Setting Sons [Import]

The Jam | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (February 21, 1995)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Offbeat Records
• ASIN: B000001NX8
• In-Print Editions: Audio CD
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #871,962 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Girl on the Phone

2. Thick as Thieves

3. Private Hell

4. Little Boy Soldiers

5. Wasteland

6. Burning Sky

7. Smithers-Jones

8. Saturday's Kids

9. The Eton Rifles

10. (Love Is Like A) Heat Wave

Editorial Reviews

Japanese only SHM-CD (Super High Material CD - playable on all CD players) pressing. Packaged in a paper sleeve. Universal. 2008. --This text refers to an alternate Audio CD edition.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Jam's Best, January 28, 2000

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Ray Porter (Sarasota, Florida) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Setting Sons (Audio CD)

This collection of songs from 1979 hit me during my junior year in college, and I was hard pressed to decide what to put on my turntable -- Setting Sons, or London Calling. Lyrically and musically, these two albums represent the artistic height of the Punk/New Wave music that started around 1975-76, and ended with the music-biz backlash of the 80's. Setting Sons is a rich collection of beautiful words and melodic harmonies, interlaced with some heart-thumping rock chords. What a band! What an album!

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This CD needs to be re-issued..., September 23, 1999

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[e-mail] (Pasadena, CA--USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Setting Sons (Audio CD)

This CD (LP at the time) was the first album that made me realize how important lyrics could be to the overall impact of music. I related easily to the "angst" and frustration Paul Weller filled his songs with. A cliche perhaps, but that's the way I felt at the time. It would be nice to get this album on CD.

P.S.

I bumped into Paul Weller at Market City Cafe in Pasadena, CA around 1990. I bought him and his date a drink. My brush with greatness...

5.0 out of 5 stars The Jam at their best, December 27, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: Setting Sons (Audio CD)

"Setting Sons" is about the best The Jam ever did as far as consistency goes. Though each album has great tracks, especially my other favorite, "In the City," this one is more listenable because the songs sound more like they are part of a bigger composition (incidentally, this was intended to be a concept album, but the design fell through). I recommend the other version of the CD with more tracks. My first experience with the album came with what I believe is the U.S. version in which the first half of the album is the second half in the U.K., so I prefer it that way. "Burning Sky" is a beautiful song, and I think it makes a better opening than "Girl on the Phone," as well as "Smithers-Jones" which is a perfect follow-up to the opening track. The other way seems odd to me. This version also included "Strange Town," which would make any album a classic. This album has some incredible moments, and it's a shame that it does not get more recognition as a pivotal pop record, at least here in the U.S. where it gets no air play.