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Night and Day II

by Joe Jackson

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2000

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Overall Rating: 2.3614 Night and Day II is ranked overall as 2.3614 out of 4 stars

Avg. Critic Score: 2.7700 Night and Day II has an avg. critic score of 2.7700 out of 4 stars

Night and Day II Album Reviews

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Entertainment Weekly

Jackson continues braving the waters of conceptual post-pop, for better and worse

PopMatters

The millennium is truly at hand: Joe Jackson has put out an album I don't love. You have to understand the magnitude of this. Ever since hearing Jackson's first album, Look Sharp in a used record store in San Francisco and receiving the Live 1980-1986 album in as a Christmas present in 1988, I have been a fan. ...more

Yahoo! Music

The first Night and Day album by Joe Jackson is an absolute pop music masterpiece. The "sequel," appropriately entitled Night and Day II, like the first, is an homage to New York City. ...more

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Sonicnet

Given the changes that both New York and Jackson have undergone over the years, it's fitting that the new album lacks the swagger and bubbly feel of the first edition, and instead leaves the listener sad and gray... ...read the complete review at Sonicnet

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Q Magazine

While the lyrics portray only stereotypes - whore, ladyboy, hick - the music is a tumble of racing rhythms underlying slow, reflective vocals with empathetic groans, sighs and howls of matching emotion from violin and cello....read the complete review at Q Magazine

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The A.V. Club

After establishing himself as a master of snarling English pub-rock to rival fellow angry young men Graham Parker and Elvis Costello, Joe Jackson developed a case of stylistic wanderlust from which he has yet to recover. After releasing a prescient swing...read the complete review at The A.V. Club

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