Glass Houses (album)
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| 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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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.
Track listing
[change | change source]All songs written by Billy Joel.
| 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 | |
| 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
[change | change source]- 1 2 Erlewine, Stephen Thomas. "Glass Houses – Billy Joel". AllMusic. Retrieved August 25, 2011.
- 1 2 "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.
