- Billy Joel The Nylon Curtain Pop Audio Cassette
- Artist: Billy Joel
- Format: Audio Cassette
- Original Release Date: 1982
- Label: Columbia CBS
- Catalog No: QCT 38200
- Discontinued by the manufacturer in this format
The Nylon Curtain is the eighth studio album by American singer-songwriter Billy Joel, released on September 23, 1982 and produced by Phil Ramone. The Nylon Curtain peaked at number seven in the Billboard album charts, with two million sales in the United States alone. It was one of the first albums to be digitally recorded, mixed, and mastered. The album is among Joel's most ambitious albums, and Joel has openly acknowledged that it's one of his personal favorites, calling it "the recording I'm most proud of and the material I'm most proud of."
When he recorded the album, he said in an interview that he wanted to "create a sonic masterpiece." So he spent more time in the studio, crafting the sound of the album, than he had on any previous album. He said that the process of making the album was "exhausting." Critics have interpreted the album to be, in part, an homage to the music of The Beatles and John Lennon.
Regarding the album's themes, Joel has stated "It was during the Reagan years, and the diminishing horizons in America at the time meant that all of a sudden you weren't going to be able to inherit the kind of life your old man had". This pessimism about the American dream, in Joel's view, permeates most of the songs on the album.
The song "Allentown", which brought attention to the plight of America's declining steel industry, spent an unprecedented six weeks at No. 17 on the Billboard Hot 100 in early 1983.
Track listing
1. Allentown
2. Laura
3. Pressure
4. Goodnight Saigon
5. She's Right on Time
6. Room of Our Own, A
7. Surprises
8. Scandinavian Skies
9. Where's the Orchestra?
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