The History Of The JAMs is a compilation album released in the USA and Australia by TVT Records and Possum Records respectively. While it borrows the album art from Who Killed The JAMs? its contents are closer to those of the Shag Times compilation, mirroring the latter’s tracklist for the most part.
As TVT were obviously trying to cash in on The Timelords’ recent success while at the same time marketing the record to an audience not necessarly familiar with the duo’s previous output The History Of The JAMs tries its best to remind potential buyers that The JAMs and The Timelords are one and the same through the titles added over the originally textless cover image and additional stickers one some of the CD releases.
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Tracks & Formats
TVT 4040
| LP & CS / 20 Mar 1989 | ||
| A1 | The JAMs: All You Need Is Love (106 bpm) | |
| A2 | The JAMs: Don’t Take Five (Take What You Want) | |
| A3 | The JAMs: Whitney Joins The J.A.M.s | |
| A4 | The JAMs: The Porpoise Song (Instrumental Remix) | |
| B1 | The JAMs: Down Town | |
| B2 | The JAMs: Candyman | |
| B3 | The JAMs: Burn The Beat | |
| B4 | The Timelords: Doctorin’ The Tardis | |
TVT 4040 CD
| CD / 20 Mar 1989 | ||
| 1 | The JAMs: All You Need Is Love (106 bpm) | 5:01 |
| 2 | The JAMs: Don’t Take Five (Take What You Want) | 4:06 |
| 3 | The JAMs: Whitney Joins The J.A.M.s | 7:09 |
| 4 | The JAMs: The Porpoise Song (Instrumental Remix) | 5:17 |
| 5 | The JAMs: Down Town | 4:29 |
| 6 | The JAMs: Candyman | 3:28 |
| 7 | The JAMs: Burn The Beat | 6:31 |
| 8 | The Timelords: Doctorin’ The Tardis | 3:38 |
| 9 | The Timelords: Gary In The Tardis | 3:25 |
The most notable difference between the CD and LP/CS release is the inclusion of Gary In The Tardis as a bonus track, and including a brief timeline section as liner notes instead of a collection of press article reproductions like the LP version did.
The Australian CD version released on Possum Records shifts a few of the later tracks around, with notable differences being the inclusion of the shorter and sanitized version of Burn The Beat, and Disaster Fund Collection (replacing Whitney Joins The J.A.M.s) which was not released on CD anywhere else.
VPCD 6797
| CD, CS & LP / 19 Jun 1989 | ||
| 1 | The JAMs: All You Need Is Love (106 bpm) [no intro] | 4:40 |
| 2 | The JAMs: Don’t Take Five (Take What You Want) | 4:01 |
| 3 | The JAMs: Disaster Fund Collection | 5:41 |
| 4 | The JAMs: Burn The Beat (7″ Mix) | 3:49 |
| 5 | The JAMs: The Porpoise Song (Instrumental Remix) | 5:14 |
| 6 | The JAMs: Down Town | 4:24 |
| 7 | The JAMs: Candyman | 3:27 |
| 8 | The JAMs: Burn The Beat | 6:29 |
| 9 | The Timelords: Doctorin’ The Tardis | 3:35 |
First of all, wahay new page!
Second of all, Me and this bloke (44benjimd) (I don’t even know him) on genius (the lyric posting site thing) have been spending the past 3 days, just fixing lyrics, adding new songs and albums to the site for The KLF/JAMs/Timelords/K Foundation/One World Orchestra/2K so 🙂 -> Everything’s (should be) accurate now and all sorted -> some cretin thought it’d be funny to copy paste the “What Time Is Love (LP Mix)” lyrics onto every single version of “What Time Is Love” for fun – but that’s all fixed now 🙂
Also does this new “Compilations” section now mean Shag Times will also be moved here?
Technically it would belong there but it has one of the official album catalogue numbers. Probably both then?
I suppose it has a designated one, BUT, it also is a compilation of The JAMs, Timelords and KLF, which from a non-fan perspective, are 3 seperate artists, so I’d say it’s a compilation.
Hey, thats me
Yeah, Ford basically did like 80-85% of the stuff and I just tried smoothing out the edges and adding like 10-15 transcriptions (mostly on come down dawn)
Greatly appreciated – some people are apparently unfamiliar with the idea of alternate versions and remixes it seems.