Jim Bob - The Very Best Of...plus bonus tracks (2006)

Tracklist

CD1
01. Dumb & Dumber
02. Candy Floss
03. Victim
04. A Bad Day
05. Young, Dumb And Full Of Fun
06. The Mufty Day Riots
07. You Can't Take It With You
08. Coming Back 4 More
09. Mrs Fucking MacMurphy
10. Come On Smart Bomb!
11. Cinderella Reversed
12. In The Future All This Will Be Yours
13. Back To School
14. My Name Is John (And I Want You Back)
15. Jim's Mobile Disco
16. Angelstrike!
17. Touchy Feely

CD2
01. Welcome To Jim's Super Stereoworld
02. The Queen Visits Stereoworld
03. Mission Control (Here Comes Trouble remix)
04. Miss Stereoworld
05. Stereothumpin'
06. Jim's Mobile Disco (Chemical Cosh remix)
07. Partyworld
08. Dear Jim
09. Happier Times (JR Unreleased b-side)
10. So Long Farewell (JR unreleased single mix)
11. Song For Friends (slow version)

As part of Carter the Unstoppable Sex Machine, Jim Bob gained fame for his punk/glam rabble-rousers that were half U.K.-specific puns, half savage portraits of a rotting nation. On his own, Jim Bob carved out a calmer but still sharp route on various solo and collaborative releases, given an overview on this often enjoyable release. Those familiar with his hectoring Carter USM days would be most surprised by his gentler singing here, far more easygoing and conventionally tuneful but sometimes tinged with the bite of old. That bite still resides in his subject matter and approach, though -- if songs like Candy Floss and the great The Mufty Day Riots are, at least sonically, cheap and cheery variations of the bigger Carter USM stompers, it's more a matter of degree, while the sense of rain-drenched seaside resorts and broken-down clubs on songs like A Bad Day comes through in the romantic but melancholy performances, often keyboard-led. Meanwhile, his gimlet-eyed but always emotive portrait of Britain's frustrated and screwed-over populace continues song for song, whether talking about being only the victim of a so-so crime or simply the frustrations of petty authority and small-mindedness in general.

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