Snap! (album)


Snap! is a greatest hits album by The Jam, released in 14 Octobe 1983, one year after the group disbanded. The double-album includes all sixteen of the band's UK singles, plus some B-sides, album tracks and rarities. Stephen Thomas Erlewine of AllMusic called it "one of the greatest greatest-hits albums of all time".

Editions

Initial quantities of the album included a limited edition 4 track EP, Live, recorded at Wembley Arena during the farewell tour of 1982. Featuring the tracks "Get Yourself Together", "Move On Up", "The Great Depression" and "But I'm Different Now", the EP is notable for the fact that these songs were never re-issued on any other Jam compilation.
In 2006, Universal Music re-released the album in its entirety on CD for the first time, again with initial copies including the limited edition live EP. Prior to this, it had only been available in abbreviated form as the single CD Compact Snap!, which contained only 21 of the 29 tracks from the original double album.

Track listing

Disc 1

  1. "In the City"
  2. "Away from the Numbers"
  3. "All Around the World"
  4. "The Modern World"
  5. "News of the World"
  6. "Billy Hunt"
  7. "English Rose"
  8. "Mr. Clean"
  9. "David Watts"
  10. "'A' Bomb in Wardour Street"
  11. "Down in the Tube Station at Midnight"
  12. "Strange Town"
  13. "The Butterfly Collector"
  14. "When You're Young"
  15. "Smithers-Jones"
  16. "Thick as Thieves"

    Disc 2

  17. "The Eton Rifles"
  18. "Going Underground"
  19. "Dreams of Children"
  20. "That's Entertainment"
  21. "Start!"
  22. "Man in the Corner Shop"
  23. "Funeral Pyre"
  24. "Absolute Beginners"
  25. "Tales from the Riverbank"
  26. "Town Called Malice"
  27. "Precious"
  28. "The Bitterest Pill "
  29. "Beat Surrender"

    Limited edition live EP

  30. "Move On Up"
  31. "Get Yourself Together"
  32. "The Great Depression"
  33. "But I'm Different Now"