Storm Front
- 艺人
- Billy Joel
- 语种
- 英语
- 厂牌
- Columbia Records
- 发行时间
- 1989年10月01日
- 专辑类别
- 录音室专辑
专辑介绍
by Stephen Thomas Erlewine
When he went for a masterpiece on The Nylon Curtain, Billy Joel worked with his band and producer Phil Ramone, crafting a Beatlesque song suite that was perfectly in step with Turnstiles. For Storm Front, he decided it was time to change things. He fired Ramone. He fired everyone in his band, save longtime drummer Liberty DeVito. He hired Mick Jones, the architect behind Foreigner's big AOR sound, to man the boards. He wrote a set of sober, somber songs, save &That's Not Her Style,& a weirdly defensive song about his model wife, Christie Brinkley. He was left with an album that is singularly joyless. Joel makes no bones about his ambitions for Storm Front -- when you lead with a history lesson as your first single (the monotonous chant &We Didn't Start the Fire&), it's clear that you're not interested in fun. That wouldn't have been a problem if his melodic skills weren't in decline. Joel packed all the strongest numbers into the first half of Storm Front, from the rocking &That's Not Her Style& and &I Go to Extremes& to the fisherman's plight &The Downeaster 'Alexa'& and the power ballad &Shameless,& which Garth Brooks later made a standard. Compared to the murky second side, which perks up only mildly with &Leningrad& and &And So It Goes,& it's upbeat, varied, melodic, and effective, but when it's compared to his catalog -- not only such high-water marks as The Stranger or Glass Houses, but with a record as uneven as The Bridge -- it pales musically and lyrically. The five singles (&Fire,& &Style,& &Extremes,& &'Alexa',& &Goes&) were catchy enough on the radio to propel the album to multi-platinum status, but in retrospect, Storm Front sounds like the beginning of the end.
最新简评（共10条）
- @从头再来(越挫越勇)：第四首永远不会有了，有敏感词。 () 2019-04-27 21:34 We Didn't Start The Fire? 来自iPhone客户端
- @yn_r2020(ǝnbısnɯ)：卧槽唯独那首没有？？？
- @rigibestpig：石康： Billy Joel在1989年的专辑《Storm Front》中，在《We Didn’t Start the Fire》中把从1949年到1989年全世界发生的头条新闻串在一起，记得当时我试图弄清那歌的意思，最终却因单词过多而放弃，某日，在从LA飞往New York的途中，再一次开始听Billy Joel，觉得很好听，当然，还有Bob Seger——连听了两天
- @ASHIKI( H☮W ？)：
- @Hregive：牛逼
- @做梦的猫：we didn't start the fire , 好听
- @春蚕(暂无签名~)：
- @琴你来：人生第二张CD
- @浪漫自由人：宿醉2那个场境陪这个The Downeaster \"Alexa\" 绝了