Bruce Foxton – Smash The Clock - Vinyl LP SIGNED - The Jam Paul Weller
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Description
A vinyl copy of the Bruce Foxton LP Smash The Clock.
2016 - ABSOLUTE – BASSTONELP3.
Ordered through Pledge Music on release and came signed by Bruce Foxton and Russell Hastings.
Sleeve is in solid condition with minor wear. EX
Vinyl is clean and looks to have had little play. EX
A visual grade is given, if there are any marks I will mention and play through. If the vinyl does not play well on your player I will take back, no problems.
The lid’s being tightly kept on the album prior to release so songwriting credits and personnel detail are scant. All we know is that the material was co-written by Hastings, the album was recorded at Paul Weller’s Black Barn Studios, and the man himself, as well as luminaries Wilko Johnson and Paul Jones, make guest appearances.
Foxton says that the meaning of the title track ‘Smash The Clock’ is simply that ‘good music is ageless and timeless’ and that’s exactly what he and Hastings have come up with here; thirteen tracks that transcend the decades.
Inevitably there’s various flavours of The Jam spread throughout the set not least in Hastings’ vocal style – without ever sounding overly derivative. It’s just damn fine pop/rock songs, laden with hooks, that hark back to the great songsmiths of the ’60s like The Small Faces, The Who, and The Stones, journeying through The Jam years, and even those of The Style Council years on the brass infused numbers like ‘Now The Time Has Come’.
Foxton and Hastings may not thank me for saying it, but this is probably the best album Paul Weller never made. It may even make a few re-evaluate the perceived division of talent in The Jam. Faultless.
Track Listing
A-1, , Now The Time Has Come, 2:51
A-2, , Round And Round, 3:40
A-3, , Pictures And Diamonds, 3:07
A-4, , Louder, 3:11
A-5, , Sunday Morning, 2:26
A-6, , Full Circle, 2:52
B-1, , Smash The Clock, 2:37
B-2, , Back Street, Dead Street, 2:40
B-3, , Writing On The Wall, 3:11
B-4, , There Are Times (To Make Me Happy), 3:08
B-5, , Alright Now, 2:53
B-6, , Running Away From You, 2:49
B-7, , 50 Yards Down Sandy Lane, 2:28
All vinyl's come packed with cardboard stiffeners in a sturdy vinyl mailer inside a poly mailer.
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