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    Greatest Hits, Vol. 3

    Billy Joel - Greatest Hits, Vol. 3

    08/19/1997 | Sony 

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    All Music Guide Review

    Perhaps it was inevitable that Billy Joel's Greatest Hits, Vol. 3 would pale next to its double-disc predecessor. Greatest Hits, Vols. 1 & 2 covered nine albums (it ignored Cold Spring Harbor), a period during which Joel had 26 Top 100 hits. If it had picked up where the first collection left off, Vol. 3 would have covered three studio albums, which produced 11 hits. That alone would have made a respectable hits collection, and it would have made sense, since The Bridge marked the beginning of a new phase of Joel's career. Instead, the 17-song Vol. 3 begins with a pair of songs from An Innocent Man ("Keeping the Faith," "An Innocent Man") that sound entirely different from the material that follows, which finds Joel delving into mechanized, slickly produced adult contemporary pop. The remaining songs don't strictly adhere to his charting hits, substituting such album tracks as "Leningrad," "Shameless" and "Lullabye (Goodnight, My Angel)" for hits like "Modern Woman," "That's Not Her Style" and his non-LP cover of Elvis' "All Shook Up." Even with those missing hits, Greatest Hits, Vol. 3 does summarize Joel's latter career quite well, culling most of his best songs from the time. However, the album ends on a down note, as it adds three new songs, all covers, that are limply produced and colorlessly played. Bob Dylan's "To Make You Feel My Love" -- which Joel decided to perform as if it was a slow, sanitized Blonde on Blonde outtake -- is the best of the trio, but none of them qualify as Joel classics, and they are an inauspicious way to end this chapter of his career. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Music Guide

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    Credits of Greatest Hits, Vol. 3

    • Joe Nicolo
    • Producer, Mixing, Percussion Sequencing, Assistant Producer, Engineer
    • Fred Tenny
    • Associate Producer, Associate Engineer
    • Len Irish
    • Artwork, Photography, Inlay Photography
    • Jim Boyer
    • Engineer, Mixing, Associate Engineer
    • David Campbell
    • Conductor, Choir Arrangement, Vocals (Background), String Arrangements
    • Jeff Jacobs
    • Synthesizer, Programming, Project Assistant
    • Billy Joel
    • Synthesizer, Harmonica, Percussion, Piano, Accordion, Harpsichord, Keyboards, Organ (Hammond), Vocals, Vocals (Background), Clavinet, Producer, Main Performer, Fender Rhodes

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