Wall of Mouths

Not next week, but i will for sure.

Are you going to, or are you sticking with your plan on getting the other ones when they’ve (inevitably) been reduced?

I might next year buy the box set. The cheaper one with the dvd, but It is still expensive seeing has I have got everything by them already and loads of other stuff to go with it.

The likes of play, hmv and amazon are releasing t-shirts of all the album covers. Think i’ll be ordering the Rubber Soul one next week. :)

Didnt Macca get back the rights from Jacko ?

I’ll buy them but I’m going to wait for the prices to come down. They’ll be selling for stupid amounts, and it’ll be the 66-70 era albums I’ll be buying

I can’t be fucked buying them all over again… i love the band but i think i will just turn the stereo up when i put them on.

Thats a pretty big purchase for a first one! But yeah, if your pockets are deep enough do it. I can’t overemphasise how ace they are, and i can’t recommend a specific album, you’ve just gotta pick one and go for it.

You think? I really like it. Winding road and title track aside. You can’t dismiss the pre rubber soul albums, surely??

I’ve gone through fads of loving the early stuff, then the weird stuff, then the introspective stiuff, etc etc, but in recent times its been the early stuff for me again. Its just so primal, so raw.

*thinks of a comeback*

So’s your face!

Yeay, that telt yer. Telt yer good.

I personally would go for the early stuff over the later stuff, just good solid pop songs

I think the early poppy stuff is deceptive - it seems simple but really it’s not. Plus there was a great raw edginess to some of those tracks. Twist And Shout may be a straightforward pop song (and yes I know they didn’t write it before anyone says) but don’t they all sound like they’re whizzing their tits off on amphetamines or something? And don’t forget that some of those lyrics are quite dark, to the point of being somewhat harsh in places, so it’s not all throwaway fluff. And I think there’s some great middle ground between the earlier pop and the later far-out stuff - A Day In The Life, While My Guitar Gently Weeps, I’m So Tired, Don’t Let Me Down are a few examples that spring to mind.

I guess it still comes down to personal taste though, so if you can’t stand the sound of The Beatles, that’s just the way it is, but I think you’re missing out, personally.

Damn’, just realised you can’t get the mono stuff in single CD’s, ah well, I’ll get the whole set then…

Dennis: You have any idea if the Jam will ever do some remastered stuff?

All Mod Cons got the reissue treatment a while back - double pack thingy I seem to recall with a DVD “Making of..” effort. I didn’t bother getting it, cos you can watch the documentary on YouTube :D

Amazon lists the most up-to-date CD’s of the albums as “remastered” but apart from All Mod Cons there’s none that have been given the deluxe treatment, as far as I can remember.

I would heartily recommend any human being with ears picks up the box set - Direction, Reaction, Creation - as it is usually extremely cheap (£15 at the mo, I believe, if you shop around) the sound quality is great and it has every album track and single they ever recorded.

I’d personally love deluxe versions of Sound Affects, Setting Sons and The Gift, but I am not holding my breath for them.

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Jammy sod! Pardon the pun…:p

Me neither - I probably know more songs than I think I do, but I’d still be able to count the ones I know em on my hands and toes