The Jam - The Gift 30th Anniversary Super Deluxe Edition Box Set
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Description
To celebrate the 30th anniversary of The Jam’s final studio album and to mark the 30th anniversary of the band’s startling split Universal release a Super-Deluxe Box Set of “The Gift”.
Surprisingly this was the band’s only No 1 album and marked the departure from the classic Jam sound to a more soul-influenced style, ushering in Weller’s ideas for the Style Council. “The Gift” includes the classic No 1 ‘Town Called Malice’ plus other highlights ‘Running On The Spot’ and ‘Carnation’ all still featured in Weller’s live sets today.
The Gift, released in March 1982 was The Jam’s final studio album, which Weller strove to bring as close to perfection as was humanly possible. Plenty of its songs number among The Jam’s best. It is also a fascinating glimpse of its time: of musical currents that were swirling around London and beyond. The Gift’s energy was not just focused on the state of society: it had a lot to say about where music was going, what had happened to the righteous fires lit by punk, and how to remain relevant and vital when music was taking some very rum turns indeed. The challenge it answered was simple enough: if blaring guitars and rock poses had run out of road, what could embody the kind of passion that The Jam were all about? The answer lay in the black music that had bled into their collective identity from the start, and a push to make it less of an influence, than a key part of who they were.
‘Gift-box’ ‘super-deluxe’ edition contents:
Cat Number: 3711933
• Four discs, in individual wallets
1. Disc 1 – original album re-mastered
+ 10 singles/b-sides from the period, up to the split.
2. Disc 2 – bonus tracks
15 demos & alternate tracks, 13 previously unreleased, re-mastered
3. Disc 3 – Live at Wembley December 1982
23 tracks, complete concert from the last ever Jam tour (previously unreleased), re-mastered
4. Disc 4 – DVD compilation
o Promo clips (Town Called Malice / Precious / The Bitterest Pill)
o Trans-Global Unity Express tour – live tracks from Birmingham show:
1. Town Called Malice
2. Carnation
3. Precious
4. Ghosts
5. Move On Up
6. Private Hell
7. Pretty Green
8. “Trans-Global Express”
9. The Gift
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o Danish TV special (DR) The Gift album live in small studio with audience
o Top Of The Pops – 1982 - Town Called Malice / Precious
• Outer box in original striped bag style cover – ‘The Jam – A Gift’!
• Hardback 72-page, full-colour book – including period and fan’s memorabilia, magazine cuttings (NME etc.), reviews, photos, new interviews (with Paul Weller and producer Peter Wilson)
• Forward by Paul Weller and new essay by John Harris
• Set of postcard prints
Replica 1982 tour programme
NB : As new - played and read once. Contents Page on Outer Cover has been stuck on with blu-tac and has came through as can be seen in photo, this can be removed leaving the pink stripe cover underneath unmarked, this is the only mark on this superb collectors piece.
