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DTITLE=Joe Jackson / Laughter & Lust
DYEAR=1991
DGENRE=Rock
TTITLE0=Obvious Song
TTITLE1=Goin' Downtown
TTITLE2=Stranger Than Fiction
TTITLE3=Oh Well
TTITLE4=Jamie G.
TTITLE5=Hit Single
TTITLE6=It's All Too Much
TTITLE7=When You're Not Around
TTITLE8=The Other Me
TTITLE9=Trying To Cry
TTITLE10=My House
TTITLE11=The Old Songs
TTITLE12=Drowning
EXTD=Originally Released April 30, 1991 \n\nAMG EXPERT REVIEW: After the inappropriately bombastic arena rock of Blaze of Glory, Joe Jackson returned (somewhat) to his roots to deliver the most straightforward pop album in his career in Laughter & Lust. 
EXTD=While Jackson's late-'80s output is composed of intelligent, if often forgettable, adult pop/rock, Laughter & Lust feels almost like a snotty declaration of Jackson's pop skills. He's "been there, done that" with pop music, and with Laughter & Lust 
EXTD=he shows off just how effortlessly he can construct a commercially viable pop album. Nowhere is this more present than on the bitter "Hit Single," a tirade about the disposability of pop music and the public's inability to digest more than "just the
EXTD= hit single." But Jackson saves this inscrutable slap in the face of his fans by setting it to -- surprise -- a massive pop hook. And it's that paradox that exists all over Laughter & Lust; songs like "Stranger Than Fiction" and "When You're Not Aro
EXTD=und" sound so effortless, so catchy, so made for radio -- and yet you know that Joe Jackson constructed these songs just because he could, not necessarily because he wanted to. It's a testament as much to Jackson's abilities as it is to his ego, and
EXTD= Laughter & Lust became his not-so-subtle goodbye to pop music, as he would continuously foray into "serious" music from here on out. Still, for a fan who can see past the attitude, Laughter & Lust does deliver more bang for the buck than any Jackso
EXTD=n album since Night and Day, simply because Jackson really does know how to construct a good pop song, even if he's condescending while doing it. -- Jason Damas\n\nAMAZON.COM CUSTOMER REVIEW\nA very different album for Joe., August 13, 2001\nReviewe
EXTD=r: Jim Toms (W. Frankfort, IL (USA))\nI don't think Joe had made an album like this before its release and he definitely hasn't made one since like it. It is a somewhat popish album and not all of the songs are on the mark, but others are excellent,
EXTD= in both a musical and lyrical sense. "Obvious Song" may not be mindblowing, but it's typical Joe, as he vents about a few different social topics that he happened to have on his mind at the time. I absolutely love "When Your Not Around", "The Other
EXTD= Me", and "The Old Songs". Most of the rest I would classify as good. In this case, the whole is certainly greater than the sum of its parts. Thus, a four stars rating.\n\nAMAZON.COM CUSTOMER REVIEW\nA remarkably overlooked record, January 12, 1999\
EXTD=nReviewer: A music fan\nPeople often write off this album as a dark, unsatisfying expression of Joe Jackson's rejection of the commericial mainstream. In truth, this is a bitingly satiric pop album, with fine songcraft and excellant musicianship--an
EXTD= album that shows Jackson giving one last try at being the pop/rock songsmith. He does fine, but is upset enough with the conventions of his own life that the lyrics bite through every sweetened chord. A complex delight.\n\nAMAZON.COM CUSTOMER REVIE
EXTD=W\nHidden Gem, May 5, 2000\nReviewer: Megan Cohen (New York City)\nLaughter and Lust is an often-overlooked album. Admittedly, it is a recording that takes some work to get into, but it's well worth the effort. I didn't bother buying this album unti
EXTD=l I saw Joe Jackson perform "The Other Me" during a concert. This song left me transfixed and enraptured - I went out and bought this CD the next morning. Start with that song, but give the whole album a listen - it's very worth it. After all, some 
EXTD=of the best art in the world is that which takes effort to enjoy. Laughter and Lust fits this bill nicely.\n\nHalf.com Details \nProducer: Ed Roynesdal, Joe Jackson \n\nAlbum Notes\nPersonnel: Joe Jackson (vocals, keyboards); Joy Askew (vocals, keyb
EXTD=oards); Tom Teeley (guitar, vocals); Charles McCracken (cello); Tony Aiello (saxophone); Michael Morreale (trumpet); Annie Whitehead (trombone); Graham Maby (bass, vocals); Dan Hickey (drums); Sue Hadjopolous (percussion, drums).\n\nIn the late-'80s
EXTD=/early-'90s, Jackson seemed unsure of what direction to take. His various stylistic experiments seemed to have backed him into a corner, but he'd grown too much to return to the effervescent rock & roll of his early days. Instead, he put his energie
EXTD=s into a couple of slickly produced, carefully composed albums that approached pop music with a decidedly adult sensibility and a decades worth of hard lessons.\nLAUGHTER & LUST takes the ideas introduced on the preceding BLAZE OF GLORY to extremes.
EXTD= The more sophisticated, arrangement-driven material like "Trying to Cry" relies more on elaborate textures than basic songcraft for its impact. Many of the tunes though, achieve a viscerality missing on BLAZE OF GLORY. Unsurprisingly, the simplest 
EXTD=are the most effective; the self-explanatory "Obvious Song," the Peter Green-era Fleetwood Mac cover "Oh Well," the Latin-tinged "Jamie G." The cynicism that is Jackson's hallmark is in fine form on the self-mocking highlight "Hit Single."\n\nIndust
EXTD=ry Reviews\n3.5 Stars - Very Good\n\n\n...marks the 36-year old singer's debut on Virgin Records after 11 years with A&M. Among the subjects addressed are the difficulty men have in crying, the temptations of slavish pop commercialism and the comple
EXTD=xities of grown-up relationships.\nNew York Times (05/01/1991)\n\n3 Stars - Good - ...There's more drive and energy than he's exhibited in some while...\nQ (06/01/1991)
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