About the Young Idea: The Very Best of the Jam

by The Jam

Overview

A companion compilation to the museum exhibit About the Young Idea that ran at the Somerset House in the summer of 2015, this double-disc set covers familiar territory: all the hits and all the album tracks that regularly show up on Jam collections through the years. This has a couple of rarities -- a radio ad for "In the City," the flexi-disc release "Pop Art Poem," demos of "The Burning Sky" and "Takin' My Love" (the latter previously unreleased) -- but they're buried underneath the march from "In the City" to "Beat Surrender," a journey that's enjoyable whenever it's taken, but most Jam fans will have a similar voyage somewhere in their collection. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine

Product Details

Release Date:	06/30/2015
Label:	Polydor
UPC:	0602547350596
Rank:	74704

Tracks

Disc 1

1. In the City [Radio Ad]
2. In the City
3. Art School
4. Away from the Numbers
5. Takin' My Love [Demo]
6. All Around the World
7. The Modern World
8. In the Street Today
9. News Of The World
10. David Watts
11. Down In The Tube Station At Midnight
12. Billy Hunt
13. To Be Someone (Didn't We Have A Nice Time)
14. English Rose
15. In The Crowd
16. 'A' Bomb In Wardour Street
17. Strange Town
18. The Butterfly Collector
19. When You're Young
20. Smithers-Jones
21. The Eton Rifles
22. Thick As Thieves
23. Private Hell
24. Saturday's Kids
25. Burning Sky [Demo]

Disc 2

26. Going Underground
27. The Dreams Of Children
28. Start!
29. Liza Radley
30. Pretty Green
31. Monday
32. That's Entertainment
33. Man In The Corner Shop
34. Boy About Town
35. Funeral Pyre
36. Absolute Beginners
37. Tales From The Riverbank
38. Town Called Malice
39. Precious [Extended Version]
40. Ghosts
41. Just Who Is The 5 O'Clock Hero?
42. Carnation
43. The Bitterest Pill (I Ever Had To Swallow)
44. Beat Surrender
45. Move On Up
46. Shopping
47. Pop Art Poem

Album Credits

Performance Credits

The Jam   Primary Artist
Steve Brookes   Primary Artist
David Pottinger   Primary Artist

Technical Credits

Paul Weller   Composer
Curtis Mayfield   Composer
Rick Buckler   Composer
Ray Davies   Composer
Bruce Foxton   Composer
David Waller   Composer