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 | | Jackson says Volume 4, which he produced, was recorded in ten days, "… about the same time as Look Sharp… I overdubbed some of the piano parts, but most of the songs are second or third takes." The result is a disc that has an immediate, live feel. | | | Joe Jackson says he had to pick himself up off the floor when he realized it was 25 years ago that he recorded his first album, Look Sharp!. | | | Jackson’s original band made three records before it broke up in 1980. |
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| | The album boasts a couple more smash singles in the form of the well-crafted "It's Different for Girls" and energetic bass-happy "I'm the Man" (both of which are found on his Greatest Hits album), plus a spew of fun album tracks that are cute, energetic, and poppy. | | | Joe's style is pretty basic; guitars, bass, drums, and occassional piano, are the primary instruments on this record. | | | Joe Jackson's first album is full of energetic, bouncy, and youthful tunes. |
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| | TrouserPress.com :: Joe Jackson |
| | Blaze of Glory is a concept album that's not a concept album. | | | That Jackson was seeking an alternative to the fast-paced rock'n'roll of his first two albums was signaled by The Harder They Come EP (a straight reggae reading of the Jimmy Cliff song, plus two Jackson originals) and then trumpeted in no uncertain terms by Beat Crazy, the final LP with his original tight-knit band. | | | Jackson put it bluntly in the liner notes: "This album represents a desperate attempt to make some sense of Rock and Roll. |
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| | VH1.com : Joe Jackson : Biography |
| | The album featured less of the frantic punk sound of its predecessors, instead absorbing the dub-reggae and ska influences that were topping the British charts just then in the music of bands like the Specials and the English Beat. | | | Jackson toured with Koffee 'n' Kream from the fall of 1977 to the spring of 1978, and the money he made enabled him to move to London in January 1978 and continue recording his album in a Portsmouth studio. | | | Jackson returned to the studio and emerged in March 1984 with Body & Soul, an album with a cover photograph showing him clutching a saxophone in the style of the 1950s LP covers of Blue Note Records. |
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| | Just as Blondie's second album, Plastic Letters, was a pale imitation of their self-titled debut, Eat to the Beat, their fourth album, was a secondhand version of their breakthrough third album,... | | | The title of Talking Heads' second album, More Songs About Buildings and Food, slyly addressed the sophomore record syndrome, in which songs not used on a first LP are mixed with hastily written... | | | established Joe Jackson as part of that camp of angry, intelligent young new wavers (i.e., Elvis Costello, Graham Parker) who approached pop music with the sardonic attitude and tense, aggressive energy of punk. |
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| | Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Look Sharp! [Remaster] - Joe Jackson (Rock) at Epinions.com |
| | Jackson didn’t want to be known for being a pop songwriter and instead turned around and throughout the 1980’s and 1990’s released a string of increasingly more adventurous albums. | | | Early in his career, the native Englander Jackson was forced to follow in the wingtipped and bespectacled footsteps of Elvis Costello. | | | Fools in Love is sprinkled with a bit of reggae swagger which breaks this album up a bit. |
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| | This is the album that started my long lived appreciation for his music. | | | There's never been a Joe album I haven't liked and he's contiuously reinvented himself on almost every album. | | | This album is a unique melding of classical, opera and pop. |
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| | The new album was released on March 11th 2003 by Restless/Ryko. | | | However, this is not just an exercise in nostalgia, since the band has recorded a whole album of new songs. | | | Joe contributed vocals and piano to three tracks, including a version of Pulp's 'Common People' which deserves to be a mega-hit. |
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| | Joe Jackson Band: Volume 4 |
| | Anniversary of the band’s first album, “Look Sharp”, Joe Jackson reassembled his original band to play 103 live dates (documented on the warm-up tour mini album free with initial copies of this album and also the new CD “Afterlife”), and also make a brand new album. | | | This is not the best Joe Jackson Band album ever — nor would I urge you to pick it up as an introduction to the man and his work — but if you’ve got an album or two of Joe’s in your collection, this is a worthy addition. | | | Listening to this album it’s almost as if they’d just kept at it. |
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| | Jackson is at his best when he rocks his hardest, and this quick collection (the entire disc tallies just under 37 minutes) of 11 tracks doesn't disappoint in that regard. | | | I obtained my first copy of 'Look Sharp!' in 1979 when a local FM radio station aired the disc seamlessly as their feature album one Sunday evening. | | | Crossing do-wop choruses and melodies with sharp New Wave guitar chops and pulsing percussion is an intoxicating blend that infuses the album with infectious energy. |
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| | Jackson’s new album, Volume 4, is a collection of 11 songs that positions Jackson and his band—Gary Sanford (guitar), Graham Maby (bass), and drummer Dave Houghton—for a classic comeback. | | | Coinciding with the 25th anniversary of the release of his landmark debut album Look Sharp, Joe Jackson has reunited with the same band that recorded Look Sharp and its two follow-up albums, I’m The Man and Beat Crazy. | | | Not unlike last year’s return-to-his-rock-roots effort from Elvis Costello, Volume 4 finds Joe Jackson revisiting his post-punk past with the same wit and rock and roll energy that made his first few albums so significant. |
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| | Continuing the genre-jumping, this is an album of modern classical music. | | | Soon Jackson abandoned pop music altogether, and this was the last hurrah for the original backing unit. | | | Produced by Jackson and Roynesdal; the band is Maby, Askew, Hadjopolous, Tom Teeley (guitar) and Dan Hicky (drums - Burke sat this one out). |
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| | CNN.com - Joe Jackson is back - Mar. 11, 2003 |
| | Jackson recorded prolifically through the remainder of the 1980s but hit a roadblock in the early 1990s. | | | So it's no surprise that the British singer-musician-songwriter-producer wasn't keen at first about the notion of reuniting with the members of the original Joe Jackson Band to commemorate the 25th anniversary of their seminal 1979 album "Look Sharp!" "I thought it was a terrible idea," he says. | | | Today, the twice-divorced Jackson — who splits his time between his New York City and Portsmouth, England homes — lives by "the Samurai Code, which is 'Expect nothing, but be ready for anything.'" Though he is touring behind "Volume 4" with his longtime mates, he doesn't expect to record another album with them. |
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| | BigHassle.Com: Joe Jackson |
| | Volume 4 – whose release coincides with the 25th anniversary of the recording of Jackson’s landmark debut Look Sharp – is a stunning comeback for one of the classic bands of the post-punk era: Jackson (vocals and keyboards), Gary Sanford (guitar), Graham Maby (bass), and Dave Houghton (drums). | | | Produced by Jackson, the album strongly echoes the band’s early work, without straining to imitate it. | | | The all-new compositions merge the early albums’ raw rock’n’roll energy and barbed lyrical wit with the emotional depth and musical sophistication of Jackson’s later work. |
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| | Music: Turn Up That Noise! (Memphis Flyer . 08-18-97) |
| | A concept album based around the Seven Deadly Sins, the first track, "Prelude," features a frantic yet tempting violin solo by Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg meant to introduce the root of all sin, the Devil. | | | His experiments as a composer have led him through a series of albums exploring a variety of musical styles. | | | While a concept album perhaps has the right to be treated only as a whole, the loose, non-narrative framework provided by the Deadly Sins allows the pieces to be considered separately. |
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| | And then, of course, there were Jackson's infrequent piano and melodica solos that, along with his rich musical vocabulary which, at that time, emphasized not only powerful rock but also bouncy ska, melodic pop, and lyrics that were alternately scathing and vulnerable. | | | Over the next 20 years, Jackson recorded several more albums that were cast in various shades of rock, pop, jazz, blues, and even classical music, as the muse and mood struck him. | | | Finally, in 2002, the original Joe Jackson band reunited for a new album, Volume 4 (Restless/Rykodisc), released this past March, and a world tour. |
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| | RollingStone.com: Look Sharp! : Joe Jackson : Review |
| | Look Sharp's "One More Time" and "Sunday Papers" were a welcome merger of edginess and ear candy, which connected immediately with fans who couldn't abide the brutal fun of "God Save the Queen." The album made the Top Twenty, providing AandM bigwigs with a certified punk auteur. | | | RS recommends the best songs and albums from RealPlayer Music Store. | | | In the studio, Kershenbaum kept the arrangements unfettered and virtually free of instrumental overdubs, a tactic that emphasized the wound-up riffing of Jackson's three-piece backing band and silhouetted the contours of the his painstakingly crafted pop songs, with their crisp syntax and high-concept refrains. |
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| | RollingStone.com: Joe Jackson : Joe Jackson Reunites "Sharp" Band : News |
| | Jackson promises the new album will be "high-energy, fun and definitely in the spirit of the first couple of albums -- without trying to recreate it. | | | Although song titles and label details are nebulous, he and the band will begin recording in the U.K. this October. | | | Although he vowed it would never happen, Joe Jackson is reuniting his original rock band for a new studio recording and twenty-fifth anniversary tour next spring. |
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| | In addition to new albums to be recorded for the label, Restless/Ryko is exploring licensing a host of out-of-print albums from Jackson's AandM catalog, now under the control of Universal. | | | Jackson describes album first and last songs, "Take it Like a Man" and "Bright Grey," respectively as "my gender-f*** songs. | | | Recorded late last year in England, the 11-track album features the same unit that recorded "Look Sharp!," "I'm the Man," and "Beat Crazy" for AandM before splitting in 1980. |
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| | Joe Jackson - Look Sharp! @ Soundbug |
| | Joe and his band cover lots of ground here: There's brooding, yet melodic punk ("One More Time"), downbeat reggae dirges ("Fools In Love"), blissful pop perfection ("Is She Really Going Out With Him?"), raucous new wave stomps ("Got the Time"), and more. | | | "Look Sharp!" is an excellent debut album from Joe Jackson, chronicaling his more punk/new wave influenced phase of the late 70's. | | | I have been a Joe Jackson fan for over a decade and have nearly all of his albums. |
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| | The straight-ahead guitar-bass-drums trio that backed him on his first three albums was inspired by punk, but clearly more a part of the burgeoning new wave scene, marrying punk's aggression with smart, hooky pop song structures. | | | As evidenced by his '79 debut, Jackson was a bit more eclectic than Parker or (early) Costello, and a touch ahead of both in terms of harmonic sophistication (though he downplayed his compositional chops at the beginning). | | | Fortunately, his pop craftsmanship is unerring, so no matter how irate he gets, his anger is backed up with infectious melodies and rhythms. |
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| | Joe Jackson's Night and Day - The Composer |
| | Joe Jackson's career has spanned almost every genre of popular music imaginable. | | | Usually, if there is an overall concept to an album I do, it takes shape as I go along. | | | The Night and Day II tour featured music from both New York albums, and its theatrical tone inspired the forthcoming music theatre presentation Joe Jackson's Night and Day, premiering in Richmond, Virginia in April 2004. |
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| | Amazon.com: Joe Jackson - Greatest Hits [ORIGINAL RECORDING REMASTERED]: Music |
| | Jackson also establishes himself as a master songwriter - listen for his narrative storytelling style in many of his songs. | | | They do list the year and album each song is from. | | | These are songs that Jackson did with his band called "The Joe Jackson" band. |
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| | The album's front cover photo--with Jackson decked out as an archetypal mustachioed spiv huckster and brandishing a jacked lined with a variety of watches, yo-yo's and assorted trinkets--sets the tone for the album's wickedly satirical title track. | | | Elsewhere, Jackson adopts a more lighthearted, compassionate stance that offers a welcome counterpoint to the harsher insights of the first album. | | | Released on October 5, 1979, just nine months after his debut Look Sharp!, Joe Jackson's second album I'm The Man followed squarely in its predecessor's pointy-toed musical footsteps. |
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| | This was Rubén's English-language album, with tracks written by Sting, Lou Reed, and Elvis Costello. | | | Lyrically, the album is hilariously irresponsible, with the Bernie Goetz-like endorsement of extralegal revenge on the title track, and the celebration of a gangster on the scorching "Juanito Alimaña." The album closer is another eleven minute marathon, "Pase La Noche Fumando," and it's amusing if not a masterpiece. | | | His first solo album since his unsuccessful bid for Panama's presidency, he recorded the album in that country with an all-Panamanian cast. |
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| | USATODAY.com - 25 years later, Joe Jackson regroups |
| | The singer expects the new tracks to be "in the spirit of the first couple of albums, but with a bit of the greater maturity I'd like to think I've acquired. | | | It dawned on Joe Jackson recently that 2003 would mark the 25th anniversary of the recording of his first album, Look Sharp. | | | The four now plan to perform a few shows in the U.K. this September, then head into the studio in October in hopes of releasing a CD next spring. |
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| | Amazon.co.uk: Look Sharp: Music |
| | I was born the year before this album was released and yet I find myself listening to it with alarming regularity. | | | Before Jackson decided he was an artiste and began experimenting with big-band swing and classical music, he was a snotty punk who looked at other people's relationships with a jaundiced eye. | | | But the album still sounds fresh and exciting, and is a better introduction to Joe Jackson’s early work than any of the compilations on the market. |
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| | The man behind a wealth of album covers. | | | This site features over 270 album covers of popular rock music and it also includes over 100 links to other cover art sites. | | | The photographer of the Joe Jackson "Look Sharp" album cover among many others. |
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| | In 1979, at the height of new wave, Jackson released his debut album, | | | Further experimentation in '90s on such albums as | | | Following graduation, he performed with a band named Arms and Legs, and later worked as the musical director for the Portsmouth Playboy Club. |
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| | The twenty-eight-tracks are collected from their many appearances on National Public Radio’s "All Things Considered." Coinciding with the twenty-fifth anniversary of the release of his classic Look Sharp album, Joe Jackson and that same original backing band have finally made their fourth album, simply entitled Volume 4. | | | Look for the first pressing of the CD to feature a bonus disc of six early classics recorded live during last year’s UK tour … | | | Songs: Ohia – Magnolia Electric Co. (Secretly Canadian) look for the vinyl version to contain a bonus CD disc of demos. |
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| | Amazon.co.uk: The Collection: Music |
| | One the contrary, I listened to a great album and I feel the musical freedom of an artist which is not bound to a single musical cliche. | | | This is one of the most evocative pop songs ever written and reasons enough on it,s own to own this album. | | | Nowadays of course he'd never have become a star or dented the charts at all, he's just too weird looking, and his songs are not bland soporific ballads or weedy hyperactive fluffy pop. |
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| | Last year’s album, Has Been, by William Shatner is a thing to behold. | | | was a seminal album for me and hearing his voice reminds me just how much I like his sound. | | | Impossible to describe (or possibly very easy to describe: it’s a William Shatner album), here’s a brilliant taste of it: a video of Shatner covering Pulp’s Common People with Joe Jackson and Ben Folds on The Tonight Show. |
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| | this album is truly for the r&b junkies who love good music. | | | This could be the Janet album, Velvet Rope or All For you, but it's the latest Janet Jackson album. | | | One of the lousiest albums, November 18, 2005 |
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| | Encyclopedia: Look Sharp! (Joe Jackson album) |
| | is Joe Jackson's first album, released in April 1979. | | | See also: 1978 in music, other events of 1979, 1980 in music, 1970s in music and the list of years in music // Events Disco reigned supreme in 1979, with several #1 hits from The Bee Gees and Donna Summer that year. | | | Joe Jackson (born August 11, 1954 in Burton-upon-Trent) is a British musician. |
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| | NetRhythms: Book reviews |
| | As with any choice of 'essential' albums it is very subjective although I found it an illuminating insight to blues albums. | | | I have a few of the albums listed so Greg and I do share some of the same tastes and I'm sure that there will be many more in my collection before the year is out. | | | I've always loved their music and was fortunate enough to actually 'be there' and share stages with them in California, watch them play live and also jam and record with drummer Richie Hayward during some of those down times the band frequently went through. |
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| | In 1979 Joe Jackson released the album "Look Sharp" that included a song called Sunday Papers. | | | It is among the rare pop songs that both sound great and are incredibly insightful. | | | Joe Jackson Is Still Looking Sharp by David Russo |
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| | This show was recorded for a possible live album, which prompted an odd Plexiglas screen around the drummer that made it look as if the band were expecting to be attacked with hockey pucks. | | | His imaginative covers included the Beatles' "Girl," to which Jackson lent a downbeat, angsty Kurt Weill-esque vibe, along with an unexpected honky-tonk piano break. | | | Jackson knows this, and he didn't disappoint, trotting out the ironic "Is She Really Going Out With Him" along with "On the Radio," "It's Different for Girls," the aptly named "A Slow Song," the ska-flavored "Sunday Papers" and a hyperspeed reading of "Look Sharp!" |
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| | Brian Griffin took maybe one or two shots of them as part of an entire day spent doing more typical portrait shots." One of those portraits -- with Jackson punkishly pointing a finger at the camera -- was used for the album's back cover. | | | ne of the most powerful albums to come out of the British New Wave scene, | | | The cover photo -- a dramatic study of Joe Jackson's shoes -- was a happy accident. |
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| | His music continued to evolve and grow and he's still producing wonderful albums. | | | If anyone has any additional information pertaining to the album or players you can send an E-mail to Tralfaz. | | | This one in particular is full of fast pop tunes and slow stories of love won and lost, reggae influenced tales of folls in love and so on. |
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