[2017-10-20] The Jam "1977" 4CD/1DVD box set (Polydor)

Linda · **Posted:** Thu Jul 27, 2017 1:37 pm

Description
40th anniversary five-disc box set (4CD/1DVD), celebrating the Jam's debut year when they released two albums and three hit singles. Features 'In The City' & 'This Is The Modern World' - original albums re-mastered as well as unreleased demos and live recordings. The DVD features TV appearances and promo videos from 1977. Includes a 144 page book featuring liner notes, period photos, reviews and memorabilia from 1977. Also includes 5 LP style wallet sleeves, and 5 exclusive postcards housed in a 'rigid lift off' box.

[tracklisting]CD1 – ‘In The City’ (original album remastered)
1. Art School
2. I’ve Changed My Address
3. Slow Down
4. I Got By In Time
5. Away From The Numbers
6. Batman Theme
7. In The City
8. Sounds From The Street
9. Non-Stop Dancing
10. Time For Truth
11. Takin’ My Love
12. Bricks & Mortar

+ single & B-side extras
13. All Around The World
14. Carnaby Street

CD2 – ‘The Polydor Demos: February 1977’
1. Art School (demo)*
2. In The City (demo)
3. I Got By In Time (demo)*
4. I’ve Changed My Address (demo)*
5. Time For Truth (demo)
6. Sounds From The Street (demo)
7. Non Stop Dancing (demo)*
8. Bricks And Mortar (demo)*
9. Takin’ My Love (demo)
10. So Sad About Us (demo)
11. Slowdown (demo)*

CD3 – ‘This Is The Modern World’ (original album remastered)
1. The Modern World
2. London Traffic
3. Standards
4. Life From A Window
5. The Combine
6. Don’t Tell Them You’re Sane
7. In The Street Today
8. London Girl
9. I Need You (For Someone)
10. Here Comes The Weekend
11. Tonight At Noon
12. In The Midnight Hour

CD4 – ‘Live 1977’
John Peel sessions
1. In The City
2. Art School
3. I’ve Changed My Address
4. The Modern World
Recorded 26.4.1977 – Transmitted 2.5.1977

5. All Around The World
6. London Girl
7. Bricks & Mortar
8. Carnaby Street
Recorded 19.7.1977 – Transmitted 25.7.1977

Live at the ‘Nashville’ – September 10th 1977 (previously unreleased)
9. Carnaby Street
10. The Modern World
11. Time For Truth
12. So Sad About Us
13. London Girl
14. In the Street Today
15. All Around The World
16. London Traffic
17. Sweet Soul Music
18. Bricks & Mortar
19. In The City
20. Art School
21. In The Midnight Hour
22. Sounds From The Street
23. Slowdown

DVD
1. In The City (Polydor promo – 1977)
2. Art School (Polydor promo – 1977)
3. In The City (‘Top Of The Pops’ – 19 May 1977)
4. All Around The World (‘Top Of The Pops’ – 18 August 1977)
5. All Around The World (‘Marc’ – 24 August 1977 )
6. The Modern World (‘Top Of The Pops’ – 3 November 1977)
7. In The City (‘So It Goes’ – 20 November 1977)
8. Bricks and Mortar (‘So It Goes’ – 20 November 1977)
9. Carnaby Street (‘So It Goes’ – 20 November 1977)
10. Slowdown (‘So It Goes’ – 20 November 1977)
11. All Around The World (‘So It Goes’ – 20 November 1977)

* Previously unreleased[/tracklisting]

Amazon USA
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Amazon Canada
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Amazon UK
https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0749GHKYW/?tag=imwan-21

Rick A · 23 Jul 2006

I know what Linda's getting for Christmas!

Larry · **Joined:** 10 Feb 2008 **Posts:** 5099

Quote:

Universal Music will in October issue The Jam / 1977, a new 40th anniversary, five-disc box set celebrating the busy debut year of The Jam, when Paul Weller, Rick Buckler Bruce Foxton and delivered two albums and three hit singles.

This forthcoming collection features remastered versions of both In The City and This Is The Modern World, and despite a plethora of Jam box sets in the last five or six years the label have dug out six previously unreleased demos from the first album which feature on the second CD alongside five further demos which have been issued before.

CD four is a live disc and includes a previously unreleased concert (15 tracks) from the ‘Nashville’ recorded on 10 September 1977. This is paired with two John Peel sessions from the same year.

Finally the fifth disc – a DVD – features TV appearances and promo videos.

This discs in this box set are packaged in mini-LP vinyl replica wallets with printed inner bags. In The City uses the US version of the inner sleeve and This Is The Modern World features an alternate Gered Markowitz cover image. The box is a rigid card, lift-off lid variety and comes with a 144-page book, featuring new liner notes, period photos etc. It also comes with five postcards.

Larry · **Joined:** 10 Feb 2008 **Posts:** 5099

I've bought all of the recent Jam boxes. Looking at this one though, I'm bit hesitant. It's a bit light on the unreleased stuff.

Linda · **Posted:** Thu Jul 27, 2017 2:31 pm

Rick A wrote:

I know what Linda's getting for Christmas!

Linda · **Posted:** Thu Jul 27, 2017 7:02 pm

Love for The Jam is undiminished by time -- just a few hours after this release was announced, it's already at #7 in Amazon UK's sales chart and #1 in their box set chart:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0749GHKYW/?tag=imwan-21

eelkiller · **Joined:** 10 Dec 2006 **Posts:** 1681

I missed out on the Gift box, not gonna happen again with Jam deluxe editions.

Invisible Pedestrian · **Joined:** 24 Sep 2006 **Posts:** 26163

eelkiller wrote:

I missed out on the Gift box, not gonna happen again with Jam deluxe editions.

I don't think this is a Deluxe Edition as much as it is cramming everything from that particular year (1977) which makes me wonder if they will do it by year going forward, or if this is it and the previous Deluxes are all that we get which isn't a bad thing because those were great.

djgarver · 18 Dec 2007

Linda wrote:

Rick A wrote:

I know what Linda's getting for Christmas!

Yeah, like you could wait that long!

:roll:

I probably have most all of this except for the live CD (and of course the book), but I'll still bite for this...can never have enough Jam!

:thumbsup:

Larry · **Joined:** 10 Feb 2008 **Posts:** 5099

You guys are making me weak.

eelkiller · **Joined:** 10 Dec 2006 **Posts:** 1681

Invisible Pedestrian wrote:

eelkiller wrote:

I missed out on the Gift box, not gonna happen again with Jam deluxe editions.

I don't think this is a Deluxe Edition as much as it is cramming everything from that particular year (1977) which makes me wonder if they will do it by year going forward, or if this is it and the previous Deluxes are all that we get which isn't a bad thing because those were great.

If it is by year then it becomes one LP at a time. Whether it is a deluxe edition or not this is ordered.

Linda · **Posted:** Fri Mar 30, 2018 5:23 pm

Amazon UK has put this box on sale for half off -- £27.99:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0749GHKYW/?tag=imwan-21

[2017-10-20] The Jam "1977" 4CD/1DVD box set (Polydor)

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