{"id":390,"date":"2007-06-07T19:07:14","date_gmt":"2007-06-08T00:07:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.imheavyduty.com\/?p=390"},"modified":"2007-06-07T19:07:14","modified_gmt":"2007-06-08T00:07:14","slug":"the-jam-the-gift","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/2007\/the-jam-the-gift\/","title":{"rendered":"The Jam &#8212; The Gift"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/imheavyduty.heavydutyincorporated.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/jamthegift.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-704\" title=\"The Jam -- The Gift\" src=\"http:\/\/imheavyduty.heavydutyincorporated.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/jamthegift.jpg\" alt=\"The Jam -- The Gift\" width=\"500\" height=\"1000\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul class=\"recdata\">\n<li><strong>Artist:<\/strong> The Jam<\/li>\n<li><strong>Title:<\/strong> The Gift<\/li>\n<li><strong>Year:<\/strong> 1982<\/li>\n<li><strong>Format:<\/strong> Vinyl 12 in.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Rating (1-10):<\/strong> 10<\/li>\n<li><strong>Owner:<\/strong> Tracy, Mary (two copies)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Acquired:<\/strong> I can&#8217;t remember<\/li>\n<li><strong>Keeper:<\/strong> Yes<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Now for those of you watching in black and white&#8230;<br \/>\nThis one is in Technicolor.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Those are the barely audible words spoken by Paul Weller that kick-off this brilliant record. I&#8217;ve listened to <em>The Gift<\/em>, all 32 glorious minutes of it, at least five times in the last 24 hours. That&#8217;s probably only half as much as I listened to it when I was 15. I bought it as soon as it was released. This was their last album and their biggest hit, at least in the UK. Some fans and critics didn&#8217;t dig it, but whatever, this one is probably my favorite. &#8220;Inconsistent&#8221;? That&#8217;s crazy. Every song is great. After a couple hundred listens you&#8217;ll agree, if you don&#8217;t already.<\/p>\n<p>I use to blast this in my bedroom using the speakers and wearing my headphones at the same time while playing along on my old Ludwig drum kit. It was like I was swimming in the music. What a great feeling, and this is a perfect album for a drummer, with a lot of fast songs, fills, breaks and bashing cymbals. And drummer <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rick_Buckler\">Rick Buckler<\/a> even looks the coolest on the album cover (on the left).  The drummer boy in me likes the instrumental &#8220;Circus&#8221; the best, but as I said before all the songs are great. Other favorites include &#8220;Happy Together&#8221;, &#8220;Ghosts&#8221;, Precious&#8221;, &#8220;Trans-Global Express&#8221;, &#8220;Town Called Malice&#8221;, &#8220;The Gift&#8221;, and the few I left out. We have two copies and we&#8217;re keeping both.<\/p>\n<p>Long live The Jam!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Artist: The Jam Title: The Gift Year: 1982 Format: Vinyl 12 in. Rating (1-10): 10 Owner: Tracy, Mary (two copies) Acquired: I can&#8217;t remember Keeper: Yes &#8220;Now for those of you watching in black and white&#8230; This one is in Technicolor.&#8221; Those are the barely audible words spoken by Paul Weller that kick-off this brilliant [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[472,452,453],"tags":[506,754,835,46,1033],"class_list":["post-390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-j","category-music","category-record-collection","tag-506","tag-jam","tag-mod-revival","tag-music","tag-vinyl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}