Joe Jackson - Live: 1980-86
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Artist: Joe JacksonEdition: Music CD
Format: Live
CD Release Date: 1990-10-25
Music Label: A&M
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
- One To One
- I'm The Man
- Beat Crazy
- Is She Really Going Out With Him?
- Don't Wanna Be Like That
- Got The Time
- On Your Radio
- Fools In Love
- Cancer
- Is She Really Going Out With Him? (A Cappella Version)
- Look Sharp!
- Sunday Papers
- Real Men
- Is She Really Going Out With Him? (Acoustic Version)
- Memphis
- A Slow Song
- Be My Number Two
- Breaking Us In Two
- It's Different For Girls
- You Can't Get What You Want ('Til You Know What You Want)
- Jumpin' Jive
- Steppin' Out
Music reviews of Live: 1980-86
Music Review: Shows Why We Loved Joe
Rating: 4 Stars
Here is a record that has been largely banished to non-US release. The major labels always tend to ignore and hide some of music's best gems and this is no exception. If you can choke down the price, you will find this record well-worth it. I prefer the rugged, raw energy of the first CD, where we hear the original Joe Jackson band pound through favorites such as `I'm the Man' and `Beat Crazy'. Graham Maby on bass especially shines on the old material. One could argue that while Mr. Jackson wrote the songs, Graham brought them to life.
OK, I am old and was in my late teens when Joe blasted on the music scene in the late 70's. He offered something new, exciting and driven. At the same time his music was unapologetic in injecting their songs with almost too cute pop hooks and melodies. Call it New Wave, Second Invasion, Punk, or simply Pop, it was great stuff.
For reasons that were never entirely clear to me, Joe Jackson and his contemporaries like Elvis Costello and the Police got tired of the cool, rockin' sound and moved to softer, more complex compositions and turned their backs on what made them popular in favor of something new. You can hear the start of this transition in the second CD. `A Slow Song', `Be My Number Two', and `Breaking Us In Two' are fine songs and the performances are brilliant, but they really are a clear deviance from the band's pub-scene roots. Time proved that the new musical directions Joe took were not particularly well-regarded by the critics or his core fans and he has recently "rediscovered" his old band and has put out some new "old" stuff that I have yet to listen to.
Listening to this live collection brings back memories and reminder to me of what were some exciting - if not short-lived - days of music in the late 70's and early 80's. There is not a true loser song in the bunch. The trio of `Is She Really Going Out With Him' show how he could take a loved favorite and throw it at you in new interesting ways. Heck, the original is out there on Look Sharp! if that is what you want.
If there is a negative for this collection, it would be the too-slick production of the numbers in the second half of CD 2. `You Can't Get What You Want' for example is layered with busy synthesizer soloing, and crisp, live digital effects, and a big, over- reverbed drum sound. That overdone sound was an earmark of the Big World band (with Ford on bass) and thus four stars note five.
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