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. The back cover of the album features an excerpt from Percy Bysshe Shelley's poem The Masque of Anarchy. I rotate what I own, always adding or taking away a spice from the sauce - or simply give them away for the youngins' to enjoy. 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!

The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. It’s regarded by critics and fans (as well as Weller) as their most adventurous and experimental collection of material, drawing musical influences from the ‘post-punk’ groups of the late-70s - Wire, Gang Of Four and Joy Division as well as neo-psychedelic touches from The Beatles and The Zombies etc. The distinctive cover art is a pastiche of the artwork used on various BBC sound effects records of the 1970s, incorporating ‘pop-art’ imagery.What a stupendous mix of this record - there are sounds included on this pressing you never even heard on previous pressings. This involved consulting a few of the band's friends as to what they thought the best release would be. The original sounds much more dynamic, the sound is rich and full, each instrument and vocal track is clean and sounds great. 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. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average.

Not only are all the dynamics fully retained in this wonderful new remaster, but there has been a careful amount of re-equalization to correct from the midrange-heavy remaster from 2000. Buckler's drumming suddenly has a ferocity that I never noticed before in a dozen previous versions of this record. I am unfamiliar with any previous release that may have been remastered by him but if this is the kind of quality that comes as a result, Universal mastering should hire him to remaster the entire back catalog of the Siouxsie and the Banshees botched remasters. Noted musical influences on Sound Affects include post-punk groups such as Wire, Gang of Four, and Joy Division and, particularly evident in Rick Buckler's drumming, Michael Jackson's Off the Wall. The cover art is a pastiche of the artwork used on various Sound Effects records produced by the BBC during the 1970s.That was the sort of sound he imagined we should be going for: hard, metallic, quite stripped-down… jagged.