Product Description
Scarce Japanese First Pressing Of Definitive Double Best Of The Jam! Gatefold Cover Includes 4-Page Insert With Lyrics In English & Japanese. Features “In The City”, “The Modern World”, “David Watts”, “Down In The Tube Station At Midnight”, “Eton Rifles”, “Going Underground”, “That’s Entertainment”, “Start!”, “Town Called Malice” & Many More!
Condition – Vinyl: NEAR MINT! Sounds bloody great!
Condition – Cover: EXCELLENT!
Japanese vinyl pressings are highly sought after by audiophiles and collectors, due to their premium sound quality and beautifully presented packaging. The sonic quality of Japanese records is regarded as the best in the world. No wonder all the original Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab records were pressed in Japan! The covers are printed on better quality heavy stock paper too. Original Japanese pressings are becoming scarcer ~ and therefore more collectable and valuable every year.
Side 1:
In The City
Away From The Numbers
All Around The World
The Modern World
News Of The World
Billy Hunt
English Rose
Mr. Clean
Side 2:
David Watts
A Bomb In Wardour Street
Down In The Tube Station At Midnight
Strange Town
The Butterfly Collector
When You’re Young
Smithers-Jones
Thick As Thieves
Side 3:
The Eton Rifles
Going Underground
Dreams Of Children
That’s Entertainment
Start!
Man In The Corner Shop
Funeral Pyre
Side 4:
Absolute Beginners
Tales From The Riverbank
Town Called Malice
Precious
The Bitterest Pill (I Ever Had To Swallow)
Beat Surrender
AMG –
Snap! is nothing short of a masterpiece, a record that briskly and bracingly tells the story of one of the great rock bands. Released just after Paul Weller disbanded the band at the peak of their popularity, Snap! was the first greatest-hits album from the Jam. Many other comps would follow over the years but none would better this. Snap! is nothing short of a masterpiece, a record that briskly and bracingly tells the story of one of the great rock bands. This isn't just an introduction, it's a narrative, tracing the rapid rise of the Jam from nervy, confrontational teenage punks to sharp modern pop purveyors to stylish soul-inflected rockers. Their growth is more dramatic and evident here than on their individual albums, and since a lot of this growth happened on singles that didn't reach the LPs -- "Strange Town," "When You're Young," "Going Underground" and "Dreams of Children," and remarkable B-sides such as "The Butterfly Collector" and "Tales from the Riverbank" -- this is necessary to get a complete picture of the band. So, as a way to get these, some of the band's very best songs, Snap! is essential but it's arguably more essential for how it captures the essence of the Jam so completely. For neophytes, it's a flawless introduction, but it's something more than a mere primer: it is a thrilling, addictive listen, so good that it stands as the definitive Jam album and one of the greatest greatest-hits albums of all time.