Midweek Update: Set The House Ablaze

Staying positive with The Jam, The Clash, Ukrainian Music, Wench, plus memories of Roberta Flack, Rick Buckler, and Ruth Fletcher.

As I wrote last Sunday, I don’t listen to The Jam so much these days. But when writing about Rick Buckler’s departure, I did take time out to listen to 1980’s Sound Affects, primarily to check someone else’s comment that “Scrape Away” was Rick’s finest drumming performance. (And it is great, that’s for sure.) Listening to the whole album, I once again c…