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 Devito
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Billy Joel chronology
Greatest Hits Volume III (1997) 2000 Years: The Millennium Concert (2000) Fantasies & Delusions (2001)

2000 Years: The Millennium Concert is a two disc set and the third live album by Billy Joel, released in 2000. (see 2000 in music).

The album was recorded on New Year's Eve 1999 at Madison Square Garden in New York City, 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 out of key, while in the album he doesn't) and, contrary to what's been said about "12 Gardens Live", this album marks the 1st time Billy lowers the key of a song, as heard on "I Go To Extremes" and "Only The Good Die Young". 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)).

[edit] Track listing

Disc 1

1. "Beethoven's Ninth Symphony" (Beethoven) – 1:43
2. "Big Shot" (Joel) – 4:55
3. "Movin' Out (Anthony's Song)" (Joel) – 5:23
4. "Summer, Highland Falls" (Joel) – 5:29
5. "The Ballad of Billy the Kid" (Joel) – 6:52
6. "Don't Ask Me Why" (Joel) – 4:49
7. "New York State of Mind" (Joel) – 8:29
8. "I've Loved These Days" (Joel) – 4:30
9. "My Life" (Joel) – 5:47
10. "Allentown" (Joel) – 4:48
11. "Prelude/Angry Young Man" (Joel) – 5:23
12. "Only the Good Die Young" (Joel) – 3:49

Disc 2

1. "I Go to Extremes" (Joel) – 5:01
2. "Goodnight Saigon" (Joel) – 7:28
3. "We Didn't Start the Fire" (Joel) – 5:21
4. "Big Man on Mulberry Street" (Joel) – 5:29
5. "2000 Years" (Joel) – 6:02
6. "Auld Lang Syne" (Burns/Traditional) – 1:44
7. "The River of Dreams" (Joel) – 5:54
8. "Scenes from an Italian Restaurant" (Joel) – 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" (Joel) – 4:08
12. "You May Be Right" (Joel) – 6:07
13. "This Night" (Beethoven/Joel) – 4:49