Weller's poetic and sarcastic wit combine with edgy but poppy tunes to really make this the jam's standout album. Between tracks, the vinyl is dead-quiet, this amplifier is at 7 and this record is begging for more power.

Sounds worthy in print, but marry talk of fighting fascists with a dangerous, paranoid guitar scrape and a whistled melody full of menace and the result is utterly thrilling.The bulk of the bonus disc is made up of songs already available on "Direction, Reaction, Creation" and "Extras". Scrape Away is a classic for those desperate to leave it all behind, and Monday – thankfully far less depressing than its namesake – combines the melancholy of Embarrassment-era Madness with Byrds jangle. Sound Affects was reissued on 8 November 2010 as a two-CD deluxe edition to celebrate its 30th anniversary. If That’s Entertainment doesn’t move you on some level you deserve to have your speakers burnt in front of you.

While I enjoyed many tracks on that album as well, I still find `Sound Affects' to be the most consistent album. Though many are only of minor interest to me, it's nice to have all of it collected in this one package for any future interest. And it does contain at least two of the best Jam singles that never were, in "Pretty Green" and "Boy About Town"; to say nothing of "Start! What a stupendous mix of this record - there are sounds included on this pressing you never even heard on previous pressings.Weller's Rickenbacker is just crackling with treble - this is not guitar-playing as much as the buzz of a chainsaw! It may just be a list of simple things we’ve all done, seen or heard, with an ironic chorus, acoustic guitars and no drums, but so what? One of the most popular bands to emerge from the English punk rock scene of 1977; The Jam had a phenomenal impact on pop music and wider youth culture. The vinyl was one of the very first ones in my collection, after kids records and the obligatory Electric Light Orchestra, Sweet, and - lo and behold - Public Image, Ltd. So many good songs here, this for me is the Jam in full flight, full of ideas, full of vitality and mile stone melodies that worm there way deep into your psyche.

Of the countless songs about working class British life released in the last three decades, it’s strange one so ostensibly slight is so breathtaking. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others.In BBC Radio 6 Music's documentary The Jam: Made in Britain, Paul Weller cited Sound Affects as his favourite Jam album. A little disappointing that no 3rd disc was included to really tempt the fans - this could either have been a live disc from the legendary Newcastle City Hall gig (28/10/10) or a DVD of the complete German Rockpalast TV broadcast (30/11/80) - on both occasions, the band were at their un-stoppable best. Set the House Ablaze is even better than that, a terrifying but terrific look at fascism on the rise in Europe at the dawn of the 80s. Sound Affects' is filled with so many great songs: `Set The House Ablaze' has a great whistle-hook, `Monday' has an attractive melancholy melody, `Scrape Away' is a strong and hook-filled album closer.

On Sound Affects’ opener, Pretty Green, Paul Weller barks about one use for his money in a teeth-gnashing staccato: "I’m gonna put it in the juke box". With extensive finagling I was able to extract the record from the way-too-tight inner sleeve without resorting to Caesarean surgery! Buckler's drumming suddenly has a ferocity that I never noticed before in a dozen previous versions of this record. While I believe these stories, there's always a bad apple in the bunch, consider the adage of "bad news travels fast" - especially in this age of the internet.Whilst this new edition of Sound Affects is undoubtedly better than the standard CD edition, it's not quite as impressive as previous Jam/TSC/Weller re-issues. Not only are all the dynamics fully retained in this wonderful new remaster, but there has been a careful amount of re-equalization to correct from the midrange-heavy remaster from 2000. The distinctive cover art is a pastiche of the artwork used on various BBC sound effects records of the 1970s, incorporating ‘pop-art’ imagery. The album followed the band’s first number one single – Going Underground and features the group’s second UK number one single, Start!