Setting Sons - The Jam
I liked a couple each on their first two albums and loved All Mod Cons.
I considered SS to be a let down, far too many words and not enough rhymes. Its weighed down by teenage angst and an overwhelming obsession with "having something to say". Heatwave certainly shouldnt be on there. The only songs with a whiff of All Mod Cons wit with are Eton Rifles, Saturdays Kids and The Girl On The Phone.
Their run of post second album singles "David Watts, A Bomb In Wardour Street, Tube Station, When Youre Young, Strange Town, Butterfly Collector, Eton Rifles and Going Underground were as good a batch as any band have produced. The equal of the primetime Kinks, Who, Beatles etc they so obviously admired.
Funeral Pyre and beyond was where The Jam and I parted company.
Quite why "Away From The Numbers, Tonight At Noon and Life From A Window" never made it to single status and "This Is The Modern World" did is beyond me. "To Be Someone" wouldve also have been great to see bothering the TOTPs producers.
I dont get the Style Council hate either. The first two albums were great stuff and certainly better than The Jams opening efforts. Granted both they turned to shite towards the end.
Theres an acoustic guiter/organ busking style version of "Headstart To Happiness" with Weller vocals that for me is one of his finest moments. I think it was originally on the Bside of the ropey 'Money Go Round"........only Tube Station matches it in his whole career.
I liked a couple each on their first two albums and loved All Mod Cons.
I considered SS to be a let down, far too many words and not enough rhymes. Its weighed down by teenage angst and an overwhelming obsession with "having something to say". Heatwave certainly shouldnt be on there. The only songs with a whiff of All Mod Cons wit with are Eton Rifles, Saturdays Kids and The Girl On The Phone.
Their run of post second album singles "David Watts, A Bomb In Wardour Street, Tube Station, When Youre Young, Strange Town, Butterfly Collector, Eton Rifles and Going Underground were as good a batch as any band have produced. The equal of the primetime Kinks, Who, Beatles etc they so obviously admired.
Funeral Pyre and beyond was where The Jam and I parted company.
Quite why "Away From The Numbers, Tonight At Noon and Life From A Window" never made it to single status and "This Is The Modern World" did is beyond me. "To Be Someone" wouldve also have been great to see bothering the TOTPs producers.
I dont get the Style Council hate either. The first two albums were great stuff and certainly better than The Jams opening efforts. Granted both they turned to shite towards the end.
Theres an acoustic guiter/organ busking style version of "Headstart To Happiness" with Weller vocals that for me is one of his finest moments. I think it was originally on the Bside of the ropey 'Money Go Round"........only Tube Station matches it in his whole career.
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