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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