The Jam weren't just a singles band!

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Heston wrote:
14 Oct 2021, 6:03pm
Marky Dread wrote:
14 Oct 2021, 5:37pm
BitterTom wrote:
14 Oct 2021, 4:56pm
Snap! Has overwhelming support here it seems though...

What's the worst track on the album?

For me it has to be Billy Hunt. For a pacy song it's fucking boring. Tune is dull, chorus is boring and Weller sounds fed up. Middle 8 and solo shows promise then back to another exciting verse...
No worst track on Snap! for me all great. I like "Billy Hunt" was even going to be a possible single at one point. Makes more sense with it's non rhyming slang title "Silly Cunt" but I doubt that would've got them any airplay.😉
There's an alternate version on the Direction box set which I think is zippier and better, but it's a good song anyway. Chorus is a bit leaden but loads of other good stuff going on to keep it interesting.

Hard to think of a least favourite on the album, at a push would go with David Watts or Away From the Numbers but I really dig them both.
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Agreed it's hard to find something to like less than others. David Watts was so good live that it's always up there for me.

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Wolter wrote:
14 Oct 2021, 7:59pm
Hi, I have been listen to the Jam since the 90s and I JUST realized Billy Hunt was rhyming slang. Oops.
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Heston wrote:
14 Oct 2021, 6:03pm
Marky Dread wrote:
14 Oct 2021, 5:37pm
BitterTom wrote:
14 Oct 2021, 4:56pm
Snap! Has overwhelming support here it seems though...

What's the worst track on the album?

For me it has to be Billy Hunt. For a pacy song it's fucking boring. Tune is dull, chorus is boring and Weller sounds fed up. Middle 8 and solo shows promise then back to another exciting verse...
No worst track on Snap! for me all great. I like "Billy Hunt" was even going to be a possible single at one point. Makes more sense with it's non rhyming slang title "Silly Cunt" but I doubt that would've got them any airplay.😉
There's an alternate version on the Direction box set which I think is zippier and better, but it's a good song anyway. Chorus is a bit leaden but loads of other good stuff going on to keep it interesting.

Hard to think of a least favourite on the album, at a push would go with David Watts or Away From the Numbers but I really dig them both.
I remember getting my hands on this when it came out. I was a broke college kid who should not have been spending that much on a pricy import box set, but I could not resist. I had heard of the Jam for years, but their material was sparse where I grew up and an indie record shop near school had it, so...
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I was hooked back in the 70's when I first heard In The City, loved just about everything that came after it, singles, b sides and of course the album cuts. Paul Weller showed me there was a world outside of my dreary suburban upbringing. I would sit with my headphones on listening while looking out my window at the strip mall next door and the 24 hour laundry and Magic Market (that's like a bodega) watching these empty dead end people go by, wondering there has got to be more to life than this.

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Bringing this topic up as I've been listening to The Gift a lot recently. Still stand by what I say, Ghosts is one of my favourite songs ever, goosebumps every time.


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BitterTom wrote:
01 Oct 2022, 4:32pm
Bringing this topic up as I've been listening to The Gift a lot recently. Still stand by what I say, Ghosts is one of my favourite songs ever, goosebumps every time.

Brilliant track mate.
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Marky Dread wrote:
01 Oct 2022, 4:34pm
BitterTom wrote:
01 Oct 2022, 4:32pm
Bringing this topic up as I've been listening to The Gift a lot recently. Still stand by what I say, Ghosts is one of my favourite songs ever, goosebumps every time.

Brilliant track mate.
Certainly a desert island disc for me.

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BitterTom wrote:
01 Oct 2022, 4:38pm
Marky Dread wrote:
01 Oct 2022, 4:34pm
BitterTom wrote:
01 Oct 2022, 4:32pm
Bringing this topic up as I've been listening to The Gift a lot recently. Still stand by what I say, Ghosts is one of my favourite songs ever, goosebumps every time.

Brilliant track mate.
Certainly a desert island disc for me.
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Ghosts is amazing but the live version from Dig the New Breed is where it's at.
There's a tiny, tiny hopeful part of me that says you guys are running a Kaufmanesque long con on the board

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I have the strong memories from my youth of listening to The Jam in my headphones and just staring out the window of my bedroom. I had the pleasure of being right up against a suburban strip mall with a 24 hour launderette and mini market, so all sorts of hell would be going on there. And I would just listen and think "there has got to be more than this".

I love Sound Effects through Beat Surrender...great run of music!

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Was there you know!



Lonely hearts don't stay lonely forever Tom. Pick it up and walk right on through! ;)
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Marky Dread wrote:
02 Oct 2022, 7:40am
Was there you know!



Lonely hearts don't stay lonely forever Tom. Pick it up and walk right on through! ;)
Hello,

That track has always been goose-bump-y since I first dropped the needle on it.

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