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Let the Light In -- Bob Schneider

 

Honeypot -- Bob Schneider

 

"Indian Sunset" - Elton John

 

Till Somebody Catches a Feelin' -- Bob Schneider

 

Come With Me Tonight -- Bob Schneider

 

"Steppin' Out" - Joe Jackson

 

This is the Way Life is Supposed to Be -- Bob Schneider

 

Ah. Great, great artist.

Heart of Ice -- Joe Jackson

 

Loisaida -- Joe Jackson

A fantastic and pure instrumental off the Body & Soul album from 1984.

 

Interesting artist, no question.

I'm really into his first couple of albums, which really rock with a simple four-piece band. Then he went away from that sound, by and large, for the rest of his career.

"It's Different For Girls" might be his best song, IMHO.

 

My brother had the Look Sharp! album and then i bought Night and Day because I loved the song Steppin' Out so much. Two years later I bought the Body and Soul album and I would say that album, more than any album I've owned, totally broadened my horizons to a whole new view on the kinds of music I liked listening to. The whole album was played in a theater and recorded on microphones just above the stage. So many different influences.

Later that year I bought Barry Manilow's 2 a.m. Paradise Cafe album. If you love jazz, to me that's a must-have album. Three years later, Jackson's instrumental album titled Willpower was the first totally instrumental album I ever bought.

By the time he did Night Music in 1994, I considered him the most eclectic artist I could ever find. Here's one I'm listening to right now from that one.

Joe Jackson -- The Man Who Wrote Danny Boy

 

Another excellent choice.

Thing is, ISC, that Joe Jackson was the sort that the more the critics and others tried to put him in a category, the more he likened it to being boxed in and he epitomized not wanting to be anywhere near a box.

Most musicians don't like that, but Jackson seemed to take a special level of distaste for it.
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"You Can't Get What You Want (Till You Know What You Want)" - Joe Jackson