Volume 4 (Joe Jackson album)

Untitled
Studio album by Joe Jackson Band
Released 11 March 2003
Genre Rock, pop
Label Rykodisk
Producer Joe Jackson
Joe Jackson Band chronology
Two Rainy Nights
(2002)		 Volume 4
(2003)		 Afterlife
(2004)
Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
Allmusic [1]
Rolling Stone [2]

Volume 4 is a 2003 album by Joe Jackson. This is the first album to feature the Joe Jackson Band since the 1980 release, Beat Crazy.

Jackson reunited his original quartet[3] for the album, implying that it was the follow-up to his first three albums with the original band and was followed by a lengthy tour.[4] As before the quartet consisted of Jackson, Graham Maby, David Houghton and Gary Sanford.[4]

Contents

Track listing

All songs composed by Jackson.

  1. "Take It Like a Man" – 3:24
  2. "Still Alive" – 3:42
  3. "Awkward Age" – 3:22
  4. "Chrome" – 4:21
  5. "Love at First Light" – 4:08
  6. "Fairy Dust" – 3:47
  7. "Little Bit Stupid" – 3:28
  8. "Blue Flame" – 5:23
  9. "Dirty Martini" – 4:51
  10. "Thugz 'R' Us" – 3:23
  11. "Bright Grey" – 4:17

Limited edition bonus disc

A limited edition version of Volume 4 included a bonus CD of live material from the 2002 UK tour.

  1. "One More Time" [live] – 3:15
  2. "Is She Really Going Out with Him?" [live] – 4:12
  3. "On Your Radio" [live] – 5:15
  4. "Got the Time" [live] – 3:47
  5. "It's Different for Girls" [live] – 4:15
  6. "I'm the Man" [live] – 4:21

Personnel

Charts

Year Chart Position
2003 Billboard Top Independent Albums #8
2003 Billboard Top Internet Albums #297

References

  1. ^ Allmusic review
  2. ^ Rolling Stone review
  3. ^ Roberts, David (2006). British Hit Singles & Albums (19th ed.). London: Guinness World Records Limited. pp. 274. ISBN 1-904994-10-5. 
  4. ^ a b "Biography by William Ruhlmann". Allmusic.com. http://www.allmusic.com/artist/p4574/biography. Retrieved 4 May 2009. 
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