| Compact Snap! by The Jam | Stand out tracks: Down in the Tube Station at Midnight The Eton Rifles That’s Entertainment The Bitterest Pill (I Ever Had to Swallow) |
‘Snap!’ is a greatest hits album by The Jam, released on 14 October 1983, one year after the group disbanded. The double-album includes all sixteen of the band’s UK singles, plus some B-sides, album tracks and rarities. Stephen Thomas Erlewine of AllMusic called it “one of the greatest greatest-hits albums of all time”. This shorter version, removing the 8 non-singles, was released as a single CD in 1985 as ‘Compact Snap!’.
Primarily thought of as a singles band, Paul Weller’s The Jam crammed a very large number of huge hits into the years 1977 – 1982. This excellent collection includes virtually all of them, providing a high quality sample of their work with little ‘filler’.
‘Compact Snap!’ remains a must-own compilation, providing fans with a similarly informative and rousing experience to the original and containing more or less all the major punk standards any self-respecting alternative rock enthusiast should be in possession of, especially in such a complete and rounded arrangement as this.
From the electrifying early Who homages “In the City,” “Going Underground,” “All Around The World,” and “Start!,” to later pop rock perennials “Down In the Tube Station At Midnight,” “The Eton Rifles” and “Town Called Malice”, most, if not all, of the established greatest hits are contained within this indispensable compendium, the proudly British power trio’s inadvertent masterpiece.
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