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Compact Snap! (CD)

By: The Jam (Artist)

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DISC 1 for Compact Snap! (CD) Album By The Jam (Artist)
1   In The City
2   All Around The World
3   Modern World, The
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   Smithers-Jones
11   Eton Rifles, The
12   Going Underground
13   Dreams Of Children
14   That's Entertainment - (demo)
15   Start!
16   Funeral Pyre - (1983 remix)
17   Absolute Beginners
18   Town Called Malice
19   Precious
20   Bitterest Pill, The (I Ever Had To Swallow)
21   Beat Surrender
 

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Review

Uncut (p.124) - 5 stars out of 5 -- "Not just one of the most succinct best-ofs ever, but still the one Jam artefact everyone really should have."
Mojo (Publisher) (p.114) - 5 stars out of 5 - "SNAP! Represented the definitive Jam record. Few songwriting talents have flowered so swiftly as Paul Weller's..."

Title Note

COMPACT SNAP!, a collection of the Jam's singles, is an abridged version of the 2-LP set SNAP!, released on Polydor in 1983. The LPs included eight additional songs: "Away From The Numbers", "Billy Hunt", "English Rose", "Mr. Clean", "The Butterfly Collector", "Thick As Thieves", "Man In The Corner Shop" and "Tales From The Riverbank."

The Jam: Paul Weller (vocals, guitar); Bruce Foxton (vocals, bass); Rick Buckler (drums).

Includes an excerpt from Paolo Hewitt's biography of the Jam, "A Beat Concerto."

The Jam started out as a punk band and ended up as a soul band, one of the more eclectic and rewarding journeys found in the rock pantheon this side of The Clash. However, because certain elements remained constant--Paul Weller's stunning lyrics, the energetic rhythm section, the healthy, try-anything attitude--the quality never diminished, it only transformed. COMPACT SNAP! travels the distance from the desperate punk of "In The City" to the equally desperate soul of "Beat Surrender," touching on most of the great moments along the way.

The physical violence depicted in early songs like "Down In The Tube Station At Midnight" eventually gave way to an emotional violence in late-period songs like "The Bitterest Pill (I Ever Had To Swallow)." Weller described the youth of his day almost as skillfully as his hero Pete Townshend had done for the mod generation ten years earlier.

The Jam never caught on in America, forcing Weller to break up the band and form The Style Council, his straight R&B project. It is a shame this strong unit was lost, especially considering that by the time they broke up, the three members had barely hit their mid-twenties and had so much left to say. But as with groups like The Police and The Pixies, perhaps it was for the best. This way, the music is trapped in time, a chunk of great tunes representing the greatest Motown band punk ever witnessed.

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