Joe Jackson - Collected (2010)

. Joe Jackson's debut single, 'Is She Really Going Out With Him?', was not an immediate hit; however, by the time his debut album Look Sharp! Was released, the song had reached charts in the U.K. and U.S., earning him a gold record. For the follow-up, he produced the top 5 hit 'It's Different For Girls', Joe received the highest musical accolade of the Netherlands, the Edison Award. After two edgy new wave pop records, his next tracks included some reggae influences such as the tracks 'One to One' and 'Mad At You', while Jumpin' Jive - recorded with jazz musicians - was full of old jump blues and swing tunes. The huge commercial success came with his crafted pop songs 'Steppin' Out' and jazzy 'Breaking Us In Two' climbing the charts worldwide. Joe Jackson produced even jazzier hits in 1984 such as 'Happy Ending', (a duet with Elaine Caswell), 'Be My Number Two' and 'You Can't Get What You Want'. The album Big World (1986), a live album of entirely new material including 'Home Town', was recorded during six concerts. It is not a regular live album though, the audience was asked to be quiet during the songs and the applause was edited out. The pop song 'Nineteen Forever' was part of a larger construction from the album Blaze Of Glory, designed to tell a semi-autobiographical story. In 1991 Joe Jackson decided to abandon pop once and for all in favor of more serious music. It spawned the track 'Stranger Than Fiction'. Joe Jackson - collected is a comprehensive series of sounds Joe Jackson has gone through, from old to new, this collection will never get boring!

,Disc 1 (01:14:18)
1. Fools In Love (04:23)
2. Is She Really Going Out With Him? (03:40)
3. Look Sharp! (03:22)
4. Got The Time (02:53)
5. Sunday Papers (04:21)
6. It's Different For Girls (03:45)
7. I'm The Man (03:58)
8. On Your Radio (04:01)
9. Get That Girl (03:03)
10. Tilt (02:47)
11. Biology (04:32)
12. Mad At You (06:03)
13. Beat Crazy (03:22)
14. One To One (03:23)
15. The Harder They Come (03:54)
16. Jack, You're Dead! (02:48)
17. Jumpin' Jive (02:42)
18. Is You is or is You Ain't My Baby (04:59)
19. Five Guys Named Moe (02:33)
20. What's the Use of Getting Sober (When You're Gonna Get Drunk Again) (03:49)

Disc 2 (01:18:01)
1. Another World (04:00)
2. Steppin' Out (04:22)
3. Real Men (04:05)
4. A Slow Song (07:39)
5. Breaking Us in Two (04:52)
6. Cosmopolitan (04:30)
7. 1-2-3 Go (This Town's a Fairground) (03:02)
8. Laundromat Monday (03:26)
9. Cha Cha Loco (04:47)
10. Be My Number Two (04:21)
11. You Can't Get What You Want (Till You Know What You Want) (04:54)
12. Happy Ending (03:39)
13. Not Here, Not Now (05:30)
14. Will Power (05:53)
15. (He's a) Shape in a Drape (03:00)
16. Nineteen Forever (05:45)
17. Down to London (04:16)

Disc 3 (01:10:53)
1. The Human Touch (05:11)
2. Me and You (Against the World) (03:51)
3. When You're Not Around (04:03)
4. Stranger Than Fiction (03:41)
5. Glamour and Pain (05:59)
6. Happyland (05:12)
7. Too Touch (04:37)
8. King Pleasure Time (02:47)
9. Come On[live] (03:29)
10. Right and Wrong[live] (04:35)
11. (It's a) Big World[live] (05:07)
12. Forty Years[live]
13. Home Town[live] (03:13)
14. Is She Really Going Out With Him?[a cappella version][version] (04:37)
15. Jumpin Jive[live] (02:36)
16. Summer in the City
17. The in Crowd/Down to London[live] (07:26)
18. Stranger Than You[live 2 Meter Sessies][live] (04:29)