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.
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...
"They don't think it be like it is, but it do." - Oscar Gamble
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.
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.
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.
Forces have been looting
My humanity
Curfews have been curbing
The end of liberty
We're the flowers in the dustbin...
No fuchsias for you.
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.
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.
Forces have been looting
My humanity
Curfews have been curbing
The end of liberty
We're the flowers in the dustbin...
No fuchsias for you.
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!