Dig The New Breed - Jam

The Very Best Of The Jam - The Jam

Back in The late 70?s and early 80?s Music had reached a new dimension. Punk had risen from the ashes of disco, and the music became loud, angry and frantic. Paul Weller met Bruce Foxton and Rick Buckley while at school in Woking. The three spiky haired young men loved music and decided to form their own band in 1973. Although a Mod by heart, Weller was heavily influenced by the punk music currently dominating the music scene, and The Jam developed a style all of their own. Dressed in Mod suits, the group played an angry punk guitar, a booming bass guitar and rumbling drums while their faces ...

Greatest Hits - Jam

ease than with The Jam , and all the hits are included, such as the four number ones and that absolutely bouncing chart-topper A Town Called Malice (Used to great effect in Billy Elliot). The Jam's style doesn't vary much throughout the compilation, although some slower numbers such as Thats Entertainment and The ...

Greatest Hits - Jam

For those unaware of The Jam the greatest hits is the album for you. It shows the easy development of their sound through the difficult years at the end of the 1970's and the beginning of the 1980's. The Jam may have held a sound and image somewhere between the sixties mods and the seventies punks, but they were something different. Yes they were angry but the anger had more than awareness, it had purpose and direction as highlighted in All around the World the second track on the album. Those years marked a recession in Britain, the public were angry and the young musicians of the time were vocally and musically telling the story of how it was to ...