{"id":157,"date":"2006-04-22T17:19:49","date_gmt":"2006-04-22T22:19:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.imheavyduty.com\/2006\/04\/22\/joe-jackson-will-power\/"},"modified":"2006-04-22T17:19:49","modified_gmt":"2006-04-22T22:19:49","slug":"joe-jackson-will-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/2006\/joe-jackson-will-power\/","title":{"rendered":"Joe Jackson &#8212; Will Power"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/imheavyduty.heavydutyincorporated.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/jacksonjoewillpower.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-726\" title=\"Joe Jackson -- Will Power\" src=\"http:\/\/imheavyduty.heavydutyincorporated.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/jacksonjoewillpower.jpg\" alt=\"Joe Jackson -- Will Power\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul class=\"recdata\">\n<li><strong>Artist:<\/strong> Joe Jackson<\/li>\n<li><strong>Title:<\/strong> Will Power<\/li>\n<li><strong>Year:<\/strong> 1987<\/li>\n<li><strong>Format:<\/strong> Vinyl 12 in.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Rating (1-10):<\/strong> 8<\/li>\n<li><strong>Owner:<\/strong> Mary<\/li>\n<li><strong>Acquired:<\/strong> 1987 &#8211; Promo Mary got when she worked at Plan 9 Records in Richmond, VA.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Keeper:<\/strong> Yes<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The first time I played Joe Jackson&#8217;s instrumental album &#8220;Will Power&#8221; the other day I didn&#8217;t quite get it. And I couldn&#8217;t help thinking it was going to <em>take<\/em> some will power to play it again. Since then I&#8217;ve played it a number of times and like most good, but challenging, music it has grown on me. I don&#8217;t know if I&#8217;m sophisticated enough to describe it accurately. This isn&#8217;t The Joe Jackson Band; he&#8217;s working with a full orchestra here. Let&#8217;s call it &#8220;symphonic.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I <em>think<\/em> the original album artwork was just the pattern of red and blue circles on fabric, but at some point the label must have insisted on that circular sticker with his name on it. Or, maybe it&#8217;s just that way on the promo since they don&#8217;t usually come with shrink wrap.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Joe_Jackson_(musician)\">More about Joe Jackson at Wikipedia<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Artist: Joe Jackson Title: Will Power Year: 1987 Format: Vinyl 12 in. Rating (1-10): 8 Owner: Mary Acquired: 1987 &#8211; Promo Mary got when she worked at Plan 9 Records in Richmond, VA. Keeper: Yes The first time I played Joe Jackson&#8217;s instrumental album &#8220;Will Power&#8221; the other day I didn&#8217;t quite get it. And [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[472,452,453],"tags":[511,610,761,768,46,934,1033],"class_list":["post-157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-j","category-music","category-record-collection","tag-511","tag-classical","tag-jazz","tag-joe-jackson","tag-music","tag-rock","tag-vinyl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}