Joe Jackson: Stepping Out: The Very Best Of Joe Jackson
Phil Sutcliffe, Q, October 1990
MAYBE JOE JACKSON has never stood still long enough for a lot of people to get to like him. Although The Very Best Of – his swansong for ASM after a run of commercial flops – has, on the whole, been taken to mean the singles, it really doesn't hang together in any very obvious way.
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