The narrative begins in 1967 with "Scenes From an Italian Restaurant," and the show follows characters named Eddie, Brenda, Tony, James and Judy through the Vietnam War and its aftermath, up to the present, using some of Mr. Joel's best-known songs, including "Uptown Girl," "River of Dreams," "Just the Way You Are" and, of course, "Movin' Out." There is no spoken dialogue. Moving chronologically, disc 1 of the Greatest Hits is totally solid - not a turd in the bunch, with The Stranger being one of the best albums of the '70s: densely tuneful, thoughtful, dramatic, moving, tremendous. And earlier hits, "Say Goodbye to Hollywood" and "New York State of Mind," are classics. But alas, it was a long slow decline from there. Disc 2 is still solid, but when your best new songs are essentially novelty numbers ("Uptown Girl," "Longest Time"), you can hear the dark knock on the door.

Moving on to Greatest Hits 3, there is literally nothing I would ever want to hear - a drastic decline into pop dotage.

1. Keeping the Faith
2. Innocent Man
3. Matter of Trust
4. Baby Grand
5. This Is the Time
6. Leningrad
7. We Didn't Start the Fire
8. I Go to Extremes
9. And So It Goes
10. Downeaster "Alexa"
11. Shameless
12. All About Soul [Remix]
13. Lullabye (Goodnight, My Angel)
14. River of Dreams
15. To Make You Feel My Love
16. Hey Girl
17. Light as the Breeze

I mean ick - I can't even remember what any of these songs sound like other than "Keeping the Faith" and "We Didn't Start the Fire," which I don't like, at all.