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| From | "Michael Bennett" <mrhonorama@hotmail.com> |
| Subject | Re: New Joe Jackson |
| Date | Wed, 26 Mar 2003 07:39:42 -0600 |
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Joe obviously has a rabid cult of fans who love every note he's ever made.
While I agree that expecting another LOOK SHARP from him is probably unfair,
on the other hand, doesn't the new album come with a limited edition bonus
disc with the original band doing classic material? That may imply the new
music is in that vein.
Regardless, Joe Jackson has shown that he will do what he wants to do --
unfortunately, I think he pretty much shot his wad after the first two
albums, and everything else has been hit or miss, generally landing on the
miss side of the ledger.
Mike Bennett
Record reviews and more at http://fufkin.com
>From: Stewart Mason <flamingo@theworld.com>
>Reply-To: audities@smoe.org
>To: audities@smoe.org, audities@smoe.org
>Subject: Re: New Joe Jackson
>Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2003 01:49:33 -0500
>
>At 12:48 AM 3/26/2003 -0500, David H. Adler wrote:
> >Frankly, expecting Joe Jackson to do anything more than once is foolish.
> >I personally don't think any of his stuff is "awful", just different
> >(and, yes, there's some of it I don't like, but that's pretty much
> >exclusively because he's gone in a direction I don't care to follow,
> >which I see as a very different thing than it being bad).
> >
> >I am, perhaps, reading you wrong, but I've heard enough people call
> >music that doesn't fit their particular preconceptions "bad" that I've
> >become cynical.
>
>As a general rule, I agree with this sentiment. However, WILL POWER,
>Jackson's pseudo-classical instrumental album from the late '80s, genuinely
>*is* utterly worthless. It had about the same relation to classical music
>as Keith Emerson's version of "Fanfare for the Common Man," and the same
>relation to jazz as Kenny G. It was boring, pretentious, and nowhere near
>as daring or deep as he thought it was. It was lame middlebrow noodling at
>best.
>
>Your mileage may vary, of course, but that was the point at which I stepped
>off the Joe Jackson bandwagon.
>
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