The Jam: Punk Icons | Full Documentary | John Robb | Pat Gilbert | Gary Mulholland
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- Опубликовано: 29 сен 2024
- This is the long awaited critical review of The Jam which draws upon rare footage of the band, previously unavailable , live at the Reading Festival, in performance in Germany and from British TV appearances from Top of the Pops and The Tube, to produce the first comprehensive, independent critical review of the work of this iconic band.
The Jam were an English mod revival/punk rock band formed in 1972 at Sheerwater Secondary School in Woking, Surrey. They released 18 consecutive Top 40 singles in the United Kingdom, from their debut in 1977 to their break-up in December 1982, including four number one hits. As of 2007, "That's Entertainment" and "Just Who Is the 5 O'Clock Hero?" remain the best-selling import singles of all time in the UK. They released one live album and six studio albums, the last of which, The Gift, reached number one on the UK Albums Chart. When the group disbanded in 1982, their first 15 singles were re-released and all placed within the top 100.
While the Jam shared the "angry young man" outlook and fast tempo of the mid-1970s British punk rock movement, in contrast with it the band wore smartly tailored suits reminiscent of English pop-bands in the early 1960s and incorporated mainstream 1960s rock and R&B influences into its sound, particularly from the Who's work of that period and also drew influence from the work of the Kinks and the music of American Motown. This placed the act at the forefront of the 1970s-1980s nascent Mod Revival movement. With many of the band's lyrics about working class life,[6] Jam biographer Sean Egan commented that they "took social protest and cultural authenticity to the top of the charts."
The band drew upon a variety of stylistic influences over the course of their career, including 1960s beat music, soul, rhythm and blues and psychedelic rock, as well as 1970s punk and new wave. The trio were known for their melodic pop songs, their distinctly English flavour and their mod image. The band launched the career of Paul Weller, who went on to form the Style Council and later his solo career. Weller wrote and sang most of the Jam's original compositions and played lead guitar, using a Rickenbacker 330. Bruce Foxton provided backing vocals and prominent basslines, which were the foundation of many of the band's songs, including the hits "Down in the Tube Station at Midnight", "The Eton Rifles", "Going Underground" and "Town Called Malice" mainly using a Rickenbacker 4001 or a Fender Precision Bass, as well as, on rare occasions, an Epiphone Rivoli.
Stars: John Robb, Pat Gilbert, Gary Mulholland
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13 year old Black kid on the south side of Chicago, listening to "BBC Rock hour" on the radio. Heard fresh the 1979 The Jam live at the Rainbow theater. "Alright you come to the last night at the Rainbow, let's make it a good one - for the Jam!!!!!" Screams John Weller. Musical inspiration for a lifetime. That kid is 56 now. He still is inspired. Yeah, The Police, The Clash, Elvis Costello, Joe Jackson, The Specials, he dug them all, but the greatest band in the 70's to him? The Jam.
We pretty much liked the Same bands here in L.A. early reggae police Marley Steel Pulse..Selecter we did the Reggae/Ska thing 15 years before most kids even heard of Bob Marley
Thanks for this ❤️ love the jam and style council ❤️ 80s were flowing with so much talent ♥️
First band I saw live, Funeral Pyre tour if I remember right. Have an elder brother who got me into them and took me to a gig. The music of my youth, will always be As Thick as Thieves
I saw them on the Funeral Pyre tour must have been about 1980-81 at the Portsmouth Guildhall…… I was absolutely mesmerised, after the gig they set up a long table and met the fans which stayed behind and signed my ticket. I wish I still had it ! I’m 58 now and still love to play Setting Sons, All Mod Cons etc and know almost all of the words and sing along and air guitar ……… I wish I could thank them personally for all the joy they brought into my life for so many years …….❤️
I was at that final concert in Brighton, where I still live. It was one of those moments that always stays with you.
Thanks for sharing!
Running on the Spot, Carnation, Beat Surrender, Private Hell, so many great songs.
This was my band as a kid
The first time I seen them live was 1978 when my punk sister took me to the odeon new street Birmingham for my 14th birthday present ,I still have the stub and the place was full of mods , and I am still a mod today , I have seen the jam quite a few times after that up until the last time was Bingley hall Birmingham on there last tour date 1982 and I openly admit I cried my eyes out , I was gutted we couldn't get tickets for Brighton which I think was there last one off concert after Bingley,,great day's and a couple of my favourite tunes are ,life from a window and butterfly collector
Strange Town and Butterfly collector was a double A-side. Absolutely wonderful songs.
One thing to say about the Jam ,Class
yeah, he really treated his mates with class...
Stuck in a traffic jam eating jam sandwiches listening to the Clash. Nice.
Featuring me in the crowd at The Tube in 1982. I’m not as energetic nowadays
The 3 biggest consistent contributors to happiness/pleasure in my life: my family, my friends and The Jam! 😂
The red wall going tory says it all better than Weller can...
This also reminded me to order The Weller/Jam Hit Parade box set which for some dumb reason I still hadn't acquired. Sorted!
At the time I hated Weller for calling time on the band. They were everything to me as a teen in the late 70's/early 80's. The only thing I can complain about all these years later is that they never did another live set. I have never stopped listening to them. I totally get Weller wanting to go out on top, but in saying he would never perform with Bruce and Rick again I could never get my head around. Imagine The Jam being part of the Live Aid gig?????????????. Still my fave band off all time
The Jam meant everything to us in the early 80s.
20 year old blue collar white kid in Minneapolis in 1977. Drinking and drugging in punk clubs to numb the fear and pain of my life at the time. No direction known. An accidental mis-delivery of half dozen vinyl LPs arrived intended for my neighbor who had sent them home from his trip to europe. I kept them! I had no concious at the time. The Who, Clash, The Jam (In the City) and a few other gems. I was drawn into The Jam's music and lyrics. Lying on the floor at nights in my parents living room with headphones on reading the lyrics from the record sleeves until they were memorized. Something clicked. I purchased every Jam LP from that point forward. Recording them to cassette tape so I could listen in my car. The Jam has been a consistant soundtrack in my life. I eventually got myself into school, found a good career in science and now happily retired... and still listening. Thank you Paul, Bruce and Rick. And to my neighbor, sorry.
I saw The Jam in Oakland, California in the late 70's and they absolutely ripped my head off! At age 63, I am still a fan and listen to their music regularly.
Really in Oakland? Were they opening up for B.O.C ?
@@JoeyArmstrong2800 I was there too...they were opening and closing for the JAM. It was a 4,000 person hall--Kaiser Convention Center...just a box They were all about being a part of the lineage of great English bands. But the Clash played at a theatre (Warfield?) in the city, SF...posher venue, a bigger draw in the states.
I saw them at Soho Market (by chance - was wandering around London)...before they made it
¡ Right On !
About once a year I binge on them. Some tunes I can listen to over and over for days.
Still think about the 1 time I saw them in Chicago just before they chucked it in.
One of the very best shows ever.
From start to finish they were just brilliant. Great musicians, great lyrics and great energy. All wrapped up into 5 solid years and in retrospect Weller was right to move on, hard as it was at the time for people, obvioulsy for Bruce and Rick. Loved the Style Council and Weller solo, in fact his last few solo albums could be classed as his best ones of all time.
The Jam were Mod icons . The first photo of them I ever saw featured them all in black suits wearing those rectangle dark glasses - in front of some very old tall Black car. Extremely cool First time I heard them was Portsmouths Radio Victory playing In the City 🏴❤️🐢ps Row down near Slough 😁
You came a bit late then pal deffo on the punk/new wave scene at the beginning, oh and that well known mod joe stummer😂 gave paul encouragement and advice on song writing
Big fan since 77!
Their music was always punk in its delivery. Particularly live.
@jack the lad still doesn't make em punk..association means nothing
@@spm36 🥱
In my opinion one of the best and biggest uk bands ever. A band for everyone. Long live The Jam 👍
I was playing bass in a 'punk' band in sydney, 1980 and the jam and the stranglers were my boys - proper musicians, excellent lyrics, fast and hard - now I'm old with swollen feet and arthritis and these lads are still on my turntable . . . and I'm still playing bass in a 'punk' band . .
Do u add chrous effect to your sound ,can imagine you play fender which is perfect I think for punk bass ,not just over Sid v trying to play it.
@@waynesilverman3048 yes to chorus, fender bass and a love of hard and fast music ...
@@treborif neither The Jam nor Stranglers were punk bands and punk had died by 1980. The whole point of it sailed over your head. It had nothing to do with musicianship. It was about expressing anger after being sexually abused, failed by an education system and born into poverty
How embarrassing for you😉
Golden brown
Someone tell John Robb that it's possible to be working class and live in the suburbs.
George Harrison said that Start was the best version of Taxman he'd ever heard. Great quote.
And I said that My Sweet Lord was the best version of He's So Fine that I ever heard.
The soundtrack of my youth. I never realised how lucky I was. They were untouchable and they split at exactly the right time.
I'm in my 50's and there are many albums/CD's that I've outgrown and don't listen to much anymore. But I still love The Jam. Thank You Jam for existing. They made music I could love growing up in the States when I was 19. I didn't relate to the Journey, Micheal Jackson, REO, or Loverboy scene.
Always been a great Jam fan, right from my teens in the late seventies. Would never put the Jam in the 'Punk ' category though. Yes they became popular roughly the same time the punk era took off and there may have been a bit of overlap, but they had their own unique sound which was often referred to as mod revival at the time and still is.
"Aside from the Beatles and the Rolling Stones, they were the greatest singles band in pop music history" - hmmmm quite a brave opinion. The Kinks?
The Jam never hit it in the U.S. Maybe because their songs were very focused on the life in England. No one here Knows about Eton or Tube Stations.
Possibly they didnt care but they certainly toured here.
The following in the U.S. at least my friends liked different songs than theones popular in England.
Mr Clean is my fav also Foxtons Smithers Jones. The orchestratrd version i thought was BRILLIANT
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Bruce Foxton.. What a talent!!
Incredible bass player!!
Still kicking out these great tunes with his band 'From the jam'
👌👌👌👌👌👌👌
Agreed, see them a few years ago and they were brilliant
He played with Stiff Little Fingers for 10 years or more after he left The Jam. Pretty good but he wasn’t Ali McMordie.
Bruce Foxton was one of the players who inspired me to take up the bass; the other was Jean-Jacques Burnel of The Stranglers.
If he was actually a great talent he wouldn't be in a band called From The Jam would he now?
@@dedradelreyez158 rubbish! His talent lies with his bass playing, rather than his songwriting.
The Jam were unique who just happened to come out in the punk era but they were a mod band full of the energy and anger of punk.Alot of flaws in this documentary the Jam never supported Sex pistols ever.
I don't know about supporting them, but I do recall in another interview with Weller that he was influenced by them.
The Jam had their greatest songs right up the end of their time. Beat Surrender was such a good song
They started off as a punk band though
Totally agree, but in no way were they a punk band as far as sound
@burninggiraffe6615 😅😅and 🍒 is 😅an 65jm😊of 2
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@@onlyme219I will
@@onlyme219 The Jam were mods.
Thanks for posting this video documentary about the Jam my brother Alex introduced me to the Jam back in the late 1977. Me and my brothers Phil and Alex saw the Jam several times right too 1982. The best times were at the Rainbow in London 1979-80. One of best British Bands live. Nice One from Crystal Palace South London.
Use to save up my pocket money and get the bus into town (Dublin), buy their albums, race home on the bus and play them on my little record player in my bedroom for hours. Greatest three piece band of my generation! The Jam showed that you didn’t have to have ripped jeans and pins through your nose to captivate the youth movement 💪🏾
The bitterest pill is one of the best songs ever written. Rips your heart out, but never want to stop listening
Was that song even mentioned in this documentary? I don't recall hearing them mention it.
Always wondered what the inspiration for that song was ?
Butterfly Collector and Riverbank as well
Gets me EVERY time😢
It's the Style council, not the Jam.
I actually grew up in London at the time and saw the jam many times and believe you me they mass appealed to most young works class people at the time! Especially the new mods and lots of young punks including me and all my punk mates. A truly great band❤️💯
They crossed lines for sure.
Obsessed as a teenager in Scotland and always will be❤❤❤53 now and still a fan.
I love the Jam, Style Council and Weller solo, one of musics greatest songwriters and voices. A great band went out on top, so did the Police.
Love The Jam and Style Council but Weller Solo is hopeless, same level as Bowie's Tin Machine shite
The Police sucked. Wire is perhaps the best band from that era and they're still cranking out good shit.
@@jameswarhol442 Wire were a one album band, riding the PUNK wagon til the wheels came off, the Police did not suck. Pink Flag is an important work, inspired a bunch of 90's bands, but the musical talent , and song writing cannot hold a candle to the work the Police did in the 80's while Wired were disbanded.
Tsc made one album that is it’s in my top 10 from all my music taste “Confessions Of A Pop Group” great piano,great singers,great bass,great songs,great Art. I luv it!
@@jaguaron007 I like "Confessions", but still feel "Internationalnists" is the strongest album. Every album has a gem or two, but the live Home and Abroad holds a special place for me since it was my first.
I quite like The Gift but all the albums are v decent. My personal fav is Setting Sons. They were massive. Listen to all the records still.
"Funeral pyre wasnt very good " give your head a shake mate ....Its was fuckin outstanding
I cultivated a cool Skinhead image from late 1978. First became aware of the Jam when my brother bought "Down in the Tube station at midnight" . I became a big fan. Saw them in Concert in Newcastle in 1980. Absolutely brilliant. They had some great rock tunes, and some brilliant ballads, like "English Rose". Great days. I was gutted when Wellar broke the band up. I still wear the gear, and love to hear the old Jam hits.
@Stanly Stud Rather come from Newcastle then your backward little dead end town full of inbred dole wallers.
Sound Affects 🙌
The Jam were a very good band in the recording studio, but much like Bruce Springsteen, they were so much more when performing live. I still remember seeing them live at the Rainbow in London and they were simply the best live band of that era.
So cool!
They were an excellent band but they were no way the best live band around at the time lol.
The Jam were not Punk Icons, they were Mods
That's obvious 😂😂
@@batch6792 It's not punk either. They never described themselves as punks, it seems to be a growing myth that they were.
Took the words out of my mouth 😊
Thir first album, there is not much MOD about it. You can wear what clothes you want. In The City is a basically a punk album. They changed, but if anyone thinks they sounds like classic MOD bands at that point they simply don’t understand music.
@@TheSilvercuesex pistols used that progression on at least three songs. Holiday in the sun for example.
The Modfather. What a talent- seen him live in Melbourne and he is the coolest artist I have ever seen. Loved him since the Jam early in the late 70s. 🫶Respect.
Steve Marriott wasn't in The Jam. 🤭
1:01:39 wow way to disrespect Stiff Little Fingers 🤨
- & like there isn’t still troubles in Ireland
First released in 2006 this potted history of the jam has stood the test of time well.
There are a few errors in the dates but those can be forgiven.
Worth watching if all you know about the jam is Town Called Malice !
I was lucky to see that jam 10 times between 1979 and 1982 and I can honestly say they were “the best band in the f*cking world” I ever saw !
Is this one of those review DVD releases Chrome Dreams used to put out? I've seen About The Young Idea the official one with all 3 members, each to their own but not sure why you'd spend any time watching these featuring people who weren't actually involved.
There are some whopper errors haha, such as Wild Wood being his first solo release, suppose that the kind of mistake you would expect from a bunch of old etonians hahaha.
well said Paul, thought I was the only Jam 'train spotter'!!
@@rossturnbull8047 pass me my anorak!🤓
Better than The Fall?
It's news to me that The Jam were "punk" icons - Mod icons if anything, at least in their early days. Paul Weller said that "My Generation" by The Who was a great influence on him.
Well you need to wake up - they were part of the punk/new wave scene who happened to dress smart. The mod/ska thing came later.
I’m surprised they don’t mention his being influenced by Steve Marriott. When Paul was on Desert Island Discs about 15 years ago he was stuck on which of his 10 choices he could keep ( for the desert island) as he had tied Marriott with Nick Drake ( whom he said he’d only discovered in the later 80s ) as his favourites. She made him choose and he went with Steve Marriott . 👍ps Weller being the smart dresser vs Nick Drakes’ stoner / folkie /ramshackle appearance must’ve helped towards Paul’s’ final decision
@@OldWolflad Wouldn't say they were part of the ska revival either
@@newforestpixie5297 Thought the same with regards to Marriot, town called malice vid is a carbon copy of Marriot, i have a photo somewhere of Marriot dressed exactly the same including the hair cut.
@@OldWolflad Wrong the Jam were absolutely fuck all to do with Punk.
The Jam composed and performed the soundtrack of my life. The Jam are the reason I started playing. The Jam are why I didn't get lost in my teenage years. The Jam are an inseparable part of my life..
Can you say The Jam?🤔
THE JAM!!@@CB-xr1eg
As a teen in the 70s I was in a dreamworld listening to Tavares,BeeGees and motown..i hated it and didnt know what people were liking.I even tried Black Sabath,Billy Joel,Eagles,10cc but something was missing then WHAM the Jam arrived and I knew this is what I was waiting for then The amazing Stranglers.Thanks Paul
As a 16 year old kid I felt crushed when Weller split up what I thought was the best band in the world.
I’m lucky I got to see them live. Still my favourite band ever and love seeing From The Jam playing live bringing back all those brilliant songs and memories of youth.
I saw them twice, the first time was at the cinema in Yarmouth (Norfolk, UK) before they became too popular for such a venue - and the second time at Wembley Arena right at the end. At that time I was a brickies labourer, and the formen on the site had me 'looking after' (keeping supplied with muck and bricks) a gang on about 5 or 6 apprentices who were of course all mid - late teens and I was mid - late 20's. We all got on really well, I think they thought of me as some kind of uncle - anyway they asked me to come to see the Jam at Wembley with them, and it was fantastic. The entire audience knew every word of every song and spent the whole concert on their feet singing along and waving their arms! I have never seen anything like it since. Cheers!
Oasis had a similar effect, people just loved them, knew ever word etc. Now The Jam is a bigger deal and more influential, but it shows good songs and energy never die.@@althepalno1164
“Stop apologizing for the things you’ve never done...” that’s a line for the absurdity of watching Political Correctness gut America 🇺🇸& Britain 🇬🇧!
Weller's intellect and perception at such a young age around 1979/80 was astounding. He was about 20 at the time but his commentary on society and disdain for the general apathy inherent in British society touched a nerve in a way the Clash, Sham 69 etc for all their politicking, pontificating and grandiose appeals to mass identikit youth never could. Weller at that time seemed to be communicating directly to the young individual's core being rather than some preachy abstract idea of youth rebellion or political awareness. For me from 'Strange Town' to 'Start' was his peak, I think his creativity in that period was the peak of that era of the bands who emerged from 1976 and proper appreciation was probably undermined by the backward-looking emphasis on the mod revival association at that time.
Great comments ,I still listen to setting sons regularly it’s social commentary is astounding considering wellers age .I don’t think he’s written anything better since ,one of my favourite albums of all time (apart from heatwave being shoe horned on it )a brilliant band from a great era in British music
The jam, was the bridge music need at that time, young people could walk over the bridge without fear of being labelled a Punk or Mod but was just THE JAM fans
Paul Weller is the modfather. Mods and Punks were completely different species
I Will always remember the first time I heard them perform a new song called Butterfly Collector...It turned out to be one of my fave Jam songs...I saw the Jam four times in the US...they were by far my fave band of the late 70s-early 80s!
So cool!
Can just put that on repeat and fix any shite dau
These guys got it wrong about Modern World, it’s a great album
The Jam, The Style Council, Paul Weller solo... For those of us who love it all, and are grateful Weller has stayed true to his music . . . and especially those who have been fortunate enough to be there for the entirety. Wow, what a journey.
'Well, let the boys all sing and let the boys all shout for tomorrow'
Weller peaked by the age of 21.. Style council sucked, Weller solo sucks. Eton Riffles never gets old.
@@TenableVegan Aye. A great shame that he shifted to leftist politics and didn't continue with that traditionalist strain that Ray Davies had, too - Englishness was the path he should have stayed on. He wrote good music on his own, but the lyrics are lost in some vague bohemian nothing. The problem with the shift leftwards and beatnik is that any true foundation goes with it. There was so much in English culture for him to explore - maybe the new generation that casts off all this automation and left puritanism will find their way home.
@@philbutcher6959 you obviously didnt listen to the jam prop,they were left.never succombed to the racist english only model
@@garymilburn666 Thanks for the advice.
Weller lost me when he formed the swishy Style Council.
Life From a Window got me through back then - they never put a foot wrong - the anthem of our teens...
After Sound Affects it was a swift roll downhill. Never bought any of the later stuff.
Never cared too much what the critics say about bands of punk/mod/oi! /ska. I never had a problem with bands growing sounds. To me I enjoy the progressive progress of their music. Every song has it's gift of the listeners. And when you love your music you'll find yourself going back to those albums of yesteryear and find the relevance of what may be going on at that time of your life. So thank you to all the bands I grow up with and still growing. God Bless.
I'd always heard the Jam were "punks," but when I finally got hold of their records in 83 or so, it was really updated early Who/Kinks etc, as the documentary makes clear. That was fabulous music! But the Jam had a punk spirit for sure.
Punk ??.. lol
Yeah there was also a Ska Reggae Group called Iron Maiden around about the same time . .
The Jam were as influential as the Specials, was a great period for music that spoke to disaffected youth.
Err ... i think you will find that The Jam were like 100 times more influential than The Specials mate.
I got into them in 1998 in High School. I idolised them Immediately and still do. You never fall out of love with them.
Rock and roll is nothing more then a new color invented then what happened was creative people used it to express themselves. I'm a working writer and that's what I believe. Peace.
i really wanted to watch this but can't stand John Robb
Funny! I thought "This Is The Modern World," was a better album than "In The City."
One of my favorite bands ever. Such a gritty, tight trio.
But if you are in a dynamic power/punk/pop trio and suddenly a horn section and the dedicated, stereotypical exotic backing vocal section appears on your stage....... it's time to start making other plans.
The Jam, The Style Council, Paul Weller . For those of us who love it and are grateful Weller has stayed true to his music . . . and especially those who have been fortunate enough to be there for the entire journey.
Gutted I never saw the Jam live but saw the SC many times, into tomorrow Paul
great overview of a great band, as ever john robb makes some very sharp insights, the jam were just a great rock n roll band, some people obsess about categories etc but when all is said and done its just rock n roll, presley, vincent, the who, zeppelin, thin lizzy, the feelgoods, slade, the pistols, clash, the jam, all part of a great continuum, as an old punk i can certainly vouch for the jam's presence and importance in that early punk scene, all my old punk fanzines are full of them, excellent stuff
They were incredible live. Super powerful for a 3 piece. Gorgeously constructed songs.
To fans of The Jam, Modern World ranks alongside their other LP's. Some brilliant songs on it and it was a time of progression.
The biggest band of the time in my time. For three or four albums I was at our local record shop to buy it on the day of release. This was the kind of thing Jam fans did! I was only 18 when they broke up, but had seen them twice live, and then went to their final ever gig at The Brighton Centre. At the end, when Buckler throws his drumsticks into the crowd, one came flying towards where I was standing. I and several others jumped up to catch it, and I did, got my hand on it. But so did at least one other, and it slipped from my grasp. We all dived down to the ground, and there it was on the ground right next to me! I went to grab it, convinced it was mine, but my hand grasped at thin air and an empty space! Very close indeed! Previous to the gig I had queued up for ages to get the allotted maximum four tickets, five quid each. I kept two for me and my mate, and sold the other two on the night before the gig. I felt like a right bastard selling them at 20 quid each (money was tight, so this was an earner for me), but one lad snapped them off me sharpish. I know people were selling for 50 quid or more. Once inside, and at the big bar before the gig, a lad comes up to me thanking me profusely and bought me a beer. It turned out to be the chap I had sold the two tickets too. He probably still remembers me! It made me feel much better about my black market thievery! The gig was tremendous, and they really put a top performance on to bow out with. Needless to say, we were all gutted when the Mirror broke the news that The Jam were disbanding. Great to watch this documentary film.
The Who would never have really done songs as modern, caustic, and political or sociopolitical as The Jam churned out from the get go, almost. That's one major difference right there. "Bricks and Mortar" was not looking back at all, it was being right in the moment and pointing a very caustic eye at current events in the UK. The Who as much as I love them, would never have had the cojones to put out something as starkly terrifying as "Down in the Tube Station at Midnight." The latter is punk for sure, but it's a lot more intelligent than most punk
of the "classic" era. I see The Jam more as a weird amalgam of retro rock, punk, and power pop. It seems silly in retrospect, these divisions. I pay zero attention to them,
given I was really too young to have appreciated The Jam at the time (until the mid or later 80s), and having grown up in NY USA, Long Island, a place where most people
have zero taste in music and you would never have heard The Jam on the radio anyway.
The Jam were simply an amazing English band. They were a blend of Punk, Mod Rock N Roll. Paul, Bruce & Rick took their influences of The Who, The Kinks, The Small Faces & contemporary Punk Rock made magic of their own. The Jam wrote about youthful angst, contempt of government malice, working class strife, threat of nuclear annihilation & trying to find love thru all of it. Paul Weller is such a thoughtful & meaningful writer. He had this urgency of living, breathing hope thru action. Bruce & Rick are a phenomenal rythem section. The Jam is important in the lexicon of Rock N Roll whether Mod or Punk!
How many incorrect statements does this thing want to rack up? "The biggest band in Britain......." Apart from every other Biggest Band in Britain that is. I love the Jam and did at the time in question, and that title meant very little when even dinosaur acts like Pink Floyd would still outsell them many times over in '79/80 and there was another trio called the Police that also were several magnitudes "bigger." Better is another matter.......
Leave it to UK critics.. This is the Modern World is a fucking masterpiece. Life from a Window alone could be their greatest song. I must admit I am biased as I saw The Jam live play the album.. 1978, Phoenix Arizona they opened for the Greatest Band of the 70's (to me) Be Bop Deluxe.
'They even said in an interview that they intended voting conservative.." It was at this point I realised that the producers and the presenters knew very little about their subject.
What's their political connotations got to do with anything?
@@theculturedthug6609 are you joking
@The Only Son it was said by Weller to piss off " the punk elite " - got that Know .
Yup, yer bang on there, wasn't just me then!
@@IbecomeU No.
I saw them 3 times and I was blown away each time. Rick Buckler taught me how to play the drums. He doesn’t know it of course. But cheers Rick 👍😉😄
So cool. Rock on!
This documentary hasn't aged well.
For a so called "documentary" there are some glaring errors - Start never went in at No. 1 and Funeral Pyre only made it to No. 4. I think they should've had their "facts" checked by actual Fans.
We seriously don’t need John Robb gabbing on in his motormouth style in this documentary. He knows nothing and wasn’t even there. Apart from that, a good video!
Loved Bruce Foxton's bass, amazing!
As hard as it was to get The Jam's albums in the USA, I found them . Still have them. Love Paul Weller!
Interesting. Late 70s I never had any problems finding their albums. Guess it depended on where in the USA.
Older brother had their records. Dig the New Breed is a smoking live album
The Jam were a band not only because their leader, but because of the talents of all three members.
I remember being dissapointed when they split up.
Weller ditched his school mates.
No wonder they don't talk to him.
The record company : If you want to go any further, Paul, you'll have to ditch your mates. Weller : Ok, I'll sort it.
@@spookybaba I dont think that's how it happened
Mod Icons not punk icons...
Agreed.
Music icons. It’s not football.
@@gingerwaynos You have no idea what a mod is do you? Just you stick to UFC pal...
Have to say I loved the jam but not a huge fan of the style council even though I bought their first album and still like the hear the songs. Haven't got into a lot of Paul's solo material much like I never got into Geldof but I liked the Rats.
Anyone who says the Jam were never a punk band doesn't know much about the band and their approach to music and what was happening in the mid to late 70s.
"You're fearless and brave, you can't be stopped when you're young
You swear you're never ever gonna work for someone".....oh to be 15 again.......
Weller and Foxtons tight vocal harmonies were fantastic
The Jams were more like Mods than Punks. They had actually nothing punk at all.
In your opinion that is, take it you weren’t on the music scene in 77
God, having critics and journalists tell the story was not the way to go. I love every moment of The Jam playing their music on this. But every talking head who says "Yeah, great, but..." gets in the way of the enjoyment.
Something poignant nowdays about how Weller had sought out well used valves (tubes) for his amp to get 'that' sound, that's completely lost now going through MP3 and youtube etc. Today's digital compression algorithms just can't handle the full complex tonal structure of the guitar sound. Listen to a 80s CD or vinyl of the Jam (or any other band of that era) and the difference in the sound
is truly astounding.
"English Rose" should be England's national anthem
Cringed when he said Funeral Pyre was not a good song. I always thought it was an amazing tune.
The first comment I've read, concerning the journo's observation it wasn't particularly good. Wrong! I agree with you 100% - it's an amazing tune.
Paul Weller is a very gifted musician and was before his time. The songs he wrote 40 years ago are still prevalent today.
Not only prevalent... but relevant!
"That's entertainment" is brilliant.
I used to carry a boom box blasting the Jam back in their hey day.Nobody knew who they were and they'd ask what I was listening to.The U.S. missed out on a great band.
When I heard the Jam in a friend's basement in an American suburb in about 1981, I finally had an in to punk, so-called. I hated everything else I'd heard up to that point, and mostly still do. I've stuck with Weller since.