Every Joe Jackson Album Ranked: A Genre-Defying Career Retrospective

Joe Jackson has gone out of his way to disprove the early label placed upon him by fans and critics seeking an easy way to identify the English singer, songwriter and keyboardist.

Initially grouped, along with Elvis Costello, Graham Parker and others from the era, as an Angry Young Man who emerged from the new wave branch of late-'70s pub rockers

Jackson soon defied expectations by consistently switching genres from record to record over the decades