Joe Jackson: Greetings From Asbury Park (1980)

Here's an excellent soundboard recording of the Joe Jackson Band (more here) in the midst of the Beat Crazy Tour.



Damn these Prime JJB videos are hard to stop posting...



01. One To One 4:14 >
02. I'm The Man 4:34
03. Beat Crazy 4:55
04. Look Sharp! 3:11
05. Mad At You 4:09
06. Kinda Kute 4:37
07. The Evil Eye 3:35
08. Pretty Boys 3:50
09. On Your Radio 4:38 >
10. Friday 4:33
11. talk 2:01
12. Fit 4:24
13. Is She Really Going Out With Him? * 7:05 >
14. Don't Wanna Be Like That 4:51
15. intros 0:42
16. One More Time 3:05
17. ovation & talk 2:06
Encore
18. The Harder They Come 4:18
19. Got The Time 3:34




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Joe Jackson: Aladin Music Hall, 1980

We've got a bit of Joe Jackson on the brain here at MRML (see this post as well).




This is a great FM broadcast that shows off the Joe Jackson Band at its relentless peak.



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Joe Jackson Band: Harder They Come E.P. (1980)

(Re-posted due to a dead link)

Joe Jackson (not the Shoeless one nor the father of the departed one-gloved one) defined "new wave", back when I was nine. Jackson got through to our suburban battery-powered a.m. radios (the seventies precursor to the Walkmans, iPods and the digital implants to come). Jackson may have only been another pub rocker posing as the face of disaffected youth, railing against the media, consumerism and the opposite sex but by creating killer pop songs out of such material, he beat the punks at their own game.



in 1980, in-between his stunning first two album and his more problematic third one (his career only grows more thorny as it goes on), Jackson released a three song single that remains almost unknown. It's a perfect distillation of his career up till then,with an up-tempo reggae song (Jimmy Cliff's "The Harder They Come") a sneering rocker ("Outta Style") and a taut ballad ("Tilt"). Don't miss out on this thirty-year old secret.



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Joe Jackson: Mad At You

Joe Jackson's third album, Beat Crazy, is one of those commercially unsuccessful, artistically problematic follow-up albums; the type that we relish here at MRML. Since the album is sort of in-print (i.e. an unremastered, bonus-track free import is available for $22.00 U.S. on Amazon), we'll look at the singles.



The first single, the wonderful "Beat Crazy", was backed with a live version of "Is She Really Going Out With Him?" an early indication that that bloody song would haunt all his days. The second single, the jagged reggae-rocker "Mad at You", was no more successful on the charts than "Beat Crazy" but it had a non-L.P. track, the pounding yet poppy "Enough is Not Enough", to recommended it.



  



And for both pop-punk skeptics and devotees here, straight outta New Jersey, are The Ergs (who's selection of covers is impeccable) with their roughed-up version of "Enough is Not Enough".

Joe Jackson: The Harder They Come

Joe Jackson (not the Shoeless one nor the father of the departed one-gloved one) defined new wave, back when I was nine. Jackson got through to our suburban battery-powered a.m. radios (the seventies precursor to the Walkmans, iPods and the digital implants to come). Jackson may have only been another pub rocker posing as the face of disaffected youth, railing against the media, consumerism and the opposite sex but by creating killer pop songs out of such material, he beat the punks at their own game.


in 1980, in-between his stunning first two album and his more problematic third one (his career only grows more thorny as it goes on), Jackson released a three song single that remains almost unknown. It's a perfect distillation of his career up till then,with an up-tempo reggae song (Jimmy Cliff's "The Harder They Come") a sneering rocker ("Outta Style") and a taut ballad ("Tilt"). Don't miss out on this thirty-year old secret.