Songs from the MODern era (Greatest Hits - Jam)

Member Name: Mad Simon

Product:	Greatest Hits - Jam
Date:	27/02/01 (121 review reads)
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Advantages: All the best songs on one CD

Disadvantages: No words in inset

The Jam were one of the most important bands of the early 80's. Four number one singles(Going Underground, Town called Malice, Start! and their final hit Beat Surrender) three of which entered at number one, when this was a very rare thing to do, and numberous another hits was the Jam's contibution.

Songs like "Going Underground" and "Town Called Malice" will be the songs from this collection that everyone will know and listen to first, but they are only two of the excellent songs on offer.

This collection contains all twenty one of the Jam's hits in chronological order, which shows the bands development from angry young mod punks, into mainstream songsmiths with a more soulish feel to their music, a progression which lead to the decline of the band, as Paul Weller wanted to take the Jam further along this road than the other two members, who felt they should have been more true to their mod roots.

I would recommend this album for fans of modern bands such as OCS and Blur, as this would be an example of the music that they would be listening to when they were growing up, as well as to older people who were fans of the Who and Small Faces during the sixties, as it was their music that largely influenced the music of the Jam.

Totally class, but maybe i am biased.

1. In The City
2. All Around The World
3. The Modern World
4. News Of The World
5. David Watts
6. "A" Bomb In Wardour Street
7. Down In The Tube Station At Midnight
8. Strange Town
9. When You're Young
10. The Eton Rifles
11. Going Underground
12. The Dreams Of Children
13. Start
14. That's Entertainment
15. Funeral Pyre
16. Absolute Beginners
17. Town Called Malice
18. Precious
19. Just Who Is The 5 O'Clock Hero?
20. Bitterest Pill (I Ever Had To Swallow)
21. Beat Surrender


P.S. Currently in Virgin'
;s summer sale at £9.99, so now there is even less of an excuse for not buying it anymore.

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