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Joe Jackson — It's Different For Girls
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msymmes
(Toronto, CA)
Posted: May 17, 2013 - 11:30
 
A highly underrated artist.
 



Thin_Air
Posted: Apr 16, 2013 - 03:46
 
You have every right to an opinion but I have to disagree.  JJ is musically schooled and live is brilliant vocally and instrumentally - perhaps he is a bit on the tall side but other than that I reckon he's rght up there!

evermovingtarget wrote:
Just too bad his voice is so terrible... And sounds so completely out of tune! Just can't stand to listen to this stuff....
IMHO... 

 



phlattop
Posted: Mar 15, 2013 - 17:20
 
 Cynaera wrote:
I've probably posted this before, but I heard a great a cappella version of "Is She Really Going Out With HIm?" on KINK.FM back in the 80's, and it was awesome. Jazzy and totally in the pocket.  I've never heard it anywhere else, so whenever I hear a Joe Jackson song, it sets up a jonesing in my bones for that instrument-less song... {#Sunny}
 
IIRC, there's a a cappella version on his Live 1980/86 album. Given how tight his band is live, it may match what you heard.

evermovingtarget
(Burlington, Canada)
Posted: Mar 04, 2013 - 12:49
 
Just too bad his voice is so terrible... And sounds so completely out of tune! Just can't stand to listen to this stuff....
IMHO... 

Albert1967
(Leusden, the Netherlands)
Posted: Feb 12, 2013 - 07:58
 
Superb song and one which brings me ('67) back to my youth.

*HVB*
Posted: Feb 12, 2013 - 07:57
 
Sounds a bit like XTC

Carl
(The Summit City)
Posted: Feb 03, 2013 - 21:09
 
 GuiltyFeat wrote:
It makes no sense on any level that this song should be over 30 years old.
 Dreams, man…

rdo
(DC)
Posted: Jan 27, 2013 - 06:32
 
 oldsaxon wrote:

Always interested in if a male writer can grab the mindset of women I asked my girl if this rang true. She emphatically said yes. 
 

I have actually had several frank conversations with women about this. 

jonahboo
(in a corner)
Posted: Jan 03, 2013 - 12:52
 

GONG



debobasu
(Crossroads of LIFE!)
Posted: Dec 11, 2012 - 14:37
 
 oldsaxon wrote:

Always interested in if a male writer can grab the mindset of women I asked my girl if this rang true. She emphatically said yes. 
 
All people can be frightening unloyal... Women can seemingly be so at the slightest show of attention... Lock em' in boys? 'Fraid not...

oldsaxon
(Wales via Vancouver, BC.)
Posted: Nov 30, 2012 - 12:04
 
 rdo wrote:
It really is different for girls.  For guys, it's pretty easy.  In fact, it is pretty much assured.  For a girl, there is a huge downside with slim chance of reward.
 
Always interested in if a male writer can grab the mindset of women I asked my girl if this rang true. She emphatically said yes. 

rdo
(DC)
Posted: Nov 25, 2012 - 13:09
 
It really is different for girls.  For guys, it's pretty easy.  In fact, it is pretty much assured.  For a girl, there is a huge downside with slim chance of reward.

KurtfromLaQuinta
(Deep in the heart of South California)
Posted: Nov 01, 2012 - 19:57
 
 WayUpNorth wrote:
Simply a perfect pop song — it has it all. 
 
Right toe.

WayUpNorth
Posted: Oct 01, 2012 - 09:52
 
Simply a perfect pop song — it has it all. 

GuiltyFeat
(Ra'anana)
Posted: Jun 26, 2012 - 07:33
 
It makes no sense on any level that this song should be over 30 years old.

GirlFriday
(Austin, TX)
Posted: Jun 26, 2012 - 07:32
 
Not sure about this one yet.

lily34
(lexvegas)
Posted: Jun 21, 2012 - 06:59
 
i'd love to play this for a couple people

Yeoleman
(Bangor Heights)
Posted: May 28, 2012 - 03:08
 
 sirdroseph wrote:
The melody and bassline to this tune is just outstanding!{#Clap}
 
Just played along and you are right!   {#Guitarist}

sirdroseph
(Yes)
Posted: May 25, 2012 - 10:58
 
The melody and bassline to this tune is just outstanding!{#Clap}

Bozo
(Steeler Penguin Pirate land)
Posted: Apr 26, 2012 - 09:38
 
This guy always had the coolest band with him:  his arrangements were/are otherworldly!!

Horsechestnut
(UK)
Posted: Apr 26, 2012 - 09:36
 
Loved everthing he's done ever since he started and who plays his music now? And where is he?

dwlangham
(Nowhere to be found)
Posted: Apr 26, 2012 - 09:33
 
 kdogg73 wrote:
My untrained ear for Joe Jackson had me guessing this was a start of a Fleetwood Mac song, then sung my Elvis Costello. :/
 
ME TOO! Funny. And then the chorus has a Steely Dan feel to it.

Totally digging it.

oldsaxon
(Wales via Vancouver, BC.)
Posted: Mar 02, 2012 - 12:20
 

I've seen him live three times. Every show was more brilliant than the last. This guy is truly talented. Too bad he's a vampire now.




sine-quinn-non
(wdc)
Posted: Mar 02, 2012 - 12:18
 
 kaybee wrote:
This is nice but I like the version on his Live 80/86 album.

 

there are a few versions on that album right?  My fave is the acapella version.

Stranglersfan
(Revelstoke, B.C.)
Posted: Mar 02, 2012 - 12:18
 
That is some good Rock and Roll

jt1
Posted: Feb 22, 2012 - 23:45
 
What a great start to my listening day.

kdogg73
(Dayton, OH)
Posted: Feb 20, 2012 - 06:54
 
My untrained ear for Joe Jackson had me guessing this was a start of a Fleetwood Mac song, then sung my Elvis Costello. :/

lshinkawa
(Berkeley, CA)
Posted: Dec 13, 2011 - 18:40
 
 finoufk wrote:


That's right...What a shame !
 
So true. Very underrated!

finoufk
(Bordeaux - france)
Posted: Nov 28, 2011 - 07:54
 
 Deadwing wrote:
JJ has written so many amazing songs and is always overlooked   {#Frown}
 

That's right...What a shame !

kaybee
(Lost in the Wilds of Toronto)
Posted: Oct 27, 2011 - 17:48
 
This is nice but I like the version on his Live 80/86 album.


WonderLizard
(2,755.46 mi. due east of Paradise)
Posted: Oct 19, 2011 - 05:07
 
 jpwright wrote:
Check out Joe Jackson's song "Home Town" (iTunes) from his double live album. Beautiful. I was walking downtown NY one 80's evening and two doormen stopped me and asked if I wanted to be a part of a live audience just inside the theater.  I said who was the performer?  They said Joe Jackson's Band was recording a live album but please no cat calling.  I listened to a free 2 hour recorded live concert quietly.  I heard "Home Town" layed down live that night. Hope you enjoy it. It still hits home when I return to Virginia.

jp

 
 
That would have been 1986's Big World, recorded live—and before an audience, you, that had to sit on its hands until the tape stopped rolling between songs. The critics really lambasted him for this, I guess for depriving the audience of its spontaneity. Frankly, I never understood that criticism. What I found remarkable was the boldness of the proposition: cut a live album and make it sound like a studio album. Every part had to be played perfectly. The fact that Big World was recorded over four nights is testament to how really, really hard that is to do. Man, do I envy you for having been there. Must have been something.


MiracleDrug
(Earth)
Posted: Oct 19, 2011 - 04:58
 
the first line of Joe's tune will resonate with ANY male... {#Lol}

Cynaera
(In a hammock under my own vine and fig tree.)
Posted: Oct 16, 2011 - 13:04
 
 jpwright wrote:
Check out Joe Jackson's song "Home Town" (iTunes) from his double live album. Beautiful. I was walking downtown NY one 80's evening and two doormen stopped me and asked if I wanted to be a part of a live audience just inside the theater.  I said who was the performer?  They said Joe Jackson's Band was recording a live album but please no cat calling.  I listened to a free 2 hour recorded live concert quietly.  I heard "Home Town" layed down live that night. Hope you enjoy it. It still hits home when I return to Virginia.

jp

 
 
How COOL!  I'm currently fund-less, but I've put your rec on my new list of "must-buy" music.  Thanks, jpwright! {#Jump}

Deadwing
(Cincinnati OH)
Posted: Sep 14, 2011 - 23:35
 
JJ has written so many amazing songs and is always overlooked   {#Frown}



jpwright
Posted: Aug 17, 2011 - 05:20
 
Check out Joe Jackson's song "Home Town" (iTunes) from his double live album. Beautiful. I was walking downtown NY one 80's evening and two doormen stopped me and asked if I wanted to be a part of a live audience just inside the theater.  I said who was the performer?  They said Joe Jackson's Band was recording a live album but please no cat calling.  I listened to a free 2 hour recorded live concert quietly.  I heard "Home Town" layed down live that night. Hope you enjoy it. It still hits home when I return to Virginia.

jp

 

Seahunt
(Parent's Basement)
Posted: Jul 14, 2011 - 05:53
 
Great song by a great artist.  I can't play bass but I want to learn it to play this song {#Bananajam}

DaveInVA
(In a hovel in effluent Damnville, VA)
Posted: Jun 12, 2011 - 14:01
 
 laozilover wrote:
Love this album cover!  I may just buy the record because of that!  I can has 12 inch vinyl?
 
Yep:

 

Cynaera
(South of Neanderthal)
Posted: Jun 07, 2011 - 17:21
 
 Businessgypsy wrote:
KINK recorded a lot of artists in their studios, playing those songs in pretty heavy rotation in the mid to late 80s. The Aimee Mann set was otherworldly. They did publish compilation CDs from time to time - maybe eBay? Race 'ya to it!
Edit: Checked KINK's site - they published 10 live-in-studio CDs, but this cut was not on them. Some amazing stuff there however. Sad to discover that Les Sarnoff gave it up to melanoma in '09, he was a fixture.

 
I cried all day when I found out Les had died.  He's always held a special place in my heart - he had such JOY in him, and it spilled over onto everyone with whom he came in contact.  He had a knack for bringing out the best in people. 


laozilover
(Left of Chicago and up)
Posted: May 14, 2011 - 13:33
 
Love this album cover!  I may just buy the record because of that!  I can has 12 inch vinyl?


Businessgypsy
(Deepest, Darkest Florida)
Posted: Apr 05, 2011 - 11:01
 
Cynaera wrote:
I've probably posted this before, but I heard a great a cappella version of "Is She Really Going Out With HIm?" on KINK.FM back in the 80's, and it was awesome. Jazzy and totally in the pocket. I've never heard it anywhere else, so whenever I hear a Joe Jackson song, it sets up a jonesing in my bones for that instrument-less song... {#Sunny}
KINK recorded a lot of artists in their studios, playing those songs in pretty heavy rotation in the mid to late 80s. The Aimee Mann set was otherworldly. They did publish compilation CDs from time to time - maybe eBay? Race 'ya to it!
Edit: Checked KINK's site - they published 10 live-in-studio CDs, but this cut was not on them. Some amazing stuff there however. Sad to discover that Les Sarnoff gave it up to melanoma in '09, he was a fixture.


Kittee
(NC- Dreaming of the Mountains)
Posted: Mar 12, 2011 - 11:04
 
Nah.

Sasha2001
(Where the last of the union men run free)
Posted: Mar 09, 2011 - 20:40
 
 Sjaaks wrote:
Terrible! (IMHO)  He always sings so whiny...

But then, i wasn't even born then so probably i lack the necessary memories that make up for the musical "terribleness"... {#Tongue-out}
 
Go away!


drews
(London, Blighty)
Posted: Feb 09, 2011 - 03:11
 
Scirocco looks OK, but a boy racer compared to the Audi Quattro (admittedly not available till 1980)

Fire Up the Quattro!



From the BBC series Ashes to Ashes)

 WayUpNorth wrote:
sc
vandal wrote:
I miss my Scirocco. . . 

Me too ... this was mine.  Those were the days ...

 


dboseman
Posted: Feb 09, 2011 - 03:05
 
 vandal wrote:

I miss my Scirocco. . .
 
Oh hell yeah I was!


Sjaaks
(Horst, Netherlands)
Posted: Feb 09, 2011 - 03:03
 
Terrible! (IMHO)  He always sings so whiny...

But then, i wasn't even born then so probably i lack the necessary memories that make up for the musical "terribleness"... {#Tongue-out}

lily34
(lexvegas)
Posted: Feb 01, 2011 - 16:04
 
if it wasn't my upload/suggestion, i'm just glad it's here. love. it.

Sasha2001
(Where the last of the union men run free)
Posted: Feb 01, 2011 - 15:55
 
 WayUpNorth wrote:
sc
vandal wrote:
I miss my Scirocco. . . 

Me too ... this was mine.  Those were the days ...

  Here's he new Scirocco - pretty bitchin. Not as nice as the circa 1988 model though.




Wilmshurst
(My pineal gland)
Posted: Jan 17, 2011 - 11:11
 
 treatment_bound wrote:

...and now you've got the visual!  Were you cranking I'm The Man on a bitchin' Blaupunkt tape deck?


 
I had a honda accord hatchback, which looked an awful lot like this car.  I actually had it on compact disk.  I had my sony discman with a cassette shaped adapter popped into my tape deck.  In my mind, I was the man...


Wilmshurst
(My pineal gland)
Posted: Jan 17, 2011 - 11:05
 
Joe Jackson FTW!

One of my favorite albums ever.

Dinges,_the_Dude
(under sea-level, N52°22', E4°52')
Posted: Jan 06, 2011 - 05:29
 
Great song, artist!