River Of Dreams (studio album) by Billy Joel

River Of Dreams by Billy Joel
Year: 1993
Overall rank: 5,484th   Overall chart historyOverall chart history
Average Rating: 
72/100 (from 119 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top albums of 1993 (96th)
Award Top albums of the 1990s (920th)
Award Best albums of all time (5,484th)
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Billy Joel bestography

River Of Dreams is ranked 9th best out of 25 albums by Billy Joel on BestEverAlbums.com.

The best album by Billy Joel is The Stranger which is ranked number 230 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 7,279.

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Average Rating: 
72/100 (from 119 votes)
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85/100
From 06/25/2021 18:04
Really good and underrated! Especially for a Billy Joel album that came out in the 90s. Quite a solid farewell pop rock album. Always thought it sounded more like his earlier work which is refreshing because The Bridge and that other one strayed away from his classic sound a bit.
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75/100
From 01/22/2021 21:48
Solid effort, good sendoff from Joel.
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From 07/06/2020 17:52
Kinda a sad ending. Billy should have never retired until he at least topped this release. Rating (75.50)
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80/100
From 03/18/2020 23:13
Its a really good solid album,the first three tracks are good start.The next two tracks are not as good, then the highlights of the album are the next four track. Billy finish his recording career on reasonable high, and he was good songwriter.
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From 01/17/2018 14:57
One of Joel's most rock heavy albums, this is a really great one.
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From 04/05/2016 11:09
Billy Joel's last pop/rock album, and after the dip in quality of his last two records, Joel ends his songwriting career with his best album for well over a decade. River of dreams, has a harder rock edge than all of Joel's albums since his new wave contribution, glass houses. No man's land, kicks off the album in fine style. As most tracks here, Joel's piano is certainly not the main instrumentation here, the only exception is the beautiful, lullabye (goodnight my angel). There's no weak tracks here, from the excellent, great wall of China, the brilliant, all about soul, and off course, the wonderful title track. The album ends well too with the millennium anthem, two thousand years, and his final goodbye to songwriting, famous last words. It's a perfect record to end on. Very good.
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85/100
From 06/11/2015 22:34
Good album. Best 10 songs average is 85,7/100 and the album can get good 85/100. Best songs are "No man's land" and "The river of dreams" both 90/100. Most other songs good 80-85/100, except #4 and #5 average only.
Genre: Pop Rock, Pop, Piano Pop
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45/100
From 06/05/2013 02:17
Joel stopped writing pop music after this, and its not a big surprise. It just lacks inspiration, as if he had run out of ideas.
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