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Billy Joel - The Essential Video Collection

Billy Joel - The Essential Video Collection

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Rating: 3 stars
Summary: Damn DVD producers!!!
Review: This was released by the same distributor in Australia but ... it has a different cover, and some different songs to the American DVD release. We get 25 songs in total, compared to 24 on the American DVD.

The songs on the Australian DVD that are missing on the American DVD are:

- New York State Of Mind
- The River Of Dreams
- We Didn't Start The Fire
- I Go To Extremes
- Leningrad
- The Downeaster 'Alexa'
- All About Soul

The songs on the American DVD that are missing on the Australian DVD are:

- Sometimes a Fantasy
- The Night Is Still Young
- Pressure
- Keeping the Faith
- Big Shot
- Los Angelenos

It depends on which Billy Joel songs you like, but for me I would rather have the American tracks because they capture an era when Billy was at his very best. Some American reviewers wish their DVD version had "River of Dreams", so the answer is to import it from Australia.

I'm tempted to buy the American DVD as well but seems like a bit of overlapping just to get 6 videos not available on the Australian DVD. The real solution is for DVD producers to release one definitive DVD version including ALL tracks!

And I agree with many consumers, we want music clip videos on music DVD's not concert videos (leave concert videos for full concert DVD's). I refer to videos like "Piano Man" which has been replaced with concert footage. Urgh!

Rating: 2 stars
Summary: But WHERE is his Classic HIT?
Review: Wouldn't you think the MOST essential of ALL BJ's songs would be "Just The Way You Are"? and it seems to be missing on all of his DVD's so far..including this!!!


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