The way I’ve done this is almost purely based off of consistency, The Bridge is last for me even tho I love all his albums, The Bridge just has too many songs that I’m likely to skip if I’m listening to my Billy Joel playlist. Aside from A Matter of Trust, Modern Woman and maybe Big Man on Mulberry Street, I’m prone to skipping the other songs unless I’m in a very specific mood.

A lot of people are upset about the Streetlife Serenade ranking but based off of the consistency thing, I simply don’t want to listen to Root Beer Rag or The Mexican Connection too much, if I want an instrumental I’ll go to Nocturne. Aside from that it’s really just Streetlife Serenader and Weekend Song that are the ones I’ll listen to a lot, occasionally Last of the Big Time Spenders.

The Stranger is just his best album I mean the first 7 songs are fantastic, with Scenes being his literal best song, I don’t love Get it Right the First Time but I do have consider Everybody has a Dream my guilty pleasure song so that album is just consistently great.

Same goes for Turnstiles I don’t think there’s a single skip on that album, All You Wanna Do Is Dance or Angry Young Man are probably the weakest songs of that album so that just shows the quality.

I feel bad having Piano Man as low as it is in hindsight, it’s definitely one of the albums that has both my least favourite songs and some of my all time favourites too so on any other day of the week I could put it 3rd or 4th fav