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Tuesday, January 15, 2008

Taco Bell's Cheesy Gordi---OH NO!



Joe Jackson, WHAT ARE YOU DOOOOOING?!?!? I mean, I'm excited that the nation's masses are now turned on to your song "One More Time" from your 1979 album "Look Sharp," but did you really need to sell it to Taco Bell?
I SAID TACO BELL, JOE. Well, maybe it'll make the cheese-eating public realize that "Look Sharp" is one of the finest pop/rock albums ever made. Ever. I love Joe Jackson. Truly. Everything about "Look Sharp" is wonderful.

"Look Sharp" is the first album that made me really sit up and take notice of a bass player, by the way. (Well, the first since many of the Beatles' albums.) Graham Maby, the bass player who plays with Joe Jackson to this day, is a virtuoso.

When I think of all of the wonderful, earning bands whose songs I've heard on mediocre adverts on television, I don't remember ever screaming "No!" the way I did today when I heard Joe on Taco Bell. I don't know what that says about me.

I hope you invest the earnings wisely, Joe. You're a wonderful guy and I bought your book.




2 Comments:

  • At 10:23 PM, Blogger Ran Barton said…

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6xqtVoD-R8

     
  • At 6:01 PM, Blogger Michelle said…

    Yes I was horrified - horrified! I owned every Joe Jackson album back in the day, and when I say 'in the day' I mean 'i have replaced the vinyl with itunes last month.'

     

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