About the Young Idea

Tracklist

• CD 1
• 1
  In the City (radio ad)
  0:34
• 2
  In the City
  2:19
  4.0 ★
• 3
  Art School
  2:01
  4.0 ★
• 4
  Away From the Numbers
  4:03
  3.0 ★
• 5
  Takin’ My Love (demo – previously unreleased)
  2:34
• 6
  All Around the World
  2:23
• 7
  The Modern World
  2:31
  5.0 ★
• 8
  In the Street Today
  1:32
  5.0 ★
• 9
  News of the World
  3:28
  5.0 ★
• 10
  David Watts
  2:56
  4.5 ★
• 11
  Down in the Tube Station at Midnight
  4:43
  4.0 ★
• 12
  Billy Hunt
  3:01
  3.0 ★
• 13
  To Be Someone (Didn’t We Have a Nice Time)
  2:30
  3.0 ★
• 14
  English Rose
  2:51
  3.6 ★
• 15
  In the Crowd
  5:40
  3.5 ★
• 16
  ‘A’ Bomb in Wardour St.
  2:38
  4.2 ★
• 17
  Strange Town
  3:48
• 18
  The Butterfly Collector
  3:09
  4.0 ★
• 19
  When You’re Young
  3:13
  4.0 ★
• 20
  Smithers‐Jones
  3:01
  5.0 ★
• 21
  The Eton Rifles
  3:28
• 22
  Thick as Thieves
  3:40
  5.0 ★
• 23
  Private Hell
  3:51
• 24
  Saturday’s Kids
  2:53
• 25
  Burning Sky (demo)
  3:32
• CD 2
• 1
  Going Underground
  2:55
  4.2 ★
• 2
  Dreams of Children
  3:08
• 3
  Start!
  2:31
  3.4 ★
• 4
  Liza Radley
  2:32
  5.0 ★
• 5
  Pretty Green
  2:37
  3.0 ★
• 6
  Monday
  3:00
  3.0 ★
• 7
  That’s Entertainment
  3:32
  3.5 ★
• 8
  Man in the Corner Shop
  3:14
  4.0 ★
• 9
  Boy About Town
  2:00
  3.0 ★
• 10
  Funeral Pyre
  3:29
• 11
  Absolute Beginners
  2:50
  4.8 ★
• 12
  Tales From the Riverbank
  3:34
• 13
  Town Called Malice
  2:53
  4.8 ★
• 14
  Precious
  3:33
• 15
  Ghosts
  2:11
  4.5 ★
• 16
  Just Who Is the 5 O’Clock Hero?
  2:15
  4.0 ★
• 17
  Carnation
  3:27
  4.0 ★
• 18
  The Bitterest Pill (I Ever Had to Swallow)
  3:34
  4.0 ★
• 19
  Beat Surrender
  3:25
• 20
  Move on Up
  3:38
• 21
  Shopping
  3:21
• 22
  Pop Art Poem
  2:10

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Release credits

• Afrodiziac
  background vocals [19]
• Alan Douglas
  engineer [1.22-25, 2.3, 2.5-9]
• Bruce Foxton
  bass [1.2-4, 1.6-8, 2.1], bass guitar [3-9, 11, 22], vocal [1.2-4, 1.7, 2.1, 2.3-9, 2.22]
• Caron Wheeler
  background vocals [19]
• Chris Parry
  additional [13, 16], producer [2-4, 6-10, 16]
• Claudia Fontaine
  background vocals [19]
• George Chambers
  engineer [3, 5-9]
• Keith Thomas
  saxophone [15-16]
• Luke Tunney
  trumpet [11, 19]
• Martin Drover
  trumpet [11, 19]
• Michael Laird
  trumpet [11]
• Paul Weller
  acoustic guitar [4, 7], electric guitar [7], guitar [2.1, 2.3, 2.5-6, 2.8-9, 2.11, 2.22, 1.2-4, 1.6-8], lead vocals [2.3-9, 2.22, 1.7], piano [11], vocal [2.1, 2.11, 1.2-4]
• Peter Wilson
  producer [10-19]
• Rick Buckler
  drums (drum set) [2.1, 2.3, 2.5-6, 2.8-9, 2.11, 2.22, 1.2-4, 1.6-8], snare drum [7], tambourine [7]
• Steve Nichol
  trumpet [15-16]
• The Jam
  arranger [22-25], producer [2.3-14, 2.22, 1.19-21]
• Tracie
  background vocals [19]
• Vic Coppersmith‐Heaven
  arranger [22-25], engineer [2-4, 7-8, 22-25], producer [1.2-4, 1.6-25, 2.1-9, 2.22]
• Show all credits (18)

Issues

• 

  A
  About the Young Idea

  2x CD
  22 June 2015
• A
  About the Young Idea: The Very Best of the Jam

  2x Digital Media
  22 June 2015