Storm Front

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• Format: Audio CD
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0000026LQ
• ISBN13: 0074644436624
• Release Date: October 1989
• Publisher: Columbia
• Weight: 0.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.0" x 4.0" x 6.0"

Customer Reviews

Given up the piano???

This review is in reference to the one that came before. It states that Joel has "almost completely given up the piano in the album," which is a bit misleading. Actually, he delivers perhaps his strongest performance as a rock pianist (I Go To Extremes), and his most delicate (And So It Goes). Also, his writing is at its peak, especially on the stirring Downeaster Alexa.

"Leaving the scene of the crime."

Actually, let's make that 4 1/2 stars. While Storm Front is not quite up to the high-water mark of Joel's Nylon Curtain and 52nd Street, it's close enough to make it one of his strongest efforts. Songs like That's not her Style, I Go to Extremes, and We Didn't Start the Fire(which upon its release as a single had to be one of the most-creative hits ever) remind me of Phil Spector's "wall of sound," an approach that usually masks mediocre songwriting, but in the case of these tunes, makes for a dynamic combination. The songs are perfectly crafted, melodic, crisp and strong. The Downeaster Alexa, written with Joel's daughter in mind, is amazingly un-syrupy, while And So it Goes is his most beautiful song.