About the Young Idea

Tracklist

• Digital Media 1
• 1
  In the City (Radio Ad)
  0:33
• 2
  In the City
  2:18
  4.0 ★
• 3
  Art School
  2:00
  4.0 ★
• 4
  Away From the Numbers
  4:01
  3.0 ★
• 5
  Takin’ My Love (demo)
  2:34
• 6
  All Around the World
  2:22
• 7
  The Modern World
  2:31
  5.0 ★
• 8
  In the Street Today
  1:31
  5.0 ★
• 9
  News of the World
  3:27
  5.0 ★
• 10
  David Watts (single mix)
  2:54
  4.5 ★
• 11
  Down in the Tube Station at Midnight
  4:43
  4.0 ★
• 12
  Billy Hunt
  3:00
  3.0 ★
• 13
  To Be Someone (Didn’t We Have a Nice Time)
  2:29
  3.0 ★
• 14
  English Rose
  2:48
  3.6 ★
• 15
  In the Crowd
  5:38
  3.5 ★
• 16
  ‘A’ Bomb in Wardour Street
  2:38
  4.2 ★
• 17
  Strange Town
  3:48
• 18
  The Butterfly Collector
  3:08
  4.0 ★
• 19
  When You’re Young
  3:12
  4.0 ★
• 20
  Smithers‐Jones (single version)
  3:00
  5.0 ★
• 21
  The Eton Rifles
  3:57
  5.0 ★
• 22
  Thick as Thieves
  3:38
  5.0 ★
• 23
  Private Hell
  3:49
• 24
  Saturday’s Kids
  2:51
• 25
  Burning Sky (demo version)
  3:41
• Digital Media 2
• 1
  Going Underground
  2:55
  4.2 ★
• 2
  The Dreams of Children
  3:07
• 3
  Start!
  2:30
  3.4 ★
• 4
  Liza Radley
  2:31
  5.0 ★
• 5
  Pretty Green
  2:36
  3.0 ★
• 6
  Monday
  2:58
  3.0 ★
• 7
  That’s Entertainment
  3:32
  3.5 ★
• 8
  Man in the Corner Shop
  3:12
  4.0 ★
• 9
  Boy About Town
  1:58
  3.0 ★
• 10
  Funeral Pyre
  3:29
• 11
  Absolute Beginners
  2:50
  4.8 ★
• 12
  Tales From the Riverbank
  3:33
• 13
  Town Called Malice
  2:53
  4.8 ★
• 14
  Precious (extended version)
  5:54
• 15
  Ghosts
  2:10
  4.5 ★
• 16
  Just Who Is the 5 O’Clock Hero?
  2:14
  4.0 ★
• 17
  Carnation
  3:27
  4.0 ★
• 18
  The Bitterest Pill (I Ever Had to Swallow)
  3:33
  4.0 ★
• 19
  Beat Surrender
  3:25
• 20
  Move on Up
  3:53
  5.0 ★
• 21
  Shopping
  3:22
• 22
  Pop Art Poem
  2:11

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Release credits

• Afrodiziac
  background vocals [19]
• Alan Douglas
  engineer [2.3, 2.5-9, 1.21-24]
• Bruce Foxton
  bass [2.1, 1.2-4, 1.6-8], 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 [14-16, 20]
• 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 [1.7, 2.3-9, 2.22], piano [11], vocal [1.2-4, 2.1, 2.11]
• Peter Wilson
  producer [10-20]
• Rick Buckler
  drums (drum set) [1.2-4, 1.6-8, 2.1, 2.3, 2.5-6, 2.8-9, 2.11, 2.22], snare drum [7], tambourine [7]
• Steve Nichol
  trumpet [14-16]
• The Jam
  arranger [21-24], producer [2.3-14, 2.22, 1.19-21]
• Tracie
  background vocals [19]
• Vic Coppersmith‐Heaven
  arranger [21-24], engineer [2-4, 7-8, 21-24], producer [1.2-4, 1.6-24, 2.1-9, 2.22]
• Show all credits (18)

Issues

• A
  (Combined release view)
• 

  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