Friday Poll Thread #6 - Best Jam Album

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What is your favourite Jam Album?

In the City
3
11%
This Is the Modern World
0
No votes
All Mod Cons
7
26%
Setting Sons
12
44%
Sound Affects
5
19%
The Gift
0
No votes
 
Total votes: 27

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Heston wrote:
23 Apr 2019, 8:03pm
Marky Dread wrote:
23 Apr 2019, 7:55pm
Heston wrote:
23 Apr 2019, 6:30pm
101Walterton wrote:
23 Apr 2019, 6:26pm
Heston wrote:
23 Apr 2019, 6:08pm
I fucking LOVE whistling in songs. I also love flutes.

I'm glad Marky remembered this fact.
Hey I was only buggin'. ;)
Whistle! I remember their disastrous support slot with BAD at Newcastle Tiffanys in 1986. The punks weren't ready for it at all!
Most of the punks were not really ready for BAD but jeez I can imagine how Whistle ...went down. ;)
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Marky Dread wrote:
23 Apr 2019, 8:07pm
Heston wrote:
23 Apr 2019, 8:03pm
Marky Dread wrote:
23 Apr 2019, 7:55pm
Heston wrote:
23 Apr 2019, 6:30pm
101Walterton wrote:
23 Apr 2019, 6:26pm


Hey I was only buggin'. ;)
Whistle! I remember their disastrous support slot with BAD at Newcastle Tiffanys in 1986. The punks weren't ready for it at all!
Most of the punks were not really ready for BAD but jeez I can imagine how Whistle ...went down. ;)
The punks actually loved BAD, the place went nuts. They were a lot heavier live than on record as you well know. The bootlegs never do them justice.
There's a tiny, tiny hopeful part of me that says you guys are running a Kaufmanesque long con on the board

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Heston wrote:
23 Apr 2019, 8:09pm
Marky Dread wrote:
23 Apr 2019, 8:07pm
Heston wrote:
23 Apr 2019, 8:03pm
Marky Dread wrote:
23 Apr 2019, 7:55pm
Heston wrote:
23 Apr 2019, 6:30pm


Whistle! I remember their disastrous support slot with BAD at Newcastle Tiffanys in 1986. The punks weren't ready for it at all!
Most of the punks were not really ready for BAD but jeez I can imagine how Whistle ...went down. ;)
The punks actually loved BAD, the place went nuts. They were a lot heavier live than on record as you well know. The bootlegs never do them justice.
They were bloody loud I know that much. Hence the distortion on a lot of the boots. Whistle seem a bit lite to be fair.
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Surprised at the trouncing AMC is receiving. Thought it would be a lot closer. I could well have voted for AMC on another day.
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Heston wrote:
23 Apr 2019, 8:51pm
Surprised at the trouncing AMC is receiving. Thought it would be a lot closer. I could well have voted for AMC on another day.
I'm not surprised is often the case with The Jam, it is their LC.
You often find people that got into The Jam in the early days go for AMC and fans who got into them later go for SS or SA.

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101Walterton wrote:
23 Apr 2019, 9:15pm
Heston wrote:
23 Apr 2019, 8:51pm
Surprised at the trouncing AMC is receiving. Thought it would be a lot closer. I could well have voted for AMC on another day.
I'm not surprised is often the case with The Jam, it is their LC.
You often find people that got into The Jam in the early days go for AMC and fans who got into them later go for SS or SA.
I was into them from "In the City" but I still love "Sound Affects" best.
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BitterTom wrote:
23 Apr 2019, 11:08am
WestwayKid wrote:
23 Apr 2019, 10:58am
I want to change my vote to Sound Affects after some reflection. I originally went SS - but SA has some really great songs and it's probably a bit underrated as it followed SS. The live set included in Fire & Skill from just before SA was released is a monster, too. Live - the songs sounded really incredible. Set the House Ablaze is particular highlight.
Fantastic song, the riff is perfect. The 7 dwarf style whistling just ruins it for me though.
Listening to SA I think Set The House Ablaze would have sounded better on SS. Couldn’t have been a left over as Weller ran out of songs for SS hence Heatwave but it is cut from the same cloth.

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101Walterton wrote:
27 Apr 2019, 6:50pm
BitterTom wrote:
23 Apr 2019, 11:08am
WestwayKid wrote:
23 Apr 2019, 10:58am
I want to change my vote to Sound Affects after some reflection. I originally went SS - but SA has some really great songs and it's probably a bit underrated as it followed SS. The live set included in Fire & Skill from just before SA was released is a monster, too. Live - the songs sounded really incredible. Set the House Ablaze is particular highlight.
Fantastic song, the riff is perfect. The 7 dwarf style whistling just ruins it for me though.
Listening to SA I think Set The House Ablaze would have sounded better on SS. Couldn’t have been a left over as Weller ran out of songs for SS hence Heatwave but it is cut from the same cloth.
I don't agree mate. That guitar sound on StHA is not like that of SS. Weller never ventured outside his comfort zone very often. Sounds Affects is the only time he didn't take the obvious Mod/Soul inspired route. Weller himself has admitted he was inspired by Wire/Gang of Four and even Joy Division for Sound Affects and while it sounds nothing like those bands you can hear it in the guitar sound.
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Marky Dread wrote:
27 Apr 2019, 7:06pm
101Walterton wrote:
27 Apr 2019, 6:50pm
BitterTom wrote:
23 Apr 2019, 11:08am
WestwayKid wrote:
23 Apr 2019, 10:58am
I want to change my vote to Sound Affects after some reflection. I originally went SS - but SA has some really great songs and it's probably a bit underrated as it followed SS. The live set included in Fire & Skill from just before SA was released is a monster, too. Live - the songs sounded really incredible. Set the House Ablaze is particular highlight.
Fantastic song, the riff is perfect. The 7 dwarf style whistling just ruins it for me though.
Listening to SA I think Set The House Ablaze would have sounded better on SS. Couldn’t have been a left over as Weller ran out of songs for SS hence Heatwave but it is cut from the same cloth.
I don't agree mate. That guitar sound on StHA is not like that of SS. Weller never ventured outside his comfort zone very often. Sounds Affects is the only time he didn't take the obvious Mod/Soul inspired route. Weller himself has admitted he was inspired by Wire/Gang of Four and even Joy Division for Sound Affects and while it sounds nothing like those bands you can hear it in the guitar sound.
I get it for the album as a whole but not that song. To me it is Eton Rifles part 2.
If someone else had released ER we’d be accusing Weller of another lift.

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101Walterton wrote:
27 Apr 2019, 7:15pm
Marky Dread wrote:
27 Apr 2019, 7:06pm
101Walterton wrote:
27 Apr 2019, 6:50pm
BitterTom wrote:
23 Apr 2019, 11:08am
WestwayKid wrote:
23 Apr 2019, 10:58am
I want to change my vote to Sound Affects after some reflection. I originally went SS - but SA has some really great songs and it's probably a bit underrated as it followed SS. The live set included in Fire & Skill from just before SA was released is a monster, too. Live - the songs sounded really incredible. Set the House Ablaze is particular highlight.
Fantastic song, the riff is perfect. The 7 dwarf style whistling just ruins it for me though.
Listening to SA I think Set The House Ablaze would have sounded better on SS. Couldn’t have been a left over as Weller ran out of songs for SS hence Heatwave but it is cut from the same cloth.
I don't agree mate. That guitar sound on StHA is not like that of SS. Weller never ventured outside his comfort zone very often. Sounds Affects is the only time he didn't take the obvious Mod/Soul inspired route. Weller himself has admitted he was inspired by Wire/Gang of Four and even Joy Division for Sound Affects and while it sounds nothing like those bands you can hear it in the guitar sound.
I get it for the album as a whole but not that song. To me it is Eton Rifles part 2.
If someone else had released ER we’d be accusing Weller of another lift.
I don't hear that connection at all. If any of the tracks on Setting Sons was close I would say Private Hell not Eton Rifles.
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It was kinda sad that May had no Fridays in it. :meh:
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It was kinda sad that May had no Fridays in it. :meh:
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Flex wrote:
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Dr. Medulla wrote:
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It was kinda sad that May had no Fridays in it. :meh:
This is the future socialists want.
Dammit, you're right. No way you can thank god for Friday if the atheist socialists have eliminated it. Probably replace it with Obamaday.
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Dr. Medulla wrote:
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It was kinda sad that May had no Fridays in it. :meh:
You should start a poll.
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Marky Dread wrote:
02 Jun 2019, 8:08pm
Dr. Medulla wrote:
02 Jun 2019, 6:52pm
It was kinda sad that May had no Fridays in it. :meh:
You should start a poll.
I leave that to experts like Heston and Pigfucker Cameron.
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