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Title: Wow!
Review: Every song here, except for the overdone "Big Shot", is a very good to great song, all expressing thoughtful sentiments & evoking dramatic sketches in vastly different emotional timbers/tones (unlike the first-rate yet more monotonous Elton John), comprisng into a great epic tapestry of first-rate melodies, lyrics, singing & playing! Unlike most Top 40 songs nowadays, the songs actually MEAN something, telling double-edged truths of everyman's life & universal attendent problems. Based on this album, along with Greatest Hits III, Billy Joel shows himself to be the most consistent completist singer-songwriter-player in pop/rock we have over the last 25 years.
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