Setting Sons
by The Jam
- Type: Album
- Released: 16 November 1979
- Label: Polydor
- Country: United Kingdom
- Length: 32:29
- Community rating: 4.17/5 from 6 ratings
Artists on this release: Paul Weller, Rudi, Holland-Dozier-Holland, Mick Talbot, Bruce Foxton
Album Notes & Community Reviews
Originally conceived as a concept album about three childhood friends drifting apart, The Jam's fourth record solidified Paul Weller as one of Britain's most vital sociopolitical songwriters. 'Setting Sons' pairs incredibly muscular, melodic power pop with deeply anxious, highly sarcastic examinations of British class structures and urban decay.
Genres
Descriptors: melodic, political, conscious, british, punchy, guitars, rhythmic, social-commentary
Tracklist
- Girl On The Phone (2:55)
- Thick As Thieves (3:38)
- Private Hell (3:49)
- Little Boy Soldiers (3:31)
- Wasteland (2:50)
- Burning Sky (3:30)
- Smithers-Jones (2:59)
- Saturday's Kids (2:51)
- The Eton Rifles (3:57)
- Heatwave (2:24)
Credits
- The Jam - primary artist, arranged by, cello, timpani, recorder
- Vic Coppersmith-Heaven - arranged by, engineer, producer, remix
- Bill Smith - art direction, design
- Alan Douglas - engineer, remix
- George Chambers - engineer [assistant]
- Lonely - engineer [assistant]
- Pete Schwier - engineer [assistant]
- 5th Column Print & Design - illustration [back cover]
- Robin P. Richards - illustration [back cover], illustration [inner sleeve]
- Andrew Rosen - photography by [back cover]
- Andrew Douglas - photography by [front cover, inner sleeve]
- Mick Talbot - piano
- Hugh Padgham - remix
- Rudi - saxophone
- Peter Solley - score [strings]
- Paul Weller - written-by
- Bruce Foxton - written-by
- Holland-Dozier-Holland - written-by