Direction Reaction Creation
Direction Reaction Creation is an anthology issued in 1997 by the British band the Jam. It includes 117 tracks over 5 discs. Discs 1 to 4 comprise all of the band's studio albums and all of the non-album singles and B-sides presented chronologically. Disc 5 is made up of demos and outtakes. The box set reached number 8 in the UK Albums Chart.
Track listing
CD 1
- "In the City"
- "Takin' My Love"
- "Art School"
- "I've Changed My Address"
- "Slow Down"
- "I Got By in Time"
- "Away from the Numbers"
- "Batman Theme"
- "Sounds from the Street"
- "Non-Stop Dancing"
- "Time for Truth"
- "Bricks and Mortar"
- "All [Around the World (The Jam song)|All Around the World]"
- "Carnaby Street"
- "The Modern World"
- "London Traffic"
- "Standards"
- "Life from a Window"
- "The Combine"
- "Don't Tell Them You're Sane"
- "In the Street Today"
- "London Girl"
- "I Need You "
- "Here Comes the Weekend"
- "Tonight at Noon"
- "In the Midnight Hour"
CD 2
- "News of the World"
- "Aunties and Uncles "
- "Innocent Man"
- "David Watts"
- "'A' Bomb in Wardour Street"
- "Down in the Tube Station at Midnight"
- "So Sad About Us"
- "The Night"
- "All Mod Cons"
- "To Be Someone "
- "Mr. Clean"
- "English Rose"
- "In the Crowd"
- "Billy Hunt"
- "It's Too Bad"
- "Fly"
- "The Place I Love"
- "Strange Town"
- "The Butterfly Collector"
- "When You're Young"
- "Smithers-Jones"
- "The Eton Rifles"
- "See-Saw"
CD 3
- "Girl on the Phone"
- "Thick as Thieves"
- "Private Hell"
- "Little Boy Soldiers"
- "Wasteland"
- "Burning Sky"
- "Smithers-Jones"
- "Saturday's Kids"
- "Heat Wave"
- "Going Underground"
- "The Dreams of Children"
- "Start!"
- "Liza Radley"
- "Pretty Green"
- "Monday"
- "But I'm Different Now"
- "Set the House Ablaze"
- "That's Entertainment"
- "Dream Time"
- "Man in the Corner Shop"
- "Music for the Last Couple"
- "Boy About Town"
- "Scrape Away"
CD 4
- "Funeral Pyre"
- "Disguises"
- "Absolute Beginners"
- "Tales from the Riverbank"
- "Town Called Malice"
- "Precious"
- "Happy Together"
- "Ghosts"
- "Just Who Is the 5 O'Clock Hero?"
- "Trans-Global Express"
- "Running on the Spot"
- "Circus"
- "The Planner's Dream Goes Wrong"
- "Carnation"
- "The Gift"
- "The Great Depression"
- "The Bitterest Pill (I Ever Had to Swallow)"
- "Pity Poor Alfie/Fever"
- "Beat Surrender"
- "Shopping"
- "Move on Up"
- "Stoned Out of My Mind"
- "War"
CD 5
- "In the City"
- "Time for Truth"
- "Sounds from the Street"
- "So Sad About Us"
- "Worlds Apart"
- "Billy Hunt"
- "It's Too Bad"
- "To Be Someone"
- "David Watts"
- "Best of Both Worlds"
- "That's Entertainment"
- "Rain"
- "Dream Time"
- "Dead End Street"
- "Stand By Me"
- "Every Little Bit Hurts"
- "Tales from the Riverbank"
- "Walking in Heaven's Sunshine"
- "Precious"
- "Pity Poor Alfie"
- "The Bitterest Pill "
- "A Solid Bond in Your Heart"
Personnel
- Afrodiziak – background vocals
- Martin Drover – trumpet
- Claudia Fontaine – background vocals
- Russell Henderson – steel drums
- Steve Nichol – trumpet, Hammond organ
- Keith Thomas – saxophone, soprano sax
- Luke Tunney – trumpet
- Caron Wheeler – background vocals
- Peter Wilson – piano, drums, keyboards, Hammond organ, producer, string arrangements, remixing
- Tracie Young – background vocals
Additional personnel
- Neil Allen – liner notes, essay
- Vic Coppersmith-Heaven – producer
- Paul Cox – photography
- Johnny Devlin – liner notes, essay
- Ian Dickson – photography
- Jill Furmanovsky – photography
- Pat Gilbert – liner notes, essay
- Frank Griffin – photography
- Simon Halfon – art direction, design
- Paolo Hewitt – liner notes, foreword
- The Jam – producer
- Mike Laye – photography
- Gered Mankowitz – photography
- Dennis Munday – producer, compilation, remixing, research
- Steve Musters – remixing
- Carlos Olms – photography
- Denis O'Regan – photography
- Chris Parry – producer
- John Reed – liner notes, essay
- Pennie Smith – photography
- Vic Smith – producer
- Tony Taverner – producer
- Virginia Turbett – photography
- Laurens Van Houten – photography
- Roger Wake – digital remastering
- Arnold Williams – photography