Collaborations / guest appearances

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See also:
– Recordings with his former band Arms & Legs
– Live guest appearances

• Crash This Car Again – with Joe Jackson on piano (from 1:00)
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• Green-Eyed Monster – with Joe Jackson on piano (piano solo from 2:22)
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• Strugglin' – with Joe Jackson on piano (piano solo from 2:38)
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• Green Sand – with Joe Jackson on piano and background vocals
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• Will Anybody Know That I Was Here – accordion solo arranged by Joe Jackson
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• Lost And Found – with Joe Jackson on piano
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• Soca Do Dia (4:04) – feat. Joe Jackson on vocals
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• No Guitar (3:28) – feat. Joe Jackson on vocals
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• Glass Bricks – with Joe Jackson on vocals
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• Retro Fuso – with Joe Jackson on organ and clavinet
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• Ick lass mir doch vom Teufel nich... – with Joe Jackson on piano
  (German cover version of Larry Norman's 1972 song 'Why Should The Devil Have All The Good Music')
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Music selected by Joe Jackson
Liner notes written by Joe Jackson

More details on this release

• SPJ – with JJ on hammond and clavinet
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• Common People – with JJ on vocals
     original version by Pulp
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• You'll Have Time – with JJ on piano
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• Has Been – with JJ on background vocals
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Produced by Ben Folds

This CD contains the song The Bridge which was previously released on Joe's Heaven & Hell album.

Joe appears on these three tracks:

• Show Biz Kids (4:44) – with JJ on piano/vocals
     original version by Steely Dan
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• For No One (2:31) – with JJ on piano
     original version by The Beatles
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• One Hand One Heart (1:58) – with JJ on piano/vocals
     from 'West Side Story'; words by Stephen Sondheim, music by Leonard Bernstein
     Listen on YouTube

For this tribute album Joe Jackson contributed a cover version of

• Statue Of Liberty (3:05)
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Mixed by Joe Jackson
Joe Jackson plays keyboards on this track:

• Pool Shark (Reprise)
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• Left Of Center (3:33) by Suzanne Vega featuring Joe Jackson on piano
     Listen on YouTube
     Watch the video on YouTube

The track was also released as a single.

The album contains:

• House Of The Poet (16:20)
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     composed by Joe Jackson
     performed by the Tokyo Symphony Orchestra
     recorded in Suginami Public Hall on 6 Feb 1985
     a rewritten version of this work was released in 1987 as "Symphony In One Movement" on Will Power
• Poesy (5:43) sung by Jun Togawa – arranged by Joe Jackson
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1. ’Scusi Mi Please (2:47)
2. An Obsession (Over You) (4:05)
3. Do It Again (3:27)
4. Nightmare (4:07)
5. Please Stop Dancing (4:00)
6. Fool For You (3:35)
7. Leopards In Love (3:53)
8. Modern Marriage (3:46)
9. Jaguar (4:09)
10. No More Goodbyes (4:40)

• Muévete (8:00)
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1. Recriminations (3:15)
2. Razor Cut (3:30)
3. Run Rudy Run (4:11)
4. Radiation Skank (2:06)

"Run Rudy Run" with Joe Jackson on melodica
Note: On the US release JJ is referred to as "Stanley Turpentine"

The above tracks are also included on the following album:

The Toasters
SKABOOM!


Feb. 1994    US    CD    Moon Records mr-013

• Talking To The Wall (4:31) – with Joe Jackson on keyboards
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• Love By You (3:13) – with Joe Jackson on piano
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Joe Jackson arranged and played piano on a cover of

• ’Round Midnight (6:43)
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Note that the 2LP has 23 tracks whereas the CD only has 16. Both releases include the Joe Jackson track.

Produced by Joe Jackson

There are two tracks:

• A side: On Route
• B side: Congo Kwela

1. Hello Hello (3:30)
2. It Ain't So (2:28)
3. One Good Reason (3:15)
4. Listening In (3:06)
5. I Don't Wanna Cry (2:52)
6. Saturday To Sunday Night (4:00)
7. Spit It Out (2:38)
8. If It's Not Too Much (2:49)
9. Run Run Run (2:47)
10. Greasy Money (3:30)
11. Back To Black (3:18)
12. World Ain't Turning (3:27)
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The Keys' line-up:
Drew Barfield – vocals, bass
Steve Tatler – vocals, guitar
Ben Grove – vocals, guitar
Geoff Britton – drums

Four tracks produced by Joe Jackson:

• Natural Wild (4:45)
• Natural (Reprise) (1:06)
• People's Minds (5:30)
• Smiling Faces (5:34)

Guest musician: Joe Jackson – piano
on two tracks:

• Brian Was (3:28)
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• Gang War (5:27)
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