This is a simply beautiful album with wonderfully constructed songs. It's brilliant lyrically and musically, and maybe most importantly, despite being loaded with singles and hindsight Billy Joel staples, it's all in the perfect order. It would have been possible to screw up an album with Scenes From an Italian Restaurant by not melding these songs together into a coherent album. There are upbeat and slow songs that play off each other rather than clashing. It just flows perfectly. It should be almost impossible to follow Scenes with...anything. And yet Vienna comes in and just picks up and somehow bridges the gap to Only the Good Die Young. Scenes and Only the Good Die Young are both fine songs, yet they shouldn't exist within 2 moves of each other, but they found a way to sandwich them around Vienna and make it work so perfectly. Ending this whole thing with the gospel-like Everybody Has a Dream and the reprise of The Stranger just brings it all home perfectly. It's a great, synergistic album, and yet the songs can pretty much all stand alone and be great out of the album's context. This is an easy 5/5. It should get an extra star for Scenes. 6/5.