Friday Poll Thread #6 - Best Jam Album

[Heston]

I know it's Sunday but it's next Friday in New Zealand. As requested by Bitter Tom, vote for your favourite Jam Album. I know we've raked over this one a bit before but not in poll form.

[Heston]

I thought the first two albums are ok but plenty of filler on show. AMC and SS are brilliant. SA and the Gift have a lot of amazing songs but a few clunkers.

[101Walterton]

In The City is a solid debut album and being as All Around The World was written and released 6 months later it does have some filler but is better than usually given credit for.
All Mod Cons is perfect bar the cover.
The post AMC singles up to SS continue the rich vein of form Strange Town/ Butterfly Collector / When You’re Young 3 of my all time favourite songs.
Setting Sons was supposed to be Weller’s Townshend concept concept album but he ran out of time writing it and abandoned the plan and added filler including Heatwave, great as it is. Had Weller been allowed to finish SS as planned I have no doubt it would have been better than the finished album and AMC.
Sound Affects has great songs but lacks the bollocks as does The Gift which continues the gradual (but slight) downward slope.

[Heston]

I'm in the small club that thinks Modern World is better than the debut.

[101Walterton]

I'm in the small club that thinks Modern World is better than the debut.

Some days I’d agree with you.

[BitterTom]

Setting Sons would be perfect if it had the proper version of Smithers on it, other than that it's still number 1 for me, epic sound to it, especially in Private Hell one of my favourites on the album.

All Mod Cons a close second but Billy Hunt and It's Too Bad are pretty crap. Never took to their version of David Watts either.

The first two are pretty poor in comparison. A few stand out tracks but nothing special. This Is The Modern World especially, Modern World is a good song but the rest is below average. London Traffic is a low low moment for them.

Sound Affects and The Gift are pretty good, again some stand out tracks but nowhere near the class of AMC and SS. Although having said that The Gift does contain my favourite song by them, Ghosts. A beautifully simple yet perfect song.

[Mimi]

When I picked SS I thought for sure no one else would like it. Nice surprise.

[Wolter]

There was an edition of Setting Sons that had the singles from that era on it and that was the best single disc Jam album I ever owned.

[BitterTom]

They released a number of non LP singles, you can't help thinking they would improved some of the albums dramatically by cutting some mediocrity and adding a Strange Town/Funeral Pyre/News of the World/Going Underground/When You're Young etc

[Flex]

Really, their best album is Greatest Hits. I have the box and I still pull that disk out more than any other.

But I voted In The City cuz I'm punk rock.

[daredevil]

Setting Sons. I love that album.

[Heston]

Really, their best album is Greatest Hits. I have the box and I still pull that disk out more than any other.

But I voted In The City cuz I'm punk rock.

Have you lost control of your senses? That's the statement of a maniac.

[Wolter]

Really, their best album is Greatest Hits. I have the box and I still pull that disk out more than any other.

But I voted In The City cuz I'm punk rock.

Have you lost control of your senses? That's the statement of a maniac.

I probably agree with Flex on music 8 times out of 10, but In the City is, on a good day, no better than the 4th best Jam album. On a good day.

[Flex]

I like to listen to their singles more than any particular album, truth be told.

[Dr. Medulla]

I like to listen to their singles more than any particular album, truth be told.

That's where I"m at. Like XTC the albums are mostly good, but the singles are so much better.