''Snap!'' is a greatest hits album by

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, released on 14 October 1983, one year after the group disbanded. The double-album includes all sixteen of the band's UK singles, plus some B-sides, album tracks and rarities.

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called it "one of the ''greatest'' greatest-hits albums of all time".

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/ref> A shorter version, removing the 8 non-singles, was released as a single CD in 1985 as ''Compact Snap!''.

Editions

Initial quantities of the album included a limited edition 4 track EP, ''Live'', recorded at

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during the farewell tour of 1982. Featuring the tracks "

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", "

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", "The Great Depression" and "But I'm Different Now", the EP is notable for the fact that these songs were never re-issued on any other Jam compilation. A shorter version, cutting 8 tracks, was released as a single CD in 1984 as ''Compact Snap!''. The omitted tracks were the non-single tracks "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 result is that ''Compact Snap!'' is a collection of all The Jam's singles, with the exception of "

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". The CD was repackaged in 1990 as ''All The Choice Cuts'' for the Australian market as part of the

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Startrax series. ''Compact Snap!'' has a similar track listing to

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with "Smithers-Jones" replacing "Just Who Is the 5 O'Clock Hero?".

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re-released the album in its entirety on CD in 2006, initial copies including the limited edition live EP.

Track listing

;Limited edition live EP #"

" (Live at Wembley Arena, 2&3 Dec. 1982) #"

" (Live at Wembley Arena, 2&3 Dec. 1982) #"The Great Depression" (Live at Wembley Arena, 2&3 Dec. 1982) #"But I'm Different Now" (Live at Wembley Arena, 2&3 Dec. 1982)

Charts

''Snap!'' spent 30 weeks on the UK album charts, which debuted and peaked at No. 2 for two weeks.

References

{{Authority control The Jam albums 1983 compilation albums Polydor Records compilation albums Polydor Records live albums