Tellingly, when Weller came to record 2010’s Wake Up The Nation, it was Sound Affects that his collaborator and producer Simon Dine held up as a model. Pretty Green is so good listeners don’t even notice it hasn’t got a chorus, just tense verses and a power-chord pre-chorus that disperses like spilt beer across a bar floor. It may just be a list of simple things we’ve all done, seen or heard, with an ironic chorus, acoustic guitars and no drums, but so what? Scrape Away is a classic for those desperate to leave it all behind, and Monday – thankfully far less depressing than its namesake – combines the melancholy of Embarrassment-era Madness with Byrds jangle.

Weller's Rickenbacker is just crackling with treble - this is not guitar-playing as much as the buzz of a chainsaw! Ended up selling my copy of this, and the also-not-nice vinyl remaster, and picking up the original UK.Sound Affects' is filled with so many great songs: `Set The House Ablaze' has a great whistle-hook, `Monday' has an attractive melancholy melody, `Scrape Away' is a strong and hook-filled album closer. While I believe these stories, there's always a bad apple in the bunch, consider the adage of "bad news travels fast" - especially in this age of the internet. Mea culpa, Sometimes just have have to try it for yourself instead of formulating an opinion based on what you read on the internet.

In BBC Radio 6 Music's documentary The Jam: Made in Britain, Paul Weller cited Sound Affects as his favourite Jam album. The song is also the only recording by the Jam to include sitar lines, which are buried in the mix, but are more prominent in the demo version.And it does contain at least two of the best Jam singles that never were, in "Pretty Green" and "Boy About Town"; to say nothing of "Start!

is built around an almost exact copy of the bassline from the Beatles' " Taxman", the first track on Revolver, and includes a homage to its guitar solo. If you're not familiar with "Sound Affects", if it is before your time, then you simply have not fully discovered rock 'n roll. If `The Gift' and `Setting Sons' are given the deluxe treatment, and remastered by the same engineer, I'll happily re-purchase those as well. It doesn't quite hit the highs of Setting Sons (Burning Sky, Thick as Thieves, Smithers-Jones) or The Gift (Ghosts, Precious) BUT, it is probably their most consistent LP since All Mod Cons. Sound Affects was reissued on 8 November 2010 as a two-CD deluxe edition to celebrate its 30th anniversary.The back cover of the album features an excerpt from Percy Bysshe Shelley's poem The Masque of Anarchy. So many good songs here, this for me is the Jam in full flight, full of ideas, full of vitality and mile stone melodies that worm there way deep into your psyche. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. Pretty Green" includes a funk bassline and rhythm with melodic guitar breaks and psychedelic sound effects.