Snap!
Compilation album by
The Jam
Released14 October 1983
GenreNew wave[1]
LabelPolydor
The Jam chronology
Dig The New Breed
(1982)		 Snap!
(1983)		 Greatest Hits
(1991)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[2]
Robert ChristgauB+[3]
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music[4]
The New Rolling Stone Album Guide[5]

Snap! is a greatest hits album by The Jam, released on 14 October 1983, one year after the group disbanded.[6] 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".[7] A shorter version, removing the 8 non-singles, was released as a single CD in 1985 as Compact Snap!.[8]

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.

A shorter version, cutting 8 tracks, was released as a single CD in 1984 as Compact Snap!.[8] The omitted tracks were the non-single tracks "Away from the Numbers", "Billy Hunt", "English Rose", "Mr. Clean", "The Butterfly Collector", "Thick As Thieves", "Man in the Corner Shop" and "Tales from the Riverbank". The result is that Compact Snap! is a collection of all The Jam's singles, with the exception of "Just Who Is the 5 O'Clock Hero?". The CD was repackaged in 1990 as All The Choice Cuts for the Australian market as part of the Polydor Startrax series.[9] Compact Snap! has a similar track listing to The Very Best of The Jam with "Smithers-Jones" replacing "Just Who Is the 5 O'Clock Hero?".

Universal Music re-released the album in its entirety on CD in 2006, initial copies including the limited edition live EP.[10] Cover Artwork by Simon Halfon

Track listing

Disc 1
No.TitleLength
1."In the City" (single released April 1977, later included on In the City, May 1977) 
2."Away from the Numbers" (In the City, May 1977) 
3."All Around the World" (non-album single released July 1977, reaching #13 in the UK charts) 
4."The Modern World" (Single version) 
5."News of the World" 
6."Billy Hunt" 
7."English Rose" 
8."Mr. Clean" 
9."David Watts (Single mix)" (cover of The Kinks song written by Ray Davies, released as a single August 1978, later included on All Mod Cons. Nov 1978) 
10."'A' Bomb in Wardour Street (Single version)" (released as a double A-side single August 1978 with "David Watts", later included on All Mod Cons. Nov 1978) 
11."Down in the Tube Station at Midnight (Single edit)" (released as a single in October 1978 reaching #15 in the UK charts, later included on All Mod Cons. Nov 1978) 
12."Strange Town" 
13."The Butterfly Collector" 
14."When You're Young" 
15."Smithers-Jones" (Single version) 
16."Thick as Thieves" 
Disc 2
No.TitleLength
1."The Eton Rifles" (Single edit) 
2."Going Underground" 
3."Dreams of Children" (US edit) 
4."That's Entertainment" (Demo version) 
5."Start!" (Single version) 
6."Man in the Corner Shop" 
7."Funeral Pyre" (Remixed version) 
8."Absolute Beginners" 
9."Tales from the Riverbank" 
10."Town Called Malice" 
11."Precious" (Single edit) 
12."The Bitterest Pill (I Ever Had to Swallow)" 
13."Beat Surrender" 
Limited edition live EP
  1. "Move On Up" (Live at Wembley Arena, 2&3 Dec. 1982)
  2. "Get Yourself Together" (Live at Wembley Arena, 2&3 Dec. 1982)
  3. "The Great Depression" (Live at Wembley Arena, 2&3 Dec. 1982)
  4. "But I'm Different Now" (Live at Wembley Arena, 2&3 Dec. 1982)

Charts

Snap! spent 30 weeks on the UK album charts, which debuted and peaked at No. 2 for two weeks.[11]

Chart (1983) Peak
position
Australian (Kent Music Report)70[12]

References

  1. ↑ Erlewine, Stephen Thomas. "New Wave". AllMusic. Rovi Corporation. Archived from the original on 25 October 2010. Retrieved 4 May 2014.
  2. ↑ "Snap! – The Jam | Songs, Reviews, Credits". AllMusic.
  3. ↑ "Robert Christgau: Album: The Jam: Snap!". robertchristgau.com.
  4. ↑ Larkin, Colin (27 May 2011). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music. Omnibus Press. ISBN 9780857125958 – via Google Books.
  5. ↑ Brackett, Nathan; Hoard, Christian David (8 February 2004). The New Rolling Stone Album Guide. Simon and Schuster. ISBN 9780743201698 – via Google Books.
  6. ↑ "TrouserPress.com :: Jam". trouserpress.com.
  7. ↑ AllMusic review
  8. 1 2 "The Jam – Compact Snap!". discogs.
  9. ↑ "The Jam – All The Choice Cuts". Discogs. 1990. Retrieved 30 June 2023.
  10. ↑ "Jam album set to be expanded | NME". 23 January 2006.
  11. ↑ "Snap! | Full Official Chart History | Official Charts Company". officialcharts.com.
  12. ↑ Kent, David (1993). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992 (illustrated ed.). St Ives, N.S.W.: Australian Chart Book. p. 153. ISBN 0-646-11917-6.
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