TS: The Jam, "David Watts" vs. Maximo Park, "Apply Some Pressure"

I actually prefer the Jam's version to the Kinks' original.

The punk rock mockneyisms of the early Jam singles always seemed to me far more affecting than anything that came after.

I did in fact not. I am very very late to the Jam and the liner notes to The Sound Of The Jam just said it was written by Ray Davies. Is it faithful to the original? The Jam version really does sound like the MP song to me.

As for the album, I liked it when I heard it the first time, and listening to it again today liked it even more. They feel like the same kind of alternative to Bloc Party in much the same way that the Futureheads were an alternative to Franz Ferdinand - nowhere near the potential for widespread appeal, but there's a lot of fun to be had in how complex and jam-packed with Stuff their songs are. This is probably an atrocity of an explanation.