"That's Entertainment" is a 1980 song by British punk/Mod Revivalist group The Jam off their fifth album, Sound Affects.
"That's Entertainment" is probably The Jam's best known and most acclaimed song; it is the group's lone entry, at #306, on the list of the 500 greatest songs of all-time released by Rolling Stone in 2004. It consistently makes similar British lists of all-time great songs, such as BBC Radio 2's Sold On Song 2004 Top 100, at #43...
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"That's Entertainment" is a 1980 song by British punk/Mod Revivalist group The Jam off their fifth album, Sound Affects.
"That's Entertainment" is probably The Jam's best known and most acclaimed song; it is the group's lone entry, at #306, on the list of the 500 greatest songs of all-time released by Rolling Stone in 2004. It consistently makes similar British lists of all-time great songs, such as BBC Radio 2's Sold On Song 2004 Top 100, at #43.
It was never released as a domestic single in the UK during the band's lifetime, but incredibly it made the charts as an import, backed by a live version of "Down in the Tube Station at Midnight," peaking at #21. It was given its first full UK release in 1983 and peaked at #60. A second reissue in 1991 also made the Top 50.
It remains one of the two all-time biggest selling import singles in the UK, alongside The Jam's own "Just Who Is the 5 O'Clock Hero?," which would hit the charts at #8 as an import in 1982. The group's appearance on the...
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