It would be ironic to play "Going Underground" when taking a body out of the ground, not while putting one in it. Playing "Going Underground" while putting a body underground is dark humor, not an irony.
No dude you got that entirely the wrong way around. They were Gods in their time when music mattered and are even more so now. Going Underground sold more records in 7 days than the best selling record in a year has made for the past 15 years. They were arguably the best live band of all time....just sheer energy with, again arguably, the greatest 6 albums ever made by any band (including one average one ... the second).
I was working in a record store (Recordland-1979 , Miami, FL) when a man from the UK came in and asked if I was interested in buying some 45's by The Jam. He had about 30, or so. I bought one for about 5-bucks, a true English import 45. I still have it today and The Jam became one of my favorite bands that day and this day !
My personal favourite Jam song. Exactly how I want to remember one of the greatest English bands of all time. I'm glad they quit when they did, I couldn't imagine a reformed Jam doing this song justice 20, 30 or 40 years later. The best bands produced their finest work over a relatively short time and called it a day. Weller was ahead of the curve and knew he'd taken it as far as he could. He needed to move on to keep moving forward and I totally respect that philosophy.
What you see is what you get You've made your bed, you better lie in it You choose your leaders and place your trust As their lies wash you down and their promises rust You'll see kidney machines replaced by rockets and guns And the public wants what the public gets But I don't get what this society wants I'm going underground (going underground)
21 mate. Released March 1980. He'd have been 22 later that year. Agree with everything here. We were so lucky to have these 3 in our lives. Never ever get over how good they were. Still my favourite band ever - and it's not even close.
Damn that sounds good! Underground is the only place that really matters. When people say they hate the the music of the late 70's and 80's it's because they were stranded in the horrible pop world while the smart ones stayed underground. Love it!
lest we forget that as well as the amazing records the jam also were the most incredible live act of the time. Industrial grade levels of energy and there were only 3 of them doing it here.
After all these years I still find this so refreshing and as exciting as when it first came out. I've got this whole concert locked away and when I've got the time am gonna get it converted and make it available to you all as it's a cracking concert (No charge of course, time to start the sharing revolution.) Although the footage looks like they're starting with Going Underground, the first song of the gig was Thick as Thieves. Going Underground was about the 4th song in as far as I remember.
WOW! so much power!!! ... If you compare the bands of the 70s / 80s with this unspeakable "crybaby pop" of today ... unbelievable! So much strength, so much rebellion, so much departure we hab have! ... And the bands today, just moaning ... with their piched voices, powerless and devoid of any anger ... LET´S GO UNDERGROUND AGIN!!!
God, the energy here! We could do with some of that these days. I saw The Jam in 78 at Newcastle City Hall, the only hairy (or hippy as we were called) in a sea of mods and punks. Once the music started we were all the same :)
Remember having to order this so i could pick it up on release day. Still recall getting it at dinner and having to work in afternoon, couldn't wait to get home and play it. its hard to imagine these day the thrill of a new Jam single being released. Straight in at number 1, the three guys were heroes to us 16/17 year old's, and still are!!!
I had the pleasure of seeing The Jam play live 5 or 6 times, but the memory I'll take to my grave is them playing at Leicester DeMontford Hall when this was No. 1. Weller's dad introduced them in his usual manner "Please welcome the best fucking band in the world"!! All the lights went out, the band came on the stage and went straight in to Going Underground, the place erupted.
I’ll say this for Paul Weller, creatively the bloke has never dried up which is almost unheard of for an artist of 50 years. I’d have liked them to have carried on, their songs used to go straight to Number 1 such was their appeal. Met him as well mid 80’s, a proper gent.
Got to meet Weller when I was in Manhattan. At Starbucks no less. He and his manager were the nicest dudes. He took postures with my brother and I without hesitation. Been a fan since hearing Setting Sons for the first time.
I’m still in love with The Jam after all these years. Bruce Foxton is an incredible bassist. Love the energy of this band. Saw them live in the mid 80s. Wish I had been able to see them more than that one time.
I saw them several times when I grew up in the south of England, at Guildford Civic Hall, and once at a very secret gig in a YMCA youth club for local fans in Woking. Paul Weller was my idol.
Can still remember exactly where I was when the charts were on the radio and this went straight in at No1, and that was when the charts meant something, still a brilliant tune.
OMG woaw, they're so tight live, amazing. Must be about the same era as the abum just being recorded, everything's just right on this set, effects, vocals, everything. If Weller reformed The Jam for Glastonbury this year I'd be stunned.
Weller should reform the Jam as a one off at least,as an act of rescue ,to save Glastonbury from the crap it is putting on now.The only headliner can be a major rock outfit,that's what Glastonbury is about.The Jam would bring the house down if this brilliant video is anything to go by.
@@33Birchmoor Precisely, either The Jam, what's left of Pink Floyd or something like Aerosmith or ACDC would be absolutely huge. It's the only thing that would matter now, either that or an actual Led Zepellin reform for Glasto as a one off.
This just makes my heart beat so much faster today as much as it did when I was there as teenager.I owe it to Bruce Foxton for getting into bass and becoming the accomplished player I am today,he always was and always will be my bass hero😎
Love this song!!! I'm actually working on designing a punk/post-punk course with some colleagues and this is one band I want to talk about. A lot! This song, specifically...and "Down in a Tube Station at Midnight."
Some people might say my life is in a rut But I'm quite happy with what I got People might say that I should strive for more But I'm so happy I can't see the point Somethings happening here today A show of strength with your boys brigade And I'm so happy and you're so kind You want more money of course I don't mind To buy nuclear textbooks for atomic crimes And the public gets what the public wants But I want nothing this societys got I'm going underground (going underground) Well the brass bands play and feet start to pound Going underground (going underground) Well let the boys all sing and the boys all shout for tomorrow Some people might get some pleasure out of hate Me, I've enough already on my plate People might need some tension to relax Me, I'm too busy dodging between the flak What you see is what you get You've made your bed, you better lie in it You choose your leaders and place your trust As their lies wash you down and their promises rust You'll see kidney machines replaced by rockets and guns And the public wants what the public gets But I don't get what this society wants I'm going underground (going underground) Well the brass bands play and feet start to pound Going underground (going underground) So let the boys all sing and the boys all shout for tomorrow We talk and talk until my head explodes I turn on the news and my body froze The braying sheep on my TV screen Make this boy shout, make this boy scream! Going underground Going underground! I'm going underground! I'm going underground! These braying sheep on my TV screen Make this boy shout, make this boy scream! Going underground (going underground) Well, let the brass bands play and feet start to pound Going underground (going underground) Well, let the boys all sing and let the boys all shout Going underground (going underground) Well, let the brass bands play and feet go pow, pow, pow Going underground (going underground) So let the boys all sing and let the boys all shout for tomorrow
While my favourite version of this is the single allied to the video, this live version from Newcastle City Hall in October 1980 is an absolute corker, bass and bass drum-heavy with an excited, youthful audience only inches away - the real thing!
@Matt Padden.Absolutely bang on.This beats the studio version.Obviously the band members are older now,and perhaps couldn't reproduce this intense sound,sadly,but this band were the very best.Far better than the sex pistols and possessing the kind of vigour the Ramones had.
I think that as a teenager this song influenced my whole attitude to society for the rest of my life. I don't really want to be fully part of it , as far as I can I'd rather duck out of it.
anybody got the full concert hidden away? this wasnt the 1st song on either night. It sounded amazing being there,old school massive speakers and power amps. No bands sound as good as this anymore
When I was 14 I wanted to be Paul Weller.....now I am 55.....and still do.
You could power a street with the energy they created. Magnificent.
Having this played at my funeral just for the irony!
Mike Manders omfg, best comment of the year!
-Robert Plays ?
cheeky buggah!
My kind of humour.
It would be ironic to play "Going Underground" when taking a body out of the ground, not while putting one in it. Playing "Going Underground" while putting a body underground is dark humor, not an irony.
I'm 64 and this still blows me away (I wish I still had the knees I owned in '79)
When The Jam spoke to me. Sorry. I've got your knees in my fridge.
Sheer genius
@@robertwalker9018 Is there any other kind.
The Jam would have been gods if they were around now with the same media. Complete legends.
Sublime performance.Sheer energy.All the best that rock music stands for.Brilliant sound quality to boot.
They were gods mate I was at this gig
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No dude you got that entirely the wrong way around. They were Gods in their time when music mattered and are even more so now. Going Underground sold more records in 7 days than the best selling record in a year has made for the past 15 years. They were arguably the best live band of all time....just sheer energy with, again arguably, the greatest 6 albums ever made by any band (including one average one ... the second).
Sadly, they wouldn’t even be heard today.
Just 3 instruments!!! Incredible
I was working in a record store (Recordland-1979 , Miami, FL) when a man from the UK came in and asked if I was interested in buying some 45's by The Jam. He had about 30, or so. I bought one for about 5-bucks, a true English import 45. I still have it today and The Jam became one of my favorite bands that day and this day !
Nice story 👌🏼
Impacting song, Bruce Foxton and that bass is just insane... 👏👏👏👏👏👏
Bruce and his bass are carrying the song. Very much underappreciated at the time.
My personal favourite Jam song. Exactly how I want to remember one of the greatest English bands of all time. I'm glad they quit when they did, I couldn't imagine a reformed Jam doing this song justice 20, 30 or 40 years later. The best bands produced their finest work over a relatively short time and called it a day. Weller was ahead of the curve and knew he'd taken it as far as he could. He needed to move on to keep moving forward and I totally respect that philosophy.
What you see is what you get
You've made your bed, you better lie in it
You choose your leaders and place your trust
As their lies wash you down and their promises rust
You'll see kidney machines replaced by rockets and guns
And the public wants what the public gets
But I don't get what this society wants
I'm going underground (going underground)
This and Tube Station, best ever.
@@texwilson2453 Totally agree. I’d hate to see the Smiths reform and I’m one of their biggest fans. It simply would not work.
A fucking masterpiece of the highest order!
Like an explosion in your head. Every song
And Weller was only 20 years old when he wrote this song and performed it here in concert!
He was 22 mate
Mod 66 still, 22 and writing songs that have lasted generations is amazing
Yes I agree
21 mate. Released March 1980. He'd have been 22 later that year.
Agree with everything here. We were so lucky to have these 3 in our lives. Never ever get over how good they were. Still my favourite band ever - and it's not even close.
I'm sorry to be over dramatic BUT this is truly some of the greatest music ever made by our clumsy species. The Jam remind me we are creatures of God
Damn that sounds good! Underground is the only place that really matters. When people say they hate the the music of the late 70's and 80's it's because they were stranded in the horrible pop world while the smart ones stayed underground. Love it!
lest we forget that as well as the amazing records the jam also were the most incredible live act of the time. Industrial grade levels of energy and there were only 3 of them doing it here.
The Jam and The Police were the greatest 3 piece bands ever.
Cream, Nirvana, and Rush are up there too.
Don't forget motorhead
Well that made me get out the old Rickenbacker and annoy the neighbours. Brilliant stuff.
After all these years I still find this so refreshing and as exciting as when it first came out. I've got this whole concert locked away and when I've got the time am gonna get it converted and make it available to you all as it's a cracking concert (No charge of course, time to start the sharing revolution.) Although the footage looks like they're starting with Going Underground, the first song of the gig was Thick as Thieves. Going Underground was about the 4th song in as far as I remember.
Did you do it ? Lol
Please do download it.
Seen them in the 80s bring back so meny memories fantastic x
Fucking brilliant. No band can compare. Music that 40 years on still gives me goosebumps. Like the fella said bury me a Mod.
Had I been of the age to become one back then i guess i'd have been a Mod :)
GENIUS.........there are no other words
Genius is in the song writing....the playing is all about the practice.
WOW! so much power!!! ... If you compare the bands of the 70s / 80s with this unspeakable "crybaby pop" of today ... unbelievable! So much strength, so much rebellion, so much departure we hab have! ... And the bands today, just moaning ... with their piched voices, powerless and devoid of any anger ... LET´S GO UNDERGROUND AGIN!!!
God, the energy here! We could do with some of that these days. I saw The Jam in 78 at Newcastle City Hall, the only hairy (or hippy as we were called) in a sea of mods and punks. Once the music started we were all the same :)
We’re so lucky to have music like this
What a gig this was got to go for my 14th birthday seems like last week time flies but Thee jam are timeless.
that must have been insane. lucky you!
I'm in my 50s and when this song playsc I want to (and recently have) jump around with my legs and arms kicking and frailing.Bloody Awesome
Me too...
Remember having to order this so i could pick it up on release day. Still recall getting it at dinner and having to work in afternoon, couldn't wait to get home and play it. its hard to imagine these day the thrill of a new Jam single being released. Straight in at number 1, the three guys were heroes to us 16/17 year old's, and still are!!!
Unbelivable energy.
I had the pleasure of seeing The Jam play live 5 or 6 times, but the memory I'll take to my grave is them playing at Leicester DeMontford Hall when this was No. 1. Weller's dad introduced them in his usual manner "Please welcome the best fucking band in the world"!! All the lights went out, the band came on the stage and went straight in to Going Underground, the place erupted.
I saw the Jam in Portsmouth in 1981 when I was in the Navy. It was the best gig I have ever been to.
I’ll say this for Paul Weller, creatively the bloke has never dried up which is almost unheard of for an artist of 50 years. I’d have liked them to have carried on, their songs used to go straight to Number 1 such was their appeal.
Met him as well mid 80’s, a proper gent.
Captured and mesmerised a whole generation. Weller at his angriest...
Prophetic lyrics that still ring true
Got to meet Weller when I was in Manhattan. At Starbucks no less. He and his manager were the nicest dudes. He took postures with my brother and I without hesitation. Been a fan since hearing Setting Sons for the first time.
I’m still in love with The Jam after all these years. Bruce Foxton is an incredible bassist. Love the energy of this band. Saw them live in the mid 80s. Wish I had been able to see them more than that one time.
They weren't around in the mid 80s .11 Dec 1982 was the jams last stand
These mates are definition my GOAT list❤
I saw them several times when I grew up in the south of England, at Guildford Civic Hall, and once at a very secret gig in a YMCA youth club for local fans in Woking. Paul Weller was my idol.
Terrific energy. Saw them do this song in Brighton circa 1980-1.
The greatest band of my life.
i love the drummer, hes so cool and composed like a robot.
Can still remember exactly where I was when the charts were on the radio and this went straight in at No1, and that was when the charts meant something, still a brilliant tune.
OMG woaw, they're so tight live, amazing. Must be about the same era as the abum just being recorded, everything's just right on this set, effects, vocals, everything.
If Weller reformed The Jam for Glastonbury this year I'd be stunned.
Weller should reform the Jam as a one off at least,as an act of rescue ,to save Glastonbury from the crap it is putting on now.The only headliner can be a major rock outfit,that's what Glastonbury is about.The Jam would bring the house down if this brilliant video is anything to go by.
@@33Birchmoor Precisely, either The Jam, what's left of Pink Floyd or something like Aerosmith or ACDC would be absolutely huge. It's the only thing that would matter now, either that or an actual Led Zepellin reform for Glasto as a one off.
Don’t think you’ll have to worry to much about the Jam reforming never ever going to happen.
This just makes my heart beat so much faster today as much as it did when I was there as teenager.I owe it to Bruce Foxton for getting into bass and becoming the accomplished player I am today,he always was and always will be my bass hero😎
Brilliant punk band .Loved The Jam.
Pure class, the energy is immense
Love the Jam, they produced fantastic lyrics that have REAL meaning plus they are one of few bands that play BRILLIANTLY when they are LIVE ❤️
Julie hermiz Paul Weller has always managed to make not only good music, but that of really good lyrics:-)
Thrilling. I saw them in 1982 or so. One of the best shows ever. They did not quit for one second.
This song sent me underground literally and became homeless. Never phased me and did not alter my perception of who I was or was to become.
Love this band❤
Una joya de cancion.Despues de tantos años suena tan refrescante como antes...Dios salve a los Jam.
Pure class them 3 were. .
wow! they r so good live!
I love Bruce love the bass
So much from just 3 fabulous musician. Saw them live in '79.
Holy shit this is good....what took me so long to find it?!
The great band ever ever ever since
I'm from Poland but in the end of 90's bands like The Jam, The Clash, Madness, The Specials, Selecter, Cock Sparrer was my religion. And still are.
Good music always travels well
Why don't we have bands like this today instead of the crap that passes for music now?
......computers
All safe & corporate without a message or meaning
So much energy!
Dope. I had the fortune to see them for ‘The Gift’ tour in 1982/83 at the Paladuim in NYC. This is a touch doper
Grande, the Jam!
Let this boy. .......SCREEEM
Arguably, 1980 was their performing peak.
so many memories in 3.04 minutes x
Stunning.
If you're not English, then you will never understand the power of this song.
I think that it depends on your political point of view
Tight as. Best live music ever?
"You chose your leaders & place your trust -But their lies wash you down & their promises rust........" No change there then:-(
Foxton looks as though he was born holding that bass... guaranteed he'll be buried with it...
Not a mobile phone in sight. Proper fans 👍
mobile phones did not exist back then ;p
The Jam , uno de los grandes recuerdos de mi juventud😍
It's my ringtone & my funeral song.
Love this song!!! I'm actually working on designing a punk/post-punk course with some colleagues and this is one band I want to talk about. A lot! This song, specifically...and "Down in a Tube Station at Midnight."
Dreams of children and private hell are worth a look to mate
Legend
May 30th 1982 Perkins Palace Pasadena California, we LA Mods got blasted ♂️♀️🏁🇺🇸🛵🛵🛵🛵🛵🇬🇧
The first single I ever bought
And me ...
Some people might say my life is in a rut
But I'm quite happy with what I got
People might say that I should strive for more
But I'm so happy I can't see the point
Somethings happening here today
A show of strength with your boys brigade
And I'm so happy and you're so kind
You want more money of course I don't mind
To buy nuclear textbooks for atomic crimes
And the public gets what the public wants
But I want nothing this societys got
I'm going underground (going underground)
Well the brass bands play and feet start to pound
Going underground (going underground)
Well let the boys all sing and the boys all shout for tomorrow
Some people might get some pleasure out of hate
Me, I've enough already on my plate
People might need some tension to relax
Me, I'm too busy dodging between the flak
What you see is what you get
You've made your bed, you better lie in it
You choose your leaders and place your trust
As their lies wash you down and their promises rust
You'll see kidney machines replaced by rockets and guns
And the public wants what the public gets
But I don't get what this society wants
I'm going underground (going underground)
Well the brass bands play and feet start to pound
Going underground (going underground)
So let the boys all sing and the boys all shout for tomorrow
We talk and talk until my head explodes
I turn on the news and my body froze
The braying sheep on my TV screen
Make this boy shout, make this boy scream!
Going underground
Going underground!
I'm going underground!
I'm going underground!
These braying sheep on my TV screen
Make this boy shout, make this boy scream!
Going underground (going underground)
Well, let the brass bands play and feet start to pound
Going underground (going underground)
Well, let the boys all sing and let the boys all shout
Going underground (going underground)
Well, let the brass bands play and feet go pow, pow, pow
Going underground (going underground)
So let the boys all sing and let the boys all shout for tomorrow
Fantastic lyrics, and as relevant now as they were then if not more so! What a band.
Superb....
Stuck in my head since the election. Needed inspiration. Weller stayed true to his guns too
Was there, good memory for me.
While my favourite version of this is the single allied to the video, this live version from Newcastle City Hall in October 1980 is an absolute corker, bass and bass drum-heavy with an excited, youthful audience only inches away - the real thing!
@Matt Padden.Absolutely bang on.This beats the studio version.Obviously the band members are older now,and perhaps couldn't reproduce this intense sound,sadly,but this band were the very best.Far better than the sex pistols and possessing the kind of vigour the Ramones had.
I think that as a teenager this song influenced my whole attitude to society for the rest of my life. I don't really want to be fully part of it , as far as I can I'd rather duck out of it.
How can 9 people put thumps down this band is legendary.
People don't do politics-but politics does them!
best punk band of all time
temazo!!! gran banda!!!
This is incredibly well edited. Top!
anybody got the full concert hidden away? this wasnt the 1st song on either night. It sounded amazing being there,old school massive speakers and power amps. No bands sound as good as this anymore
First song was thick as thieves if my memory is right .i was front row on balcony .
GR8''OLD''CLASSIC.
A true power trio
Bruce is a great bass player
was living in london at the time......,.we used to sing battersea is what u get.......,guess where i lived
When Stuart Adamson was starting a new band after The Skids he went to Bruce Foxton to be part of that new band. I stand to be corrected
speechless! this makes me wanna down 10 beers and smash the house up ha
Haha😂😂
Boom...
I saw them at the Hollywood Palladium (swoon).
Just three of 'em . Great songs and sounds . British is Best.
Oh yes!
I didn’t know Rodney (only fools and horses) was the lead singer of The Jam - now That’s Entertainment.
Wow imagine being Paul Weller 😎
badass