Another World
Joe Jackson
Night and Day, 1982
Ben came back to NYC for a quick second (the Ben I DJed with and visited in Sweden) and we got together and had a vinyl recording session. In the crate of records he pulled out, I noticed this album. I, in predictable fashion, offered that I already recorded “Steppin’ Out” but the song he was after was this one which I totally missed.
This was Joe Jackson’s first album after moving to NYC from England and Allmusic describes it as when he “abandoned new wave rock for a catchy pop-jazz-salsa-dance hybrid.” Now that I read that, I guess I hear those influences but the song seems pretty straightforward to me, it’s not like there are more than a handful of chords. The keyboard stabs that start at :32 remind of another song that I can’t place right now (which is going to drive me crazy), anyone know what it is?
There’s a no-budget version of him performing the song at “Carling Acadamy Islington” on youtube (apparently they couldn’t even afford spell check).
>> songs are available for two weeks (192 kbps) [5.6 MB]
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