Glass Houses (album)

Glass Houses
Glass Houses
Studio album by Billy Joel
Released	March 12, 1980
Recorded	1979 at A&R Recording, New York City
Genre	Rock; hard rock; punk rock; new wave; pop rock; pop;
Length	35:06
Label	Family Productions/Columbia
Producer	Phil Ramone
Billy Joel chronology
Singles from Glass Houses
	"All for Leyna"; Released: January 1980; "You May Be Right"; Released: March 1980; "It's Still Rock and Roll to Me"; Released: May 1980; "Don't Ask Me Why"; Released: July 1980; "Sometimes a Fantasy"; Released: 1980;

Glass Houses is the seventh studio album by Billy Joel and released on 12 March, 1980 through Columbia Records. It went to number 1 in Canada, Iceland and the United States, number 2 in Australia and Norway, number 3 in Zimbabwe, number 4 in Austria, number 6 in New Zealand, Japan and Sweden and number 9 in the United Kingdom. It won a Grammy Award in 1981.

Track listing change

All songs written by Billy Joel.

Side one
No.	Title	Length
1.	"You May Be Right"	4:15
2.	"Sometimes a Fantasy"	3:40
3.	"Don't Ask Me Why"	2:59
4.	"It's Still Rock and Roll to Me"	2:57
5.	"All for Leyna"	4:15
Total length:		18:06

Side two
No.	Title	Length
6.	"I Don't Want to Be Alone"	3:57
7.	"Sleeping with the Television On"	3:02
8.	"C'était Toi (You Were the One)"	3:25
9.	"Close to the Borderline"	3:47
10.	"Through the Long Night"	2:43
Total length:		16:54

References change

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 Erlewine, Stephen Thomas. "Glass Houses – Billy Joel". AllMusic. Retrieved August 25, 2011.
↑ ^2.0 ^2.1 "The Bridge by Billy Joel album review | Classic Rock Review". June 14, 2011. It was also Joel's first album during the 1980's to not be focused on a single, overriding concept. 1980's Glass Houses was punk/new wave..
↑ Cateforis, Theo (2011). Are We Not New Wave?: Modern Pop at the Turn of the 1980s. University of Michigan Press. p. 40. ISBN 978-0-472-03470-3.
↑ Christgau, Robert (1990). "Billy Joel: Glass Houses". Christgau's Record Guide: The '80s. Pantheon Books. ISBN 0-679-73015-X. Retrieved November 25, 2020.

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[thomas1-1] 1.0 ^1.1 Erlewine, Stephen Thomas. "Glass Houses – Billy Joel". AllMusic. Retrieved August 25, 2011.

[ucrbridge-2] 2.0 ^2.1 "The Bridge by Billy Joel album review | Classic Rock Review". June 14, 2011. It was also Joel's first album during the 1980's to not be focused on a single, overriding concept. 1980's Glass Houses was punk/new wave..

[3] Cateforis, Theo (2011). Are We Not New Wave?: Modern Pop at the Turn of the 1980s. University of Michigan Press. p. 40. ISBN 978-0-472-03470-3.

[CG80s-4] Christgau, Robert (1990). "Billy Joel: Glass Houses". Christgau's Record Guide: The '80s. Pantheon Books. ISBN 0-679-73015-X. Retrieved November 25, 2020.

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