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The preceding album, All Mod Cons, had already proved there was more to The Jam than just being Mod revivalists, but it was Setting Sons that established Weller as a songwriting force to be reckoned with. The lead-off single "Eton Rifles" was Weller's most confident effort to date--a scathing look at class divisions in Thatcher's Britain. Originally planned as a concept album--The Jam's equivalent of The Kinks' Village Green Preservation Society--only fragments ("Little Boy Soldiers", "Wasteland") of this original vision survived, and the finished album centred on The Jam's customary guitar, bass and drums, although enhanced by fuller arrangements and production. The nostalgic "Saturday's Kids" is one of the highlights, and the album concludes with a breezy thrash through "Heat Wave".
LP is the 2014 Remaster
Tracklist
A1 Girl On The Phone
A2 Thick As Thieves
A3 Private Hell
A4 Little Boy Soldiers
A5 Wasteland
B1 Burning Sky
B2 Smithers-Jones
B3 Saturday's Kids
B4 The Eton Rifles
B5 Heat Wave