Joe Jackson's "Look Sharp!" LP is 25 years old!!

[CanuckAmok]

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!

[SweetZombieJesus]

1. Hah hah, you're old

Good album though.

[AntiCoup2K4]

2. Excellent album!

I preferred Joe's early punky stuff to his jazz/bebop/world music experiments that came later.

Wake up, got another day to get through now
Got another man to see
Got to call him on the telephone
Got to find a piece of paper

Sit down, got another letter to write
Think I'll got to get the letter just right
There's a ringing on the telephone
Oh no, got to write a little later
No such day as tomorrow, only one two three go!

Time - got the time tick-tick-tickin' in my head
Time - got the time tick-tick-tickin' in my head
Time - got the time tick-tick-tickin' in my head
Tickin' in my head, tickin' in my head, tickin' in my head

If I tell you what I'm doing today
Will you shut up and get out of my way?
Someone asked me what the time is,
I don't know
Only know I gotta go now

No time - trying to get a watch repaired
No time - never got a thing to wear
Hear the ringin' of the telephone no no
Hear a ringin' in my head now
No such thing as tomorrow, only one two three go!

Time - got the time tick-tick-tickin' in my head
Time - got the time tick-tick-tickin' in my head
Time - got the time tick-tick-tickin' in my head
Tickin' in my head, tickin' in my head, tickin' in my head

Time - got the time tick-tick-tickin' in my head
Time - got the time tick-tick-tickin' in my head
Time - got the time tick-tick-tickin' in my head
Tickin' in my head, tickin' in my head, tickin' in my head

[CanuckAmok]

4. "Shoes by Denton" n/t

[FlashHarry]

3. That and "I'm the Man"

Great records!

[RetroLounge]

5. great album! and the funny thing is that it is older

than half these idiots on the radio today...

Did you like Jumpin' Jive? Made me track down Louis Jourdan LP's after hearing that album...

[mac56]

14. Yes and yes!

"Jumpin' Jive" turned me on to the jump blues, big time. Now I love it.

- -

My fave from "Look Sharp!":

"Happy Loving Couples"

I've just been to see my best friend
He's got another girl
Says she's just about the best thing
In the whole damn world

And he says, can't you see
What the little lady's done for me
Says it like he thinks I'm blind
But the things that you see
Ain't necessarily the things you can find

Happy loving couples make it look so easy
Happy loving couples always talk so kind
Until the time that I can do my dancing with a partner
Those happy couples ain't no friends of mine

People say I'm too damn fussy
When it comes to girls
Happy couples say I must live
In a lonely world

Wanna be, wanna really be
What my friends pretend to be
Be it in my own good time
Being kind to myself
Till I become one of two of a kind

Happy loving couples make it look so easy
Happy loving couples always talk so kind
Until the time that I can do my dancing with a partner
Those happy couples ain't no friends of mine

You ain't no friends of mine....

(You know what I mean
Happy loving couples
In matching lamb turtle-neck sweaters
Reading Ideal Homes magazine
Yeah!)

Wanna be, wanna really be
What my friends pretend to be
Be it in my own good time
Being kind to myself
Till I become one of two of a kind

But those happy loving couples make it look so easy
Happy loving couples always talk so kind
Until the time that I can do my dancing with a partner
Those happy couples ain't no friends of mine

You ain't no friends of mine
You ain't no friends of mine
You ain't no friends of mine
You ain't no friends of mine
You ain't no friends of mine...

(Right, that's enough)

[leftofthedial]

6. damn!

Is she really going out with him

fools in love

sunday papers

TWENTY FUCKING FIVE!!!

damn!

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

7. That was the epic LP!

[Sufi Marmot]

8. God, if you're up there...

...listen to my prayer
In future man should have a different design
Give him a switch so he can turn off his libido now
Give him a tranquilizer built into his mind

Amen to that...


-SM, lovelorn...

[GregW]

9. In the supermarket ..

(Do the) Instant Mash

In the supermarket there is music while you work
It drives you crazy, sends you screaming for the door
Work there for a year or two and you can't get to like it
I don't work in supermarkets anymore

Chorus:
It's so easy, it's so easy
Grab can, lift arm, stack can, turn around
It's so easy, it's so easy
Do the instant mash, do the instant mash
Do the instant mash, make an instant smash
Doin' the instant mash

In the Discorama there's a DJ tries to charm ya
They got flashin' lights to dance to if you're shy
Red for treble, green for bass, they're wired in sequence round the place
You wait till ten, then try take off your tie

It's so easy, it's so easy
Lift hand, flick wrist, drop hand, turn around
It's so easy, it's so easy
Do the instant mash, do the instant mash
Do the instant mash, make some instant cash
Doin' the instant mash

In the cinema tonight they sit and watch the robots fight
The human beings don't have much to say
Robots making lots of cash and all they eat is instant mash
Oh wouldn't you just love to be that way?

It's so easy, it's so easy
Heat it, beat it, eat it, turn around
It's so easy, it's so easy
Do the instant mash, do the instant mash
Do the instant mash, make an instant smash
Doin' the instant mash

[GregW]

10. I'm goiing to see JJ on Friday night!

Just got tickets for the 9 PM show.

Yee Ha!!!!!!!!!!

[CanuckAmok]

11. Mrs Amok and I Might go to JJ in Vancouver on Sunday...

...but we're kinda broke these days :/

[supernova]

12. Oh man, thanks for making me

feel old! :P

I was a junior in high school when Look Sharp! thing came out. Ahh the beginning of the New Wave years!

[blondeatlast]

13. I'm breaking out the crutches now.

Crap, I feel really old now.