Glass Houses (album)
Glass Houses is the seventh studio album by Billy Joel and released on 12 March, 1980 through Columbia Records. It went to number 1 in Canada, Iceland and the United States, number 2 in Australia and Norway, number 3 in Zimbabwe, number 4 in Austria, number 6 in New Zealand, Japan and Sweden and number 9 in the United Kingdom. It won a Grammy Award in 1981.
Glass Houses | ||||
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Studio album by | ||||
Released | March 12, 1980 | |||
Recorded | 1979 at A&R Recording, New York City | |||
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Length | 35:06 | |||
Label | Family Productions/Columbia | |||
Producer | Phil Ramone | |||
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Singles from Glass Houses | ||||
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Track listing
All songs written by Billy Joel.
Side one | |||||||||
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No. | Title | Length | |||||||
1. | "You May Be Right" | 4:15 | |||||||
2. | "Sometimes a Fantasy" | 3:40 | |||||||
3. | "Don't Ask Me Why" | 2:59 | |||||||
4. | "It's Still Rock and Roll to Me" | 2:57 | |||||||
5. | "All for Leyna" | 4:15 | |||||||
Total length: |
18:06 |
Side two | |||||||||
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No. | Title | Length | |||||||
6. | "I Don't Want to Be Alone" | 3:57 | |||||||
7. | "Sleeping with the Television On" | 3:02 | |||||||
8. | "C'était Toi (You Were the One)" | 3:25 | |||||||
9. | "Close to the Borderline" | 3:47 | |||||||
10. | "Through the Long Night" | 2:43 | |||||||
Total length: |
16:54 |
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Erlewine, Stephen Thomas. "Glass Houses – Billy Joel". AllMusic. Retrieved August 25, 2011.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 "The Bridge by Billy Joel album review | Classic Rock Review". June 14, 2011.
It was also Joel's first album during the 1980's to not be focused on a single, overriding concept. 1980's Glass Houses was punk/new wave..
- ↑ Cateforis, Theo (2011). Are We Not New Wave?: Modern Pop at the Turn of the 1980s. University of Michigan Press. p. 40. ISBN 978-0-472-03470-3.
- ↑ Christgau, Robert (1990). "Billy Joel: Glass Houses". Christgau's Record Guide: The '80s. Pantheon Books. ISBN 0-679-73015-X. Retrieved November 25, 2020.