Snap! (album)

Snap!
Compilation album by
The Jam
Released14 October 1983
GenreNew wave[1]
LabelPolydor
The Jam chronology
Dig The New Breed
(1982) 		Snap!
(1983) 		Greatest Hits
(1991)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[2]
Robert ChristgauB+[3]
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music[4]
The New Rolling Stone Album Guide[5]

Snap! is a greatest hits album by The Jam, released on 14 October 1983, one year after the group disbanded.[6] The double-album includes all sixteen of the band's UK singles, plus some B-sides, album tracks and rarities. Stephen Thomas Erlewine of AllMusic called it "one of the greatest greatest-hits albums of all time".[7] A shorter version, removing the 8 non-singles, was released as a single CD in 1985 as Compact Snap!.[8]

  1. ^ Erlewine, Stephen Thomas. "New Wave". AllMusic. Rovi Corporation. Archived from the original on 25 October 2010. Retrieved 4 May 2014.
  2. ^ "Snap! – The Jam | Songs, Reviews, Credits". AllMusic.
  3. ^ "Robert Christgau: Album: The Jam: Snap!". robertchristgau.com.
  4. ^ Larkin, Colin (27 May 2011). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music. Omnibus Press. ISBN 9780857125958 – via Google Books.
  5. ^ Brackett, Nathan; Hoard, Christian David (8 February 2004). The New Rolling Stone Album Guide. Simon and Schuster. ISBN 9780743201698 – via Google Books.
  6. ^ "TrouserPress.com :: Jam". trouserpress.com.
  7. ^ AllMusic review
  8. ^ Cite error: The named reference Compact was invoked but never defined (see the help page).