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

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

https://pixeldrain.com/u/JLsDZfSA

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/Zbacy8Tmk7IuD9c/file

The cover photo is from a concert in Werchter, Belgium, on July 8, 1984.