Joel Plaskett

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Through & Through & Through 00:00 Tools
You Let Me Down 00:00 Tools
Absentminded Melody 01:39 Tools
Sailors Eyes 00:00 Tools
Deny, Deny, Deny 00:00 Tools
Every Time You Leave 00:00 Tools
Pine, Pine, Pine 00:00 Tools
Wishful Thinking 00:00 Tools
Wait, Wait, Wait 00:00 Tools
Gone, Gone, Gone 00:00 Tools
When I Have My Vision 00:00 Tools
Nowhere With You 00:00 Tools
Happen Now 00:00 Tools
Rollin', Rollin', Rollin' 00:00 Tools
Heartless, Heartless, Heartless 00:00 Tools
Precious, Precious, Precious 00:00 Tools
Run, Run, Run 00:00 Tools
Shine On, Shine On, Shine On 00:00 Tools
One Look 00:00 Tools
Forever In Debt 00:00 Tools
Safe In Your Arms 00:00 Tools
Rewind, Rewind, Rewind 00:00 Tools
Drifters Raus 00:00 Tools
The News of Your Son 00:00 Tools
In The Blue Moonlight 00:00 Tools
I'd Rather Be Deadly Than Dead 00:00 Tools
Love This Town 00:00 Tools
In Need of Medical Attention 00:00 Tools
All The Way Down The Line 00:00 Tools
New Scotland Blues 00:00 Tools
Goodbye, World 00:00 Tools
Our Place In The Sun 00:00 Tools
Down, Down, Down 00:00 Tools
Powerful Lights 00:00 Tools
Lazy Bones 00:00 Tools
Television Set 00:00 Tools
A Million Dollars 00:00 Tools
Beyond, Beyond, Beyond 00:00 Tools
Demons 00:00 Tools
She Made A Wreck Outta Me 00:00 Tools
On & On & On 00:00 Tools
Weigh It Down 00:00 Tools
Goodbye, Doctor 00:00 Tools
Natural Disaster 00:00 Tools
Lying On A Beach 00:00 Tools
Lonely Love 00:00 Tools
Nina And Albert 00:00 Tools
Truth Be Told 00:00 Tools
Non-Believer 00:00 Tools
Wishing Well 00:00 Tools
On A Dime 00:00 Tools
Paralyzed 00:00 Tools
When I Close My Eyes 00:00 Tools
Extraordinary 00:00 Tools
Work Out Fine 00:00 Tools
Credits Roll 00:00 Tools
True Patriot Love 00:00 Tools
Captains of Industry 00:00 Tools
On the Rail 00:00 Tools
Make A Little Noise 00:00 Tools
Illegitimate Blues 00:00 Tools
The Park Avenue Sobriety Test 00:00 Tools
When I Go 00:00 Tools
The Last Phone Booth 00:00 Tools
Broke 00:00 Tools
Clueless Wonder 00:00 Tools
Hard Times 00:00 Tools
I Love This Town 00:00 Tools
For Your Consideration 00:00 Tools
Come On Teacher 00:00 Tools
Waiting To Be Discovered 00:00 Tools
Written All Over Me 00:00 Tools
Song For Jersey 00:00 Tools
Drunk Teenagers 00:00 Tools
Broken Heart Songs 00:00 Tools
Maybe We Should Just Go Home 00:00 Tools
Alright/OK 00:00 Tools
Down at the Khyber 00:00 Tools
Nothing More To Say 00:00 Tools
Radio Fly 00:00 Tools
Spinning For You 00:00 Tools
Please Don't Return 00:00 Tools
Fashionable People 00:00 Tools
Light of the Moon 00:00 Tools
This is a Message 00:00 Tools
Blood In My Veins 00:00 Tools
Cry Together 00:00 Tools
Money In The Bank 00:00 Tools
Alright / OK 00:00 Tools
There's Love In The Air 00:00 Tools
Unconditional Love 00:00 Tools
Black Sheep Boy 00:00 Tools
All The Pretty Faces 00:00 Tools
Romantic Riot 00:00 Tools
Blinding Light 00:00 Tools
It's Catchin' On 00:00 Tools
Cold blue light 00:00 Tools
Lights Down Low 00:00 Tools
Come on, teacher 00:00 Tools
The Hurt's All Gone 00:00 Tools
You Came Along 00:00 Tools
Snowed In 00:00 Tools
Jimmie's Still Jimmie 00:00 Tools
Face Of The Earth 00:00 Tools
My Failing Health 00:00 Tools
Rollin, Rollin, Rollin 00:00 Tools
Stay, Stay, Stay 00:00 Tools
The Day You Walked Away 00:00 Tools
The Red Light 00:00 Tools
Mystery and Crime 00:00 Tools
Penny For Your Thoughts 00:00 Tools
Heart To Heart With Lionel 00:00 Tools
Can I Go Nowhere with You 00:00 Tools
Compete With Lonliness 00:00 Tools
Ashtray Rock 00:00 Tools
Happy When I'm Sad 00:00 Tools
Mystery & Crime 00:00 Tools
Beyond The Frame 00:00 Tools
Red Light 00:00 Tools
Rewind. Rewind, Rewind 00:00 Tools
Soundtrack For The Night 00:00 Tools
Until U Came Along 00:00 Tools
Snowed In/Cruisin' 00:00 Tools
The Glorious Life 00:00 Tools
On A Dime - Radio Edit 00:00 Tools
The Instrumental 00:00 Tools
The Day 00:00 Tools
Heart To Heart 00:00 Tools
Fashionable People (Kids' Cbc Version) 00:00 Tools
Compete With Loneliness 00:00 Tools
Make a Little Noise "Nowhere With You" 00:00 Tools
Outroduction 00:00 Tools
Introduction 00:00 Tools
Extraordinary 2002 00:00 Tools
Lightning Bolt 00:00 Tools
Nothing More to Say (2004) 00:00 Tools
A Million Dollars (2005) 00:00 Tools
Jimmie's Still Jimmie (feat. Joel Plaskett & Joel Plaskett) 00:00 Tools
Oh My Soul 00:00 Tools
Come on Teacher (2002) 00:00 Tools
Chinatown/For The Record 00:00 Tools
Drunk Teenagers (2003) 00:00 Tools
Snowed In (2003) 00:00 Tools
Clueless Wonder (1999) 00:00 Tools
An Introduction 00:00 Tools
When You Come Around 00:00 Tools
Jump Back 00:00 Tools
YOU'RE MINE 00:00 Tools
Our Place In the Sun   00:00 Tools
Tough Love 00:00 Tools
Chinatown / For the Record 00:00 Tools
SafeIin Your Arms 00:00 Tools
Deny, Deny, Deny (iTunes Originals Version) 00:00 Tools
Absentminded Melody/Happen Now 00:00 Tools
Snowed In / Cruisin' 00:00 Tools
Absentminded Melody (Pregap) 00:00 Tools
Before You Leave 00:00 Tools
Theres Love In The Air 00:00 Tools
That's Not Joel (feat. Joel Plaskett & Joel Plaskett) 00:00 Tools
Down At The Kyber 00:00 Tools
Nothing More to Say (iTunes Originals Version) 00:00 Tools
OLD FRIENDS 00:00 Tools
Pine, Pine, Pine (iTunes Originals Version) 00:00 Tools
You Let Me Down (iTunes Originals Version) 00:00 Tools
HARBOUR BOYS 00:00 Tools
Can I Go Nowhere with You - Joel Plaskett Emergency 00:00 Tools
Heartless, Heartless, Heartless (iTunes Originals Version) 00:00 Tools
Snowed In --> Cruisin' 00:00 Tools
Chinatown --> For The Record 00:00 Tools
NORTH STAR 00:00 Tools
Joel Plaskett Emergency - Oh My Soul 00:00 Tools
Kung Fu 00:00 Tools
I'm Yours 00:00 Tools
Rollin' Rollin' Rollin' 00:00 Tools
New Scotland Blues (Live @ St. Mathew's Church) 00:00 Tools
Deny, Deny, Deny (Album Version) 00:00 Tools
Its Catchin On 00:00 Tools
Back of The Film 00:00 Tools
The Big City (Interview) 00:00 Tools
Run, Run, Run (Album Version) 00:00 Tools
Day of the Triffids 00:00 Tools
A Detour (Interview) 00:00 Tools
BlindingLight 00:00 Tools
You Let Me Down (Album Version) 00:00 Tools
somewhere else 00:00 Tools
A Personal Responsibility (Interview) 00:00 Tools
True Patriot Love (Acoustic) 00:00 Tools
Back and Forth (Interview) 00:00 Tools
Through Through Through 00:00 Tools
Pride In Introducing Your Dad (Interview) 00:00 Tools
Time Flies 00:00 Tools
A Celebration (Interview) 00:00 Tools
Luther Ingo's Star Cruiser 00:00 Tools
Powerful 00:00 Tools
Massey Hall (Interview) 00:00 Tools
Ashtray Rock "Fashionable People" 00:00 Tools
Rewind, Rewind, Rewind (Album Version) 00:00 Tools
Precious, Precious, Precious (Album Version) 00:00 Tools
Being a Communicator (Interview) 00:00 Tools
Document How We Play Guitar Together (Interview) 00:00 Tools
Sailors Eyes (Album Version) 00:00 Tools
Rollin, Rollin, Rollin (Album Version) 00:00 Tools
One Look (Album Version) 00:00 Tools
Outside of My Circle (Interview) 00:00 Tools
I Think I'll Make a Triple Album (Interview) 00:00 Tools
New Scotland Blues (Album Version) 00:00 Tools
In the Woods (Interview) 00:00 Tools
Slow Dance 00:00 Tools
Hurt's All Gone 00:00 Tools
Absent Minded Melody 00:00 Tools
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Wishful Thinking (Album Version) 00:00 Tools
Run Run Run 00:00 Tools
Safe In Your Arms (Album Version) 00:00 Tools
No Surrender 00:00 Tools
Joel Plasket-Come On, Teacher 00:00 Tools
The First Day Of Summer 00:00 Tools
Rewind Rewind Rewind 00:00 Tools
Alright OK 00:00 Tools
Through & Through & Through (Polaris) 00:00 Tools
Million Dollars 00:00 Tools
07 - Hurt's All Gone 00:00 Tools
There`s love in the air 00:00 Tools
01 - written all over me 00:00 Tools
02 - work out fine 00:00 Tools
Can I Go Nowhere with You? 00:00 Tools
until you came along 00:00 Tools
A Million Dollars (acoustic) 00:00 Tools
Just Because (for Gord Downie) 00:00 Tools
goodbye world 00:00 Tools
Joel Plaskett - Lonely Love 00:00 Tools
Joel Plaskett 00:00 Tools
Blalock's Indie/Rock Playlist: May (2009) - 123 - You Let Me Down 00:00 Tools
A Million Dollars 2005 00:00 Tools
05 - come on teacher 00:00 Tools
03 - mystery and crime 00:00 Tools
Please Don't Return 2000 00:00 Tools
Cold Blue Light 2002 00:00 Tools
Money in the Bank 2005 00:00 Tools
La La La (I'm Not Listening To You) 00:00 Tools
Precious Precious Precious 00:00 Tools
Snowed In/Crusin' 00:00 Tools
04 - extraordinary 00:00 Tools
Joel Plaskett - Television Set 00:00 Tools
Drunk Teenagers 2003 00:00 Tools
When I Go 2010 00:00 Tools
Nothing More to Say 2004 00:00 Tools
Romantic Riot 2004 00:00 Tools
Come On, Teacher 2002 00:00 Tools
Joel Plaskett - Lying On A Beach 00:00 Tools
True Patriot Love (Live) 00:00 Tools
JOEL PLASKETT - NOWHERE WITH YOU 00:00 Tools
A Million Dollars - Live 00:00 Tools
Tuth Be Told 00:00 Tools
10 - the day you walked away 00:00 Tools
09 - lights down low 00:00 Tools
The Hurt's All Gone 2000 00:00 Tools
True Patriot Love 1999 00:00 Tools
Snowed In 2003 00:00 Tools
Black Sheep Boy 2000 00:00 Tools
Clueless Wonder 1999 00:00 Tools
Nowhere With You (acoustic) 00:00 Tools
Mystery And Fine 00:00 Tools
JoelPlaskett_nowhereWithYou_CBCRadio3AcousticVersion 00:00 Tools
07 - radio fly 00:00 Tools
Back of The Film (live) 00:00 Tools
06 - red light 00:00 Tools
goodbye doctor 00:00 Tools
My Failing Health 1999 00:00 Tools
Nina & Albert 00:00 Tools
04 - Down at the Khyber 00:00 Tools
No Where With You 00:00 Tools
Joel Plaskett - Love This Town 00:00 Tools
A Million Dollars (Live) 00:00 Tools
On And On And On 00:00 Tools
Through, Through, Through (acoustic) 00:00 Tools
Extraordinary (2002) 00:00 Tools
Joel Plaskett - Wishing Well 00:00 Tools
Waiting To Be Discovered 1999 00:00 Tools
Three "Through & Through & Through" 00:00 Tools
The Next Blue Sky 00:00 Tools
Joel Plaskett - Through & Through & Through 00:00 Tools
Nowhere With You (live) 00:00 Tools
Fashonable People 00:00 Tools
Heartless Heartless Heartless 00:00 Tools
Deny, Deny, Deny (acoustic) 00:00 Tools
[Untitled] 00:00 Tools
Rollin’, Rollin’, Rollin’ 00:00 Tools
A job worth doing 00:00 Tools
Lying on the Beach 00:00 Tools
03 - Please Don't Return 00:00 Tools
The News 00:00 Tools
Everytime You Leave 00:00 Tools
Joel Plaskett - Absentminded Melody 00:00 Tools
Just Go Home 00:00 Tools
02 - When I Have My Vision 00:00 Tools
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Joel Plaskett returns with one of the most diverse and fan-pleasing albums of his career. Proving that he can be all things to everybody, the rock veteran offers up a wide mix of styles on Joel Plaskett and the Park Avenue Sobriety Test. It touches on his solo acoustic side, his guitar rock work with the Emergency, his happy-go-lucky rhyming talents, carefree memories of growing up in Nova Scotia, and a little bit of anger at the forces making life tougher these days. There are many moments that draw on previous classic Plaskett, from beloved albums such as Three and Ashtray Rock, right back to his Thrush Hermit days. And there are new sides to his sounds as well – Joel like you’ve never heard him. There are plenty of hints as to where his head is at these days – 39 and holding, looking back at how he got there, and ahead past that milestone birthday. Even the title holds a clue in its anagram: Joel Plaskett and the P.A.S.T. You’ll find references to his salad days, like “On A Dime,” which starts with a blast of downhome Celtic fiddle from Cape Breton great J.P. Cormier. Then there’s Plaskett riffing on memories of playing road hockey in the liquor store parking lot, and later, traveling to Memphis with his band Thrush Hermit to make their first album. It’s not truly autobiographical though. These are more observations that have piled up over the last twenty-plus years of being a touring musician, traveling and meeting folks coast to coast to coast, mixing it in with his own life. If anything, it’s the teenager from Ashtray Rock, all grown up. The P.A.S.T. also refers to the cast of characters that helped make the album. With its wide-ranging sound it’s not a pure Joel Plaskett Emergency effort, although the band appears on more than half the tracks. It’s more like the Emergency-Plus, as lots of familiar faces from previous Plaskett discs are aboard. Longtime Emergency cohorts Dave Marsh – drums and Chris Pennell – bass anchor the rhythm section. Previous group members Tim Brennan and Peter Elkas play on several songs. From Plaskett’s former band Thrush Hermit is old pal Ian McGettigan. Then there are guests, friends and neighbours, such as Cormier, Halifax singer-songwriter Mo Kenney, singer Erin Costelo, and pedal steel player Dale Murray (Christina Martin, Cuff the Duke). In an era when most albums have the best tracks at the start and then a bunch of also-rans to fill up the quota, Plaskett stubbornly remains a throwback. The consummate music fan, even the album cover is a dead give-away, where he reclines on top of his massive collection of vinyl, no doubt filled with personal treasures and rare gems. Each cut stands alone as a winner, but together, they flow and create a full story. They are as catchy and melodic as his best work, but on Joel Plaskett and the Park Avenue Sobriety Test he’s gone one step further. The sequence is carefully planned, there are little linking bits, connections from one song to the next, one ending planned to segue into the next beginning. There’s a story arc about getting through life’s struggles and blue periods, and dramatic pacing, like a movie script. It starts with the rock, gets a little quieter, more serious and acoustic, then breaks the tension with some classy goofy lyrics (“Song for Jersey”) before wrapping up with the electric big band. In other words, this is a start-to-finish, must-listen album. You can pick out favourite lines (“When you’re one of a kind, you can’t get on the Ark”), new anthems (the title cut) and take a moment to reflect (“For Your Consideration”). You can marvel at new sides to Plaskett’s work, from the finger-pointing anger of “Captains of Industry,” where he takes on the one percent, ruining lives through trickle-down greed, to the cover of Stephen Foster’s “Hard Times,” a 160-year old protest song that shows times really haven’t changed much at all. It’s a rare album where an artist can lean so much on his P.A.S.T., yet still show a great deal of growth. But after twenty years of music-making mischief, Joel Plaskett never, ever lets you down, and seems to always find ways to get better. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.