#Look Sharp

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Aircraft

[rubysapphrald]

yahar

[maewvelous]

You know she's a little bit DANGEROUS! (Ooh I miss drawing this outfit.)

May 30, 1958 Happy Birthday to late Marie.

[jt1674]

[epitome-the-burnkid-viii]

[fruit-salad-ship]

Dang, 6'3 is so hard to invision, I'm sitting at a steady 5'9, but it makes me think how hard it must be for him to find decent clothes.

(Got a friend who is built a little similar, and he struggles)

Its the shoes. Size 12 feet is not easy to get ahold of. And man loves his shoes.

He’s a very fashionable guy, loves a jacket, a flowey pant, a smart shirt, luckily he’s very broad in the shoulder so he can pull a lot off, sizes are ok, just got to be longer than normal to account for barrel bod. He makes it look good!

[dandyshoecare]

A big hello to one of the most important creators of quality material on Tumblr, who is also a great friend of mine! @look-sharp-notes Follow him to develop in you the great and deep need to admire the finer things in life.

[retromusicart]

Roxette - Look Sharp! (Parlophone Sweden/EMI America US, 1988) - Design by Kjell Andersson, photography by Carl Bengtsson

Coincidentally, Guns 'N Roses used a similar newspaper-esque design for G N' R Lies the same year.

Image courtesy of Discogs.

[raurquiz]

#remembering #mariefredriksson #singer @TheRealRoxette #roxette #PearlsofPassion #LookSharp #Joyride #Tourism #CrashBoomBang #HaveaNiceDay #RoomService #CharmSchool #Travelling #GoodKarma #TheBalladHits #ThePopHits #The30BiggestHits #prettywoman #mariobros #soundtrack @Albumism

[mywifeleftme]

349: Joe Jackson // Look Sharp!

Look Sharp! Joe Jackson 1979, A&M

I have a general sense that Joe Jackson was, at least at one time, a little huffy about how retrospectives on his career focus so heavily on his early new wave records. (Is this true? I dunno, I didn’t get to 349 reviews in this series by sourcing all my claims.) Trouble is, the immature “Angry Young Man” music of his debut Look Sharp! is by some distance the best stuff Jackson ever did, despite the restless stylistic diversity of his later years. Being a man of a certain age myself (43), I can now understand how it would be disheartening to think I’d done my best work as a 22-year-old idiot, the rest of my life perceived as a failure to maintain that standard. On the other hand, I haven’t done any “best work” as yet, and the prospects of ever doing so are starting to seem remote…

You can never be sure how much artists are blowing smoke when they tell you to your face/screen that they think their new album is better than their most popular classic, but when that classic is as good as Look Sharp! is…ah, Jackson’s gotta know right? I often forget just how much punch the record packs before it makes its way back on to my table, but then I drop the needle and start to seriously wonder whether there was a better top-to-bottom record by any of the singer-songwritery new wavers—Lowe, Parker, and Costello very much included. It’s that undeniably heavy Costello influence that probably especially galls Jackson, as this is essentially a punked up, Vox organ-free refinement of Elvis’s first two records. But by ’79’s Armed Forces (released just weeks before Look Sharp!), Costello had already essentially abandoned that sound, and no one before or since scratched that My Aim is True itch like Jackson and his band do here.

The Joe Jackson Band gives the Attractions a run for slick, compact punch (especially superhero bassist Graham Maby), moving adeptly from sophisticated ska pop (“Fools in Love”) to jagged new wave (“Look Sharp!”; “Happy Loving Couples”) to thrashing pop punk (“Got the Time”; “Throw It Away”). Though it’s not my favourite song on the record, there is something slightly brain-busting about the existence of “Is She Really Going Out with Him?” on an LP from 1979, given that it could absolutely have come out unchanged in 1997 and been an alternative radio smash. In fact, one thing Joe may have on Elvis is that (in my opinion) Look Sharp! had more direct influence on a swath of ‘90s band than Costello’s comparatively sour original article: “Is She Really Going Out with Him?” alone contains like the complete DNA of Ben Folds, Weezer, Jimmy Eat World, Sugar Ray (who even had a hit covering it) and much of the guitar contingent from the Now That’s What I Call Music! comps.

349/365

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Yachting

[hinamie]

newest issue of first years fashion just dropped

[pavilionjeans]

[jt1674]

[guletsailorguletcharteragency]

GULET CHARTER SINCE 1957

We have been providing tailor-made gulet charter holidays for families, private groups and corporate entertainment.

[a-scary-lack-of-common-sense]

Hey, do any of you people remember that one tf2 comic where soldier is talking to a bunch of wooden cutouts thinking they’re real people? You know how it was supposed to be a joke about how insane Soldier is, unable to differentiate the inanimate from the alive? Am I the only one who lost my mind about the implications of that or am I going just as insane as him.

You can see how lazy I got near the end but I couldn’t be bothered to work on this anymore