Collection (The Jam album) explained

The Jam Collection
Type:	Compilation album
Artist:	The Jam
Cover:	The_Jam_Collection.jpg
Released:	22 October 1996
Genre:	Rock
Label:	Polydor
Prev Title:	Extras
Prev Year:	1992
Next Title:	Direction Reaction Creation
Next Year:	1997

Collection is a compilation by The Jam. It does not include any of the group's UK singles, focusing instead on album tracks and B-sides, although one track, "Just Who Is the 5 O'Clock Hero?", did make the UK singles chart as an import.

Track listing

All tracks by Paul Weller.

1. "Away from the Numbers" – 4:02
2. "I Got By in Time" – 2:05
3. "I Need You (For Someone)" – 2:40
4. "To Be Someone (Didn't We Have a Nice Time)" – 2:28
5. "Mr. Clean" – 3:27
6. "English Rose" – 2:46
7. "In The Crowd" – 3:17
8. "It's Too Bad" – 2:34
9. "The Butterfly Collector" – 3:08
10. "Thick as Thieves" – 3:37
11. "Private Hell" – 3:46
12. "Wasteland" – 2:50
13. "Burning Sky" – 3:26
14. "Saturday's Kids" – 2:51
15. "Liza Radley" – 2:27
16. "Pretty Green" – 2:34
17. "Monday" – 2:57
18. "Man in the Corner Shop" – 3:11
19. "Boy About Town" – 1:55
20. "Tales from the Riverbank" – 3:32
21. "Ghosts" – 2:10
22. "Just Who Is the 5 O'Clock Hero?" – 2:13
23. "Carnation" – 3:24
24. "The Great Depression" – 2:51
25. "Shopping" – 3:23

Personnel

• Vic Coppersmith-Heaven – Producer
• Douglas Brothers – Photography
• Derek d'Souza – Photography
• Simon Halfon – Design
• The Jam – Producer
• Dennis Munday – Compilation Producer, Research
• Chris Parry – Producer
• John Reed – Liner Notes
• Tony Taverner – Producer
• Roger Wake – Digital Remastering
• Pete Wilson – Producer