Compact Snap!

Sound DNA

• Rock
• Classic Rock

• raw
• aggressive
• punky

About

In the early days of compact discs, record companies were sheepish to push the limits of how much music could fit on a single disc and were equally worried that fans of modest means who would buy a two-LP set wouldn’t necessarily buy a pricier two-CD set. Therefore, eight of the 29 classic Jam songs that appeared on the two-LP version of <i>Snap!</i> were cut to make a 66-minute single-CD collection. Even though several great songs were cut for <i>Compact Snap!</i>, it includes <i>all</i> the rarities that made the original album a serious draw for any Jam fan. (The full version can now be purchased as the uncut <i>Snap!</i>, since digital downloads have no limits.) Here, among 11 other hits, we get the demo version of “That’s Entertainment”; the single versions of “‘A’ Bomb in Wardour Street,” “Smither-Jones,” and “Start!”; the single edits of “Down in the Tube Station at Midnight,” “The Eton Rifles," and “Precious”; the censored version of “The Modern World”; the single mix of “David Watts”; and the remixed version of “Funeral Pyre.”

via Apple Music

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