Set herfra toppede Paul Weller’s punkæraband The Jam i november ’79 med Setting Sons, en behjertet og besk beatrejse gennem Margaret Thatcher’s forarmede og sammenbrydende England. Setting Sons var albummet der den vinter klargjorde The Jam’s status som Storbritannien’s mest populære rockband, et forkromet Lambretta-spejl foran The Clash.

Allerede 12 måneder efter var opfølgeren, den ligeså indædte Sound Affects på gaden. Dengang gik pressesnakken om det album’s åbenlyse Beatles-inspiration, ikke mindst pga. den ‘Taxman’-affødte førstesingle ‘Start’. En smule mere Beatlespsykedelisk farve var der måske hældt på sangene, men ikke meget mere end at The Jam på inspirationskontoen stadig skyldte mere til The Kinks end til nogen som helst andre.

Det vil kunne høres 1. november, hvor Sound Affects genudsendes i remastret deluxe-udgave, med ekstra-disc indeholdende en bunke samtidigt bonusmateriale, deriblandt coverversioner af sange fra netop The Beatles og The Kinks. Lidt spændende bliver det ikke mindst at høre sidstnævntes klassiske ‘Waterloo Sunset’ udsat for Weller, Foxton og Buckler. Her en tracklist:

Disc 1:

‘Pretty Green’
‘Monday’
‘But I’m Different Now’
‘Set The House Ablaze’
‘Start!’
‘That’s Entertainment’
‘Dream Time’
‘Man In The Corner Shop’
‘Music For The Last Couple’
‘Boy About Town’
‘Scrape Away’

Disc 2:

‘Start!’ (single version)
‘Liza Radley’ (B-side of ‘Start!’)
‘Dreams Of Children’ (B-side of ‘Going Underground’)
‘That’s Entertainment’ (alternate version from ‘Direction, Reaction, Creation’ box set)
‘Pretty Green’ (demo with overdubs – previously unreleased)
‘Pop Art Poem’ (Jam fan club flexi-disc, from ‘Extras’)
‘Rain’ (demo from ‘Direction, Reaction, Creation’)
‘Boy About Town’ (demo – previously unreleased)
‘Dream Time’ (demo from ‘Direction, Reaction, Creation’)
‘Dead End Street’ (demo from ‘Direction, Reaction, Creation’)
‘But I’m Different Now’ (demo from ‘Extras’)
‘Scrape Away’ (instrumental version – previously unreleased)
‘Start!’ (demo – previously unreleased)
‘Liza Radley’ (demo from ‘Extras’)
‘And Your Bird Can Sing’ (demo from ‘Extras’)
‘Monday’ (alternate version – previously unreleased)
‘Get Yourself Together’ (from ‘Extras’)
‘Set The House Ablaze’ (alternate ‘dub ending’ version – previously unreleased)
‘Boy About Town’ (alternate version – Jam fan club flexi from ‘Extras’)
‘No One In The World’ (demo from ‘Extras’)
‘Instrumental’ (demo – previously unreleased)
‘Waterloo Sunset’ (demo – previously unreleased)