JOE JACKSON I'M THE MAN - The 7-Inch Album 5 Single Box Set includes Poster
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JOE JACKSON <> I'M THE MAN - The 7-Inch Album "A Collector's Item" RARE original Promotion Not For Sale package A 7" album (5 - 7" singles in picture sleeves) in a box including a poster In original shrinkwrap with original sticker
I'm the Man is the second album by English musician Joe Jackson, released in October 1979. Released shortly after Jackson's breakthrough debut, Look Sharp!, I'm the Man saw Jackson continue the style of his earlier album. Singles from the album included "I'm the Man" and "It's Different for Girls", the latter of which was his biggest UK chart single, peaking at number five on the UK Singles Chart.
Background On the album cover, Jackson appears in the guise of a particular type of petty criminal known in the United Kingdom as a spiv.
The album was quickly recorded to follow up Jackson's successful debut album Look Sharp!. Shortly after Look Sharp's release, Jackson speculated, "Compared to the first album, I think it's a bit more mature. It's getting more interesting as it goes along. The band is getting stronger. I think the band is gonna amaze people on the next album". Since then, the album has been described by Jackson as "Part Two of Look Sharp!". He later said on his website, "This is really Part Two of Look Sharp! – it was released less than a year later. I don't know how I even had the time to write and record a slightly more mature record, but I think it is, and the best of the first three."
John Rzeznik of the Goo Goo Dolls named the album as one of the ten albums that changed his life. Carol Decker of T'Pau similarly praised the album as one of her favorites.
Singles Jackson pushed for "I'm the Man" to be the leading single from the album, and professed bemusement when it failed to chart in the US or the UK. (It did reach the top 40 in Canada, peaking at #23.) The record label then decided on its own to release "It's Different for Girls" which went straight to the UK Top Ten. Jackson later confessed: "I was amazed when that one was a hit." The album's third single, "Kinda Kute", reached number 91 in Canada.
TRACKS (5 7" vinyl 45 RPM singles in picture sleeves):
- On Your Radio 4:01
- Geraldine and John 3:14
- Kinda Kute 3:33
- It's Different for Girls 3:43
- I'm the Man 3:58
- The Band Wore Blue Shirts 5:07
- Don't Wanna Be Like That 3:41
- Amateur Hour 4:05
- Get That Girl 3:03
- Friday 3:36
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