2000 Years: The Millennium Concert

2000 Years: The Millennium Concert
Live album by Billy Joel
Released May 2, 2000
Recorded December 31, 1999 – January 1, 2000
Genre Rock
Length 128:39
Label Sony
Producer Don DeVitto
Billy Joel chronology

Greatest Hits Volume III
(1997)		 2000 Years: The Millennium Concert
(2000)		 The Ultimate Collection
(2001)
Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
Allmusic [1]
Rolling Stone [2]

2000 Years: The Millennium Concert is a two-disc set and the third live album by Billy Joel, released in 2000. On 05/31/2000 it was certified Gold by the RIAA for sales of 250,000 copies.

The album was recorded on New Year's Eve 1999 at Madison Square Garden in New York City, during Joel's The Night of Two Thousand Years Tour. Though some alterations were made before its release: some songs are not the same version featured in the original concert (like "Big Shot"), others were edited in studio (some YouTube videos of "Scenes From An Italian Restaurant" show Billy singing offkey, while he sings perfectly on the album). 2000 Years: The Millennium Concert also marked the first time several songs had to be transposed to lower keys to accommodate Joel's deepening voice. "Only the Good Die Young," "Goodnight Saigon," "I Go To Extremes," and "The River of Dreams" are a semitone lower. "New York State of Mind," "I've Loved These Days," and "This Night" are a tone lower. "2000 Years" is a tone and a half lower.

Some versions of the album that were released out of the United States are basically a compilation of moments from the concert with two bonus tracks: "This Is the Time" (live from the concert) and "Just The Way You Are" (live from the concert (Japan release only).

Track listing

All songs written by Billy Joel, except where noted.

Disc one[1]
  1. "Beethoven's Ninth Symphony" (Beethoven) – 1:43
  2. "Big Shot" – 4:55
  3. "Movin' Out (Anthony's Song)" – 5:23
  4. "Summer, Highland Falls" – 5:29
  5. "The Ballad of Billy the Kid" – 6:52
  6. "Don't Ask Me Why" – 4:49
  7. "New York State of Mind" – 8:29
  8. "I've Loved These Days" – 4:30
  9. "My Life" – 5:47
  10. "Allentown" – 4:48
  11. "Prelude/Angry Young Man" – 5:23
  12. "Only the Good Die Young" – 3:49
Disc two[1]
  1. "I Go to Extremes" – 5:01
  2. "Goodnight Saigon" – 7:28
  3. "We Didn't Start the Fire" – 5:21
  4. "Big Man on Mulberry Street" – 5:29
  5. "2000 Years" – 6:02
  6. "Auld Lang Syne" (Burns/Traditional) – 1:44
  7. "The River of Dreams" – 5:54
  8. "Scenes from an Italian Restaurant" – 8:05
  9. "Dance to the Music" (Stewart) – 3:17
  10. "Honky Tonk Women" (Mick Jagger/Keith Richards) – 3:17
  11. "It's Still Rock & Roll to Me" – 4:08
  12. "You May Be Right" – 6:07
  13. "This Night" (Beethoven/Joel) – 4:49

Certifications

Region Certification Sales/shipments
United States (RIAA)[3] Gold 250,000^

^shipments figures based on certification alone
xunspecified figures based on certification alone

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Erlewine, Stephen Thomas. "2000 Years: The Millennium Concert - Billy Joel | AllMusic". allmusic. Retrieved 28 May 2012.
  2. ↑ Wild, David (11 May 2000). "Billy Joel: 2000 Years The Millennium Concert: Music Reviews: Rolling Stone". Rolling Stone. Archived from the original on 24 Jul 2008. Retrieved 28 May 2012.
  3. ↑ "American album certifications – Billy Joel – The Millennium Concert". Recording Industry Association of America. If necessary, click Advanced, then click Format, then select Album, then click SEARCH