Joe Jackson - BBC Sessions, Volume 4: Sight and Sound, Regal Theatre, Hitchin, UK -1983 | ALBUMS THAT SHOULD EXIST

 

Joe Jackson - BBC Sessions, Volume 4: Sight and Sound, Regal Theatre, Hitchin, Britain, 1-22-1983

Paul says : Back in December 2023, I posted "Volume 3" of Joe Jackson's BBC Sessions series. It's a 1982 concert. Unfortunately, it got banned by the copyright police in a matter of days. Because of that, I decided not to post "Volume 4," since it was drawn from the exact same source material, an official live album called "At the BBC." Instead, I later skipped to posting "Volume 5," and only posted "Volume 4" on SoulseekQT. Now, finally, I'm posting this. But get it quickly because it might not be here for long!

Perhaps this won't be banned, because this is no longer the same as the version on the official live album. I recently realized that the episode this BBC TV show this was taken from, "Sight and Sound," was posted on YouTube. Furthermore, that version is about two minutes longer than the live album version. All the songs are the same. However, the YouTube version has banter before some songs that the live album does not. Plus, the applause at the ends of songs is longer. So I patched in the extra stuff from the YouTube video. The sound quality is lower, but it doesn't matter much since it's only cheering and talking. Now, there are three more tracks, and every track is at least a little different.

This concert took place after the release of his 1982 studio album "Night and Day." That means it's only about six months after the concert that makes up "Volume 3" in this series, and there was no new album released since then. There probably were two concerts without much time between them because one was targeted for TV and the other for radio. Luckily for us, they're both relatively short concerts, and he had so many popular songs that only two songs were included on both albums, "Look Sharp" and "Steppin' Out." He was probably at the peak of his popularity, thanks in large part to "Steppin' Out," his biggest hit.

This album is 39 minutes long. 

01 talk 
02 On Your Radio
03 Another World 
04 talk 
05 Sunday Papers 
06 Look Sharp
07 talk
08 Is She Really Going Out with Him 
09 Steppin' Out 
10 A Slow Song 

By sheer coincidence . . . here Paul over at ATSE posts some Joe Jackson this morning so I dedicate to our mutual blogosphere pal and brother Jobe from Floppy Boot Stomp and the Voodoo Wagon and Speedy too from So Many Roads . . . . . . check the entries and you will understand why but this could be after ‘we’ left Joe to his own devices . . . . I certainly didn’t buy the album ‘Night & Day’ in '82