Title: The Man Behind The Curtain
Product review: Nylon Curtain is the most underrated album in the Billy Joel catalog. The work is ambitious and not as immediately accessible as his other records, but the album is full of impressive music. The theme of alienation runs through the album in songs like the pounding, paranoiac "Pressure", the jilted lover in "Laura", the dying steel industry in "Allentown", the soldiers in "Goodnight Saigon". The album's closing "Where's The Orchestra?" is a Beatlesque number that shows his ambition to make more than just 3-minute pop songs. Most people rank Nylon Curtain as one of their least favorite Billy Joel records, but that is selling the album short. He doesn't always hit on everything, but it is the willingness to stretch one's boundaries that make this an enjoyable and interesting listen.
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