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Their most successful studio album was their final album The Gift in 1982, which reached No. 1 in the UK and peaked at No. 82 in the US. The Jam were seen as the centre of mod revival culture during the 1970s to the 1980s, and the lead singer of the band, Paul Weller, was seen as The Modfather. The band separated in 1982, following ten years ...
This Is the Modern World is the second studio album by British band the Jam, released in November 1977. The album was released less than six months after their debut album In the City, [3] and reached No. 22 on the UK Albums Chart. Although generally met with negative reviews by music critics upon release, This Is the Modern World has been ...
Fire & Skill: The Songs of the Jam is a compilation album of hit songs written by The Jam.Each track on the album was performed by a different artist or band. Buffalo Tom singer/guitarist Bill Janovitz was surprised to have the chance to do "Going Underground", saying that his band usually had to be content with doing also-ran songs on compilations such as this.
The compilation was released on 25 October 1997, and features all of The Jam's singles (A-side tracks) in chronological order. [ 2 ] This compilation album contains the same nineteen tracks previously released upon the 1991 album Greatest Hits , although The Very Best of The Jam contains two further tracks: "'A' Bomb in Wardour Street" and ...
"Get Yourself Together" (Demo; a cover of the track originally recorded by The Small Faces) "The Butterfly Collector" (B-side to "Strange Town") "The Great Depression" (B-side to "Just Who Is the 5 O'Clock Hero?") "Stoned Out of My Mind" (B-side to "Beat Surrender" and a cover of the song by The Chi-Lites)
The Gift is the sixth and final studio album by the English rock band the Jam. It was originally released on 12 March 1982 by Polydor as the follow-up to the Jam's critically and commercially successful studio album Sound Affects (1980). The songs were largely recorded during 1981 to 1982, at George Martin's AIR Studios, assisted by Peter Wilson.
Snap! is a greatest hits album by The Jam, released on 14 October 1983, one year after the group disbanded. [6] The double-album includes all sixteen of the band's UK singles, plus some B-sides, album tracks and rarities. Stephen Thomas Erlewine of AllMusic called it "one of the greatest greatest-hits albums of all time". [7]
Greatest Hits is the third compilation/greatest hits album from the Jam, released in 1991. It includes all of the band's eighteen hit singles plus "Precious" (which was released as a double A-side along with "Town Called Malice"). It includes two singles, "That's Entertainment" and "Just Who Is the 5 O'Clock Hero?", which made the UK charts ...