It may just be a list of simple things we’ve all done, seen or heard, with an ironic chorus, acoustic guitars and no drums, but so what? Ended up selling my copy of this, and the also-not-nice vinyl remaster, and picking up the original UK. In BBC Radio 6 Music's documentary The Jam: Made in Britain, Paul Weller cited Sound Affects as his favourite Jam album.

Weller's poetic and sarcastic wit combine with edgy but poppy tunes to really make this the jam's standout album. From my readings, they will make a vinyl record out of anything - your pubescent brother's farts recorded on a Maxwell cassette can be made into an "180-gram audiophile record". Sounds worthy in print, but marry talk of fighting fascists with a dangerous, paranoid guitar scrape and a whistled melody full of menace and the result is utterly thrilling. Based on a compilation I purchased, I avoided the early punk albums and started with the `Setting Sons' album.

Set the House Ablaze is even better than that, a terrifying but terrific look at fascism on the rise in Europe at the dawn of the 80s. One of the most popular bands to emerge from the English punk rock scene of 1977; The Jam had a phenomenal impact on pop music and wider youth culture. I personally don't agree - I don't think there's all that much between any of the final four Jam LPs.

Though many are only of minor interest to me, it's nice to have all of it collected in this one package for any future interest.No trace of that here: he is furious, and seems to run forward, dragging the other players with him, towards the ballot box, and they can hardly keep pace.

Whilst this new edition of Sound Affects is undoubtedly better than the standard CD edition, it's not quite as impressive as previous Jam/TSC/Weller re-issues. Tellingly, when Weller came to record 2010’s Wake Up The Nation, it was Sound Affects that his collaborator and producer Simon Dine held up as a model. At the time of its release, he said that he considered the album a cross between Off the Wall and Revolver. If That’s Entertainment doesn’t move you on some level you deserve to have your speakers burnt in front of you. The song is also the only recording by the Jam to include sitar lines, which are buried in the mix, but are more prominent in the demo version.Not only are all the dynamics fully retained in this wonderful new remaster, but there has been a careful amount of re-equalization to correct from the midrange-heavy remaster from 2000. The back cover of the album features an excerpt from Percy Bysshe Shelley's poem The Masque of Anarchy. We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others.

In the United States, the album spent 11 weeks on the Billboard 200 chart and reached its peak position of number 72 in February 1981.As an audiophile, the first thing I have to say about this package is that the remastering has to be one of the best I've ever heard.