Possibly the best greatest hits album ever released and this one really works because when all is said and done The Jam were the ultimate singles band. Great albums they made for sure but their singles were just amazing. This package came out a year after their breakup and charts the rise and rise of The Jam with all their finest moments wrapped up in one bundle. Of course, a lot of The Jam's greatest hits packages came after but the original is still the greatest. On vinyl of course.
So putting this on takes me back to the first time I heard them in my brother Tony's house on a borrowed record player. On the platform on Victoria Station London when the hit parade in the record store window showed Eton Rifles was number 4. In Blackpool record shops when Setting Sons was just released. Arguing at Kommotion over the merits of Sound Affects. Photocopying Jam songbooks borrowed off Gary Lake from 5:15. Talking my band into covering Tube Station. Rewriting their songs in the Mod days.
Their is so much brilliant stuff on here. Of course you can track down a CD with all this and more.
Of course I already had all these singles already when this came out.
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