Setting Sons (album) by The Jam 

This album At A Glance Setting Sons by The Jam (1979) Average Rating:  78/100 (from 100 votes)    Accolades: Top 20 albums of 1979 (17th) Top 1,000 albums of all time (688th) Buy album             Use the iTunes, Amazon or eBay buttons to safely buy this item from one of the world's top online stores.

Setting Sons is an album by The Jam. It is ranked number 688 in the overall greatest album chart with a total rank score of 1,639 from 51 greatest album charts.

Setting Sons is ranked number 17 in the best albums of 1979 and number 168 in the best albums of the 1970s.

In total, there are 12 music albums by The Jam which appear in the greatest album charts and Setting Sons is NOT ranked as the best. The best album by The Jam is All Mod Cons which is ranked number 433 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 2,713.

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Setting Sons track list

#		Track	Rating
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1.		Girl On The Phone	80/100 (16 votes)
2.		Thick As Thieves	80/100 (13 votes)
3.		Private Hell	79/100 (12 votes)
4.		Little Boy Soldiers	79/100 (14 votes)
5.		Wasteland	77/100 (11 votes)
6.		Burning Sky	78/100 (12 votes)
7.		Smithers-Jones	78/100 (12 votes)
8.		Saturday's Kids	78/100 (12 votes)
9.		The Eton Rifles	81/100 (23 votes)
10.		Heatwave	78/100 (11 votes)

The tracks on this album have an average rating of 79 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated.)

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Latest 20 charts that this album appears in:

Year	Source	Chart	Rank	Rank Score
2013	Norman Bates	Top 50 Music Albums of 1979	13/50	4
2013	Norman Bates	Top 100 Music Albums of the 1970s	93/100	2
2013	paladisiac	Top 27 Music Albums of 1979	24/27	1
2013	harkan	Top 100 Music Albums of the 1970s	63/100	8
2013	Aramis	Top 30 Music Albums of 1979	6/30	4
2013	harkan	Top 40 Music Albums of 1979	8/40	4
2013	Secondsoul	Top 100 Music Albums of the 1970s	37/100	13
2013	ProfessorSquid	Top 100 Music Albums of the 1970s	90/100	2
2013	Hayden	Top 15 Music Albums of 1979	11/15	2
2013	Boo69	Top 10 Music Albums of 1979	9/10	1
2013	ProfessorSquid	Top 25 Music Albums of 1979	11/25	3
2013	jac	Top 20 Greatest Music Albums	18/20	15
2013	temment	Top 50 Music Albums of 1979	9/50	4
2013	247joelnetwork	Top 25 Music Albums of 1979	23/25	1
2013	247joelnetwork	Top 100 Music Albums of the 1970s	63/100	8
2012	lethalnezzle	Top 50 Music Albums of 1979	40/50	1
2012	btener11	Top 50 Music Albums of 1979	12/50	4
2012	Necharsian	Top 90 Music Albums of the 1970s	44/90	10
2012	btener11	Best Ever Punk Rock	40/50	-
2012	Peter Lewis	Top 100 Greatest Music Albums	9/100	92
		Total Charts:   The total number of charts that this album has appeared in.		51
		Total Rank Score:   The total rank score.		1,639

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85/100

06/04/2013 18:24

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55/100

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80/100

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05/06/2013 05:38

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90/100

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From Omid 06/23/2011 20:05

A very excellent and enjoyable album.Favorites:The Eton Rifles & Wasteland.

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From jojoexile 05/02/2011 19:41

all of it is CLASSIC except for Heatwave,which is useless...

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From an_outlaw 04/06/2010 04:28

Eton Rifles and Thick as Thieves for me.

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From RaineyWins 02/16/2010 00:25

Smithers-Jones is my fav

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