Songs in the Attic

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Songs in the Attic
Live album by Billy Joel

Publication
(s)

September 10, 1981

admission

June – July 1980

Label (s) Family Productions / Columbia

Format (s)

LP, CD

Genre (s)

skirt

Title (number)

11

running time

47:58

occupation

production

Phil Ramone

chronology
Glass Houses
(1980) 		Songs in the Attic The Nylon Curtain
(1982)

Songs in the Attic is the first live album by the American musician Billy Joel .

background

When it was released in September 1981, the album brought together a wide range of the music from Joel's debut album Cold Spring Harbor for a large audience for the first time, as the original album was no longer sold due to legal disputes and had previously only been published in small numbers. With Songs in the Attic, Joel himself wanted to introduce his early works to fans who only came to his music after the release of the successful work The Stranger .

After most of the instruments in his earlier works had been recorded by session musicians, Joel toured with a constant group of musicians with whom he wanted to re-present the old songs in the late 1970s. Joel explained that some of the songs appeared in a completely different style due to the new collaboration and the new framework: “[...] Captain Jack plays with much more power and conviction when a roaring Philadelphia audience sets off a kind of internal explosion and the adrenaline screams through our veins [...] "( German " [...] Captain Jack appears with much more strength and conviction when a screaming crowd in Philadelphia triggers an inner explosion in us and the adrenaline shoots through our veins [. ..] ")

Two tracks from the album, "Say Goodbye to Hollywood" and "She's Got a Way", were released as single and both reached top 25 places in the US charts.

Track list

  1. Miami 2017 (Seen the Lights Go Out on Broadway)   (5:05, recorded June 1980 at Madison Square Garden , New York City , New York )
  2. Summer, Highland Falls   (3:03 am, taken July 1980 in Bayou , Washington, DC )
  3. Streetlife Serenader   (5:17, recorded July 1980 at St. Paul Civic Center , Saint Paul , Minnesota )
  4. Los Angelenos   (3:48, recorded July 1980 at Toad's Place , New Haven , Connecticut )
  5. She's Got a Way   (3:10, recorded June 1980 at Paradise Club , Boston , Massachusetts )
  6. Everybody Loves You Now   (3:08 am, recorded July 1980 in Bayou , Washington, DC )
  7. Say Goodbye to Hollywood   (4:25, recorded June 1980 at Milwaukee Arena , Milwaukee , Wisconsin )
  8. Captain Jack   (7:16, recorded July 1980 on the Philadelphia Spectrum , Philadelphia , Pennsylvania )
  9. You're My Home   (3:07, recorded July 1980 in Bayou , Washington, DC )
  10. The Ballad of Billy the Kid   (5:28, recorded June 1980 at Madison Square Garden , New York City , New York )
  11. I've Loved These Days   (4:35, recorded July 1980 at Horizon , Chicago , Illinois )

Both the music and the lyrics of all tracks were written by Billy Joel.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Joel, Billy: Notes for Songs in the Attic (LP). 1981. New York: Columbia Records (TC 37461).