KOHUEPT (Live in Leningrad) [Enhanced] [Live] [Original recording remastered]

kohuept (live in leningrad) [enhanced] [live] [original recording remastered]

Track Listings
1. Odoya
2. Prelude/Angry Young Man
3. Honesty
4. Goodnight Saigon
5. Stiletto
6. Big Man on Mulberry Street
7. Baby Grand
8. Innocent Man
9. Allentown
10. Matter of Trust
11. Only the Good Die Young
12. Sometimes a Fantasy
13. Uptown Girl
14. Big Shot
15. Back in the U.S.S.R.
16. Times They Are A-Changin'

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KOHUEPT (Live in Leningrad) [Enhanced] [Live] [Original recording remastered]
The Collection: Piano Man/52nd Street/Kohuept: Live in Leningrad
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    ASIN: B000219936
    Release Date: 2004-05-04

    Tracks:

    1. Travelin' Prayer
    2. Piano Man
    3. Ain't No Crime
    4. You're My Home
    5. Ballad of Billy the Kid
    6. Worse Comes to Worst
    7. Stop in Nevada
    8. If I Only Had the Words (To Tell You)
    9. Somewhere Along the Line
    10. Captain Jack

    Tracks:

    1. Big Shot
    2. Honesty
    3. My Life
    4. Zanzibar
    5. Stiletto
    6. Rosalinda's Eyes
    7. Half a Mile Away
    8. Until the Night
    9. 52nd Street

    Tracks:

    1. Odoya - Billy Joel,
    2. Angry Young Man
    3. Honesty
    4. Goodnight Saigon
    5. Stiletto
    6. Big Man on Mulberry Street
    7. Baby Grand
    8. Innocent Man
    9. Allentown
    10. Matter of Trust
    11. Only the Good Die Young
    12. Sometimes a Fantasy
    13. Uptown Girl
    14. Big Shot
    15. Back in the U.S.S.R.
    16. Times They Are A-Changin'
    KOHUEPT (Live in Leningrad)
    Average customer rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars
    • Kohuept: A Solid Billy Joel Live Album
    • Kohuept Gets the Job Done - Good Live Collection
    • Kohuept looks at a changin' times as Joel goes to the USSR
    • Songs In The Attic Volume 2
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    		 KOHUEPT (Live in Leningrad)
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    ASIN: B00000DCHK
    Release Date: 1998-10-20

    Tracks:

    1. Odoya
    2. Angry Young Man
    3. Honesty
    4. Goodnight Saigon
    5. Stiletto
    6. Big Man On Mulberry Street
    7. Baby Grand
    8. An Innocent Man
    9. Allentown
    10. A Matter Of Trust
    11. Only The Good Die Young
    12. Sometimes A Fantasy
    13. Uptown Girl
    14. Big Shot
    15. Back In The U.S.S.R.
    16. The Times They Are A Changin'

    Customer Reviews:

    5 out of 5 stars Kohuept: A Solid Billy Joel Live Album.......2005-08-26

    Lots of Billy Joel fans have mixed feelings about this 1987 live album, recorded during his famed concert in the Soviet Union. Though by no means is it among the greatest live albums ever (like The Rolling Stones' "Get Yer Ya-Ya's Out" or even Joel's own "Songs In The Attic"), "Kohuept" is a solid document of Joel's groundbreaking concert in the Soviet Union.

    "Kohuept" featues 16 energetic live performances that only Joel can muster. Whether's he's rocking out (""Angry Young Man", "Big Man On Mulberry Street", "A Matter Of Trust", "Only The Good Die Young", "Sometimes A Fantasy", "Big Shot") or crooning a tender ballad ("Honesty", "Baby Grand", "An Innocent Man"), Joel commands the audience and never lets go, proving hismelf as one of the greatest live showmen ever. The album's undisputed highlight, however, is Joel's excellent performance of the Dylan classic "The Times They Are A-Changin'". One of the best performances of Billy's career, this is one of the few Dylan covers that outdoes the original.

    Overall, I'd suggest you ignore the bad reviews and buy "Kohuept", then decide for yourself whether or not you like it. It is definitely worth your time.

    4 out of 5 stars Kohuept Gets the Job Done - Good Live Collection.......2005-03-31

    In 1981 Billy Joel had released his first live album of his career. This album was entitled "Songs From the Attic", but it actually served two purposes: 1) It was meant to be a live collection of songs; 2) The portfolio of songs on the collection was meant to be focused around "Old Billy Joel" songs from early in his career - songs that had almost been forgotten about - or not heard much by the average fan. So in reality, by 1987 with 11 studio albums under his belt - Billy Joel was overdue for a true live album that provided a better cross-section of his career. But once again Billy uses his live album to serve two purposes. In 1987, Billy made a historic tour of the Soviet Union (it was still rare to find Rock artists touring Russia. Thus, later in 1987 Billy would release "Kohuept" (Russian for "In Concert"). In addition to serving as a record of Billy's concert in Leningrad - it would also serve the purpose of providing a long awaited live album that would be a better cross-section of his career.

    I look at Billy Joel's career as having three phases. The first phase is what I call "Old Billy Joel". This basically includes all of his material from "Cold Spring Harbor" through "Turnstiles". These are perhaps the strongest days as the piano sound, but they also contain most of Joel's least heard material. The next phase is what I call "Middle Billy Joel". This was his most successful period and covers from "The Stranger" to "Billy Joel Greatest Hits Volume 1 and 2". Joel would go through a transition during this phase - expanding his musical horizons and exploring different avenues. The final phase is the "Later Billy Joel" phase - this covers "The Bridge" to "River of Dreams". In this phase, Billy would start to incorporate some of his older styles of music while not abandoning his desire to continue to explore new avenues. With the exception of "Angry Young Man", most of "Kohuept"'s songs come from Phases 2 (lion's share of the tracks) and 3. The songs that come from Phase 3 include "The Bridge" ("Big Man on Mulberry Street", "Baby Grand", and "A Matter of Trust") since this was the album that Billy's tour was supporting. Since "Songs in the Attic" did justice to Phase 1, "Kohuept" compliments that album very nicely.

    There are a total of 16 tracks. 14 tracks are Billy Joel tunes. There are also two covers that Billy performs: The Beatles' "Back in the USSR" and Bob Dylan's "The Times They are a Changin". Finally, there is an introduction called "Odoya" performed by "The Georgian Singers".

    "Odoya", "Honesty", and "The Times They are a Changin" were not a part of the Leningrad concert. "Odoya" sets the stage very nicely setting the tone of the Soviet setting very nicely. I usually consider it a cardinal mistake when a live disc is taken as a compilation of live performances from several shows instead of from a single night. By having a compilation of live songs as opposed to a live concert, the flow is disrupted. You also don't get the opportunity to hear the CD as if it were the concert preventing you from getting the full experience. There is something magical about hearing a great performance on a single night. "Kohuept" means "In Concert" - and for the most part this disc provides Billy Joel's concert in Leningrad. If you didn't know it, you would think that "Odoya" and "Honesty" were a part of the concert ("The Times They are a Changin" definitely seemed like some external to the concert, but they save it to the end). I think if they had actually played Joel's Leningrad performance from start to finish - it would have even been better. Probably the best part of this collection is that Russian translations of Billy's spoken words that were broadcast to the audience are also included. This enhances the Soviet experience.

    Billy's selections of songs are most interesting. Judging by the inclusion of songs like "Stiletto", "An Innocent Man", and "Big Man on Mulberry Street" - Billy did not feel pressured that he had to perform his "hits" to this audience. It is understandable that Billy included three songs from "The Bridge" in order to promote that album. I am puzzled why he played "Baby Grand" - this was a duet with Ray Charles and would have been better served being performed with him. Billy also picked songs that he felt he could relate to the Soviet audience with. I think he tried to show the "wild" side to the Soviet audience by playing "Only the Good Die Young" and "Sometimes a Fantasy". He appealed to the problems in the Soviet Union when before he starts "Allentown" he relates the plight of the Steel factories to the economic problems of the Soviet Union.

    The top standout performances on this collection are "Goodnight Saigon", "Stiletto", "Sometimes a Fantasy", and "Uptown Girl". Billy's live performance of "A Matter of Trust" had some twists. I like how he starts the song and how the band picks up the tempo. There also is a very nice Rock edge to it and is a very good live song. Billy also does a great job with the two covers as well. While all of the performances are good, the collection does lose a little momentum with tracks 6 through 8 ("Big Man on Mulberry Street", "Baby Grand", and "An Innocent Man").

    I personally would have liked to see more in the way of liner notes. I would have liked to have seen some write-up on the Soviet experience. There is a collage of pictures, but these pictures are very small and don't provide the feel of Billy's Soviet experience. Despite all of these quirks, this is still a very good live collection by Billy Joel - one that will keep old and new fans happy.

    4 out of 5 stars Kohuept looks at a changin' times as Joel goes to the USSR.......2003-11-29

    At the tail end of the Cold War, two years after Mikhail Gorbachev began to liberalize the Soviet Union with his "glasnost" (openness) and "perestroika" (restructuring), Billy Joel became one of the first (if not THE first) American pop-rock superstar to play a series of gigs in the Communist heartland.

    Kohuept (Russian for "in concert") is an over-70-minute album recorded live in Leningrad (now called St. Petersburg) and, with the exception of "Odoya," (a Georgian choral piece), the Beatles' "Back in the USSR" and Bob Dylan's enigmatic (yet prophetic) "The Times They Are A Changin', " most of the 16 tracks are songs from such Joel albums as "52nd Street," "The Nylon Curtain," "An Innocent Man" and his then-current "The Bridge."

    In comparison to the Piano Man's studio albums, the sound has a less-polished yet more honest quality to it. For instance, in his tribute to his friends who fought in Vietnam, "Goodnight Saigon," his voice doesn't go into the high notes one hears when listening to the more "polished" version on his "Greatest Hits" compilation. His covers of Lennon-McCartney's "Back in the USSR" and Dylan's classic "Times Are A Changin' " are full of energy and enthusiasm...Joel even sounds like Dylan as he performs the song some have said embodies the spirit of the 1960s. Given Joel's fascination for history and listening to Konuept from a 21st Century perspective, it's almost as if Joel could sense that the changes that would lead to the fall of the Berlin Wall two years later and the end of the Soviet Union in December of 1991 were, to borrow from another Dylan song, "blowin' in the wind."

    5 out of 5 stars Songs In The Attic Volume 2.......2003-08-06

    The title of this album is the Russian translation of "in concert". Billy Joel was promoting THE BRIDGE while touring the U.S.S.R. where this album was recorded. This is a sequel to SONGS IN THE ATTIC. Four TURNSTILES tracks were on the first live set. On this set is ANGRY YOUNG MAN. It is so amazing how Billy can repeatedly strike that middle C on the piano so fast. ODOYA is the album's introduction sung a cappella by a male Russian choir. From 52ND STREET are STILETTO,BIG SHOT and HONESTY. On this album's version of HONESTY,the only thing heard besides Billy's voice is his piano,no drums or string emsemble like the studio version. From the NYLON CURTAIN are GOODNIGHT SAIGON and ALLENTOWN. Those two songs are storytelling. From AN INNOCENT MAN are the title track and UPTOWN GIRL. From THE STRANGER is ONLY THE GOOD DIE YOUNG. From GLASS HOUSES is SOMETIMES A FANTASY. From THE BRIDGE are A MATTER OF TRUST,BIG MAN ON MULBERRY STREET and BABY GRAND minus Ray Charles. BACK IN THE U.S.S.R. was quite appropriate for this live set. That Lennon-McCartney composition was first recorded by the Beatles. Bob Dylan's THE TIMES THEY ARE A-CHANGIN' ends the album. In that song,like HONESTY,it's only Billy voice and only one instrument,this one an acoustic guitar. A concert of this tour,but not this very concert was videotaped for broadcast on Cable TV's Home Box Office.

    2 out of 5 stars Not worth it.......2003-07-01

    This live version of "Sometimes a Fantasy" just absolutely rocks; it's energetic and lewd and everything I'm sure Billy Joel intended it to be. Joel's cover of "Back in the U.S.S.R." is powerful, too. Beyond that, there's no reason to buy this lifeless, monotonous CD. Certainly some of the blame needs to be laid on the recording technology; I don't know if this was originally a bootlegged performance that Columbia subsequently released or what, but the whole thing sounds muffled and the sounds aren't very distinct. The real problem, though, is that Joel sings almost every song without any real power or passion; as several people have noted, it's like he doesn't really care. This CD sounds like Billy Joel's hour-long race to get offstage. That's a shame, because it contains the only live recordings of some of these songs--but it's just not worth it when the performances are so sloppy. Bottom line: When I'd rather listen to the studio versions of songs than the live versions (which is almost invariably the case with this CD), I know something's wrong. If you want to hear Billy Joel live, pick up his "Songs in the Attic" CD, which is the polar opposite of Kohuept: energetic, virtuosic and incredibly engaging. The "Millennium Concert" set suffers a little from Joel's onstage talking between songs, but those are some hard-rockin', soulful performances too. Whichever of those two you choose, though, avoid "Kohuept" at all costs.
    The Collection: Piano Man/52nd Street/Kohuept: Live in Leningrad
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      1. All My Life
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      ASIN: B000AAIXU4
      Release Date: 2005-08-30

      Tracks:

      1. Travelin' Prayer
      2. Piano Man
      3. Ain't No Crime
      4. You're My Home
      5. Ballad of Billy the Kid
      6. Worse Comes to Worst
      7. Stop in Nevada
      8. If I Only Had the Words (To Tell You)
      9. Somewhere Along the Line
      10. Captain Jack

      Tracks:

      1. Big Shot
      2. Honesty
      3. My Life
      4. Zanzibar
      5. Stiletto
      6. Rosalinda's Eyes
      7. Half a Mile Away
      8. Until the Night
      9. 52nd Street

      Tracks:

      1. Odoya
      2. Angry Young Man
      3. Honesty
      4. Goodnight Saigon
      5. Stiletto
      6. Big Man on Mulberry Street
      7. Baby Grand
      8. Innocent Man
      9. Allentown
      10. Matter of Trust
      11. Only the Good Die Young
      12. Sometimes a Fantasy
      13. Uptown Girl
      14. Big Shot
      15. Back in the U.S.S.R.
      16. Times They Are A-Changin'
      KOHUEPT (Live in Leningrad)
      Average customer rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars
      • Kohuept: A Solid Billy Joel Live Album
      • Kohuept Gets the Job Done - Good Live Collection
      • Kohuept looks at a changin' times as Joel goes to the USSR
      • Songs In The Attic Volume 2
      • Not worth it
      		 KOHUEPT (Live in Leningrad)
      Billy Joel
      Manufacturer: Sony
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      ASIN: B0000026E3
      Release Date: 1990-10-25

      Tracks:

      1. Odoya
      2. Angry Young Man
      3. Honesty
      4. Goodnight Saigon
      5. Stiletto
      6. Big Man On Mulberry Street
      7. Baby Grand
      8. An Innocent Man
      9. Allentown
      10. A Matter Of Trust
      11. Only The Good Die Young
      12. Sometimes A Fantasy
      13. Uptown Girl
      14. Big Shot
      15. Back In The U.S.S.R.
      16. The Times They Are A Changin'

      Customer Reviews:

      5 out of 5 stars Kohuept: A Solid Billy Joel Live Album.......2005-08-26

      Lots of Billy Joel fans have mixed feelings about this 1987 live album, recorded during his famed concert in the Soviet Union. Though by no means is it among the greatest live albums ever (like The Rolling Stones' "Get Yer Ya-Ya's Out" or even Joel's own "Songs In The Attic"), "Kohuept" is a solid document of Joel's groundbreaking concert in the Soviet Union.

      "Kohuept" featues 16 energetic live performances that only Joel can muster. Whether's he's rocking out (""Angry Young Man", "Big Man On Mulberry Street", "A Matter Of Trust", "Only The Good Die Young", "Sometimes A Fantasy", "Big Shot") or crooning a tender ballad ("Honesty", "Baby Grand", "An Innocent Man"), Joel commands the audience and never lets go, proving hismelf as one of the greatest live showmen ever. The album's undisputed highlight, however, is Joel's excellent performance of the Dylan classic "The Times They Are A-Changin'". One of the best performances of Billy's career, this is one of the few Dylan covers that outdoes the original.

      Overall, I'd suggest you ignore the bad reviews and buy "Kohuept", then decide for yourself whether or not you like it. It is definitely worth your time.

      4 out of 5 stars Kohuept Gets the Job Done - Good Live Collection.......2005-03-31

      In 1981 Billy Joel had released his first live album of his career. This album was entitled "Songs From the Attic", but it actually served two purposes: 1) It was meant to be a live collection of songs; 2) The portfolio of songs on the collection was meant to be focused around "Old Billy Joel" songs from early in his career - songs that had almost been forgotten about - or not heard much by the average fan. So in reality, by 1987 with 11 studio albums under his belt - Billy Joel was overdue for a true live album that provided a better cross-section of his career. But once again Billy uses his live album to serve two purposes. In 1987, Billy made a historic tour of the Soviet Union (it was still rare to find Rock artists touring Russia. Thus, later in 1987 Billy would release "Kohuept" (Russian for "In Concert"). In addition to serving as a record of Billy's concert in Leningrad - it would also serve the purpose of providing a long awaited live album that would be a better cross-section of his career.

      I look at Billy Joel's career as having three phases. The first phase is what I call "Old Billy Joel". This basically includes all of his material from "Cold Spring Harbor" through "Turnstiles". These are perhaps the strongest days as the piano sound, but they also contain most of Joel's least heard material. The next phase is what I call "Middle Billy Joel". This was his most successful period and covers from "The Stranger" to "Billy Joel Greatest Hits Volume 1 and 2". Joel would go through a transition during this phase - expanding his musical horizons and exploring different avenues. The final phase is the "Later Billy Joel" phase - this covers "The Bridge" to "River of Dreams". In this phase, Billy would start to incorporate some of his older styles of music while not abandoning his desire to continue to explore new avenues. With the exception of "Angry Young Man", most of "Kohuept"'s songs come from Phases 2 (lion's share of the tracks) and 3. The songs that come from Phase 3 include "The Bridge" ("Big Man on Mulberry Street", "Baby Grand", and "A Matter of Trust") since this was the album that Billy's tour was supporting. Since "Songs in the Attic" did justice to Phase 1, "Kohuept" compliments that album very nicely.

      There are a total of 16 tracks. 14 tracks are Billy Joel tunes. There are also two covers that Billy performs: The Beatles' "Back in the USSR" and Bob Dylan's "The Times They are a Changin". Finally, there is an introduction called "Odoya" performed by "The Georgian Singers".

      "Odoya", "Honesty", and "The Times They are a Changin" were not a part of the Leningrad concert. "Odoya" sets the stage very nicely setting the tone of the Soviet setting very nicely. I usually consider it a cardinal mistake when a live disc is taken as a compilation of live performances from several shows instead of from a single night. By having a compilation of live songs as opposed to a live concert, the flow is disrupted. You also don't get the opportunity to hear the CD as if it were the concert preventing you from getting the full experience. There is something magical about hearing a great performance on a single night. "Kohuept" means "In Concert" - and for the most part this disc provides Billy Joel's concert in Leningrad. If you didn't know it, you would think that "Odoya" and "Honesty" were a part of the concert ("The Times They are a Changin" definitely seemed like some external to the concert, but they save it to the end). I think if they had actually played Joel's Leningrad performance from start to finish - it would have even been better. Probably the best part of this collection is that Russian translations of Billy's spoken words that were broadcast to the audience are also included. This enhances the Soviet experience.

      Billy's selections of songs are most interesting. Judging by the inclusion of songs like "Stiletto", "An Innocent Man", and "Big Man on Mulberry Street" - Billy did not feel pressured that he had to perform his "hits" to this audience. It is understandable that Billy included three songs from "The Bridge" in order to promote that album. I am puzzled why he played "Baby Grand" - this was a duet with Ray Charles and would have been better served being performed with him. Billy also picked songs that he felt he could relate to the Soviet audience with. I think he tried to show the "wild" side to the Soviet audience by playing "Only the Good Die Young" and "Sometimes a Fantasy". He appealed to the problems in the Soviet Union when before he starts "Allentown" he relates the plight of the Steel factories to the economic problems of the Soviet Union.

      The top standout performances on this collection are "Goodnight Saigon", "Stiletto", "Sometimes a Fantasy", and "Uptown Girl". Billy's live performance of "A Matter of Trust" had some twists. I like how he starts the song and how the band picks up the tempo. There also is a very nice Rock edge to it and is a very good live song. Billy also does a great job with the two covers as well. While all of the performances are good, the collection does lose a little momentum with tracks 6 through 8 ("Big Man on Mulberry Street", "Baby Grand", and "An Innocent Man").

      I personally would have liked to see more in the way of liner notes. I would have liked to have seen some write-up on the Soviet experience. There is a collage of pictures, but these pictures are very small and don't provide the feel of Billy's Soviet experience. Despite all of these quirks, this is still a very good live collection by Billy Joel - one that will keep old and new fans happy.

      4 out of 5 stars Kohuept looks at a changin' times as Joel goes to the USSR.......2003-11-29

      At the tail end of the Cold War, two years after Mikhail Gorbachev began to liberalize the Soviet Union with his "glasnost" (openness) and "perestroika" (restructuring), Billy Joel became one of the first (if not THE first) American pop-rock superstar to play a series of gigs in the Communist heartland.

      Kohuept (Russian for "in concert") is an over-70-minute album recorded live in Leningrad (now called St. Petersburg) and, with the exception of "Odoya," (a Georgian choral piece), the Beatles' "Back in the USSR" and Bob Dylan's enigmatic (yet prophetic) "The Times They Are A Changin', " most of the 16 tracks are songs from such Joel albums as "52nd Street," "The Nylon Curtain," "An Innocent Man" and his then-current "The Bridge."

      In comparison to the Piano Man's studio albums, the sound has a less-polished yet more honest quality to it. For instance, in his tribute to his friends who fought in Vietnam, "Goodnight Saigon," his voice doesn't go into the high notes one hears when listening to the more "polished" version on his "Greatest Hits" compilation. His covers of Lennon-McCartney's "Back in the USSR" and Dylan's classic "Times Are A Changin' " are full of energy and enthusiasm...Joel even sounds like Dylan as he performs the song some have said embodies the spirit of the 1960s. Given Joel's fascination for history and listening to Konuept from a 21st Century perspective, it's almost as if Joel could sense that the changes that would lead to the fall of the Berlin Wall two years later and the end of the Soviet Union in December of 1991 were, to borrow from another Dylan song, "blowin' in the wind."

      5 out of 5 stars Songs In The Attic Volume 2.......2003-08-06

      The title of this album is the Russian translation of "in concert". Billy Joel was promoting THE BRIDGE while touring the U.S.S.R. where this album was recorded. This is a sequel to SONGS IN THE ATTIC. Four TURNSTILES tracks were on the first live set. On this set is ANGRY YOUNG MAN. It is so amazing how Billy can repeatedly strike that middle C on the piano so fast. ODOYA is the album's introduction sung a cappella by a male Russian choir. From 52ND STREET are STILETTO,BIG SHOT and HONESTY. On this album's version of HONESTY,the only thing heard besides Billy's voice is his piano,no drums or string emsemble like the studio version. From the NYLON CURTAIN are GOODNIGHT SAIGON and ALLENTOWN. Those two songs are storytelling. From AN INNOCENT MAN are the title track and UPTOWN GIRL. From THE STRANGER is ONLY THE GOOD DIE YOUNG. From GLASS HOUSES is SOMETIMES A FANTASY. From THE BRIDGE are A MATTER OF TRUST,BIG MAN ON MULBERRY STREET and BABY GRAND minus Ray Charles. BACK IN THE U.S.S.R. was quite appropriate for this live set. That Lennon-McCartney composition was first recorded by the Beatles. Bob Dylan's THE TIMES THEY ARE A-CHANGIN' ends the album. In that song,like HONESTY,it's only Billy voice and only one instrument,this one an acoustic guitar. A concert of this tour,but not this very concert was videotaped for broadcast on Cable TV's Home Box Office.

      2 out of 5 stars Not worth it.......2003-07-01

      This live version of "Sometimes a Fantasy" just absolutely rocks; it's energetic and lewd and everything I'm sure Billy Joel intended it to be. Joel's cover of "Back in the U.S.S.R." is powerful, too. Beyond that, there's no reason to buy this lifeless, monotonous CD. Certainly some of the blame needs to be laid on the recording technology; I don't know if this was originally a bootlegged performance that Columbia subsequently released or what, but the whole thing sounds muffled and the sounds aren't very distinct. The real problem, though, is that Joel sings almost every song without any real power or passion; as several people have noted, it's like he doesn't really care. This CD sounds like Billy Joel's hour-long race to get offstage. That's a shame, because it contains the only live recordings of some of these songs--but it's just not worth it when the performances are so sloppy. Bottom line: When I'd rather listen to the studio versions of songs than the live versions (which is almost invariably the case with this CD), I know something's wrong. If you want to hear Billy Joel live, pick up his "Songs in the Attic" CD, which is the polar opposite of Kohuept: energetic, virtuosic and incredibly engaging. The "Millennium Concert" set suffers a little from Joel's onstage talking between songs, but those are some hard-rockin', soulful performances too. Whichever of those two you choose, though, avoid "Kohuept" at all costs.
      The Collection: Piano Man/52nd Street/Kohuept: Live in Leningrad
      Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
      • the Piano Man's piano
      • Decent set of Billy Joel Albums
      		 The Collection: Piano Man/52nd Street/Kohuept: Live in Leningrad
      Billy Joel
      Manufacturer: Sony
      ProductGroup: Music
      Binding: Audio CD

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      ASIN: B000063WDI
      Release Date: 2002-04-02

      Tracks:

      1. Travelin' Prayer
      2. Piano Man
      3. Ain't No Crime
      4. You're My Home
      5. Ballad of Billy the Kid
      6. Worse Comes to Worst
      7. Stop in Nevada
      8. If I Only Had the Words (To Tell You)
      9. Somewhere Along the Line
      10. Captain Jack

      Tracks:

      1. Big Shot
      2. Honesty
      3. My Life
      4. Zanzibar
      5. Stiletto
      6. Rosalinda's Eyes
      7. Half a Mile Away
      8. Until the Night
      9. 52nd Street

      Tracks:

      1. Odoya - Billy Joel,
      2. Angry Young Man
      3. Honesty
      4. Goodnight Saigon
      5. Stiletto
      6. Big Man on Mulberry Street
      7. Baby Grand
      8. Innocent Man
      9. Allentown
      10. Matter of Trust
      11. Only the Good Die Young
      12. Sometimes a Fantasy
      13. Uptown Girl
      14. Big Shot
      15. Back in the U.S.S.R.
      16. Times They Are A-Changin'

      Customer Reviews:

      5 out of 5 stars the Piano Man's piano.......2005-09-27

      The song selection from these three cds is excellent.
      What a steal to get three of Billy's cds for less than four bucks!
      Yes, his Russia tour was precedent setting at the time. Yet, for me, the coolest thing is that a pianist in my family bought the actual grand piano that Billy used in this Russian concert tour. And believe me, it has it's own magic still!

      4 out of 5 stars Decent set of Billy Joel Albums.......2004-02-28

      Not a bad three-pack from the Piano Man, including the albums "Piano Man", "52nd Street", and the live album "Kohuept", as performed in the former USSR.

      "Piano Man" and "52nd Street" are both essential Billy Joel classics, and contain such songs as "Travelin' Prayer", "Piano Man", "Ballad of Billy the Kid", "Captain Jack", "Honesty", "Big Shot", "My Life", and "Stiletto". The inclusion of "Kohuept" I think is somewhat debatable.... it's a live disc, so the music is not of the highest quality, although there's a lot of hits on the album. Kohuept is unique more for the concert itself and what it represented at the time (playing in the communist USSR) than for the actual music, and is interesting, but not as good for a collector's pack as say... "Glass Houses", "The Stranger", or "An Innocent Man".

      All told though, 3 solid albums, and worthy additions to any collection. The Piano Man is great, and this is a pretty economical way to pack in three of his classics.
      KOHUEPT (Live in Leningrad)
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        		KOHUEPT (Live in Leningrad)
        Billy Joel
        Manufacturer: Sony
        ProductGroup: Music
        Binding: Audio CD

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        ASIN: B000666W5A
        Release Date: 2004-12-13

        Tracks:

        1. Odoya
        2. Prelude/Angry Young Man
        3. Honesty
        4. Goodnight Saigon
        5. Stiletto
        6. Big Man on Mulberry Street
        7. Baby Grand
        8. Innocent Man
        9. Allentown
        10. Matter of Trust
        11. Only the Good Die Young
        12. Sometimes a Fantasy
        13. Uptown Girl
        14. Big Shot
        15. Back in the U.S.S.R.
        16. Times They Are A-Changin'

        Album Description

        Details TBA. Sony. 2004.

        Album Details

        Dsd Digitally Remastered Japanese Limited Edition in an LP-STYLE Slipcase.

        Music:

        1. Listen to the Light [Original recording remastered] [Import]
        2. Live in New York [Import]
        3. Love Collection
        4. Love Songs [Import]
        5. Meant to Live [CD-single] [Enhanced] [Import]
        6. More Action [Enhanced]
        7. Motown-from Broadway... [Import]
        8. Natural History [Import]
        9. Night on My Side [Import]
        10. One by One

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