20-07-2016, 05:48
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THE JAM "sound affects" cd/vinyl 1980
career stats:
studio albums.....6
singles..............19
this album................#2 UK...#2 NZ...#72 US...#39 CAN
singles:
"start!".........................#1 UK...#50 AU
"that entertainment".....#21 UK..#50 AU...#34 NZ
Paul Weller and Co's fifth studio album....
long gone are the punk sounds from this band on this one...
instead, for the most part, sparse (by their standards) and as melodic as they got....
listen to the lead of single, music is strikingly similar to Beatles' "taxman",
im surprised there weren't questions asked at the time????....
the second single, That's Entertainment, was not released as a single in the UK but still charted
upon the strength of 'import' sales from Europe, it was the first single only available on import in the UK
to make the national charts, it is, still to this day, the biggest selling imported single in the UK,
which shows just how big these guys were back in the day in their homeland...
album still stand the test of time with me and was a pleasure to hear for the first time in four or five years!
I LOVE THIS ALBUM:
worst track: music for the last couple
best track: man in the corner shop
[video=youtube;BAdgFIhxuL4]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BAdgFIhxuL4[/video]
Puts up the closed sign does the man in the corner shop
Serves his last and he says goodbye to him
He knows it is a hard life
But its nice to be your own boss really
Walks off home does the last customer
He is jealous of the man in the corner shop
He is sick of working at the factory
Says it must be nice to be your own boss (really)
Sells cigars to the boss from the factory
He is jealous is the man in the corner shop
He is sick of struggling so hard
He says- it must be nice to own a factory
Go to church do the people from the area
All shapes and classes sit and pray together
For here they are all one
For God created all men equal
tracks:
1...pretty green ***
2...Monday ***
3...start! ***
4...but im different now ***
5...set the house ablaze ***
6...that's entertainment ***
7...dreamtime **
8...man in the corner shop ***
9...music for the last couple *
10.boy about town **
11.scrape away **
7s=7
2s=3
1s=1
rating: 2.6
"BTO....Bachman,Turner,Overweight
They were big in the 70s....for five minutes,on a Saturday,after lunch..." - Me 2014.
They were big in the 70s....for five minutes,on a Saturday,after lunch..." - Me 2014.