Joe Jackson Band - Volume 4
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Artist: Joe Jackson BandEdition: Music CD
Format: Limited Edition
CD Release Date: 2003-03-11
Music Label: Rykodisc
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
- Take It Like A Man
- Still Alive
- Awkward Age
- Chrome
- Love At First Light
- Fairy Dust
- Little Bit Stupid
- Blue Flame
- Dirty Martini
- Thugz 'r' Us
- Bright Grey
- One More Time (live)
- Is She Really Going Out With Him? (live)
- On Your Radio (Live)
- Got The Time (live)
- It's Different For Girls (live)
- I'm The Man (live)
Music reviews of Volume 4
Music Review: Hey Joe, Where you going with that Piano in your hand
Rating: 5 Stars
Following Joe Jacksons career has always required the ability to avoid making instant analysis on his ever changing styles. Volume 4 however evokes memories of previous work on Night and Day along with Look Sharp!.
In addition, this album was recorded in 10 days without computers (no ProTools or sequencers), just live to 24-track analog tape with some overdubbed piano parts, and there's a real chemistry evident (most songs were 2nd or 3rd takes).
Volume 4 also comes with a special bonus live CD cut when the band were preparing to go on their world tour, featuring six of their nostalgic "old days" tracks. Some see this as unfortunate (as it only points out how less catchy the new songs are in comparison), but I disagree. Here is a band as comfortable with the past as with the present, having fun as they play.
All said, Volume 4 does not deliver the same type of music as Look Sharp!, but manages to provide a good pop record nonetheless. For fans of Joe Jackson, it's a welcome arrival -- easily his best CD in years, even if the acid stances seem a bit labored at times. He proves he still can master pop songs in a variety of styles, but now you need to invest a little more time to fully appreciate them.
Description of Volume 4
Limited edition bonus cd includes live versions of "One More Time", "Is She Really Going Out With Him", "On Your Radio", "Got the Time", "It's Different for Girls", "I'm the Man" from the 2002 UK tour.What could have been a colossal self-indulgence proves a startlingly vital album. Volume IV is faithful to the ethos of early Joe Jackson hits like "One More Time" and "Is She Really Going Out with Him?" Built around clattering drums, jarring guitar, hyperactive keyboards, snarling vocals, and lyrics riddled with puns and double-entendres, it harkens back to the early 1970s and late '80s, when Jackson peddled a wordy and venomous strain of new wave pop. But Jackson is too clever to get suckered by nostalgia. Here he wryly contemplates his middle-aged present from inside his old clothes. The best of the resulting songs, "Blue Flame" and "Still Alive," are as good as anything he's done. Volume IV is where Jackson completes his circuit, reuniting with his original band and reacquainting himself with his original live-to-tape recording methods. --Andrew Mueller
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