As a fan of a wide variety of popular (and not-so-popular) music from the 1950s (and sometimes even earlier) up through the present, one of my bucket list projects for years has been to put together a list of my 100 favorite songs of all time. At some point I decided that, once I got around to figuring that out, I could put it out on a blog, for the infinitesimally small proportion of the Internet world that might be interested. So, here we are. While the Top 100 will be a major focus, I also plan to post on a variety of other musical (and occasionally non-musical) topics, in which you may or may not be interested. (If a particular posting doesn’t ring your bell, you’re only a few clicks away from a dancing cat video on YouTube.)

Monday, December 17, 2018

#194 That’s Entertainment – The Jam (1981)


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m-H0uIH5HHQ
 
British “mod revival/punk rock” band The Jam was huge at home, but got limited airplay in the States and failed to dent the Hot 100 even once. At some point when the BMG Music Club still existed, I picked up their greatest-hits collection, based on two of their songs I had heard and liked: this one, and “A Town Called Malice”, which was featured prominently in the movie version of Billy Elliot. Quite frankly, none of the 17 other British hits on the CD did much for me, but these two still hold up. Both are catchy, but the largely acoustic “That’s Entertainment” has more coherent (as well as more intelligible) lyrics.
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