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Numbered, Limited Edition 180g 45rpm Vinyl!
Mastered From Original Master Tapes! Pressed at RTI!
This item not eligible for any further discount offers!
This 1981 live album finds Joel adding warmth to ballads and punch and kick to rockers. Mobile Fidelity's version gives the listener a dead-center seat and wonderful sonic perspective! The album is an ideal summation of Joels early period material, enhanced by an accomplished band in a concert setting.
Great live albums often function as documents of a performers stinting onstage abilities, stopgaps between studio albums, introductions to a musicians earlier work, and/or opportunities for familiar material to be showcased in superior ways. Songs In the Attic serves all of these purposes and more. As Billy Joels first live album, its still his best, punctuated by dynamic renditions of favorites and deep cuts, and augmented by a tested band in sync with the pianist.
A vital component of Mobile Fidelitys Billy Joel catalog restoration series, Songs In the Attic is mastered from the original master tapes and pressed on 180g LP at RTI. The resulting presentation effortlessly outshines that heard on all previous editions of this 1981 set. Joels piano possesses fuller body and lifelike resonance. His veteran groups contributions emerge with newfound clarity, dynamics, decay, and extension. Balances are supreme, and shades and colors blend, amplifying richness and presence.
On the heels of three multi-platinum albums and a commercial breakthrough, Joel released Songs In the Attic to both tide fans over until 1982s The Nylon Curtain as well to feature material in a looser, warmer setting. The record highlights not only the singers consistency and knack for indelible melodies, but savvy live techniques. Upbeat tunes such as Everybody Loves You Now receive a more fleshed-out treatment that yields added punch and swagger, while balladic numbers like Ive Loved These Days take on a cozy warmth akin to the feeling of putting on a sweater on a cool fall day.
Songs In the Attic also bridged the gap for listeners for whom Joel was then a new entity, as many didnt come to his music until The Stranger. Hence, tracks like Captain Jack and The Ballad of Billy the Kid, from Piano Man, get a fresh identity, particularly courtesy of a backing band that, by then, had been gigging with Joel for years. No wonder that, unlike a majority of live records, Songs In the Attic yielded two Top 40 pop hits: Say Goodbye to Hollywood and Shes Got a Way. No matter from what angle its viewed, the set stands as one of the most important and enjoyable live records ever released.
Features:
Numbered, Limited Edition
45rpm Speed Edition
2LP Set
Production and Mastering by Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab
Specially Plated and Pressed on 180 grams of High Definition Vinyl
Pressed at RTI
Special Static Free - Dust Free Inner Sleeve
Heavy Duty Protective Packaging
Mastered from the Original Master Tapes
Selections:
1. Miami 2017 (Seen the Lights Go Out on Broadway)
2. Summer, Highland Falls
3. Streetlife Serenader
4. Los Angelenos
5. She's Got A Way
6. Everybody Loves You Now
7. Say Goodbye To Hollywood
8. Captain Jack
9. You're My Home
10. The Ballad of Billy The Kid
11. I've Loved These Days
Mastered From Original Master Tapes! Pressed at RTI!
This item not eligible for any further discount offers!
This 1981 live album finds Joel adding warmth to ballads and punch and kick to rockers. Mobile Fidelity's version gives the listener a dead-center seat and wonderful sonic perspective! The album is an ideal summation of Joels early period material, enhanced by an accomplished band in a concert setting.
Great live albums often function as documents of a performers stinting onstage abilities, stopgaps between studio albums, introductions to a musicians earlier work, and/or opportunities for familiar material to be showcased in superior ways. Songs In the Attic serves all of these purposes and more. As Billy Joels first live album, its still his best, punctuated by dynamic renditions of favorites and deep cuts, and augmented by a tested band in sync with the pianist.
A vital component of Mobile Fidelitys Billy Joel catalog restoration series, Songs In the Attic is mastered from the original master tapes and pressed on 180g LP at RTI. The resulting presentation effortlessly outshines that heard on all previous editions of this 1981 set. Joels piano possesses fuller body and lifelike resonance. His veteran groups contributions emerge with newfound clarity, dynamics, decay, and extension. Balances are supreme, and shades and colors blend, amplifying richness and presence.
On the heels of three multi-platinum albums and a commercial breakthrough, Joel released Songs In the Attic to both tide fans over until 1982s The Nylon Curtain as well to feature material in a looser, warmer setting. The record highlights not only the singers consistency and knack for indelible melodies, but savvy live techniques. Upbeat tunes such as Everybody Loves You Now receive a more fleshed-out treatment that yields added punch and swagger, while balladic numbers like Ive Loved These Days take on a cozy warmth akin to the feeling of putting on a sweater on a cool fall day.
Songs In the Attic also bridged the gap for listeners for whom Joel was then a new entity, as many didnt come to his music until The Stranger. Hence, tracks like Captain Jack and The Ballad of Billy the Kid, from Piano Man, get a fresh identity, particularly courtesy of a backing band that, by then, had been gigging with Joel for years. No wonder that, unlike a majority of live records, Songs In the Attic yielded two Top 40 pop hits: Say Goodbye to Hollywood and Shes Got a Way. No matter from what angle its viewed, the set stands as one of the most important and enjoyable live records ever released.
Features:
Numbered, Limited Edition
45rpm Speed Edition
2LP Set
Production and Mastering by Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab
Specially Plated and Pressed on 180 grams of High Definition Vinyl
Pressed at RTI
Special Static Free - Dust Free Inner Sleeve
Heavy Duty Protective Packaging
Mastered from the Original Master Tapes
Selections:
1. Miami 2017 (Seen the Lights Go Out on Broadway)
2. Summer, Highland Falls
3. Streetlife Serenader
4. Los Angelenos
5. She's Got A Way
6. Everybody Loves You Now
7. Say Goodbye To Hollywood
8. Captain Jack
9. You're My Home
10. The Ballad of Billy The Kid
11. I've Loved These Days
