 Gardens album shows his ability to put up a terrific show after so many years. Not many artists can say that.
The songs sound crisp enough, which is ok for me since I like live recordings for not being picture perfect. If I wanted that I'd listen to Pink Floyd more....
So very well recommended for music fans in general, and Joel fans in particular....
Description of 12 Gardens: Live (2CD)This extraordinary double CD from superstar Billy Joel was recorded live at Madison Square Garden during his recent record-breaking 12 sold-out shows in New York City. This two-hour collection features amazing live versions of thirty of Billy's greatest hits and fan favorites. More from Billy Joel  The Stranger |  Turnstiles |  An Innocent Man |  Billy Joel: Greatest Hits Vol. 1-2 |  My Lives (Box Set) |  Movin' Out (2002 Original Broadway Cast) |
12 Gardens Live is worth the cost just for Billy Joel's still-robust renditions of "My Life," "Only the Good Die Young," "Movin' Out (Anthony's Song)," and "Big Shot"--time off has not taken a toll on the piano man's pipes, and his playing remains on the right side of rock critics' expectations--but the big surprise here are the sleeper hits; by rights, they should sink like stones amid a sea of universally loved signatures. Instead they shimmer brightly, landing on ears like undervalued gems. "Goodnight Saigon," "Zanzibar," "Laura," and "Miami 2017" are recognizable titles only to the type of wild-eyed Billy Joel fan liable to throw her bra onstage, but they linger, pleasingly, past such late-career chart-climbers as "The River of Dreams" and "We Didn't Start the Fire." Woven around "New York State of Mind" and "Allentown," they serve to remind any student of pop why Joel is a worthy statesman. For those who needed no reminding, pleasant surprises of a different sort await: the double disc is home to two hidden tracks. On disc one, a rocked-up version of "A Room of Our Own" returns the entertainer to the Madison Square Garden stage, where he is duly howled over. And on disc two, after delivering a goosebump-raising rendition of "And So it Goes" that surely would have sufficed as a memorable closer to a monumental gig, he busts back out with "It's Still Rock & Roll to Me." Those who thought he forgot to include it on the set list should revisit "Keeping the Faith." --Tammy La Gorce
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