Billy Joel - The Essential Video Collection

Starring:Billy Joel
Studio: Sony
Product Type: DVD

Average customer rating:

Brilliant Songs; Slapstick Video
ITS A ESSENTIAL VIDEO COLLECTIO YOU SHOULD HAVE
Billy Joel Fans will enjoy these Videos!
Piano Man of Wonder
Great video collection

Billy Joel - The Essential Video Collection
Starring: Billy Joel
Manufacturer: Sony
ProductGroup: DVD
Binding: DVD

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ASIN: B00005RT35
Release Date: 2001-11-20

Customer Reviews:

Brilliant Songs; Slapstick Video.......2005-09-10

This DVD has my most favorite Billy Joes songs. The songs I used to listen to endlessly as a teenager and those that have so much memories associated with.

The picturization are like watching slapstick comedy. Please don't ruin your memories watching these unless you want to ruin these songs for you.

ITS A ESSENTIAL VIDEO COLLECTIO YOU SHOULD HAVE.......2005-09-05

If you know Billy Joel work. You will like this DVD. Maybe could have better clear image but maybe is not possible. I recommend it.

Billy Joel Fans will enjoy these Videos!.......2005-04-09

I'm also a huge fan of Billy Joel (have all of his albums since I was a kid). I often tell friends, I have never been to New York, but listening to Billy takes me there! He's a bit of story teller with the talent to write catchy tunes.
I gave this DVD 4 stars because while I like all the Videos in the DVD, it's by no means a complete collection. There are songs missing from the Storm Front and River of Dreams Albums, and some of his older stuff too. It was a surprise to see such songs as "Los Angelenos" and "James" on this collection. I like his 80's videos because they go very well with his music. Perhaps a two CD collection could have captured everything nevertheless, it's still a must have for Billy Joel fans.

Piano Man of Wonder.......2005-04-09

I reeally love a lot of great artists that have been not just influential, but artists that have such great appeal for pop music. Yet, while there are so many great acts out right now who really don't seem to have as much in influence as they did back in the 70's and 80's. For a true legend like Billy Joel, his music still keeps coming back, despite his departure from recording any well-received songs in over a decade. Still, that hasn't stopped his catalog of videos and songs from coming back with another collection of winners. Yet, when there does come to a really well put music video DVD reflection of Billy's music, it does miss the shot here.

Billy Joel: The Essential Video Collection is a well put reflection of Billy's best music videos from the 70's and 80's. The collection of songs here is very well put and remastered well. This DVD music video collection features great Billy Joel videos like Tell Her About It, the classic soulful Uptown Girl, Honesty, The Longest Time, You're Only Human (Second Wind) and other greats. Yet this music video collection does miss quite a lot when it comes to his later videos like The River Of Dreams, Lenningrad, the classic retrospective video We Didn't Start The Fire, I Go To Extremes, the dramatic video for The Downeaster Alexa, or No Man's Land.

I still think it is just a shame Billy Joel hasn't came back into the pop music scene, because his music just remains as pure classic. As for this DVD collection, I really would only suggest this, if you purchase the Greatest Hits Volume III music video collection to go with it. Otherwise, there would just be so much in videos missing.

DVD Cover: A

Mastering: B

Videos: C+

Price: B-

Overall: C+

Great video collection.......2003-11-16

I bought the VHS version of this (I didn't have a DVD player at the time but now I do) but whichever version you own I think we all agree that it is a great collection of Billy Joel videos. I especially was pleased to be able to see videos that I had never seen before or had only seen brief clips from like "James", "My Life", "Big Shot", "Honesty", "All for Leyna", "You May Be Right", "Sometimes A Fantasy", "Everybody Loves You Now", "Los Angelenos", and "Goodnight Saigon".

Given all that, here are a few minor complaints:

1) Why couldn't they have put the "Video Album Vol. 1" video of "Piano Man" on this instead of a mediocre live version that we can already get on VHS or DVD? I mean, it's not like they're going to ever re-release the "Video Album" volumes on DVD.

2) Couldn't they have changed the sequence of the videos in some way (my preference would have been chronological) instead of just splicing together the two "Video Album" volumes and then tacking on the extra videos at the end.

3) I guess I can understand why they didn't include most of the videos found on the "Greatest Hits Vol. 3" video since that was released not too long ago but if you're gonna call it "The Essential Video Collection" then shouldn't it include ALL of his essential videos.

4) Would have been nice if they could have dug up a live clip or two of performing any of his hits from "The Stranger".

Overall this an excellent video collection and I would have rated it 5 stars but the complaints I listed above were enough for me to deduct 1 star.

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