7.28.2017

THE JAM

















"in the city"
Year:  1976
Label:  Universal
Format:  CD, LP
Tracks:  12
Time:  36 min.
Genre:  rock
Style:        Mod Punk















"in the city" is the debut studio album by british mod band The Jam. It was released in 1976 by Polydor Records (Universal) and featured the hit single and title track "In the City". Weller's guitar style on the album is very much influenced by Pete Townshend and Wilko Johnson. The album includes two cover songs, "Slow Down" and the theme to the 60s television series, "Batman", the latter of which had also been previously covered by The Who, The Kinks and Link Wray. The band was the most well known of the british mod revival happened from 1977 to 1982, and they were inspired in the 60's music but also strongly influenced by punk rock in some aspects as: speed, raw sound, simplicity and conscious lyrics, social issues, working class, etc. In their third album The Jam became closer to classic pop and new wave.
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"this is the modern world"
Year:  1977
Label:  Universal
Format:  CD, LP
Tracks:  12
Time:  36 min.
Genre:  rock
Style:        Mod Punk















"this is the modern world" is the second studio album by British band The Jam, released in November 1977. The album was released less than seven months after their debut album, In the City. The front cover photography was by Gered Mankowitz. As its predecesssor this second The Jam album keep quite similarities both, of 60's music and punk rock as their congenres. It's difficult to choose one of them, because both are very similar.
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"all mod cons"
Year:  1978
Label:  Universal
Format:  CD , LP
Tracks:  12
Time:  36 min.
Genre:  rock
Style:        Mod Punk














The Jam continues here with their usual lyrical themes: love, scooters, social issues, working class pride, etc. but strictly musical they started to move to sounds softer, smarter and cleaner than their two first albums. This is also an essential The Jam album no doubt.
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"setting sons"
Year:  1979
Label:  Universal
Format:  CD, LP
Tracks:  10
Time:  34 min.
Genre:  rock
Style:        Mod Pop






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"sound affects"
Year:  1980
Label:  Universal
Format:  CD , LP
Tracks:  11
Time:  33 min.
Genre:  rock
Style:        Mod Pop








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"the gift"
Year:  1982
Label:  Universal
Format:  CD, LP
Tracks:  11
Time:  36 min.
Genre:  rock
Style:        Mod Pop








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"Tribute"
Year:  1996
Country:  various
Label:  Flavour of Sound
Format:  CD
Bands:  16
Tracks:  16
Time:  40 min.
Genre:  rock
Style:        Mod        Punk





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"Tribute"
Year:  1999
Label:  Ignition
Format:  CD, LP
Bands:  12
Tracks:  12
Time:  36 min.
Genre:  rock
Style:        Indie Rock


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7.06.2017

SCARBORO
































"here comes the hangover"
Year:  2017
Country:  US
City:  New York
Label:  WTF
Format:  CD
Tracks:  14
Time:  28 min.
Genre:  rock
Style:        Punk        Hardcore




















After a demo and EP, this Brooklyn three-piece Scarboro is back with a brand new offering of fourteen hardcore punk tracks. Their full length debut Here Comes The Hangover follows on the heels 2014’s four-song EP, The Safeword Is “Yes” and it is an album not so concerned with capital “P”. Instead, these guys vent more about scene politics, debauchery and douche bags, drinking all-night and vomiting, and sorting out who fucked whom. As grim and juvenile as that subject might sound, it comes across as at least a little refreshing that someone, in this case axe wielding vocalist Shi Heng Shi, can ponder the virtues of malt liquor and black lipstick in the era of autocratic rule and alt-facts. My place isn’t to tell these earnest drinkers that some pencil necked poser puking on their oxblood Doc Martins isn’t song worthy. In fact, in my evolving theory of art and commerce in the Donald Trump is that these types of songs will, before too long, be welcome respite. The New York punk scene has been a hot bed of pissed off creativity since the movement began in the late 1970s. While Here Comes The Hangover harkens back to those classic days of Bowery life and characters, it falls short of placing the band into that pantheon. The record is decent, but it is woefully inconsistent. The most memorable tracks, “One Heart One Mind” and “Downward Spiral” to name a couple, actually feel more LA punk influenced, like early Rancid records really had a bigger influence. The best songs are those exhibiting more developed, fleshed out ideas, like “Archangels” and “Panic At The Cisco” but too often the band spews volume instead of quality. Here Comes The Hangover won’t come off as drab to the true hardcore fan. It’s vibrant, pissed off and undeniably loud but it’s not going to re-write the rules (*NOTE: this review was written by Eric Mertz )
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