The Definitive Career-Spanning, Joe Jackson Tour History Live 28-CD Set

Disc 14-16: A compilation of the songs performed by Joe Jackson at the "Just for the Hell of It" Shows, 1999

Compiled by Jon F.
Uploaded to DIME by John N.
CD case art by Dave G.

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From Jon:

Some of you may remember that in September 2003, I finished and distributed an 18 disc set of live Joe Jackson material. Since then, I've improved my "studio" quite a bit and also have unearthed a few more recordings. There's also been two more tours.

I was recently listening to those discs and decided they don't really sound all that great. So I decided to "remaster" all of them and recreate some of them. I think they sound much better. And they are more complete.

As to why I ever did this:

1. I love raw live recordings.
2. I wanted just one disc from every tour instead of 10 of each in which the difference between the discs was one song.
3. My fanship of JJ is based largely on his constant innovation and reinterpretation of his own (and others) music. This set reflects that.

I made these because I was sick of having 10 shows from 79, but with only one song difference on each. For instance, if I wanted to hear the one with "Friday", I had to wade through my 1,000,000th listening of "Is She Really...". So I decided to combine them all into one master show.

The other component of this is, as Joe-head's frequently comment, when you see him live a lot, you have to wade through the inevitable appearance of "Be My Number Two" to get to the stuff you're excited to hear. So, in cases where it's a song he plays often and the version from that tour, "82-83" in this case, isn't much different from any other, I didn't include it for space purposes. I didn't want the set to be twice as long. And honestly, I did make this for me and I didn't want to have "Is She Really..." on every disc. It gets boring to me. But of course, that's my opinion. So sorry, if the set isn't entirely complete, but I hope you'll find it overall to be a nice compendium.

With special thanks to Jeff, Bjoern, John N., Gert, Maura, Carol, Bladerunner and especially Phillip (hope I didn't forget anyone), I was able to accumulate enough different shows from every tour that I think I had at least one version of every song played.

From there, I took the best sounding version of each song and created a master list. From the master list, I took as many songs as I could fit on an 80 minute disc, in order of songs I most wanted to have from each tour. Then, using Sound Forge, I blended all of the songs together so that they sound like one show with no breaks of silence, and remastered each song as best as I could (not everything was salvageable - like "Moonlight" from 1983 - but I put it on anyway because I like the song so much) and balanced the sound levels.

I hope you will find it all worth it. It took me about two months to complete the original set and a month to complete this one, but I am very happy with the finished product. Now if only the record companies could have done this for me...

As always, these are not for sale - either by me or anyone who receives one. These are strictly for trade and personal enjoyment. I do not take it for granted the legal questions surrounding this and ask that everyone be respectful of JJ and his management and thankful that they allowed me to share this the first time (and presumably this time, as well).

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The Joe Jackson Tour History Collection 1999

Disc 14

101 Somewhere Over the Rainbow
102 Summer in the City >
103 Obvious Song
104 Karma Police
105 Eleanor Rigby
106 Fools in Love / For Your Love
107 Blue Flame
108 Junkie Girl
109 Sea of Secrets
110 We Can't Live Together
111 Any Major Dude
112 Real Men
113 You Can't Be Too Strong
114 Be My Number Two > Hometown > It's Different for Girls

Sources:

Tracks 101-13, 113: 8/11/99 - Joe's Pub, NYC
Tracks 104, 106, 111, 112, 114: 8/5/99 - Joe's Pub, NYC
Track 105: 8/10/99 - Joe's Pub, NYC
Tracks 107-110: 8/4/99 - Joe's Pub, NYC

Disc 15

201 Another World
202 Drowning
203 Life on Mars
204 Drunk Song
205 Goin' Downtown
206 The "In" Crowd / Down to London
207 Glamour and Pain
208 Dear Mom
209 Love Got Lost
210 Stranger Than Fiction
211 Nineteen Forever
212 Jamie G.

Sources:

Tracks 201, 206-209: 8/4/99 - Joe's Pub, NYC
Tracks 202, 203: 8/11/99 - Joe's Pub, NYC
Tracks 204, 210: 8/5/99 - Joe's Pub, NYC
Tracks 205, 211, 212: 7/12/99 - The Bottom Line, NYC

Disc 16

301 Blaze of Glory
302 King of the World > You Can't Get What You Want
303 Stay? / Steppin' Out
304 Heroes
305 Drive-In Saturday
306 Mood Indigo > Satin Doll
307 Senses Working Overtime
308 One More Time
309 Don't Get Around Much Anymore
310 A Slow Song

Sources:

Tracks 301, 305: 7/12/99 - The Bottom Line, NYC
Tracks 302, 303, 309, 310: 8/4/99 - Joe's Pub, NYC
Tracks 304, 308: 8/5/99 - Joe's Pub, NYC
Tracks 306, 307: 8/10/99 - Joe's Pub, NYC