The Jam - The Gift 30th anniversary edition

[Sensoria]

More details have emerged about the forthcoming "The Gift" super deluxe edition box set from The Jam. The four disc box will include 13 unreleased demos and alternate versions on disc two, while the third CD offers a complete concert from the last ever Jam tour – 23 tracks remasterd. The DVD provides promo clips and various live performances, including a Danish TV special.

The original UK vinyl came in a lilac and white stripped paper back and the outer slip case for this set reflects that design with "The Jam – A Gift" written on it. A nice touch.

This box set is due for release on 19 November 2012.

Features:
Outer box in original striped bag style cover – "The Jam – A Gift"!
Hardback 72-page, full-colour book – including period and fan’s memorabilia, magazine cuttings (NME etc.), reviews, photos, new interviews (with Paul Weller and producer Peter Wilson)
Forward by Paul Weller and new essay by John Harris
Set of postcard prints

Four discs, in individual wallets:

1. Disc 1 – original album re-mastered
+ 10 singles/b-sides from the period, up to the split.

2. Disc 2 – bonus tracks
15 demos and alternate tracks, 13 previously unreleased, re-mastered

3. Disc 3 – Live at Wembley December 1982
23 tracks, complete concert from the last ever Jam tour (previously unreleased), re-mastered

4. Disc 4 – DVD compilation

Promo clips (Town Called Malice / Precious / The Bitterest Pill)

Trans-Global Unity Express tour – live tracks from Birmingham show:

01. Town Called Malice
02. Carnation
03. Precious
04. Ghosts
05. Move On Up
06. Private Hell
07. Pretty Green
08. "Trans-Global Express"
09. The Gift

Danish TV special (DR) The Gift album live in small studio with audience

Top Of The Pops – 1982 – Town Called Malice / Precious


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[crystal]

The tracklisting sounds really interesting, but I guess I am not the only one who'd love a simple 4-disc digipack (or even plasticcase) with just the 3cds + dvd and a few liner notes with all track details. But everything these days ends in those overblown boxsets, that for a few extra gimmicks easily fetch twice the price than they normally would...

[moni]

£108.00[:0]

[magnum]

Found the tracklisting on the net.....

Disc One - Original album / Singles & B-Sides
1. Happy Together
2. Ghosts
3. Precious
4. Just Who Is The 5 O'clock Hero
5. "Trans-Global Express"
6. Running On The Spot
7. Circus
8. The Planner's Dream Goes Wrong
9. Carnation
10. Town Called Malice
11. The Gift
12. Precious (12")
13. The Great Depression
14. The Bitterest Pill (I Ever Had To Swallow)
15. Pity Poor Alfie / Fever
16. Pity Poor Alfie (swing version)
17. Beat Surrender
18. Shopping
19. Move On Up
20. Stoned Out Of My Mind
21. War
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Disc Two - Demos & alternate tracks

1. Skirt (demo) #
2. Get Yourself Together (demo) Originally released on 'Extras'
3. Ghosts (instrumental demo) #
4. Just Who Is The 5 O'clock Hero (demo) #
5. Running On The Spot (demo) #
6. The Planner's Dream Goes Wrong (demo) #
7. Carnation (instrumental demo) #
8. Precious (demo) Originally released on 'Direction, Reaction, Creation'
9. The Bitterest Pill (demo) #
10. Alfie (demo '2') #
11. We've Only Started ('old version') #
12. Only Started (instrumental demo) #
13. Shopping (AKA 'Paul's demo') #
14. Beat Surrender (demo) #
15. Solid Bond In Your Heart (demo) #

# Previously unreleased
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Disc Three - Live at Wembley (Dec. 3rd 1982)
1. Start!
2. It's Too Bad
3. Beat Surrender
4. Away From The Numbers
5. Ghosts
6. In The Crowd
7. Boy About Town
8. So Sad About Us
9. All Mod Cons
10. To Be Someone
11. Smithers-Jones
12. That's Entertainment
13. The Great Depression
14. Precious
15. Move On Up
16. Circus
17. Down In The Tube Station At Midnight
18. David Watts
19. Mr Clean
20. Town Called Malice
21. But I'm Different Now
22. "Trans-Global Express"
23. In The City
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Disc 4 - DVD

Part 1 - Trans-Global Unity Express
Live video from Birmingham March 1982

Part 2 - The promo videos
1. Town Called Malice
2. Precious
3. The Bitterest Pill

Part 3 - Danish TV special
The Jam play songs from the Gift album. Recorded live in Studio 3,
TV-Byen, Copenhagen April 19 1982, broadcast April 23 1982.
1. Running On The Spot
2. Circus
3. Happy Together
4. Ghosts
5. In The Crowd
6. Town Called Malice
7. Pity Poor Alfie / Fever
8. Precious
9. Just Who Is The 5 O'clock Hero
10. The Gift
11. Move On Up
12. Trans-Global Express

Part 4 - Top Of The Pops
Recorded February 18 1982
1. Precious
2. Town Called Malice



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[clarence]

The only thing that sucks imho is that they didn't ever do a deluxe for 'Setting Sons'. Would have been nice.

[roc51]

Thanks for the track listing! Definitely on my buy list.

I suspect all the Jam releases will get the deluxe treatment...Setting Sons should (hopefully) be next.

I also could see them combining the first two LPs plus bonus material as one deluxe set...both were released in 1977 at the height of the punk era.

[markwilson]

There's a deluxe edition listed on amazon with just discs 1 & 2.

[magnum]

[quote][i]Originally posted by roc51[/i]
<br>Thanks for the track listing! Definitely on my buy list.

I suspect all the Jam releases will get the deluxe treatment...Setting Sons should (hopefully) be next.

I also could see them combining the first two LPs plus bonus material as one deluxe set...both were released in 1977 at the height of the punk era.
[/quote]

Agreed, looks great.......BTW....there is actually quite a few demo's,etc from the Setting Son's era which i suppose would inevitably be placed on any future Setting Sons deluxe bonus disc,which can be found on the Extras CD.

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