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All Mod Cons. All Mod Cons is the third studio album by the British band the Jam, released in 1978 by Polydor Records. The title, a British idiom one might find in housing advertisements, is short for "all modern conveniences " and is a pun on the band's association with the mod revival. The cover is a visual joke showing the band in a bare room.
Setting Sons is the fourth studio album by the English rock band the Jam, released on 16 November 1979 by Polydor Records. It reached No. 4 in the UK Albums Chart upon the first week of release, [ 5] continuing the commercial (and critical) favour that had begun with their previous album All Mod Cons. [ 6]
The discography of the British band the Jam consists of 6 studio albums, 5 live albums, 8 compilation albums, 5 box sets, 6 videos, 3 extended plays, 18 singles, and 3 B-sides. The band, who formed in 1972, didn't debut until five years later in 1977, when they released their debut studio album In the City, which entered the UK Albums Chart at ...
The Gift is the sixth and final studio album by English new wave / mod revival band the Jam. It was originally released on 12 March 1982 by Polydor as the follow-up to the Jam's critically and commercially successful 1980 album Sound Affects. The songs were largely recorded during 1981 to 1982, at George Martin's Air Studios, assisted by Peter ...
Snap! is a greatest hits album by The Jam, released on 14 October 1983, one year after the group disbanded. [6] 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". [7]
In the City is the debut studio album by British band the Jam. Released in May 1977 by Polydor Records, the album reached No. 20 on the UK Albums Chart. [1] The album features the band's debut single and title track "In the City". [2] [3] In addition, the album includes two cover versions, "Slow Down" [4] and the theme to the 1960s television ...
Around this time, the Jam slimmed their team of two producers to one, Vic Coppersmith-Heaven, who helped develop the group's sound. [29] In 1978, the Jam released their third LP, All Mod Cons, which included three previously released tracks among the 12 in total: "David Watts", "'A' Bomb In Wardour Street", and "Down in the Tube Station at ...
He was the drummer for the Jam from its formation in the early 1970s through to its break up in the early 1980s, during which time it became a critically acclaimed and commercially successful rock band with an original sound as part of the mod revival movement in England's music and fashion scenes of the period.