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| From | "Stewart Mason" <craigtorso@verizon.net> |
| Subject | Re: SOTT 19 - Feelgood By Numbers |
| Date | Thu, 10 Mar 2005 00:43:35 -0500 |
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael Bennett" <mrhonorama@ameritech.net>
> 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.
That's the thing, though. I just wish he'd had the balls to say at
the time -- for that matter, to say it now -- that he broke up the Jam
because he was sick of being in the same room with Bruce Foxton and
Rick Buckler all the time, not because he felt stifled by audience
expectations of what the Jam could do or somesuch.
Said it before and I'll say it again: play somebody who didn't know
the sequence of singles from "Start" and "Absolute Beginners" through
"A Town Called Malice," "The Bitterest Pill" and "Beat Surrender" to
"Speak Like A Child," "Long Hot Summer," "My Ever-Changing Moods" and
"You're the Best Thing," and I bet that not only could they not tell
you where the change in band names occurred, they wouldn't know it was
supposedly two different bands unless you specifically said.
S
>
> 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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