I love the clean sound of this record. You can hear every instrument although there only seems to be guitar bass and drums. It's a great track. Of course it owes quite a bit to Elvis Costello and Joe Jackson was heralded as such on the front cover of Sounds. It was amazing the amount of good stuff that came through the door after Punk had kicked it down.
The funny thing about the record was Bruce Milne's reaction to it. He already had a design for his band The Spivs first record on Au Go Go and it was almost identical to the Look Sharp cover. Pointy shoes. He was disappointed he'd been beaten to the punch. Then again I didn't think there a Spivs band or record. Bruce had started with a cover and wanted to see where he could go from there. Joe Jackson stopped that idea.
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