Look Sharp! is the debut album

Album

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 by Joe Jackson

Joe Jackson (musician)

Joe Jackson is an English musician and singer-songwriter now living in Berlin, whose five Grammy Award nominations span from 1979 to 2001...

, released in 1979. Look Sharp! was re-released in 2001 with two bonus tracks, "Don't Ask Me" and "You Got the Fever" the respective b-sides

A-side and B-side

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 of the singles "One More Time" and "Is She Really Going Out with Him?" originally released in May and July 1979. In addition to the standard 12-inch vinyl

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 release, the record was also released in a special package on two 10-inch discs that also included a Look Sharp! badge. The cover

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 is number 22 on Rolling Stone

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s list of the 100 greatest album covers of all time.

Track listing

All songs written by Joe Jackson

Joe Jackson (musician)

Joe Jackson is an English musician and singer-songwriter now living in Berlin, whose five Grammy Award nominations span from 1979 to 2001...

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1. "One More Time" – 3:15
2. "Sunday Papers" – 4:22
3. "Is She Really Going Out with Him?
   Is She Really Going Out with Him?
   "Is She Really Going Out with Him?" is the first single released by Joe Jackson in September 1978. The track was included on Jackson's debut album, Look Sharp!, the following year...
   
   " – 3:33
4. "Happy Loving Couples" – 3:08
5. "Throw It Away" – 2:49
6. "Baby Stick Around" – 2:36
7. "Look Sharp!" – 3:23
8. "Fools in Love" – 4:23
9. "(Do the) Instant Mash" – 3:12
10. "Pretty Girls" – 2:55
11. "Got the Time" – 2:55

Personnel

• Joe Jackson – vocals
  Singing
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  , piano
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  , harmonica
  Harmonica
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• Gary Sanford – guitar
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• Graham Maby
  Graham Maby
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   – bass
  Bass guitar
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• David Houghton – drums
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Covers

American thrash metal

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 band Anthrax

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 covered "Got the Time" on their 1990 album Persistence of Time

Persistence of Time

-Personnel:* Joey Belladonna – Vocals* Scott Ian – Rhythm guitar, Lead guitar on "Got the Time", Harmony Guitar on "Intro to Reality", vocal intro on "In My World", lead vocals on "Protest and Survive"* Dan Spitz – Lead guitar* Frank Bello – Bass...

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American punk band Guttermouth

Guttermouth

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 covered "Happy Loving Couples" on the 1997 new wave tribute album Before You Were Punk

Before You Were Punk

- Album information :* Record label: Vagrant Records* Art direction by Andrew Lenoski, Rich Egan and Jon Cohen* Recording and mixing:** Tracks 1 and 2 recorded and mixed by Ryan Greene at Razor's Edge Studios in San Francisco, California...

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Fictional music group Alvin and the Chipmunks

Alvin and the Chipmunks

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 covered "Look Sharp!" as a bonus track on their 2007 video game Alvin and the Chipmunks

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Charts

Album

Year	Chart	Position
1979	UK Albums Chart UK Albums Chart The UK Albums Chart is a list of albums ranked by physical and digital sales in the United Kingdom. It is compiled every week by The Official Charts Company and broadcast on a Sunday on BBC Radio 1 , and published in Music Week magazine and on the OCC website .To qualify for the UK albums chart...	#40
1979	U.S. Billboard 200 Billboard 200 The Billboard 200 is a ranking of the 200 highest-selling music albums and EPs in the United States, published weekly by Billboard magazine. It is frequently used to convey the popularity of an artist or groups of artists...	#20

Year	Song	Chart	Position
1979	"Is She Really Going Out with Him?"	UK Singles Chart UK Singles Chart The UK Singles Chart is compiled by The Official Charts Company on behalf of the British record-industry. The full chart contains the top selling 200 singles in the United Kingdom based upon combined record sales and download numbers, though some media outlets only list the Top 40 or the Top 75 ...	#13
1979	"Is She Really Going Out with Him?"	U.S. Billboard Hot 100 Billboard Hot 100 The Billboard Hot 100 is the United States music industry standard singles popularity chart issued weekly by Billboard magazine. Chart rankings are based on radio play and sales; the tracking-week for sales begins on Monday and ends on Sunday, while the radio play tracking-week runs from Wednesday...	#21
1979	"Is She Really Going Out with Him?"	CMJ College Radio Tracks	#2
1979	"Got the Time"	CMJ College Radio Tracks	#11
1979	"Look Sharp!"	CMJ College Radio Tracks	#17
1979	"Fools in Love"	CMJ College Radio Tracks	#9
1979	"Sunday Papers"	CMJ College Radio Tracks	#20

Certifications

Organization	Level	Date
RIAA Recording Industry Association of America The Recording Industry Association of America is a trade organization that represents the recording industry distributors in the United States...  – U.S.	Gold Music recording sales certification Music recording sales certification is a system of certifying that a music recording has shipped or sold a certain number of copies, where the threshold quantity varies by type and by nation or territory .Almost all countries follow variations of the RIAA certification categories,...