Billy Joel - Essential Billy Joel 
Label: Columbia Records
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The Essential Billy Joel is basically a repackaging of his Greatest Hit's Vol 1-3. While this CD features a good cross section of Billy's entire career including his new Classical Music compositions some of his signature songs are absent, namely "Pressure" and "The Stranger". But this collection includes some tracks left out of the previous greatest hits compilations like "Honesty" and "You're My Home". Overall, it's a great collection of songs from Bill Joel, although to get a true "Essential Billy Joel" compilation you would need to issue a boxset containing all of his studio albums.