AAA 100% Analogue This LP was Remastered using Pure Analogue Components Only from the Master Tapes through to the Cutting Head

Intervention - IR-005 - Mastered by Kevin Gray at Cohearent Audio

AAA 100% Analogue - 180 Gram Virgin Vinyl - Pressed at RTI

Restored Cover Art - Limited Edition  

The Absolute Sound Top 10 Records of 2016

If you like the original, you'll love the reissue, which offers sharper, cleaner transients, improved transparency and focus and greater dynamics. It preserves a pulsing energy the original softens and diminishes. Cymbals chime smartly, Graham Maby's bass lines are tautly drawn, and Dave Haughton's drum kit produces slam the original blunts. Plus the pressing quality helps produce blacker backgrounds.Michael Fremer Analogplanet

Intervention’s pressing is phenomenal. Mastered from analog tapes by Kevin Gray on 180-gram vinyl, the grooves are so quiet the staccato guitar work fairly crackles through the air. Bass is equally tight; it’ll give your woofers a thorough workout. All in all, there’s no better time to rediscover an old friend The Absolute Sound

100% Analog Mastering From Real Analog Tapes!

• Mastered by Kevin Gray At Cohearent Audio

• Dead Quiet 180-Gram Vinyl Pressed At RTI

• Exquisitely Restored Cover Art Printed By Stoughton

100% analog vinyl reissues of Joe Jackson's 1979 New Wave classics Look Sharp! and I'm the Man. These two monumental new releases are the latest LPs to comprise IR’s ongoing “(Re)Discover Series.” 

Both titles were mastered 100% analog by Kevin Gray at Cohearent Audio from the best sources available- phenomenal sounding 1/2" safety copies of the original stereo master tapes. All of the top-end energy and “snap” of the original UK LPs is preserved, while the bass foundation is fully restored to make these new Intervention reissues the definitive listening experience for these classic LPs!

Look Sharp! includes the hits "Is She Really Going Out With Him?," "Sunday Papers" and "One More Time." Rolling Stone called Look Sharp! a "near-perfect, short, sharp New Wave pop album" and tagged it one of the Top 100 Debut Albums of All Time.

A brilliant, accomplished debut, Look Sharp! established Joe Jackson as part of that camp of angry, intelligent young new wavers (i.e., Elvis Costello, Graham Parker) who approached pop music with the sardonic attitude and tense, aggressive energy of punk. Not as indebted to pub rock as Parker and Costello, and much more lyrically straightforward than the latter, Jackson delivers a set of bristling, insanely catchy pop songs that seethe with energy and frustration. Several deal with the lack of thoughtful reflection in everyday life ("Sunday Papers," "Got the Time"), but many more concern the injuries and follies of romance.

In the caustic yet charming witticisms of songs like the hit "Is She Really Going Out With Him?," "Happy Loving Couples," "Fools in Love," and "Pretty Girls," Jackson presents himself on the one hand as a man of integrity seeking genuine depth in love (and elsewhere), but leavens his stance with a wry, self-effacing humor, revealing his own vulnerability to loneliness and to purely physical attraction.

Look Sharp! is the sound of a young man searching for substance in a superficial world -- and it also happens to rock like hell.

• Exquisitely Restored Cover Art printed by Stoughton
• Spectacular "old style" single jacket in a "debossed" rough matte finish that beautifully reproduces the very first original A&M UK pressing

Bass – Graham Maby
Drums – Dave Houghton
Engineer – "Hot" Rod Hewison*
Guitar – Gary Sanford
Producer – David Kershenbaum
Vocals, Piano, Harmonica, Written-By, Arranged By – Joe Jackson

Selections:
1. One More Time
2. Sunday Papers
3. Is She Really Going Out With Him?
4. Happy Loving Couples
5. Throw It Away
6. Baby Stick Around
7. Look Sharp!
8. Fools In Love
9. (Do the) Instant Mash
10. Pretty Girls
11. Got the Time

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 RTI 180 HQ Vinyl