On Friday HBO Max aired Half II of the Billy Joel documentary And So It Goes. Shortly after, Joel handled followers to an enormous, surprise-released accompanying album of the identical title, amassing over 150 tracks from throughout the Piano Man’s in depth profession. Together with some beloved hits and fan-favorite deep cutes, there are additionally studio outtakes, remastered demos, reside recordings, instrumentals from the documentary’s rating, and extra, a few of which embody spoken intros excerpted from the doc.
Joel beforehand launched some demos for the primary time together with his 2005 field set My Lives, and now that extra are out he’s obtained much more archival materials on the way in which: “Over the subsequent yr, Joel may even launch a gentle stream of archival rarities unearthed throughout the documentary’s creation by way of his YouTube channel,” his label Sony writes in a press launch.
A number of the many highlights on the And So It Goes tracklist embody:
· The digital debuts of two songs from Joel’s short-lived arduous rock band Attila.
· Early cuts of “December Theme (December Tune)” and “All people Has A Dream” (years earlier than it was remade as a gospel tune for The Stranger) from the classes for his 1971 debut album Chilly Spring Harbor. (Famously, the album was blended on the fallacious velocity, inflicting Joel to disown it as a result of he gave the impression of a “chipmunk.”)
· A studio recording of Joel and producer Phil Ramone doing “Simply The Method You Are” and making instrumentation selections in actual time. Joel decides between piano and Fender Rhodes whereas Liberty DeVitto makes an attempt to plot applicable percussion.
· Early Shelter Island studio takes of The River Of Goals highlights “The Nice Wall Of China” and “No Man’s Land” with noticeable stylistic and lyrical variations.
· “Air (Dublinesque) — Authentic Rating,” a brand new association of the instrumental from his closing album, the 2001 classical LP Fantasies & Delusions, that’s credited to Joel versus pianist Richard Hyung-ki Joo who performed on the album. Likewise, new “rating” variations of “She’s Bought A Method”/”And So It Goes,” Gen Z fave “Vienna,” and the odd pairing “Memento”/”Laura” (renamed “Roz’s Theme” after Joel’s mom).
· A reside recording of his basic “Piano Man” from the day he signed with Columbia Data in 1973.
There’s a complete lot to parse via — six and a half hours, to be actual. Stream the And So It Goes album under.
