Their Greatest Hits (1971-1975)
1976
It was the first album certified platinum, and for decades it traded places with Thriller as the best-selling record in America.
★ 5.8
The Albums canon
Sourced and spun.
Every record chosen by hand and annotated for why it matters.
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The Stranger
1977
Scenes from an Italian Restaurant is three unfinished songs stitched into one. The whistling at the start of the record is Joel himself.
★ 5.8
Synchronicity
1983
The three of them recorded in separate rooms because they could no longer stand each other, and then made the biggest album of the year.
★ 7.9
Rumours
1977
Two couples in the band were breaking up while they recorded, and kept writing songs about each other that the other had to sing.
★ 9.1