Josh, Both the Joe Jackson releases you mentioned are essential.My very favorite is "Body and Soul".I think you would enjoy that one.As far as I am concerned that was the album where everything fell into place and Joe really advanced his sound.Plus it has that terrific "Blue Note" cover.If you follow Elvis Costello this is his "Imperial Bedroom."There are others I can recommend ,but do check that one out. >From: "Josh Chasin" >Reply-To: audities@smoe.org >To: >Subject: Re: Todd and Joe on Conan >Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2005 21:40:16 -0400 > >Thanks so much, Michael. > >I wouldn't necessarily say it was Todd's best in 20 years-- his gigs with a >band have been pretty hot, and last year's Liars tour (coming out on DVD in >the summer, supposedly) was a smoker. But he's been doing this one man >show thing on and off since '81, and it was definitely the best one of >those I've seen in 20 years. > >Jackson was great too. I never explored his catalog, even though I've >always liked him, but I think that is about to change. I'm probably going >to own Look Sharp and Night and Day very soon. (For me, Night and Day was >an album sort of like Norah Jones's Come Away With Me; I kept hearing it so >often when it was out, everywhere I went, that I didn't feel like I needed >my own.) > > >----- Original Message ----- From: "Michael McCartney" > >To: >Sent: Friday, April 29, 2005 6:46 PM >Subject: Re: Todd and Joe on Conan > > >>Josh, >> >>I loved your review of their concert performance. I had a chance to see >>Todd only once and that was with a band in the form of "Walking Down Abbey >>Road". The show you saw sounded like one of the best shows he has done in >>over twenty years. I really enjoyed what you wrote about Joe Jackson. >>-On the favorite, "Is She Really Going Out With Him," on the part where >>Jackson sings, "Look over there," the entire house sang the rejoinder >>line, "Where?" I'd have thought this happened at every stop, but maybe it >>was especially forceful in Manhattan; the response made him laugh so >>hard-twice-that he lost his place. >> >>I wish I had been there. >> >>Aloha, >>Michael McCartney >>KEAO / KONI / KPMW / KTOH >> >>now playing: "When The Daylight Comes" - Ian Hunter >> >> >