The Jam 1977 - and forever the best band in the world oh all of you unlucky people that missed them just glad I didn't ,they made my life my wife and kids and grand kids love them as well.
@@cappuccinokid6772 No I never really followed them. Didn’t buy any of the records. Couldn’t bear to see Weller trying to dance and behaving like a Monty Python character. As soon as he started back with the guitar in his hand I was right back on board.
I could never knock This Is The Modern World. The structure of some of the songs were fantastic . Totally different to anything else going on at the time and a million miles from their first album. Also, I don't know about you but the artwork never gets talked about. The front and back cover gave you The Jam, the inner cover gave you the lyrics and pop art cartoons relating to each song and the record label gave you the unity joined by the ties . What fantastic work.
This brilliant track takes me back to my best mate Rob Balmer's house in Newcastle in the late 70's. We used to constantly listen to this and the Bollocks album. We were totally consumed with Punk music and football.That's all there was for us kids back then. Great times though. That's all we needed!
"Life From A Window" Looking from a hilltop Watching from a lighthouse, just dreaming Up here I can see the world Sometimes it don't look nice But that's OK Life from a window I'm just taking in the view Life from a window Observing everything around you Staring at a grey sky Trying to paint it blue Teenage blue Life from a window I'm just taking in the view Life from a window Watching everyone around you Some people that you see around you Tell you how devoted they are They tell you something new on Sunday, but come Monday They've changed their minds I'm looking from a skyscraper I'm standing on the post office tower So I can see All there is to see Life from a window I'm taking in the view Life from a window Watching everything around you I'm looking from a skyscraper I'm standing on the post office tower So I can see All there is to see
I am in my late 40's and I have been listening to the Jam since I was in my 20's. I love this song because it reminds me of the time I use to look out of my grandmother's window of her 11 fl apt. Her apartment tower was in Jersey City, NJ!!!
how did you discover the jam? your a young bloke, and i suspect the jam were little know in the states back then. you have taste my friend, no doubt you have listened to much more of their work.
Actually I wrote that incorectly! I am in my late 40's. Actually, I am 49! Here in the states, MTV was playing the video- Town Called Malice! I just ended felling in Love with the great sounds from the Blokes across the pond.
setting sons is one of my favourite albums,the irony of war, fighting for your country,the back slapping for being one of the boys .trying to glorify the fact your fighting for the empire, but we knew it was bullshit. smithers jones track encapsulates british life back then. also love mod cons, thats entertainment, going underground/dreams of children, the list goes on rich! at least you have an expansive view of music, a lot more than some of your fellow americans.btw weller married a girl from my city.
Richard Katz I'm 46 yrs old, American. Huge fan of the Jam since I was 12. They were my favorite band throughout my teenage years. They got air play on college radio (discovered them there). At the age of 13, I got to see them play Boston, May 1982, their last tour! I feel very, very, very fortunate!
this is the modern world is one of the most underrated records of english music. it was a masterpiece that critics slammed for all their own reasons, prob because weller went them in the title track. a brilliant piece of whimsy and romantic shiny simmering pop music. of course there were a few fillers, but for me at the time the best english record since revolver
When I was 17 years old (1977), I went to the House of Guitars in Rochester, New York (actually nearby Irondequoit) and they had all of these really far out punk albums in a special locked case on the second floor of the building and this album from The Jam was in the case. I had heard Modern World on the radio, so I knew I had to have the record, but I had to ask the owner to unlock the case so I could buy their album and co-incidentally Eddie and the Hot Rods album. The noise on these albums was so new, unique and different it was just unreal. My friend Tom Messner bought a Ramones album and we were just smitten with all of this edgy music these people were cranking out. Not many people in our school appreciated this music like we did, and thought we were quite odd to be listening to it, although we never starting dressing the way the punks did and so forth. I still listen to this music as a lot of the new stuff is not good, and Green Day, although very good musicians, just are too polished and produced to call themselves punk rockers. Punk rock was/is a sort of art form, and no art is ever perfect or is really to be mass produced in my mind.
Great comment ,you are the same age as me,although i was born and still live in Surrey England not that far from Woking where The Jam got started.Always good to hear from US Jam fans as they never broke big in The States.
flip n flipped it all day long when I bought my 1st JAM album MODERN WORLD, 4 myself. So many songs off this LP that I liked and remain special because they are overlooked by many others. this one is like ice-skating------->O
I bought this in a flash when it came out and am still utterly delighted with this whole album. This song has been special to me for decades. I couldn't connect with their subsequent recordings, but this album is enough! I recall one of my NYC punk rock musician pals was annoyed I'd bought this. I told him that was silly, as I was hugely supportive of the NYC music scene and had been before that in Cleveland, Ohio. If you like something, you just like it. Thanks. Uprated, shared.
Looking from a hill top, watching from a lighthouse, Just dreaming Up here I can see the world, Ooh, sometimes it don't look nice - that's OK Life from a window, I'm just taking in the view Life from a window, observing everything around you Staring at a grey sky, try to paint it blue, teenage blue Some people that you see around you, tell you how devoted they are They tell you something on Sunday, but come Monday they've changed their minds I'm looking from a skyscraper I'm standing on the Post Office tower - So I can see - all there is to see
I bet there’s a lion in the back of that white transit…. If you went to the Brighton Exhibition you know…Ask Nicky Weller, . Oh Epic track one of my faves.
I'm looking from a skyscraper I'm standing on the post office tower So I can see All there is to see Life from a window I'm taking in the view Life from a window Watching everything around you
Hee hee hee! Well, I bought THIS IS THE MODERN WORLD by The Jam in Ohio via the Columbia Record & Tape Club. I don't think I heard them on the radio at that point. But radio in NE Ohio in the '70s was still pretty varied, some was really good. The Jam were a British band and I got some guff from the Fleshtones later in NY for "supporting a British band" but I was great for the 'Tones, to pick on me for a record I ordered in the Midwest earlier was snarky.
Ya know, everytime i listen in on some singer or band that you're well aware of, well, most times i didn't even know of their existence, ya think its because these were east coast bands, being out in the boondocks of se utah, in a state predominately LDS, there was censorship of books and music, only the most commercial of music made it in and that because its $,...thankin' ya for the COOL Share mon ami!! =)
Well, Cleveland used to be (don't know, now) the largest per capita record buying city in America, which is why the rock 'n' roll hall of fame is there. People were bored and there was an interesting ethnic mix, many people had European descent parents who played musical instruments at home for family entertainment, and the appreciation of and creation of music is just inherent in NE Ohio at least, this I do know. :)
The Jam, lamentably i'd never heard of this band until now,and they're AWESOME!!! I guess they're more East Coast U.S.A.? Thumbs up Wellerworld1 and thankin' my buddy slobomotion for the COOL Share!! =)
I can see it now the at the Hammy Odeon the black suits crashing into `Art School` then ``Carnaby St`.A year later at the Lyceum Weller announced `Tonight at noon` with `If you don`t dig love song`s don`t take the piss`.
Think Weller’s still developing writing skills lucky to see the band survive Polydor with the rather ropy 2nd album. Years on this track, I Need You and Tonight at Noon do stand the test of time however. Still crazy to think they went from the muddled mess of MW to the genius poetry of All Mod Cons however.
Def Stuv chill your bits dude I’m just making an observation that MW was the bands lowest point. Yeah. I take your point though that Polydor certainly put pressure on the band for the second album so it was rushed. I still listen to MW on a regular basis after all the worse Jam album is still a Jam album. ;)
Agree to a point Ashley in those days albums singles hurried out from greedy record companies lots of xrirucs trashed ME but in time it's become a decent album leading to Mod Cons masterpiece written by a 20 year old Weller ...Yes only 20 yrs old ..mindboggling
Life From A Window is a great song....but this ain't it in the video representation. It's just a cut-up rehash of other Jam footage. Was an awesome throw-back listening to the audio, though!
Extreme Weather it’s obviously a montage of video clips nobody said other wise ?? It’s just a selection of different footage put together to fill the time rather that stare at one still photo . You must be very stupid...do you think someone is trying to make people think they secretly change from black suits at the Roxy 1977 then grey suits in the USA then time hop to 1978 at the Reading festival ?
![The Jam • “In The City/All Around The World/Slow Down” • LIVE 1977 [Reelin' In The Years Archive]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/jGmIoTKWJFI/mqdefault.jpg)
Will love this band till the day I pass away,never get bored playing there music
The greatest fucking rock 'n roll band of my life. 30 years on and I still adore this fucking gem of light.
Be listening for 45 yrs, scary, but I still fucking love them, nothing compares, beatles, rolling stones, fuck that, give me the jam!!
dork :)
Brilliant song 🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸
❤my favourite song x
The Jam 1977 - and forever the best band in the world oh all of you unlucky people that missed them just glad I didn't ,they made my life my wife and kids and grand kids love them as well.
5 years of The Jam transformed my life into what I am now. Forever indebted to an angry Paul Weller
Amazingly Great!
Maybe the best band in the world!?
But, still…the Clash IS the ONLY band that matters. So…
Did you go on to follow The Style Council after The Jam split in 82 ?
@@cappuccinokid6772 No I never really followed them. Didn’t buy any of the records. Couldn’t bear to see Weller trying to dance and behaving like a Monty Python character. As soon as he started back with the guitar in his hand I was right back on board.
Articulate, intelligent, angry and happy - awesome, thanks Paul et al.
I could never knock This Is The Modern World. The structure of some of the songs were fantastic . Totally different to anything else going on at the time and a million miles from their first album. Also, I don't know about you but the artwork never gets talked about. The front and back cover gave you The Jam, the inner cover gave you the lyrics and pop art cartoons relating to each song and the record label gave you the unity joined by the ties . What fantastic work.
Man, what a band
This brilliant track takes me back to my best mate Rob Balmer's house in Newcastle in the late 70's. We used to constantly listen to this and the Bollocks album. We were totally consumed with Punk music and football.That's all there was for us kids back then. Great times though. That's all we needed!
Spot on. This would be the same background story to my young life too.
Up the Toon
Howay the Lads
We LFC came up to yours, we drank on Buckingham Palace estate.
@@philruane5575 No estate in Newcastle called BP mate?
Haven't listened to this song in so long
Some people that you see around you tell you how devoted they are, they tell you something on Sunday, then come Monday they've changed their minds...
Great days, great music.....life from a window. Takes me back to the days when my brother was alive in the 1980’s. RIP bro I’ll never forget you.
"Life From A Window"
Looking from a hilltop
Watching from a lighthouse, just dreaming
Up here I can see the world
Sometimes it don't look nice
But that's OK
Life from a window
I'm just taking in the view
Life from a window
Observing everything around you
Staring at a grey sky
Trying to paint it blue
Teenage blue
Life from a window
I'm just taking in the view
Life from a window
Watching everyone around you
Some people that you see around you
Tell you how devoted they are
They tell you something new on Sunday, but come Monday
They've changed their minds
I'm looking from a skyscraper
I'm standing on the post office tower
So I can see
All there is to see
Life from a window
I'm taking in the view
Life from a window
Watching everything around you
I'm looking from a skyscraper
I'm standing on the post office tower
So I can see
All there is to see
Thanks for lyric!!!😘
Gresong👍👍👍🎸🎸🎸👍👍👍
absolutely brilliant, 'staring at a grey sky, try to paint it blue. teenage blue' aAWESOME
I am in my late 40's and I have been listening to the Jam since I was in my 20's. I love this song because it reminds me of the time I use to look out of my grandmother's window of her 11 fl apt. Her apartment tower was in Jersey City, NJ!!!
how did you discover the jam? your a young bloke, and i suspect the jam were little know in the states back then. you have taste my friend, no doubt you have listened to much more of their work.
Actually I wrote that incorectly! I am in my late 40's. Actually, I am 49! Here in the states, MTV was playing the video- Town Called Malice! I just ended felling in Love with the great sounds from the Blokes across the pond.
setting sons is one of my favourite albums,the irony of war, fighting for your country,the back slapping for being one of the boys .trying to glorify the fact your fighting for the empire, but we knew it was bullshit. smithers jones track encapsulates british life back then. also love mod cons, thats entertainment, going underground/dreams of children, the list goes on rich! at least you have an expansive view of music, a lot more than some of your fellow americans.btw weller married a girl from my city.
you have probably heard of madness, as well as squeeze?
Richard Katz I'm 46 yrs old, American. Huge fan of the Jam since I was 12. They were my favorite band throughout my teenage years. They got air play on college radio (discovered them there). At the age of 13, I got to see them play Boston, May 1982, their last tour! I feel very, very, very fortunate!
Best tune off This is the Modern world!
Best Jam song ever, saw them for the first time in 1979 at the Manchester Apollo.
I´m 49 and I been listenig to the Jam I was 16´s.
sheer nostalgia...a time when music meant something more than it had the right too...
Always one of my favourite Jam songs. Resonated so hard with the 14 year old me and still to this day.
Just as good as Tonight at noon.
this is the modern world is one of the most underrated records of english music. it was a masterpiece that critics slammed for all their own reasons, prob because weller went them in the title track. a brilliant piece of whimsy and romantic shiny simmering pop music. of course there were a few fillers, but for me at the time the best english record since revolver
Absolute legends. Big big part of my life.
This and "I need you" are immense.
absolutely love this song
When I was 17 years old (1977), I went to the House of Guitars in Rochester, New York (actually nearby Irondequoit) and they had all of these really far out punk albums in a special locked case on the second floor of the building and this album from The Jam was in the case. I had heard Modern World on the radio, so I knew I had to have the record, but I had to ask the owner to unlock the case so I could buy their album and co-incidentally Eddie and the Hot Rods album. The noise on these albums was so new, unique and different it was just unreal. My friend Tom Messner bought a Ramones album and we were just smitten with all of this edgy music these people were cranking out. Not many people in our school appreciated this music like we did, and thought we were quite odd to be listening to it, although we never starting dressing the way the punks did and so forth. I still listen to this music as a lot of the new stuff is not good, and Green Day, although very good musicians, just are too polished and produced to call themselves punk rockers. Punk rock was/is a sort of art form, and no art is ever perfect or is really to be mass produced in my mind.
Great comment ,you are the same age as me,although i was born and still live in Surrey England not that far from Woking where The Jam got started.Always good to hear from US Jam fans as they never broke big in The States.
Timeless music from a master craftsman.
Captures the essence of 60,s song writing, brilliant track and album
Favourite jam song....
flip n flipped it all day long when I bought my 1st JAM album MODERN WORLD,
4 myself. So many songs off this LP that I liked and remain special because they are overlooked by many others. this one is like ice-skating------->O
My favourite track ever xxx
Some great songs from that album oozing class
sigh ... the memories ... played this song over and over, back in the day.
I bought this in a flash when it came out and am still utterly delighted with this whole album. This song has been special to me for decades. I couldn't connect with their subsequent recordings, but this album is enough! I recall one of my NYC punk rock musician pals was annoyed I'd bought this. I told him that was silly, as I was hugely supportive of the NYC music scene and had been before that in Cleveland, Ohio. If you like something, you just like it. Thanks. Uprated, shared.
when i was 16 this was in my head all day....
The concept at that age is pure genius...
Very talented shame they didn't last longer
Way , way beyond sublime
Such a great song
Fabulous vintage footage of early Jam... Would love to have seen them back in the day.
Looking from a hill top, watching from a lighthouse,
Just dreaming
Up here I can see the world,
Ooh, sometimes it don't look nice - that's OK
Life from a window, I'm just taking in the view
Life from a window, observing everything around you
Staring at a grey sky, try to paint it blue,
teenage blue
Some people that you see around you, tell you how devoted they are
They tell you something on Sunday, but come Monday they've
changed their minds
I'm looking from a skyscraper
I'm standing on the Post Office tower -
So I can see - all there is to see
Still my favourite Jam track!!
Teenage blue. Me.
Just a great band my fave ALWAYS will be sadly sadly missed
SOOO many GREAT Jam songs
By God Paul had style oozing effortlessly
A brilliant song from the boys . Love the visuals on the sleeve from the album This is the modern world.
they have saved my life more then once but not thrice...yet..
I die and I'm in Rickenbacker heaven
The greatest Jam track!
Stunning song, very good video. I love this record and still listen to it. I bought it in '77!
what a fantastic song love the jam
Happy 40th anniv . --- you can tell these guys loved the early Who.
such a beautiful song! Jam is the jam
I play this song most days love it
From a sloppy punk album came this glimpse of the greatness The Jam would soon be elevated to.
I bet there’s a lion in the back of that white transit…. If you went to the Brighton Exhibition you know…Ask Nicky Weller, . Oh Epic track one of my faves.
The good old days.
Ahh and I’m a skinny kid bopping around the halls of my high school all over again
Excellent film, I saw 'em at the Red Cow, doesn't get any better
i was was lucky enough to see `em in `77 and `78.
I'm looking from a skyscraper
I'm standing on the post office tower
So I can see
All there is to see
Life from a window
I'm taking in the view
Life from a window
Watching everything around you
thanks ,love this my fav jam song ever
Ya always loved it
brilliant song, why wasnt this a single of this is the modern world?
Rocking song.
Be Yourself.
All Mod Cons!
Fuck me so iconic lost times of a bygone earnest era stylish best band imo..I really believe that
THANK YOU MAN! Oh my god...t he best!
Class.
Life from a Window during LOCKDOWN......
Classic
Not many 18 year olds can write songs like Weller did
Great track. Not such a bad album. Thanks for the early jam footage as well. FANTASTIC 👍🏼🇬🇧
me too, saw em in Leicester !!
Στην λευκη με αγαπη αλεξανδρος 1991 🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰
POW , he's too cool .
Hee hee hee! Well, I bought THIS IS THE MODERN WORLD by The Jam in Ohio via the Columbia Record & Tape Club. I don't think I heard them on the radio at that point. But radio in NE Ohio in the '70s was still pretty varied, some was really good. The Jam were a British band and I got some guff from the Fleshtones later in NY for "supporting a British band" but I was great for the 'Tones, to pick on me for a record I ordered in the Midwest earlier was snarky.
im addicted to this song, tryin to find a way the fuck out, poole ,long story,...
Shane Macgowan was at the first show in this video, but I couldn't spot him! He was a huge fan of The Jam.
Ya know, everytime i listen in on some singer or band that you're well aware of, well, most times i didn't even know of their existence, ya think its because these were east coast bands, being out in the boondocks of se utah, in a state predominately LDS, there was censorship of books and music, only the most commercial of music made it in and that because its $,...thankin' ya for the COOL Share mon ami!! =)
Well, Cleveland used to be (don't know, now) the largest per capita record buying city in America, which is why the rock 'n' roll hall of fame is there. People were bored and there was an interesting ethnic mix, many people had European descent parents who played musical instruments at home for family entertainment, and the appreciation of and creation of music is just inherent in NE Ohio at least, this I do know. :)
Always have dug the Weller side burns...Ace!
Thank you Mr. B Cain for Teenage blue
The end footage is from the Reading Festival 78.
This song ranks with the best from Pete Townshend, in fact I could easily have imagined The Who playing it.
The Jam, lamentably i'd never heard of this band until now,and they're AWESOME!!! I guess they're more East Coast U.S.A.? Thumbs up Wellerworld1 and thankin' my buddy slobomotion for the COOL Share!! =)
Try Woking, Surrey, England mate...
When you could wear a Burtons suit and still be rebellious...
I reckon you could put this track on any jam album?
Mine, as well...
I can see it now the at the Hammy Odeon the black suits crashing into `Art School` then ``Carnaby St`.A year later at the Lyceum Weller announced `Tonight at noon` with `If you don`t dig love song`s don`t take the piss`.
There would be no 'actual video' for this track so I assume a fan made it, I mean this was never a single
Hmmm...now i'm beginning to see why they made that t.v. sitcom, WKRP in Cincinnatti, folks back east have lotsa great bands to enjoy and listen to.
As dazmalski said - It aint Life from a Window - wake up people!!
8 years later. stop pretending on the video. It's crass. However the song is sublime.
Is this the actual video? I'm guessing it isn't.
Think Weller’s still developing writing skills lucky to see the band survive Polydor with the rather ropy 2nd album. Years on this track, I Need You and Tonight at Noon do stand the test of time however. Still crazy to think they went from the muddled mess of MW to the genius poetry of All Mod Cons however.
Def Stuv chill your bits dude I’m just making an observation that MW was the bands lowest point. Yeah. I take your point though that Polydor certainly put pressure on the band for the second album so it was rushed. I still listen to MW on a regular basis after all the worse Jam album is still a Jam album. ;)
Agree to a point Ashley in those days albums singles hurried out from greedy record companies lots of xrirucs trashed ME but in time it's become a decent album leading to Mod Cons masterpiece written by a 20 year old Weller ...Yes only 20 yrs old ..mindboggling
Probably the best song off probably their worst LP... the fact that the other 5 LPs are fantastic tells you that the album is still worth a listen.
Life From A Window is a great song....but this ain't it in the video representation. It's just a cut-up rehash of other Jam footage. Was an awesome throw-back listening to the audio, though!
Extreme Weather it’s obviously a montage of video clips nobody said other wise ?? It’s just a selection of different footage put together to fill the time rather that stare at one still photo . You must be very stupid...do you think someone is trying to make people think they secretly change from black suits at the Roxy 1977 then grey suits in the USA then time hop to 1978 at the Reading festival ?
Easily the best song on probably their worst album.
Better than sex... (well... not... always)