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| From | Michael Bennett <mrhonorama@ameritech.net> |
| Subject | Re: SOTT 19 - Feelgood By Numbers |
| Date | Wed, 9 Mar 2005 16:33:47 -0800 (PST) |
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Stewart --
I think you answered your own question there -- within
the framework of The Jam, he would have met a lot of
resistance continuing in that direction. Foxton and
Buckler pretty much hated him anyway, which solidified
post-breakup.
Mike Bennett
--- Stewart Mason <craigtorso@verizon.net> wrote:
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Mark Smith" <markmsmith@gmail.com>
> > 3 The Jam - Shopping
> > (from the Direction, Reaction, Creation box and
> b-side to final
> > single Beat Surrender)
> > I've been rediscovering my love for The Jam
> recently, a band who
> > were
> > really important to me when I was in my late
> teens. This helps show
> > why they were never truly just a punk band. Its
> jazzy tune, brass
> > arrangement and Rick Buckler on brushes show
> Weller heading further
> > away from the style of music that had typified The
> Jam.
>
> Hugely underrated song, and one of my favorite
> things from the Jam's
> final era. (Although, as I've written before, I
> always find it ironic
> that Paul Weller supposedly broke up the Jam to
> explore more varied
> and different styles of music, and yet the Style
> Council's records
> were basically late-period Jam plus a full-time
> keyboardist and a
> better drummer.)
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