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| Length = 35:06 | Label = Family Productions/Columbia | Producer = Phil Ramone | Last album = ''52nd Street'' (1978) | This album = ''Glass Houses'' (1980) | Next album = ''Songs in the Attic'' (1981) |Misc = }} ''Glass Houses'' is the seventh studio album by American singer-songwriter Billy Joel, released on March 10, 1980. It features Joel's first song to peak at #1 on Billboard's Pop Singles chart, "It's Still Rock and Roll to Me." The album itself topped the Pop Albums chart for six weeks and was ranked number 4 on ''Billboards 1980 year-end album chart.〔(【引用サイトリンク】publisher=billboard.com )〕 The album is the 41st best selling album of the 1980s, with sales of 7.1 million copies in the US alone. In 1981, Joel won a Grammy Award for "Best Male Rock Vocal Performance" for his work on ''Glass Houses''.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Past Winners Search )〕 According to music critic Stephen Thomas Erlewine, the album featured "a harder-edged sound" compared to Joel's other work, in response to the punk and new wave movements. == Background == This album was the third collaboration between Joel and producer Phil Ramone, following ''The Stranger'' and ''52nd Street''. Opening with the sound of glass shattering, ''Glass Houses'' has more of a hard rock feel than Joel's previous albums. The cover shows Joel poised to throw a rock through the two-story window of his real-life waterfront glass house in Oyster Bay. On some versions, the back cover shows Billy looking through the hole that the rock made in the glass. This alludes to the adage that "people in glass houses shouldn't throw stones." In 2004, the pop-culture journalist and rock critic Chuck Klosterman praised the album in an essay on Joel titled "Every Dog Must Have His Every Day, Every Drunk Must Have His Drink" from his book ''Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs'' (the title of the essay refers to a line from the ''Glass Houses'' song "Don't Ask Me Why")〔Klosterman, Chuck. ''Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs'' Scribner, 2004.〕 In particular, Klosterman praised some of the more obscure tracks from the album including "All for Leyna", "I Don't Want to Be Alone", "Sleeping with the Television On", and "Close to The Borderline." 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Glass Houses」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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