Direction Reaction Creation

Compilation by The Jam

Released 26 May 1997

alternative rock indie rock rock

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Tracklist

CD 1
1
In the City
2:20
4.0 ★
2
Takin’ My Love
2:15
3.0 ★
3
Art School
2:01
4.0 ★
4
I’ve Changed My Address
3:31
3.0 ★
5
Slow Down
2:39
3.0 ★
6
I Got By in Time
2:07
3.0 ★
7
Away From the Numbers
4:03
3.0 ★
8
Batman Theme
1:31
4.5 ★
9
Sounds From the Street
3:14
3.0 ★
10
Non‐Stop Dancing
2:28
3.0 ★
11
Time for Truth
3:10
3.0 ★
12
Bricks and Mortar
2:37
3.0 ★
13
All Around the World
2:24
14
Carnaby Street
2:23
15
The Modern World
2:31
5.0 ★
16
London Traffic
1:50
17
Standards
2:30
18
Life From a Window
2:54
19
The Combine
2:21
20
Don’t Tell Them You’re Sane
3:42
21
In the Street Today
1:32
5.0 ★
22
London Girl
2:42
23
I Need You (For Someone)
2:42
24
Here Comes the Weekend
3:31
25
Tonight at Noon
3:02
26
In the Midnight Hour
1:53
CD 2
1
News of the World
3:29
5.0 ★
2
Aunties and Uncles (Impulsive Youths)
2:33
3
Innocent Man
4:18
4
David Watts
2:56
4.5 ★
5
‘A’ Bomb in Wardour Street
2:38
4.2 ★
6
Down in the Tube Station at Midnight
4:44
4.0 ★
7
So Sad About Us
2:38
8
The Night
1:47
9
All Mod Cons
1:19
4.0 ★
10
To Be Someone (Didn’t We Have a Nice Time)
2:30
3.0 ★
11
Mr. Clean
3:29
3.0 ★
12
English Rose
2:51
3.6 ★
13
In the Crowd
5:40
3.5 ★
14
Billy Hunt
3:01
3.0 ★
15
It’s Too Bad
2:37
4.0 ★
16
Fly
3:20
3.0 ★
17
The Place I Love
2:54
3.0 ★
18
Strange Town
3:48
19
The Butterfly Collector
3:09
4.0 ★
20
When You’re Young
3:14
4.0 ★
21
Smithers‐Jones
3:01
5.0 ★
22
The Eton Rifles
3:59
5.0 ★
23
See‐Saw
2:35
CD 3
1
Girl on the Phone
2:57
2
Thick as Thieves
3:40
5.0 ★
3
Private Hell
3:51
4
Little Boy Soldiers
3:33
5
Wasteland
2:52
6
Burning Sky
3:32
7
Smithers‐Jones
3:00
8
Saturday’s Kids
2:53
9
Heat Wave
2:23
10
Going Underground
2:56
4.2 ★
11
The Dreams of Children
3:08
12
Start!
2:31
3.4 ★
13
Liza Radley
2:32
5.0 ★
14
Pretty Green
2:37
3.0 ★
15
Monday
2:59
3.0 ★
16
But I’m Different Now
1:51
3.0 ★
17
Set the House Ablaze
5:01
3.0 ★
18
That’s Entertainment
3:33
3.5 ★
19
Dream Time
3:54
3.0 ★
20
Man in the Corner Shop
3:13
4.0 ★
21
Music for the Last Couple
3:43
2.0 ★
22
Boy About Town
1:59
3.0 ★
23
Scrape Away
4:00
3.0 ★
CD 4
1
Funeral Pyre
3:30
2
Disguises
3:17
3
Absolute Beginners
2:50
4.8 ★
4
Tales From the Riverbank
3:34
5
Town Called Malice
2:55
4.8 ★
6
Precious (12″ version)
5:54
7
Happy Together
2:50
3.0 ★
8
Ghosts
2:11
4.5 ★
9
Just Who Is the 5 O’Clock Hero?
2:15
4.0 ★
10
Trans‐Global Express
3:59
3.0 ★
11
Running on the Spot
3:06
3.0 ★
12
Circus
2:11
3.0 ★
13
The Planner’s Dream Goes Wrong
2:19
4.0 ★
14
Carnation
3:28
4.0 ★
15
The Gift
3:07
4.0 ★
16
The Great Depression
2:51
17
The Bitterest Pill (I Ever Had to Swallow)
3:34
4.0 ★
18
Pity Poor Alfie / Fever
4:40
19
Beat Surrender
3:26
20
Shopping
3:22
21
Move On Up
3:53
5.0 ★
22
Stoned out of My Mind
3:20
23
War
2:43
CD 5
1
In the City
2:23
2
Time for Truth
3:17
3
Sounds From the Street
3:19
4
So Sad About Us
2:41
5
Worlds Apart
1:55
6
Billy Hunt (alternate version)
2:59
7
It’s Too Bad
2:27
8
To Be Someone
2:26
9
David Watts
2:45
10
Best of Both Worlds
2:03
11
That’s Entertainment
3:23
12
Rain
2:57
13
Dream Time
1:51
14
Dead End Street
3:15
15
Stand by Me
3:03
16
Every Little Bit Hurts
3:17
17
Tales From the Riverbank (alternate version)
3:26
18
Walking in Heaven’s Sunshine
2:04
19
Precious
2:31
20
Pity Poor Alfie (Swing version)
4:13
21
The Bitterest Pill (I Ever Had to Swallow) (first version)
3:17
22
A Solid Bond in Your Heart
3:24

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Release credits

Afrodiziac
background vocals [19, 23]
Alan Douglas
engineer [2.22, 3.1-9, 3.12, 3.14-23]
Arnold Williams
photography
Bruce Foxton
bass [1.1-13, 1.15-17, 1.19-24, 1.26, 3.10, 5.11], bass guitar [4.3, 3.12-23, 5.12-14], lead vocals [16], vocal [5.12-14, 3.10, 3.12-20, 3.22-23, 1.1-12, 1.15]
Carlos Olms
photography
Caron Wheeler
background vocals [19, 23]
Chris Parry
additional [5, 10, 15], producer [2.1-5, 5.1-5, 5.7, 1.1-26]
Claudia Fontaine
background vocals [19, 23]
David Liddle
guitar [12]
Denis O'Regan
photography
Dennis Munday
compiler, remixer [1-3, 6-9]
Derek De Souza
photography
Frank Griffin
photography
George Chambers
engineer [12, 14-23]
Gered Mankowitz
photography
Ian Dickson
photography
Jill Furmanovsky
photography
John Devlin
liner notes
John Reed
liner notes
Keith Bernstein
photography
Keith Thomas
saxophone [4.6, 4.8-10, 4.13, 4.16, 4.18, 4.20-23, 5.20], soprano saxophone [17]
Ken Hutchins
photography
Laurens Van Houten
photography
Luke Tunney
trumpet [3, 19]
Martin Drover
trumpet [3, 19]
Michael Laird
trumpet [3]
Mick Talbot
piano [9]
Mike Laye
photography
Neil Allen
liner notes
Paolo Hewitt
liner notes
Pat Gilbert
liner notes
Paul Cox
photography
Paul Weller
acoustic guitar [13, 18], electric guitar [18], guitar [5.12-14, 1.1-13, 1.15-17, 1.19-24, 1.26, 3.10, 3.12, 3.14-17, 3.19-23, 4.3], lead vocals [3.12-20, 3.22-23, 5.12-14, 1.15], piano [3], vocal [1.1-12, 1.16, 4.3, 3.10, 3.21]
Pennie Smith
photography
Peter Solley
strings [7]
Peter Wilson
Hammond organ [4.10, 4.15, 4.22, 5.12], drums (drum set) [12], piano [14], producer [5.11-12, 5.14-22, 4.1-15, 4.17-23], remixer [4-5, 10-12, 14, 16-17, 19-20], strings [21]
Rick Buckler
drums (drum set) [5.11-14, 1.1-13, 1.15-17, 1.19-24, 1.26, 4.3, 3.10, 3.12, 3.14-17, 3.19-23], snare drum [18], tambourine [18]
Russ Henderson
membranophone [13]
Simon Halfon
art direction, design/illustration
Simon Marsh
photography
Stephen Morley
photography
Steve Dawson
trumpet [18]
Steve Musters
remixer [1-3, 6-9]
Steve Nichol
Hammond organ [20], trumpet [4.6, 4.8-10, 4.13, 4.16, 4.18, 4.20, 4.22-23, 5.17]
Steve Thompson
saxophone [9]
The Jam
arranger [3.1-9, 2.22], producer [2.20-23, 3.12-23, 4.1-6, 4.16, 5.12-14]
Tony Taverner
producer [16]
Tracie
background vocals [19]
Vic Coppersmith‐Heaven
arranger [3.1-9, 2.22], engineer [3.1-9, 1.1-12, 1.15-26, 2.22], producer [5.1-10, 5.12-14, 2.1-23, 1.1-26, 3.1-23]
Virginia Turbett
photography

Issues

D
Direction Reaction Creation
5x CD
26 May 1997