The Jam Setting Sons Vinyl LP Polydor PD-1-6249 1st Pressing Eton Rifles

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The Jam Setting Sons Vinyl LP - Polydor PD-1-6249 VG++ First Pressing (1979) with Eton Rifles and Strange Town
Condition: VG++ (EX) Vinyl and VG++ (EX) Cover. Vinyl was play-tested on both sides and plays beautifully throughout -- clean copy. Cover is solid with great image, no splits or writing. 
Matrix / Runout (Side A): A-1 ᐉ  PD.1.6249-AS.K STERLING Matrix / Runout (Side B): A-3 ᐉ  PD.1.6249-BS.K  STERLING
Setting Sons is the fourth album by the Jam, released in 1979 by Polydor Records. It reached No. 4 in the UK Albums Chart upon the first week of release, continuing the commercial (and critical) favour that had begun with their previous album All Mod Cons (1978). The sole single from Setting Sons, "The Eton Rifles", became the group's first top 10 UK hit, peaking at No. 3.
Setting Sons remains one of the Jam's most critically favoured works. The Manchester Evening News praised the "excellent songwriting and imaginative and creative production". The Globe and Mail noted that "Setting Sons isn't commercial new wave, a la Joe Jackson or Elvis Costello, but it is relentless and honest".
AllMusic critic Chris Woodstra found that "Setting Sons often reaches brilliance and stands among The Jam's best albums" and, apart from "a number of throwaways and knockoffs", is "an otherwise perfect album." Setting Sons was ranked the fourth best album of 1979 by NME, with "The Eton Rifles" and "Strange Town" ranked at numbers one and five among the year's top tracks.
Track listing
A1 Burning Sky 3:32 A2 Smithers-Jones   2:59 A3 Saturday's Kids 2:52 A4 The Eton Rifles 3:58 A5 (Love Is Like A) Heat Wave   2:23
B1 Girl On The Phone 2:54 B2 Strange Town 3:47 B3 Thick As Thieves 3:39 B4 Private Hell 3:50 B5 Little Boy Soldiers 3:34 B6 Wasteland 2:50
The Jam Paul Weller – vocals, guitars, Hammond organ on "The Eton Rifles" Bruce Foxton – bass guitar, vocals Rick Buckler – drums _____________________________________________
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MINT (M) - Absolutely perfect in every way. Most often this is a still sealed record, records that have been opened are rarely if ever marked as Mint.

NEAR MINT (NM) - A good description is that it looks like it just came from a retail store and it was opened for the first time. In other words, it?s nearly perfect, with no visible defects. 

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