This Is It: The A&M Years – 1979–1989

Tracklist

• CD 1
• 1
  Is She Really Going Out With Him?
  3:40
  4.4 ★
• 2
  Fools in Love
  4:31
• 3
  One More Time
  3:19
  4.0 ★
• 4
  Sunday Papers
  4:23
  4.0 ★
• 5
  Look Sharp
  3:26
  3.0 ★
• 6
  Got the Time (live)
  4:45
• 7
  On Your Radio
  4:04
• 8
  It’s Different for Girls
  3:45
  3.8 ★
• 9
  Don’t Wanna Be Like That
  3:45
• 10
  Amateur Hour
  4:10
• 11
  I’m the Man
  4:00
  5.0 ★
• 12
  Tilt
  2:48
• 13
  Someone Up There
  3:51
• 14
  One to One
  3:26
• 15
  Beat Crazy
  4:18
• 16
  Biology
  4:35
• 17
  Jumpin’ Jive
  2:43
• 18
  What’s the Use of Getting Sober (When You’re Gonna Get Drunk Again)
  3:48
• 19
  Is She Really Going Out With Him? (A Cappella version) (live)
  4:36
• 20
  Another World
  4:13
• CD 2
• 1
  Breaking Us in Two
  4:50
  4.0 ★
• 2
  Chinatown
  4:28
• 3
  Real Men
  4:05
  3.0 ★
• 4
  Steppin’ Out
  4:22
  4.5 ★
• 5
  A Slow Song
  7:00
  3.0 ★
• 6
  You Can’t Get What You Want (Till You Know What You Want)
  4:55
  4.0 ★
• 7
  Not Here, Not Now
  5:30
  3.0 ★
• 8
  Be My Number Two
  4:24
• 9
  Happy Ending
  3:40
  3.5 ★
• 10
  Wild West
  4:35
• 11
  Right and Wrong
  4:37
• 12
  Home Town
  3:14
• 13
  Precious Time
  3:24
• 14
  Me and You (Against the World)
  3:52
• 15
  Down to London
  4:18
• 16
  Nineteen Forever
  5:45
• 17
  The Human Touch
  5:10

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At the BBC

At the BBC 2009

Night and Day II

Night and Day II 2000

Symphony no. 1

Symphony no. 1 1999

Greatest Hits

Greatest Hits 1996

Night Music

Night Music 1994

Release credits

• Alan Winstanley
  recording [8, 11]
• Aldo Bocca
  mix [8, 11]
• Dave Houghton
  drums (drum set) [8, 11]
• David Houghton
  drums (drum set) [1, 3-5]
• David Kershenbaum
  co [1, 3, 3-4, 4-5, 5], producer [1, 3-5, 8, 11]
• Ed Roynesdal
  guest [3, 5], violin family [3, 5]
• Elaine Caswell
  performer [9]
• Gary Burke
  drums (drum set) [6-7, 9]
• Gary Sanford
  guitar [1, 3-5, 8, 11]
• Graham Maby
  bass guitar [1.1, 1.3-5, 1.8, 1.11, 2.6-7, 2.9]
• Joe Jackson
  arranger [1.8, 1.11, 2.1, 2.3-7, 2.9], co [1, 3, 3-4, 4-5, 5], lead vocals [1.1, 1.3-5, 1.8, 1.11, 2.1, 2.3-7, 2.9]
• Michael Ewasko
  engineer [1, 3-5]
• Rik Pekkonen
  engineer [6-7, 9]
• Rod Hewison
  engineer [1, 3-5]
• Vinnie Zummo
  guitar [6-7, 9]

Issues

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  This Is It: The A&M Years – 1979–1989

  2x CD
  February 1997
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  T
  This Is It: The A&M Years – 1979–1989

  2x CD
  March 1997