Two Rainy Nights

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Two Rainy Nights
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Live album by
ReleasedJanuary 2002 [1]
Genre Rock, pop
Label Koch Records
Joe Jackson chronology
Night and Day II
(2000)
Two Rainy Nights
(2002)
Volume 4
(2003)
Professional ratings
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Two Rainy Nights is a 2002 live album by Joe Jackson. [1] Initially available on his own Great Big Island label only from Jackson's website, it was subsequently released on CD. [1] The album is a combination of newer songs and older material, recorded at performances in Seattle WA and Portland OR in April 2001.

Contents

Track listing

All songs written and arranged by Joe Jackson.

No.TitleLength
1."Prelude/Hell of a Town"7:10
2."You Can't Get What You Want 'Till You Know What You Want"3:13
3."Happyland"4:32
4."Stranger Than You"4:21
5."Another World"4:18
6."Is She Really Going Out with Him"4:18
7."Home Town"5:30
8."Real Men"4:42
9."Stranger than Fiction"4:09
10."Glamour & Pain"5:36
11."Target"4:05
12."Just Because"4:07
13."Got the Time"3:21
14."A Slow Song"7:36

Personnel

Musicians
Production

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