Track Listing
DISC 1:
1. Is She Really Going Out With Him
2. Sunday Papers
3. One More Time
4. Got the Time
5. Look Sharp!
6. Fools in Love
7. On Your Radio
8. It's Different For Girls
9. I'm the Man
10. Friday
11. Don't Wanna Be Like That
12. Harder They Come, The
13. Enough Is Not Enough
14. Beat Crazy
15. One to One
16. Biology
17. Someone up There
18. Jumpin' Jive
19. Real Men
20. Slow Song, A
DISC 2:
1. Another World
2. Steppin' Out
3. Breaking Us in Two
4. Memphis
5. You Can't Get What You Want (Till You Know What You Want)
6. Happy Ending
7. Be My Number Two
8. Right and Wrong
9. Home Town
10. Precious Time
11. Down to London
12. Me and You (Against the World)
13. Rant and Rave
14. Nineteen Forever
15. Obvious Song
16. Stranger Than Fiction
17. Man Who Wrote Danny Boy, The
18. Stranger Than You
| Details | | Contributing Artists: | Chris Hunter | | Distributor: | Universal Distribution | | Recording Type: | Studio | | Recording Mode: | Stereo | | SPAR Code: | n/a |
Album Notes
Personnel includes: Joe Jackson (vocals, harmonica, accordion, melodica, alto saxophone, celeste, synthesizer, vibraphone, xylophone, percussion, cymbals, bells, programming, sequencing); Rick Ford (guitar, bass, background vocals); Vinnie Zummo, Tom Teeley (guitar, background vocals); Gary Sanford, Ted Leonard (guitar); Ed Roynedal (violin, vibraphone, programming); Mary Rowell, Todd Reynolds (violin); Ralph Ferris (viola); Dorothy Lawson (cello); Tony Aiello (flute, saxophone); Sue Hadjopoulos (flute, xylophone, bongos, congas, timbales, percussion, bells, background vocals); Dave Bitelli (clarinet, tenor saxophone); Pete Thomas, Chris Hunter, Steve Elson (alto saxophone); Michael Morreale (trumpet, flugelhorn); Raul Oliviera (trumpet); Charlie Gordon (trombone).
Producers include: Joe Jackson, David Kershenbaum, Ed Roynedal, Dan Gellert.
Compilation producer: Mike Ragogna.
Engineers include: Norman Mighell, Dan Gellert.
Recorded between 1979 & 1991. Includes liner notes by Scott Schnider.
All tracks have been digitally remastered.
In the late 1970s/early '80s, Joe Jackson was one of the quintessential "angry young men" of New Wave, who brought skinny ties and chip-on-shoulder sentiments to rock & roll with a surfeit of verve. Along with Elvis Costello and Graham Parker (and less-famous names like Tom Dickie and D.L. Byron), Jackson married the urgency of full-on rock & roll to the personal perspective and literary sensibility of the singer/songwriter, as documented on his definitive anthology, the double-disc STEPPIN' OUT: THE VERY BEST OF JOE JACKSON.
Matched only by Costello for mercurial eclecticism, Jackson successfully flitted from style to style throughout his career, even though he might have lost some of his core following along the way. One can easily discern his evolution over the course of this collection. The frenetic, punk-inflected "Got the Time" and "I'm the Man" give way to the jump blues of "Jumpin' Jive" and the grand piano balladry of "A Slow Song." Disc Two finds Jackson at his most satisfyingly expansive on such early-'80s cuts as "Another World" and the title tune. And if the latter-day songs meander slightly, it's just further evidence that Jackson was ever the artistic seeker, who never settled into a rut and never stopped looking for new modes of expression.
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