Billy JoelBest Billy Joel Albums Ranked
8.5
Avg Score
129
Opinions
32
Albums
28
Reviewers
Summary from 129 ratings
On Rate.fm, fans have rated Billy Joel’s catalog across 32 albums from 129 opinions, with an overall average of 8.5/10. The top-rated Billy Joel album is The Stranger (1977) with a 9.3/10 average from 19 ratings, followed by 52nd Street and Glass Houses. The discography on Rate.fm spans 1971 to 2021. Vienna ranks as the highest-rated Billy Joel song on Rate.fm with a 9.7/10 average.
The Stranger
“Each Sunday, Pitchfork takes an in-depth look at a significant album from the past, and any record not in our archives is eligible. Today we revisit Billy Joel’s greatest album, a sublimely crafted breakthrough that finds the meeting ground of the romantic and the mundane.”
The Stranger
“In 1977, Joel’s fifth and best album replaced Simon and Garfunkel’s Bridge Over Troubled Water as Columbia Records’ top seller to date, establishing Joel as a titan of adult contemporary — America’s answer to Elton John. The Stranger also marked the beginning of Joel’s long-term collaboration with producer Phil Ramone, who distilled the Piano Man’s […]”
Storm Front
“On Storm Front, his first studio album since The Bridge in 1986, Billy Joel throws off pop complacency for an angry, committed — and often moving — exploration of life in modern America. Defining the album’s theme of lost innocence is a core of songs that evokes the desperate disorientation that has suffused American consciousness […]”