Cold Spring Harbor [Enhanced, Original recording remastered]

Billy Joel | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (February 1, 2008)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Enhanced, Original recording remastered
• Label: SBME SPECIAL MKTS.
• ASIN: B0012GMX6K
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #7,401 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars First album show true potential, April 26, 2008

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R. Engstrom "lifetime musician" (Oregon,USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Cold Spring Harbor (Audio CD)

Even thought the album was recorded and then released accidentally recorded at the wrong speed, it still shows the true potential of Billy Joel. Some of the songs have been re-recorded live on later albums but this album is still one of my favorites, along with Streetlife Serenade,Turnstiles,and 52nd Street.

7 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars The original version of this album was great; this is not, September 16, 2010

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David Pearlman "sound fanatic" (Arlington, MA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Cold Spring Harbor (Audio CD)

Cold Spring Harbor was originally released in the early '70s on a small label. The album was terrific classic Joel, although the vinyl pressing was not: Someone goofed when mastering the album, and sped the tape up by about 8%, making Joel sound something like a deep-throated chipmonk. The record sold zilch and went out of print long before Joel became a star. In the mid '80s, with Joel now a megastar, it was announced that the album would be remastered and re-released. That was great news to the fans who knew and loved the first effort.

But they didn't just remaster and re-release the album. Instead, Joel played with it. He remixed it. He added instruments. He changed the whole sound of the album. What finally emerged was a travesty: Lethargic, uninvolving, lacking most of the charm of the original.

I suppose this will do (and will have to do) for those without turntables and/or without an interest in record collecting. But be aware that it's nothing more than a hollow echo of the real beast that owns this name.

For shame.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Pre-Piano Man very impressive at corrected speed, October 16, 2009

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R. Warner "bobbie1" (Wilmington, DE United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Cold Spring Harbor (Audio CD)

You can hear the seeds of what was to come here from Billy Joel...first coming together with the next album PIANO MAN, and then onward. A very worthwhile listen and must-have for the "collectors" among us of an artist with many influences but a unique voice.