Music Appreciation

eShirl

(20,428 posts) Tue Mar 25, 2025, 06:04 AM Mar 2025

Joe Jackson - Cancer

This song was recommended to me by ProfessorGAC three weeks ago (thanks!) https://www.democraticunderground.com/1034140427
and I'm just now getting around to it:

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Joe Jackson - Cancer (Original Post) eShirl Mar 2025 OP

ha ha! this is great eShirl Mar 2025 #1

One of my favorite Joe Jackson offerings. 2naSalit Mar 2025 #2

Lol. I do that too, this song is built for it - ms liberty Mar 2025 #4

That's right! 2naSalit Mar 2025 #9

Oh, this is a great song! And on a really great album. One of my favs! ms liberty Mar 2025 #3

Was I Right About His Piano Playing? ProfessorGAC Mar 2025 #5

you sure were eShirl Mar 2025 #6

Actually,... ProfessorGAC Mar 2025 #8

I love his piano playing. Midnight Writer Mar 2025 #7

eShirl

(20,428 posts)

1. ha ha! this is great

Reply to eShirl (Original post)

Tue Mar 25, 2025, 06:52 AM

Mar 2025

thanks ProfessorGAC!

2naSalit

(103,806 posts)

2. One of my favorite Joe Jackson offerings.

Reply to eShirl (Original post)

Tue Mar 25, 2025, 07:10 AM

Mar 2025

Last edited Tue Mar 25, 2025, 01:25 PM - Edit history (1)

I just sang a few lines of this to some friends in a conversation about a week ago.

ms liberty

(11,364 posts)

4. Lol. I do that too, this song is built for it -

Reply to 2naSalit (Reply #2)

Tue Mar 25, 2025, 08:30 AM

Mar 2025

Oh so-and-so is bad for you now? Everybody sing!
"everything...everything...gives you cancer! There's no cure...there's no answer...everything...gives you cancer!"

2naSalit

(103,806 posts)

9. That's right!

Reply to ms liberty (Reply #4)

Tue Mar 25, 2025, 01:26 PM

Mar 2025

ms liberty

(11,364 posts)

3. Oh, this is a great song! And on a really great album. One of my favs!

Reply to eShirl (Original post)

Tue Mar 25, 2025, 08:24 AM

Mar 2025

ProfessorGAC

(77,271 posts)

5. Was I Right About His Piano Playing?

Reply to eShirl (Original post)

Tue Mar 25, 2025, 08:48 AM

Mar 2025

Or what?
That piano solo is sublime. It goes down so many different avenues.
There are other examples, but the best are on a bootleg cassette I have, and I haven't been able to find any of that show online. Wish I could find it.

eShirl

(20,428 posts)

6. you sure were

Reply to ProfessorGAC (Reply #5)

Tue Mar 25, 2025, 09:14 AM

Mar 2025

hope you find that someday

ProfessorGAC

(77,271 posts)

8. Actually,...

Reply to eShirl (Reply #6)

Tue Mar 25, 2025, 11:02 AM

Mar 2025

...he plays very much like I do.
Our styles are very similar.
That's probably why he's in my Top 5 piano players of the rock era.

Midnight Writer

(25,737 posts)

7. I love his piano playing.

Reply to ProfessorGAC (Reply #5)

Tue Mar 25, 2025, 10:18 AM

Mar 2025

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