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1	[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/storm_front.jpg]]
2	[[caption-width-right:300:''There's a storm front coming (mood indigo)\
3	Small craft warning on the radio.'']]
4	->''Call me a joker, call me a fool\
5	Right at this moment, I'm totally cool\
6	Clear as a crystal, sharp as a knife\
7	I feel like I'm in the prime of my life\
8	Sometimes it feels like I'm going too fast\
9	I don't know how long this feeling will last\
10	Maybe it's only tonight''
11	-->-- "I Go To Extremes"
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13	''Storm Front'' is the eleventh studio album recorded by American {{pop}} musician Music/BillyJoel. It was released through Creator/ColumbiaRecords on October 17, 1989.
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15	The album brought another shake-up to Billy's backing band--now, only David Brown and Liberty [=DeVitto=] remained from the original line-up. It was just the beginning of a TroubledProduction.
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17	During recording, Billy fired his manager, Frank Weber, who was also the brother of his (first) ex-wife; he was discovered to be mismanaging Billy's finances. He would ultimately win back only a fraction of the money he lost, though he did win a counter-suit. He would later sue his former attorney in connection to the fraud, which was settled out-of-court in 1992.
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19	Having ended his work with Phil Ramone, Billy would co-produce the album with Mick Jones, famously of Music/{{Foreigner\|Band}}. They decided to take the sound harder and more contemporary, punctuated by its first and biggest single, "We Didn't Start the Fire", which listed pop culture events from the previous 40 years to the point of recording--essentially, Billy's life to that point.
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21	The album went quadruple-Platinum in the United States, and Platinum in the United Kingdom. It produced seven singles: "We Didn't Start the Fire", "Leningrad", "I Go to Extremes", "The Downeaster 'Alexa'", "That's Not Her Style", "And So It Goes", and "Shameless". Only "Fire" and "Extremes" reached the Top 10 of the Billboard Hot 100, with "Fire" becoming his third #1 single.
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23	!!Tracklist
24	!!! Side One
25	# "That's Not Her Style" (5:10)
26	# "We Didn't Start the Fire" (4:50)
27	# "The Downeaster 'Alexa'" (3:44)
28	# "I Go to Extremes" (4:23)
29	# "Shameless" (4:26)
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31	!!!Side Two
32	# "Storm Front" (5:17)
33	# "Leningrad" (4:06)
34	# "State of Grace" (4:30)
35	# "When in Rome" (4:44)
36	# "And So It Goes" (3:38)
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38	!!Personnel
39	* Billy Joel - vocals, acoustic piano, clavinet, accordion, percussion, Hammond organ, harpsichord, organ, synthesizers
40	* Jeff Jacobs - synthesizers, backing vocals, horn arrangements
41	* David Brown - lead guitar, MIDI guitar solo
42	* Joey Hunting - rhythm guitar
43	* Schuyler Deale - bass guitar
44	* Liberty [=DeVitto=] - drums, percussion
45	* Crystal Taliefero - backing vocals, percussion
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47	!!"But when we are gone, it will still trope on and on and on and on and on [-and on and on and on...-]"
48	* ChildrenAreInnocent: "Leningrad". The general meaning is that ''all'' children are innocent, and all of them feel pain from conflict, no matter which side they're on.
49	* CoinsForTheDead: In the final verse and chorus of the music video for "We Didn't Start the Fire", the father has coins over his eyes at his funeral.
50	* ListSong: "We Didn't Start the Fire" lists events, roughly in chronological order, from 1949 to 1989.
51	* NotSoDifferentRemark: "Leningrad", where he details his friendship between himself and a Russian clown he met while touring the Soviet Union who was born in the forties. (The song was written during the Cold War.)
52	* SadClown: A quite literal example in "Leningrad", about a Russian who used to be a soldier but took up a decidedly apolitical job as a clown because it made children laugh.
53	* AStormIsComing: The opening line of the chorus to "Storm Front" is "There's a storm front coming".
54	* {{Tuckerization}}: "The Downeaster Alexa", featuring a sailboat named after his daughter.
55	* WeDidntStartTheBillyJoelParodies: Naturally, the TropeNamer is the biggest hit on this album.

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