Compact Snap!

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Compact Snap!
Greatest hits by The Jam
Released	1983
Genre	Rock
Label	Polydor
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Compact Snap! is a greatest hits CD collection from The Jam. It is an abbreviated version of the vinyl double-album Snap!, originally released in 1983.

The Compact Snap! CD omitted 8 tracks from Snap! in order be released as a single CD. The omitted tracks were "Away From The Numbers", "Billy Hunt", "English Rose", "Mr. Clean", "The Butterfly Collector", "Thick As Thieves", "Man in the Corner Shop" and "Tales from the Riverbank".

The album was repackaged in 1990 as All The Choice Cuts as part of the Polydor Startrax series.

[edit] Track listing

1. "In the City"
2. "All Around the World"
3. "The Modern World"
4. "News of the World"
5. "David Watts"
6. "'A' Bomb in Wardour Street"
7. "Down in the Tube Station at Midnight"
8. "Strange Town"
9. "When You're Young"
10. "Smithers-Jones"
11. "The Eton Rifles"
12. "Going Underground"
13. "The Dreams of Children"
14. "That's Entertainment" [demo version]
15. "Start!"
16. "Funeral Pyre" [remix]
17. "Absolute Beginners"
18. "Town Called Malice"
19. "Precious"
20. "The Bitterest Pill (I Ever Had to Swallow)"
21. "Beat Surrender"