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hayduke2
(Southampton, NY)
Posted: May 19, 2013 - 13:08
 
in nymag.com there's a great series of photos by Janette Beckman, which includes
Paul Weller and Pete Townshend in London, 1980

"Paul Weller always loved Pete Townshend, who was like the first-coming of the mods. This was the first time they met. They're standing outside the The Marquee Club, where The Jam and The Who probably both played. The headline was 'The Punk and the Mod-father.' Old mod meets new mod."

oh yeah, and a super shot of young Adam Ant!!!

oppositelock
(On the road)
Posted: May 03, 2013 - 09:06
 
{#Bananajam}{#Dancingbanana_2}

Proclivities
(Paris of the Piedmont)
Posted: Apr 18, 2013 - 05:42
 
 kcar wrote:
Captures a time and place so well...no matter where you lived and when. 

How the hell did Paul Weller go from this to Style Council?!? 

 
I guess a lot of things changed for him in three years or so.

grant
Posted: Apr 18, 2013 - 05:38
 
Fine British pop - definitely captures a time and place.

One of my favorite bands from this era that has stood the test of time.

kcar
Posted: Mar 28, 2013 - 23:47
 
Captures a time and place so well...no matter where you lived and when. 

How the hell did Paul Weller go from this to Style Council?!? 

drewd
Posted: Mar 17, 2013 - 19:25
 
 gemtag wrote:
This is a kick in the balls, in a good way....

  There's a good way ? Certainly not on the receiving end of one ..
That's NOT entertainment  !!!
The_Enemy
(...is within)
Posted: Dec 13, 2012 - 16:49
 
I'm workin' late and Bill is rockin'.

Needless to say, I'm not getting as much done as I'd like.{#Dancingbanana}

Aw, well... the economy is in the tank, anyway. 

lily34
(GTFO)
Posted: Dec 13, 2012 - 16:48
 
obviously, as i've said, i love this tune. this recording of it seems muffled. maybe it's me. but, i agree - from the other album, it is a bit more there.

msymmes
(Toronto, CA)
Posted: Nov 23, 2012 - 13:14
 
 
Stingray wrote:
Never liked them!
 

Not even Town Called Malice ?     Number one in the UK for a while.



DaidyBoy
(Bristol, UK)
Posted: Nov 12, 2012 - 07:47
 
Fabulous.  When I had maroon hair and grey loafers.  When I had hair.....

Stingray
Posted: Sep 21, 2012 - 16:24
 
Never liked them!

yuel
(Taka-Tuka-Land)
Posted: Aug 21, 2012 - 05:47
 
 rotten wrote:
Great song from the Jam, but the demo version from "Snap" is far superior to this version from "Sound Affects".
 

imo definitly right!

Proclivities
(Carrboro, NC)
Posted: Jul 09, 2012 - 12:05
 
 coloradojohn wrote:
I will always feel thankful to Pete Townshend for reminding us in the late '70s and early '80s in our own already rather brain-dead and Profit-Driven media how we should be paying more and truly due attention to up and coming rockers The Jam and The Clash and all the stuff I was glad to get the scoop on and a tasty bite of then and really only still hear on RP anymore and thank God for that!
 
As much as I always enjoyed Mr. Townshend's work, I didn't rely on him to tell me about the great changes and innovations in music from the mid-1970s forward, it was a good acknowledgement on his part, though.

coloradojohn
(A Mile High and then some, Cherry Creek, Denver)
Posted: Jun 23, 2012 - 12:57
 
I will always feel thankful to Pete Townshend for reminding us in the late '70s and early '80s in our own already rather brain-dead and Profit-Driven media how we should be paying more and truly due attention to up and coming rockers The Jam and The Clash and all the stuff I was glad to get the scoop on and a tasty bite of then and really only still hear on RP anymore and thank God for that!

kaybee
(Lost in the Wilds of Toronto)
Posted: Jun 07, 2012 - 18:14
 
I love the cleansing anger of this song!  A great anthem for the British 80's but also for today everywhere.

rotten
Posted: Apr 16, 2012 - 18:04
 
Great song from the Jam, but the demo version from "Snap" is far superior to this version from "Sound Affects".

aspicer
(Chicago, IL)
Posted: Feb 17, 2012 - 13:00
 
A classic and always entertaining even after all these years!

Purple_Turtle
(Hamburg, Germany)
Posted: Feb 17, 2012 - 12:59
 
Love it!

luvinlife
Posted: Feb 13, 2012 - 07:37
 
YEAH - that's entertainment...


gemtag
(Texas)
Posted: Jan 12, 2012 - 13:16
 
This is a kick in the balls, in a good way....

Foot
(NorCal / Wine)
Posted: Dec 11, 2011 - 18:06
 
Can't say it enough - the few, the proud, the godlike - 10++

Stranglersfan
(Revelstoke, B.C.)
Posted: Dec 11, 2011 - 17:58
 
Yes, I believe this is a perfect 10!
Cheers

peter_james_bond
(West Of The Burg)
Posted: Oct 29, 2011 - 18:58
 
 Dakota wrote:
I don't think this is the demo version, or at least there are various demo versions floating around.  Demo version on Snap! (which I have) sounds better, in my opinion.  It's simpler, more stripped down, without the synthesizer sounds overlayed. 
 
Could be the basic vocals and acoustic guitar are from the demo. They may have added other tracks to the demo in the studio.


Foot
(NorCal / Wine)
Posted: Oct 29, 2011 - 18:54
 
Thank you RP - one of the best songs of all time - a rare 10+

ericeobrien
Posted: Oct 13, 2011 - 20:07
 
The fact that THIS entertainment has been free for a long time convinced me to make a donation. Thanks for the service—and for The Jam.

hencini
Posted: Aug 07, 2011 - 17:34
 
 peter_james_bond wrote:
Trivia - What you are hearing is the demo version. They couldn't better the demo in the studio so the band simply used the demo on the album. {#Cool}
 
Did not know that, but it makes a ton of sense.  Weller claims to have written this song in 15 minutes after coming home drunk one night.  Easily one of their best.  Billy Bragg does a nice cover as well.  

Dakota
Posted: Aug 07, 2011 - 16:48
 
I don't think this is the demo version, or at least there are various demo versions floating around.  Demo version on Snap! (which I have) sounds better, in my opinion.  It's simpler, more stripped down, without the synthesizer sounds overlayed.  

 peter_james_bond wrote:
Trivia - What you are hearing is the demo version. They couldn't better the demo in the studio so the band simply used the demo on the album. {#Cool}
 



misterbearbaby
(Marina del Rey, California)
Posted: Aug 07, 2011 - 16:48
 
I went crazy and laid down the biggest single sum I ever threw on a counter for a mint copy of "In the City" vinyl. An excellent band.

nagsheadlocal
(North Carolina, the new New Jersey)
Posted: Jul 27, 2011 - 07:15
 
 fredriley wrote:

That comment alone could be deconstructed in more ways than a pomegranate has pips. FYI, this "wimp-rock" band was as big as The Clash in the 80s, with Paul Weller seen in the same league as Joe Strummer, as working-class heroes who spoke of the time and spoke for many of those of us in the working class who were getting it up the @rse from the Thatcher counter-revolution. This song is evocative, and descriptive, of its time and is as much social document as song.

Paul Weller himself has gone a bit far up his own @arse for my liking as a solo artist, but that so often happens with young, angry artists who become famous and become themselves the establishment. Even Joe Strummer admitted that he "sold out". So it goes.
 
Alas, all too true.

But, you know, you could make a good mix CD of all the songs, such as this one, that makes you want to go downtown and throw bricks through the windows of all the banks, stock market offices, and other lawyer emporiums.

The Who's "Summertime Blues" off "Live at Leeds," for instance. And, of course, John Lennon's "Working Class Hero." 

Maybe it's the fact that we just got a memo that the budget for office supplies has been cut to zero, so we need to bring in pens and note paper from home, and all the while our lords and masters are going on a "planning retreat" that just happens to be taking place at a 4-star golf resort, or maybe it's the 6th day of 100-degree heat here in NC, but I'm looking a little more lovingly at those bricks this morning. 

eruwenolorien
(SC)
Posted: Jul 27, 2011 - 07:14
 
Thanks to the Stranger than Fiction soundtrack for introducing me to this one. Good song.

The_Enemy
(...is within)
Posted: Jun 05, 2011 - 16:47
 
 fredriley wrote:
FYI, this "wimp-rock" band was as big as The Clash in the 80s
 
truth.

I was a teenager living in Ottawa in the 80s and these guys were easily competing for the top of my list.

Ottawa's a nice tourist city now but it was a dumpy post-industrial city then. Literally, the city's only strip club closed due to lack of business.

I had a job in the downtown and I knew the homeless and the drunks on first name basis. The Jam absolutely hit a home run on this song so far as I was concerned at the time.

I rate it a 10. 

Cynaera
(South of Neanderthal)
Posted: Jun 05, 2011 - 16:40
 
 PA1749 wrote:
This song got me clapping my feet!
 
{#Clap}{#Roflol}{#Clap}{#Roflol}{#Clap}

PA1749
(Jim Thorpe, PA)
Posted: Apr 23, 2011 - 14:58
 
This song got me clapping my feet!

Businessgypsy
(Deepest, Darkest Florida)
Posted: Apr 07, 2011 - 16:15
 
mgkiwi wrote:
Stonking tune from a great original band with a musical genius! Saw them back in 77 at the Greyhound in Groydon when they were starting out - little did we know then!
sorry - did you say Stonking? Oh, my.


forge
(Boynton Beach, FL)
Posted: Apr 07, 2011 - 16:15
 
 Art_Carnage wrote:
The funniest thing about this is the band name. What could possibly be less like a "jam" than this piece of lame wimp-rock? I would love to have been in on the band meeting when they came up with that name. "Hey guys! I got the perfect name, that in no way would it ever be possible for people in the future to see it as incredibly cheesy and unfortunately, sadly, ironic - The Jam!"
 
Hey Art I know of at least three or four net radio places where you can get all the Aldo Nova you like, bro.


jagdriver
(Just a nod and a wink south of Paradise)
Posted: Apr 07, 2011 - 16:13
 
THIS is entertainment!  



fredriley
(Nottingham, UK)
Posted: Mar 07, 2011 - 04:50
 
 Art_Carnage wrote:
The funniest thing about this is the band name. What could possibly be less like a "jam" than this piece of lame wimp-rock? I would love to have been in on the band meeting when they came up with that name. "Hey guys! I got the perfect name, that in no way would it ever be possible for people in the future to see it as incredibly cheesy and unfortunately, sadly, ironic - The Jam!"
 
That comment alone could be deconstructed in more ways than a pomegranate has pips. FYI, this "wimp-rock" band was as big as The Clash in the 80s, with Paul Weller seen in the same league as Joe Strummer, as working-class heroes who spoke of the time and spoke for many of those of us in the working class who were getting it up the @rse from the Thatcher counter-revolution. This song is evocative, and descriptive, of its time and is as much social document as song.

Paul Weller himself has gone a bit far up his own @arse for my liking as a solo artist, but that so often happens with young, angry artists who become famous and become themselves the establishment. Even Joe Strummer admitted that he "sold out". So it goes.



Poacher
(Brighton, UK)
Posted: Mar 07, 2011 - 04:46
 
 mgkiwi wrote:
Stonking tune from a great original band with a musical genius! Saw them back in 77 at the Greyhound in Groydon when they were starting out - little did we know then!
 
Oh my. The Greyhound? 77? I was there! That takes me back somewhat. . . beer soaked floors, loons, long hair, head in the speakers. 

Those were the days. . . sigh. . .  

Monicks
Posted: Jan 30, 2011 - 16:12
 
Takes me back!

mgkiwi
(French Alps - rivet rivet)
Posted: Jan 19, 2011 - 09:22
 
Stonking tune from a great original band with a musical genius! Saw them back in 77 at the Greyhound in Groydon when they were starting out - little did we know then!

Johnny-smooth
(On my bicycle)
Posted: Jan 03, 2011 - 13:46
 
some English Beat would follow this one nicely

helgigermany
(Germany)
Posted: Dec 02, 2010 - 23:16
 
Nice!

Proclivities
(Carrboro, NC)
Posted: Nov 01, 2010 - 07:08
 
 treatment_bound wrote:

Thanks for the support.  I've been lobbying for this for about 4 1/2 years now, and have only seen "The Butterfly Collector" added to the three cuts that were being played when I first joined the fun here.

We could start the additions with "Start!", the leadoff cut on Sound Affects.  That would surely kick off a lively discussion as to whether or not that riff is a tribute to or a rip-off of George's "Taxman" on Revolver.

 
It's pretty obviously a tribute or homage.  I don't think Paul Weller would have expected no one to have noticed the similarity.  Do you really think he thought: "Oh, no one will remember this tune - it was recorded by a now-obscure band called 'The Beatles' - we'll fool everyone."



Clark_Novato
(Novato, CA)
Posted: Sep 14, 2010 - 19:37
 
Always loved this song.  A refreshing and melodic change from The Jam's more hard core tunes.  Makes me think of post-party wind down on a hot summer's night in McLean, VA.



WonderLizard
(2,755.46 mi. due east of Paradise)
Posted: Aug 25, 2010 - 07:49
 
The genius of this particular track is IMHO the instrumentation—two acoustic guitars and an electric bass—the AMG song review sez there are also shakers, but they're barely noticable. Oh, there's some backward electric guitar scrawl in the middle 8 that I think was/is misplaced, but otherwise a fine example of the infinite diversity of rock'n'roll.

Giselle62
(many bear, big rock, estuary California)
Posted: Jul 28, 2010 - 16:00
 
 Art_Carnage wrote:
The funniest thing about this is the band name. What could possibly be less like a "jam" than this piece of lame wimp-rock? I would love to have been in on the band meeting when they came up with that name. "Hey guys! I got the perfect name, that in no way would it ever be possible for people in the future to see it as incredibly cheesy and unfortunately, sadly, ironic - The Jam!"
 
Well, the eat a lot of jam on toast there—-also, they probably have a lot of traffic jams. Maybe they meant it that way?


Art_Carnage
(DeepintheheartofTexas)
Posted: Jul 24, 2010 - 08:03
 
The funniest thing about this is the band name. What could possibly be less like a "jam" than this piece of lame wimp-rock? I would love to have been in on the band meeting when they came up with that name. "Hey guys! I got the perfect name, that in no way would it ever be possible for people in the future to see it as incredibly cheesy and unfortunately, sadly, ironic - The Jam!"

apd
(Toronto, On)
Posted: Jun 22, 2010 - 11:01
 
 treatment_bound wrote:

Thanks for the support.  I've been lobbying for this for about 4 1/2 years now, and have only seen "The Butterfly Collector" added to the three cuts that were being played when I first joined the fun here.

We could start the additions with "Start!", the leadoff cut on Sound Affects.  That would surely kick off a lively discussion as to whether or not that riff is a tribute to or a rip-off of George's "Taxman" on Revolver.

 
Not sure that there's a debate on that: I'm pretty sure Weler copped to that as a "tribute".


peter_james_bond
(The Burg)
Posted: Jun 22, 2010 - 11:00
 
Trivia - What you are hearing is the demo version. They couldn't better the demo in the studio so the band simply used the demo on the album. {#Cool}


crockydile
(Outer Spiral Arm, Milky Way)
Posted: May 21, 2010 - 15:16
 
3—>2. Not very good entertainment.