My 100 Favorite Charted Pop Songs: Is She Really Going Out With Him?

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Hardcore country and post-punk. Just another day in my musical world. No wonder everyone is scratching their heads over these lists. I really do love all of these songs. I made this list originally in 1995, so it’s not like I said, “Hmm, how can I thoroughly confuse myLot readers?” Anyway, here’s today’s song from the Hot 100. Is She Really Going Out With Him? - Joe Jackson Pretty women out walking with gorillas down my street THAT is an opening line. And that was the line that pretty much introduced the world to Joe Jackson with this, his first charted hit. This wasn’t meant to be serious (with an opening line like that, or the later line, “They say that looks don’t count for much, and so there goes your proof”), and I never took it that way. It’s one of Jackson’s best-known songs. When I saw him in 1982, he did an a cappella version of it! And how about this: both today’s country song and rock song peaked at the same position — #21 — on their respective charts in their respective years. Is She Really Going Out With Him? Written by Joe Jackson Recorded by Joe Jackson From Look Sharp!, 1978 Peak chart position: #21 Today’s country song: “How the Other Half Lives” Wash my hair and kid myself I look real smooth: