Sound Affects

[scotty]

Anyone else got their 30th anniversary, two-disc edition of The Jam's Sound Affects yet?


Come on Mr postman where the heck are ya?

[godber]

...Come on Mr postman where the heck are ya?

Rioting in London with the students! Set The House Ablaze

[godber]

Is it their best album?

Maybe, hangs together well even after all these years.

[paologregorio]

Is it there best album?

Maybe, hangs together well even after all these years.

Does the 30th anniv version have the Flexipop single version of "Boy About Town" as an additional track? That one's arguably rated as a better version than the one on Sound Affects.

I am on a student's budget; no anniversary CD for me.

That is a really cool album. The only song on side two ("sides?!" ooh, am I dating myself? ) that I wonder why they bothered to lay down on all is "Music for the Last Couple"; classic example of filler IMO. The Gift has one or two that are as well; "Trans Global Express" comes to mind.

[paologregorio]

Looks like it does. From the Modfather's My space page:

The full track-listing is as follows:

Disc1 - Original album (remastered):

1. Pretty Green
2. Monday
3. But I’m Different Now
4. Set The House Ablaze
5. Start!
6. That’s Entertainment
7. Dream Time
8. Man In The Corner Shop
9. Music For The Last Couple
10. Boy About Town
11. Scrape Away


Disc 2 - Bonus tracks:

1. Start! (single version)
2. Liza Radley (b-side of Start!)
3. Dreams Of Children (b-side of Going Underground)
4. That’s Entertainment (alternate version from 'Direction, Reaction, Creation')
5. Pretty Green ('demo with overdubs' - previously unreleased)
6. Pop Art Poem (Jam fan club flexi-disc, from 'Extras')
7. Rain (demo from 'Direction, Reaction, Creation')
8. Boy About Town (demo - previously unreleased)
9. Dream Time (demo from 'Direction, Reaction, Creation')
10. Dead End Street (demo from 'Direction, Reaction, Creation')
11. But I’m Different Now (demo from 'Extras')
12. Scrape Away (instrumental version - previously unreleased)
13. Start! (demo - previously unreleased)
14. Liza Radley (demo from 'Extras')
15. And Your Bird Can Sing (demo from 'Extras')
16. Monday (alternate version - previously unreleased)
17. Get Yourself Together (from 'Extras')
18. Set The House Ablaze (alternate ‘dub ending’ version - previously unreleased)
19. Boy About Town (alternate version - Jam fan club flexi from ‘Extras’)
20. No One In The World (demo from ‘Extras’)
21. ‘Instrumental’ (demo - previously unreleased)
22. Waterloo Sunset (demo - previously unreleased)

[scotty]

Is it there best album?

Maybe, hangs together well even after all these years.

Still a favorite of mine
Featuring the hit singles Start! & That's Entertainment as well as Pretty Green, Man in the Corner Shop, Monday and Boy About Town and now with with 22 bonus tracks - demos, b-sides and previously-unreleased material.

The bonus material includes 8 previously unreleased tracks - demos of Pretty Green and Start!, alternate versions of Set The House Ablaze and Monday, a cover of The Kinks' Waterloo Sunset, and two instrumental demos. All digitally remastered.

It comes with a 24-page booklet with new sleeve notes, a brand new Paul Weller interview, rare photos and period memorabilia.

[ozover50]

I make my own...........

[scotty]

Scrape away is one of my alltime favs beside the great depression (which is my ringtone im sad that way lol)
your post just got in there before me Paul!

I make my own...........

I know! ive smelt them

[godber]

Pop Art Poem...now there's a strange track ha!

Kid walks down the street
Bumps into emptiness
Pow!
Kid looks at the sky
Looks at his watch
Decides to go home
Zap!

Kid spies pretty girl
Walks up to her
Kisses her
On the mouth
Where else?

And all day long I was thinking
I was thinking this, that and the other
And...
When!
So am I

I made this up as I went along
It's good innit?

I've still got the flexi-disc.

[scotty]

The Gift has one or two that are as well; "Trans Global Express" comes to mind.

I suppose Weller was listening to a lot of northern soul and incorporated a little(a lot! lol) of World Columns So is the sun.you cant beat the orginal i suppose its classic.

now where is my right back to where we started from LP????

[scotty]

I've still got the flexi-disc.

mine is lost a long time ago it went into yellow plastic heaven

[Trav]

...still got mine