Storm Front
| Billy Joel
Storm Front
Storm Front is the eleventh and penultimate studio album by American singer-songwriter Billy Joel, released on October 17, 1989. It features one of Joel's three No. 1 hits, "We Didn't Start the Fire", a fast-paced song that cataloged a list of historical events, trends, and cultural icons from after World War II (when Joel was born) until 1989, and "Leningrad", a story-song about a friendship between an American and a Russian during the final years of the Cold War. - Wikipedia
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Rolling Stone
As the final word on an album that takes a serious look at a troubled world, it reflects the hard-earned wisdom of a no longer innocent man.
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All Music
Storm Front sounds like the beginning of the end.
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Classic Rock Review
The result of this pivotal effort at the sunset of the 1980s was a commercially successful album that received lukewarm critical feedback and, in many ways, began the decline of Joel’s incredible pop career.
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Sputnik
The road to recovery is rough, one that Storm Front expresses completely.
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Ultimate Classic Rock
The moral of the story, perhaps, is that even less-than-prime-grade Billy Joel is more than good enough for most of us -- something he might want to consider the next time he talks himself out of writing another pop song.
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Huffington Post
Storm Front showed Joel could ride out a commercial slump on two of his last three albums as deftly as any of the newcomers probing for weakness from the old man
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One Final Serenade
On Storm Front, Billy Joel throws off pop complacency for an angry, committed — and often moving — exploration of life in modern America.
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Album Reviews
Joel shook things up for Storm Front. It is a serious, topical album that addresses issues.
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