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BitterTom wrote:
19 Apr 2019, 4:30pm
Setting Sons is easily the best Jam album yes?
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101Walterton wrote:
19 Apr 2019, 6:01pm
BitterTom wrote:
19 Apr 2019, 4:30pm
Setting Sons is easily the best Jam album yes?
No. All Mod Cons!!!
Setting Sons for me but only by a shade from AMC.
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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Heston wrote:
21 Apr 2019, 3:11am
101Walterton wrote:
19 Apr 2019, 6:01pm
BitterTom wrote:
19 Apr 2019, 4:30pm
Setting Sons is easily the best Jam album yes?
No. All Mod Cons!!!
Setting Sons for me but only by a shade from AMC.
Fag paper between them but AMC then SS for me.

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101Walterton wrote:
21 Apr 2019, 4:29am
Heston wrote:
21 Apr 2019, 3:11am
101Walterton wrote:
19 Apr 2019, 6:01pm
BitterTom wrote:
19 Apr 2019, 4:30pm
Setting Sons is easily the best Jam album yes?
No. All Mod Cons!!!
Setting Sons for me but only by a shade from AMC.
Fag paper between them but AMC then SS for me.
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Can't believe I used to really be into Sham 69. Just relistened to That's Life and, well it's crap. Evil Way is god awful. "I want to get my end away, I want to get my end away, I wanna have my evil way." Followed by Carry On style "Cor, handsome ain't it? Phwoar, look at the pair on that." Etc. Pretty grim.

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I like their earlier stuff.
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Borstal Breakout is a good punk tune but that's as far as I'd go.

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Not a fan of Sham at all.

Questions and Answers was decent.
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Not a fan of Sham at all.

Questions and Answers was decent.
Try Outside the Warehouse from their late 80s days, completely different sound. That's one I don't mind.

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Hurry Up Harry
If the Kids Are United
I Don't Wanna
Hersham Boy
Hey Little Rich Boy
Borstal Breakout
Angels With Dirty Faces

Are all great punk songs, imo

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Yeah, I still like Sham 69. Good street punk.
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BitterTom wrote:
23 Apr 2019, 4:52am
Can't believe I used to really be into Sham 69. Just relistened to That's Life and, well it's crap. Evil Way is god awful. "I want to get my end away, I want to get my end away, I wanna have my evil way." Followed by Carry On style "Cor, handsome ain't it? Phwoar, look at the pair on that." Etc. Pretty grim.
I've got all Sham's albums and there is lots to like. ''Evil Way'' is supposed to make you feel like that mate. It's not written from the singers point of view but the kid who loses his job etc in the story (concept). Sham get lambasted all the time for the basic approach to everything but they were talking to the man in the street more than most. I'm not supporting the lyrics they are indeed ''evil'' but you have to take them in the correct context they were produced. The 70s were a lot tougher than today in my opinion. Kids tended to be less cowardly and didn't carry weapons like now.
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Marky Dread wrote:
23 Apr 2019, 9:46am
BitterTom wrote:
23 Apr 2019, 4:52am
Can't believe I used to really be into Sham 69. Just relistened to That's Life and, well it's crap. Evil Way is god awful. "I want to get my end away, I want to get my end away, I wanna have my evil way." Followed by Carry On style "Cor, handsome ain't it? Phwoar, look at the pair on that." Etc. Pretty grim.
I've got all Sham's albums and there is lots to like. ''Evil Way'' is supposed to make you feel like that mate. It's not written from the singers point of view but the kid who loses his job etc in the story (concept). Sham get lambasted all the time for the basic approach to everything but they were talking to the man in the street more than most. I'm not supporting the lyrics they are indeed ''evil'' but you have to take them in the correct context they were produced. The 70s were a lot tougher than today in my opinion. Kids tended to be less cowardly and didn't carry weapons like now.
Totally forgot it was a concept album. That makes more sense then, never saw it this way, cheers for clarification.

Ah being born in 91 I didn't see it in 1978 context, fair point mate.

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Flex wrote:
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Yeah, I still like Sham 69. Good street punk.
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Silent Majority wrote:
23 Apr 2019, 7:49am
Hurry Up Harry
If the Kids Are United
I Don't Wanna
Hersham Boy
Hey Little Rich Boy
Borstal Breakout
Angels With Dirty Faces

Are all great punk songs, imo

Questions and Answers
Cockney Kids Are Innocent
No Entry

Are good fun too.
I've never been a big fan but this list pretty much covers what I would listen to. I have an album somewhere that picked up for next to nothing and I've listened to it next to never.

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