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"A staggering 49 performances, divided between 16 promotional videos, a seven-song excerpt from a 1980 live show, and a staggering 26 more drawn from the best of the band's television performances, ranging from their U.K. debut on Marc Bolan's fondly remembered Marc through to their nine-song farewell performance on The Tube. A couple of entertaining interviews, a photo gallery, and a short (and, sadly, very poorly narrated) documentary on the band's history complete the portrait. It's the early TV performances that impress the most. The Jam's early years, after all, were spent locked into a state of indecision, as they fought to divorce themselves from their original punk roots, yet had little idea of what they wanted to replace them with. Even after all these years, there remains an absolutely contagious and touchingly naïve energy." (David Thompson, Allmusic)