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12 of 12 people found the following review helpful
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Maybe it's because there aren't any love songs on this that it's so uncelebrated, because this is a simply brilliant album.
"Allentown" opens things up with vital force and that continues through the first side, ending with another political song, the Vietnam lament "Goodnight Saigon", a genuine epic.
In between, you find "Pressure", which is the best rock song Joel ever recorded.
As for the second side, it's full of unexpected numbers: "Scandinavian Skies" is really intriguing, and the closer "Where's The Orchestra?" has yet another fantastic lyric to accompany a mournful melody.
If you want Joel at his warmest, buy "An Innocent Man", if you want Joel at his most melodic, buy "The Stranger", but if you want Joel at his most intelligent, buy "The Nylon Curtain". A fantastic collection of songs that bears repeated listening.
"Allentown" opens things up with vital force and that continues through the first side, ending with another political song, the Vietnam lament "Goodnight Saigon", a genuine epic.
In between, you find "Pressure", which is the best rock song Joel ever recorded.
As for the second side, it's full of unexpected numbers: "Scandinavian Skies" is really intriguing, and the closer "Where's The Orchestra?" has yet another fantastic lyric to accompany a mournful melody.
If you want Joel at his warmest, buy "An Innocent Man", if you want Joel at his most melodic, buy "The Stranger", but if you want Joel at his most intelligent, buy "The Nylon Curtain". A fantastic collection of songs that bears repeated listening.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
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On my first listening, there were a number of occasions when I thought that I had purchased a Beatles album rather than a Billy Joel album. During 'Laura', Joel sounds uncannily like John Lennon at times. And 'Scandinavian Skies' sounds more like something you'd expect to find on 'Magical Mystery Tour'. This is certainly one of Joel's more unusual offerings.
Curiously, this somewhat offbeat album starts and finishes badly. The opening 'Allentown' is a little dull (it doesn't seem to have a chorus!) and 'Where's the orchestra?' closes the album with something of a whimper rather than a bang. But there is lots of quality in between. My two favourite songs are 'Pressure' (which makes great use of synthesisers) and the festive 'She's right on time'. Sandwiched between these two is 'Goodnight Saigon', another excellent example of those slow ballads that Joel does so well.
One of Joel's better-known albums this is not, but I would definitely recommend it as one of his more interesting records.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
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If the Beatles had kept on going this is the type of music we could have expected them to produce by the early '80s. I can't pay this masterpiece of an album a better compliment that that. Marvellous.
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Brilliant
One of my favourite albums from Joel. It didn't sell too well in the UK which to me is a mystery. This a powerful set with an angry feel about it, containing songs about subjects... Read more
Published 3 months ago by Monsieur le B
The twisted flipside of the American Dream, by way of a Beatles...
Billy Joel is angry, and he is searching, and on his 1982 release "The Nylon Curtain," he is at his most cynical, introspective and yet most creative. Read more
Published 8 months ago by John J. Martinez
Billy does The Beatles
Joel does seem to try and evoke the sound of The Beatles on a number of tracks. Not his best album, but not his worst.....and worth your money for Goodnight Saigon alone.
Published 10 months ago by JimD
Joel's best work
I was always aware of Billy Joel throughout the '70s and quite liked some of the stuff I'd heard without paying too much attention to him. Read more
Published on 23 July 2009 by J. Pauley
Definately His Best Album
Billy Joel's The Nylon Curtain is his finest album ever, and one of his earliest.
It has 9 traks, some of which (Allentown, She's Right On Time, Goodnight Saigon) are not just a... Read more
Published on 24 July 2004 by "aefevans"
An early Billy Joel Classic
Not one of his more famous albums but one of my favourites. In fact the album contains my favourite Billy Joel track:- Saigon. Read more
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