Billy Joel - Glass Houses [Friday Music 180g LP] 24-bit/96kHz 
Posted By : aksman | Date : 18 Apr 2010 21:48:00 |


Billy Joel - Glass Houses
Friday Music 180g LP / FRM 36384
Mastered by Kevin Gray @ AcousTech, Camarillo
Vinyl rip in 32-bit/192kHz (converted to 24/96 & 16/44.1) | FLAC | m3u, cue & Log
Artwork | 730/220 mb incl. recovery |& FileFactory | Rock; Pop | 1980

Allmusic.com rating: 4.5 out 5 Stars Review!

The Stranger and 52nd Street were fine albums in their own right, but its nice to hear Joel scale back his showman tendencies and deliver a solid pop/rock record. It may not be punk -- then again, it may be his concept of punk -- but Glass Houses is the closest Joel ever got to a pure rock album.
- Stephen Thomas Erlewine
	


Glass Houses is the seventh album by American singer-songwriter Billy Joel, released in 1980. It features Joels first song to peak at #1 on Billboards Pop Singles chart, It's Still Rock and Roll to Me. The album itself topped the Pop Albums chart for six weeks and was ranked number 4 on Billboards 1980 year-end album chart.

Opening with the sound of glass shattering, Glass Houses has more of a hard rock feel than Joels prior albums. Accordingly, the response to this album was quite mixed. Glass Houses alienated many long-time fans, while at the same time, attracted many new fans to his music.

The album cover consists of Joel poised to throw a rock through the big two story window of his real life modern waterfront glass house in Oyster Bay. He moved into it in 1977, after being turned down for an apartment at The Dakota. On the back of the cover, Joel is shown looking through a jagged hole he supposedly made with the rock he threw.

It was the third collaboration between Joel and producer Phil Ramone, following The Stranger and 52nd Street.

More recently, the group Marmaduke Duke has used a sample of Sleeping with the Television On in their song Rubber Lover.



Track listing

All songs written by Billy Joel.

Side A

      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


Side B

      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


Personnel

      * Billy Joel – synthesizer, harmonica, piano, accordion, vocals
      * Dave Brown – acoustic guitar, electric guitar
      * Richie Cannata – organ, flute, saxophone
      * Liberty DeVitto – percussion, drums
      * Russell Javors – acoustic guitar, electric guitar
      * Doug Stegmeyer – bass


Technical Log

RCM Hannl 'limited' with "Rotating Brush"
Music Hall MMF 9.1 Turntable
Tonearm: Pro-Ject 9cc evo with Pure Silver Wires
Cartridge: Nagaoka MP-500
Brocksieper Phonomax (Tube Phono PreAmp)
E-MU 0404 external USB 2.0 Audiointerface
Interconnections : Silent Wire NF5
Adobe Audtion 3.0 recording software
iZotope RX Advanced 1.21 for resampling and dithering

Vacuum cleaning - TT - Brocksieper Phonomax - Laptop - Audition 3 (32/192) - manual click removal - analyze (no clipping, no DC Bias offset) - converted to 24/96 with iZotope RX Advanced 1.21 - split into individual Tracks - FLAC encoded (Vers. 1.21)

No silence been removed, please burn gapless to match original tracklayout.