They filmed these live recording sessions and you can watch most on KZread. It is amazing to watch.

Daniel, I was there and it was amazing!!!!!

OMG. Me and Jack Daniels grooved to this album nightly for a year. What the world needs now is more Joe Jackson.

I saw the tour for this album in Montreal and had the privilege of meeting Joe Jackson, we had a 20 minutes conversation, very cool and funny man.

I’ve seen Joe Jackson just about every time he played in NYC since 1979, when his debut album Look Sharp! Was released. He’s one of my very favorites, musically and lyrically. There was a point in his career that he was contemplating only composing music; he said that lyrics were confining ... he’s an amazing pianist, so I understood . . . but was so sad. Luckily he didn’t stick to that and continued to write songs. He’s on tour now but I missed seeing him😭 May 21 as I just had surgery (not serious) and was recovering. Had to give my ticket away. He played some of very favorites. Set lists are available on line. If he is coming to play near you, Daniel, go see him. Nothing like a live show!

Great tune. Joe Jackson has some really great, underrated music. My favorite off this album is Home Town. Fantastic! Thanks for reacting.

Love how that bass just hits at you. It's a fantastic song.

The entire album is a gem. And it might be the most underrated album by the moment underrated artist in recorded music history.

Greatreaction, Daniel..I enjoy watching you reactions to this genre..your enthusiasm really shows and so does your appreciation of music 💖

Joe Jackson "Look Sharp!"

@foxandscout

2 жыл бұрын

The entire album! Every single song.

@happymethehappyone8300

2 жыл бұрын

@@foxandscout Agreed.

Greatness...

This is a hellofa song! I had forgotten about it! Very cool album! You are KILLIN' IT today, Daniel! Thanks so much for the great content!

Love Joe Jackson and this song! Haven't listened to it in years! Thank you for this reaction, Daniel!

I never heard this one before. This number kicks ass. Great lyrics, too. My goodness!!

For another great take on the personal and political in the last half of the 20th century, check out Elvis Costello's "45." He pulls together the year '45 (post WWII) with the popularization of 45 rpm 'singles' and how that evolved. Great songwriting.

Rufus Wainwright asked his audience not to clap in the first half of his show when I went to see him in concert. It was because the first half was a single piece of music, and clapping in the pauses would have ruined the flow. He just wanted his audience to be able to enjoy his work. Completely reasonable for artists to ask their audience help them in this way.

@sopyleecrypt6899

2 жыл бұрын

@@viceroyzh I suggested him on the last “requests” video, but my comment didn’t get many likes :) Maybe he’s not super well-known? I will try again next round :) I love him, he was amazing live ❤️

@qbear17

2 жыл бұрын

@@sopyleecrypt6899 I saw that tour (as well as most of his others). It was pretty special. I've also suggested Rufus here. I hope he gets picked.

The whole album is genius

Much like Elvis Costello, Joe Jackson is essentially a Jazz musician who camouflaged early on as a Punk Rocker. Both of them were among the best of the late 70s / early 80s Punks and both broke out of their bounds quickly enough, giving us constellations of amazing and varied music.

@billherman7294

Жыл бұрын

Well said

No none has more venom. This tune has so much currency especially now.

Wonderful song. Amazing band. I can see you liked it as much as I do. :) I think it’s about the media dividing people into opposing groups. Maybe try his song “Beat Crazy” or any of his songs really. Thanks for the great reaction

Hey! Finally, a song on this channel with my New York Mets in it! Let's Go Mets! Braves Suck! Sorry Daniel... :)

I have this on vinyl. Great stuff.

I could be wrong, but I believe he recorded the music like you would for a orchestra rather than running all the gear back to a board. I saw album tour concert in Dallas TX at the Bronco Bowl - phenomenal!

Although political it was pretty ambiguous and I heard it for the first time with you and really liked it! I'm 60 and there's not a lot I haven't heard but I believe I might have to dive into this rabbit hole. Thanks Daniel!

Great bass and so very jazzy and funky. Most of televised politics is just simplified rhetoric. Loved the song, great review Daniel Thanks again 🎶

@gj8683

2 жыл бұрын

"Most of televised politics is just simplified rhetoric." Well said!

👍👍👍

I noticed that you noticed little things like the extra beat before the second chorus and in the outro they repeated the first half of chorus. You are seeing deeper into the craft.

I’m probably in the minority here but when I’m at a concert I feel the music. I’m a part of it. I can’t sit, I have to stand and dance, sing loudly, clap and raise my hands in praise of the feeling. I wouldn’t go to a concert if the artist said to just sit there and be quiet. I wouldn’t be able to sit and be quiet. I can’t even do that in my own home when music is playing. :) I also believe you shouldn’t try to record the concert on a cell phone either. How can you totally lose yourself in the music if you are looking through the camera on your phone? But that’s just me.

It was recorded direct to two track.

Substitute Donald Fagen for JJ on vocals and you'd swear it's a Steely Dan song. That technical smoothness...

The song was good but I enjoyed the most that I can see you really like the song.

Thanks for checking it out, Daniel. I thought you’d like it. Graham Maby’s bass is such a big part of Joe’s sound and style. Although Joe is a great piano player and keyboardist, when he recruited Graham he told him that it was mostly going to be a guitar, bass, drum scenario with the piano only occasionally featured and with the bass as the focus instrument. That debut album, Look Sharp!, is worthy of a full album review. As I said, glad you enjoyed it. I hope for your sake that you also decide to also listen to the other track I suggested, Kate Bush’s Night Of The Swallow. Kate has such artistry and a wealth of material over an enormous range of genres and concepts. If you haven’t really come across her work then you’re in for a treat.

You should _REALLY_ check out the last track The Man in the Street &/or Shanghai Sky. With Joe, you may as well forget the hits anyway: his biggest one was in 1982 & he's done at least a dozen 'albums' since then. Shanghai Sky is utterly unique. The Man in the Street is too, but in a completely different way. This was possibly Joe's greatest 'Surprise Album' ever. He returned to a power rock arrangement, then did not do a single song suited to such a lineup. There's such a mix of thought-provoking songs like this mixed in with subtle, almost mindless-seeming ones like "Jet Set" that no one could get a handle on the theme & his record company was getting frustrated trying to promote him. But this album is one of his best. This song was about what others call the 'dumbing down' of America. "The Pied Piper of the TV screen" is a _devastating_ comment. Under Reagan, the rhetoric definitely changed, but Joe avoids making judgments. But going from issues to discussing which baseball team to what words used, as if asking people to think is an insulting thing to do. Things have actually _always been_ this way. It's just that most people come to accept whatever their perceived leaders/protectors indicate is socially acceptable. I'm not sure that Joe understood that the way I'm saying it (because even social psychologists don't). But he *captured it perfectly with* the 'dialogue' of everyday people in the second verse. & I mean _perfectly._

Everything off Look Sharp! is a great song. My suggestion, listen to the whole album at once. Seamless New Wave magic.

Can't go wrong with cowbells.

Pre-CD release. This was a 3-SIDED album. Very odd. And he made the audience remain absolutely silent, hence no applause at the end.

Regarding that people got mad because of the "don't turn on the flashlight on your phones". Well, as you do state it here, I fully understand their irritation. It's one thing to ask them to not turn on the lights because it's blinding the performers. So far, so good. But the thing about objectifying etc. just comes across as self-serving arrogance (and most likely has some political/ideological foundation). If you're an artist and performer "getting objectified" is part and parcel of your tools of trade. If you can't stand being objectified, you shouldn't perform. It's not the request in itself that is bad, it's the reason given for it, because it basically tells the public that "I'm not doing this for you're benefit, you are here for my benefit." (Not sure if I'm clear in what I'm trying to convey, but, as a parallell, consider a politician that want to rule the people that elected him instead of ruling on their behalf.)

The title "Big World" is of course no accident. The theme threads through the entire work, about ideas, politics, war and the culture that binds and divides us. Try "We Can't Live Together" from this album for a much more personal take on these fault lines. Nice choice. "Forty Years" is also a great track.

It's sad how this song is even more relevant today than when it was released. Do people even know what is right and wrong in politics these days?

Having lived through the era, it was pretty scary with people in the Reagan administration talking about "limited nuclear war" and how "with enough shovels" you could survive all out nuclear war. This album is pretty amazing... Definitely check out: (It's A) Big World, Forty Years, Home Town, and Tango Atlantico. They are BRILLIANT songs that hit you in the feels.

@johnmavroudis2054

2 жыл бұрын

@@brooklynbridgealias Agree. Reagan was full of shit. Cheers!

@johnmavroudis2054

2 жыл бұрын

@@brooklynbridgealias EXCEPT the last two wars... which you blame on "RINOs" conveniently... there goes the "ALWAYS" in your statement. Let's try logic next time.

@johnmavroudis2054

2 жыл бұрын

@@brooklynbridgealias The point being CONSERVATIVES get us into wars more often in the last 50 years. Iraq, Afghanistan.

@johnmavroudis2054

2 жыл бұрын

@@brooklynbridgealias That's a pretty ridiculous list., when you have to go back 50 years... Bosnia wasn't a war... anymore than Greneda (which Reagan started and got twice as many US troops killed) was a war. The US was NOT in a War with Syria, or Yemen... Same w/ Libya. You can't cheery pick the facts like that. Over the last 50 years, there have been two wars... BOTH started by the conservatives in the Bush Administration. You can call them neo-cons or anything you want... but you CAN'T call them "Liberals"... unless you want to be completely ridiculous. I guess we can agree to disagree on the rest. Cheers!

@johnmavroudis2054

2 жыл бұрын

@@brooklynbridgealias excuses for conservative wars / actions…. Condemnation for the rest… typical conservative hypocrite. You probably think those assholes at the Capitol on Jan 6th we’re “patriots” while they were beating on cops… and while Trump was whipping a mob into a frenzy with his bullshit torrent of lies as he tried to overthrow a fair election.

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