I’d rank In The City, All Mod Cons, Setting Sons, Sound Affects all pretty much the same, though it seems like when a band evolves like that it’d be odd to give all the albums the same score. There’s a lot of individual tracks I’ll be revisiting from here on out–“Bricks & Mortar,” “English Rose,” “Wasteland,” “Thick As Thieves,” “Private Hell,” “Eton Rifles,” “Monday.” I can’t believe I forgot some of those.

Really, in the years since first hearing them, all I’d revisited were their three best–“Down In The Tubestation At Midnight,” “Away From The Numbers” and “That’s Entertainment.”

I listened to a few Style Council songs and thought they were dated 80s stuff, Weller getting into synths, eghn.

The reasons why The Jam broke up are even more inscrutable to me than why Pavement broke up, though in Pavement’s case it came out later that Malkmus wasn’t terribly happy about working with Nigel Godrich.

I was curious about Wild Wood because I saw it got a big deluxe edition but I came to the conclusion that it’s an album for another day.

I hope my time listening to Game Theory proves to be fruitful, becuase I’m very, VERY lukewarm about their big wild double album “masterpiece,” to the point where I think it’s a mistake to even call it a cult album.