The Jam - Saturdays Kids

[hibeegirl17]

I used to drink babysham...before I found Vodka lol.....But im still a Saturdays Kid....Im in a BMW now but its just a step up from a ford cortina lol

[garybh2112]

When i was a kid i was a cross between a Saturdays Kid and a Blockhead!!

[58busby58]

mrcmcd12345, wudnt watch the stone roses now, 4 old men, wat a joke, but were the best band on the planet 20yrs ago

[MrCMCD12345]

@58busby58 yes but its the stone roses mabye my only chance see them

[hazuinf]

@58busby58 The music is great, age is irrelevant.

[MrCMCD12345]

@hazuinf very true

[NorthernFella]

Mr Weller is a genuis love the lyrics

[58busby58]

mrcmcd, you keep listening to good music young lad and listen to the stone roses

[MrCMCD12345]

@58busby58 man i adore the stone rose im goin to see them

[MrCMCD12345]

im 13 and i love the jam,small faces,kinks,clash,sex pistols,buzzcocks ,so don't say only teenagers listen to shit music not me and my friends

[Swaggs303]

whats the system?

[LeavingOnAJetPlanex]

@Swaggs303 Government.

[Swaggs303]

@LeavingOnAJetPlanex hate the system

[LeavingOnAJetPlanex]

@Swaggs303 Smash the system

[Dunphy6000]

no dislikes.. :)

[SophieRamone16]

My friend and i got really into the Jam when we were only 15. i'm 16 now and this band really got me through my gcse revision :) i dont listen to them as much as i did but sometimes i just have to revisit their songs

[gingerutd]

im 17 And the jam as my best band was my idea.

[A7XandSHIZZ]

got that pic on my wall :)

[sjFALCONPUNCH01]

im not surprised this is one of the only vids on youtube with no dislikes

[stewajf]

Afternoon tea at the lite-a-bite

Chat up the girls

They dig it!

[MrTillyayre]

the saturday kid grew up to be a 5 oclock hero.

[MightySpoiler]

Great freaking song!

[hampshirecasual]

any older fans wondering that the jam hasnt had an effect on my generation is wrong , im 17 and was at a party with 16 to 20 year olds at, and town called malice came on the ipod and the place went mad , i was well happy , its only 12 year olds that like things like x factor and bieber ;)

[jrfm1999]

@hampshirecasual

not all 12 year olds have crap taste in music: btw :)

[simonNZ1066]

The memories - saw The Jam and The Clash live in Newcastle, The Undertones and Stiff LittleFingers live at Carlisle Town Hall (what a crap venue) on my three year overseas experience from New Zealand. Lived in Penrith, Cumbria. Not all good times tho - Thatcher, truck drivers strike, winter of discontent, Nottingham Forest, British Movement etc. What a great time for music tho!

[dnbbrummie]

youth oh youth - its the system, hate the system, what's the system?

[weylond]

My 24 year old daughters favourite Jam song, says reminds her of me cause I used to work at Tesco and did go to Bracklesham Bay for my holiday in a caravan about 1969, did nick my brothers Capstans when I was desperate, mind you gave that up 27 years ago.

[puinarak28]

Yes! I like this, this tune makes my day! happy valentine's day everyone :)

[KidSaturdays]

I'm sure I had clothes on when this song started :|

[somonelse666]

@KidSaturdays mabey u should check cctv....

[kevski6667]

dip in siler paper when there pints go flat! fucking genius weller, he wrote the songs still is now, and unfortunately hes dad's passed, you prick!

[bookwriter1]

i am thirteen and i must say i really wish there were bands like them now. or that i lived in the 70's/80's

[meust67]

POUAAAH vraiment, The Jam c'est juste LE groupe, même à 17 ans... !

[andrewleibs]

Bingo accents? Any know what this means?

[2bsom1]

@andrewleibs yeah like a bingo caller

[hufclufc]

@andrewleibs Yeah its just means workin' class innit?

[scatmando]

@hufclufc mushrooms?

[scatmando]

@andrewleibs thats all they talk about.... bingo. I may be wrong but thats my take on the lyric.

[themorganator4]

i grew up in bracklesham bay :)

[vaihtoplus1]

FORD FIESTA RULES SUOMESSA LAUANTAIN SKIDIT DUUNAA IHAN SAMAA

KUN SUOMES MUTTEI NE RÖÖKÄÄ CAPSTANS NON FILTTEREITA.......

[rickm2105]

only paul weller could ever front the jam....from the jam are just not the same without him try has they must but its just not mustard

[scatmando]

@rickm2105 Spot on mate, why cant Weller bite the bullet and do a Jam tour ? Its not like its east 17 reforming its the fucking JAM.

[walshy2866]

So typical lyrics for the era. Weighed up the time so well.

Weller wrote this from a privileged middle class background in the Home Counties, not the wide boy cockney image of rough London council estates that he portrayed.

Great writer though. Foxton was better though

[maffunited]

@walshy2866 don,t know if you ever had the pleasure of visiting sheerwater where the jam went to school i was brought up on the estate which was a London glc overspill estate built in the early fifties cant say i remember any middle classed priviledged people who lived there during the sixties and seventies ,Maybury where paul weller lived was maybe a bit better but was never and never will be middle class LOL think yyou have watched to many programmes about surreys leafy suburbs mate

[tony671]

@maffunited well said m8 walshy thinks that foxton was better writer than weller!!! wot albums has he been hearing cos weller wrote 95per cent if not more of jam songs like the bit about leafy surrey suburbs lol. i always thought weller was from woking?? as i dont know surrey ill take ur word

[maffunited]

@tony671 alright tony yes weller is from woking, he first lived in stanley road then moved to maybury estate ,sheerwater is the estate next door where i was brought up Bruce foxton also lived on sheerwater and they all went to school there

[tony671]

@maffunited cheers m8 i thought so

[oldshot]

@maffunited Now an overspill for Bangladesh.

[maffunited]

@oldshot you know the place well then lol

[tony671]

@walshy2866 foxton a better writer than weller dont think so m8 while weller still has a carear foxton is in a jam tribute band and he should get rid of that mullet

[hufclufc]

@tony671 Foxton has more crede. at least he didnt get his dad write all the shit hot lyrics and pretend it was him

[tony671]

@hufclufc my arse foxton wrote 2 songs news of the world dont know the other one but to say that wellers dad wrote his songs is just bollocks, his dad wrote all thoses no1s naw ur a fanny m8

[scatmando]

@tony671 Lol you are right mate, John Weller was Pauls manager after the jam, and was the manager of the Jam, he did not wright any songs I know of lol. His old man used to let all the fans into the soundcheck before the gig and if you were really lucky, he would let you into the hotel in which they were staying. I managed to meet them all in the George Hotel in Edinburgh when they were touring Sound Effects. His Dad also introduced them on stage as "the best fucking band in the world" The Jam.

[tony671]

@scatmando i saw them on the sound affects tour as well and they were fuckin spot on! seen the who in the apollo in glesga so i saw the 2 greatest bands before i was 18.

[scatmando]

@tony671 I saw the Who many years later at the secc, I never saw them at the apollo. I was lucky my ma let me go through to the mean streets of Glasgow from Edinburgh, lol. Cheers for your story mate.......... Oh the memories ............ how fucking good ?

[unclemort1960]

@tony671 foxton also wrote `carnaby street ` (great) `the night` (crap) `smithers-jones` (good) `circus` (throwaway instrumental)`best of both worlds`(good ,not released until after the band had longtime split) `london traffic` (great) `don`t tell them you`re sane` (average) theres probably a few more i cant think of which some Jam anarak (or parka) will point out .john weller wrote cheques

[walshy2866]

@tony671 . I didn't mean Foxton was a better writer, he only wrote 2 Jam tracks, and Weller finished both of them off!.

I prefer Foxton as a person, Weller was a genius with his lyrics and managed to reinvent himself at least 3 times BUT I always thought him , quite aloof and slightly arrogant.Only my opinion that mate. Saw From The Jam last night. Brilliant again, but as you say not much more than a tribute band.All 3 came out after and were chatting to fans for ages, doubt Weller does that?

[tony671]

@walshy2866 you may right m8 but the question is has foxton still got the mullet

[mattism2000]

@tony671 . Oh yes and plenty of botox by the look of him!

[Neb82]

@tony671

He did have the mullet...but he cut it off a few months back. Sad days. Still, anyone who's been to a few of the new gigs will have met Nobby who's carrying on the mullet tradition admirably. Even if he does wear the same, unwashed suit to every gig.

[daveyjarvis365]

@walshy2866 Absolute effing tosh. The Clash were the posh boys you idiot.

[masterofscotland]

@daveyjarvis365 This whole class argument is pointless, i.e. if Weller is so working class how come he sent his kids to Eaton? Hypocrisy ey? It's the music and itsmessage that matters.

[modmayday1979]

i am 16 and i love this song i was born to late

[macaly1]

Classic from the best band in the world.

Cheers from Glasgow.

[scatmando]

@macaly1 I saw them in the Apollo on the Sound Effect's tour, it was the last gig of that tour and what a night. I was only 15 at the time and it was a big deal to get a train through to the weeg, I had seen them the 2 night's before at the Edinburgh playhouse and was lucky to get a ticket for that crazy bouncing balcony in the Apollo. Oh the memories. From one 45 year old Jam fan. I wish they would do one last massive tour but me thinks Weller not like the idea.

[DaveyBoyEssexUK]

@scatmando We all wish that mate :(

[scatmando]

@DaveyBoyEssexUK  Too true my English friend.

[tony671]

@scatmando i was on that bouncing balcony too m8 a night that will be with me till i die

[scatmando]

@tony671 Good yin Tony, it will stay with me forever too. I can remember Weller walking on with a tambourine to say '' This is the last gig of the sound affects tour, and tonight's going to be the best. No wonder he wanted to finish the tour in Glasgow at The Apollo.

[tony671]

@tony671 seen the who at the at the apollo as well they should hiv never ripped the old place doon the secc isna the same!

[tony671]

@scatmando ma biggest hope is that weller would bite the bullet and do 1 jam tour and id die a happy old mod but never happen.bummer

[NeesyRocks]

im only 16 hav the setting sons album on vinyl and am really wearing it down this my fav song on the album at the moment seen the modfather in belfast and he was brillant

[katiewigs]

im 17 year old girl + i love the jam. this is my favourite song of theirs + one of my favourites ever! :D

[ElaniTreehouse]

great sound!

[Oxmix64]

thanks for posting!!

[tomdav97]

one of my favourites

[SchnelleHeinz]

Still applies doesn´t it! 30 years ago but up to date.

[2bsom1]

@SchnelleHeinz yea mate still does part from the cortinas

[SchnelleHeinz]

@2bsom1 only theese days its a bleeding toyota

[PetertheChanter]

ok, help a north american brother out, a "saturday kid" is a teenager who bags groceries at tescos or waitrose, right?

[razoodocks]

@PetertheChanter I think it just refers to working-class young men and women who spend their weekdays in dead-end jobs and live for the weekend. There's the romanticism of being young and free to do what you want but, at the same time, those creeping economic and social ties that limit your choices and map out the rest of your life.

[scatmando]

@razoodocks good point ma pal.

[bb50]

my ceramic rabbit

[corraddo1]

remember havin to order this through "record collector",one of my favorite jam tracks,ah the memories.

[goonersforce]

f-a-n-t-a-s-t-i-c

[Wilipeidia]

wish life was like this for us teens, well, just to have the jam would be BRILLIANT.

[twinneth]

superb takes me back to my school days late 70s early 80s

[09lilzoe]

me n my mate all we listend to in afgab was jan, we 20;s earlys n we love jam. bring back the jam

[smartkle]

Amazing....

[columbo416]

classic jam track,really sums up what it was like to be teenager in the uk in the 80's

[MrHodgeheg123]

Awesome band.One of THE all time greats but saw them at Lancaster Uni way back circa 1978/9 supported by The Vapours who stole the show.I'm turning Japanese.

[Kenster1987]

This song makes me happy to be alive!!!

[theonlytruepunk]

It makes me wish you were dead! Hahaha...just kidding!! Me too!!!

[crapple009]

One of my all-time Jam songs. What a great guitar riff. Quintessential great English RnR!!!

[mafesto2007]

Sound Effects goto me thru english lit exam .... thx guys

[StevieRevbo]

At the time of the Jam, society was more 'radical', more left-wing; so Paul reflected that, and with the Style Council but that recent solo rubbish is just that, and without the political edge too.....

[callamnffc]

@StevieRevbo your the ONLY person ive heard say they think weller is shit on his own

Go see him live, i think you might change your opinion

[erko62]

Saw them in 1982 at Bingly Hall Stafford (which was a cow shed by the way) still one of the best bands I ever saw live.

[gorgierebel]

I got to see them in Edinburgh (79/80???) at the Playhouse................

Was gonna give you all a blow by blow account but YOUTUBE give you a limited space............... Fair enough really!!!!

Anyway I met the band that night!"!!

Such a wake up that a guy just a few years older than me, was scraping BIG holes in the fabric of the country I was forced to live in.

Music was always 1st for me but the political messages will always live deep within.

Thanks Guys!!!!!!

[craignags]

No he married ,D C Lee i think

[wovokanarchy]

He's a puff for forsaking rock. Now he's singing with a fake american accent.

[LiveForever9]

one of my only videos left now! Keep enjoying!

[mark9780]

Soundtrack to my youth!I was lucky enough to spend my late teens working in Woking and met Bruce a few times,we were all very proud of the lads,and still am.The Light a Bite was a Cafe the kids would hang out at,i knew many Saturday Girls too,lovely!I was true working class,as were Bruce,Rick and Paul,they were OUR Band.

[gorgierebel]

Big respect to the Youth (then) of Woking who gave them the support

You dudes , no doubt saw the band at the most raw....and therefore at their very very best.

You'se guys made The Jam

Thank you from the bottom of every fan's heart :nw:

[lamcotres]

Paul Weller at his best!

[Andalucia727]

Augh, this got stuck in my head today, and I cant find the CD. It's round the house somewhere.

Also I'm fairly certain that I'm the only guy my age who listened to them in my high school. (I'm only 21 now...)

[slacker37]

I'm 41 and I am very proud of you :)

[Greeny955]

Certainly not the only one.

[SamthePetrolhead]

I'm 13 and their one of my favourite bands, and have been ever since i was 11

[SmithersJones87]

I'm only 22 and I'm a fan. in fact, this is THE band that influenced me to go and pick up a guitar.

They're obviously more popular here in the UK, but they're still pretty underrated in my view. :)

[tronchville]

@SmithersJones87 The Jam underrated? Nahhhh. Gone but never forgotten. Good that there's people like yourself keeping the flame alive for the younger generation though. If there's anything that turns 30/40 year old something blokes to into young, mad, youthful nutters on the dance floor then it's definitely The Jam! ;-)

[stoprejectingmynames]

@SmithersJones87 I'm only 14 and the Jam, the Clash, and the Sex Pistols are three of my favorite bands.

[scatmando]

@SmithersJones87 Good on you pal, I'm 45, Listen to his lyrics, they are still bang on today....probably even more so. I dont think they were underrated in there day, and still one of the best live acts I had the pleasure to listen to on many occasions. Best gig for me would be the old Glasgow Apollo, I was in the infamous bouncing balcony and what an experience at 15, I can remember it well, Weller came on stage and started with Pretty Green, WTF Did Mark Ronson do with that great tune ? lol

[samlamamma]

@SmithersJones87 Good for you!!:)

[stewajf]

"Chat up the girls, they dig it!"

[tony671]

this is my fav jam song, so many memories of saturdays in town dressed to kill, oooooooooo for my lost youth,"youth is wasted on the young" sound like an old man but great times

[scooterroy]

Story of my teenage life, apart from the Capstans and no mention of a Lambretta

[82thegift]

stains on the seats in the back of course !!!!!

[seizer2]

classic song so many memories flood back, good call

[largermememe]

Loving The Jam From In The City To Beat Surrender,,,, In 2000 i drove my Jag to pick up my best man so he could embarress me in front of 'all' with stories of woe,,,, - without a thought i was listening to the jam on the cassette as always - setting sons the album of the moment.

I got out and walked round to the passenger side, he sat in the drivers seat just as saturdays kids started.

Missing it already??? he said FUCK OFF I TOLD HIM :-)

[demszky]

Does anybody know what

'Dip in silver paper when their pints go flat,

How about that - far out!'

means?

[steelbanktrucker]

If your pint goes flat you can wrap a 5p in a Rizla paper, pop it in your glass and it starts fizzing. It must work the same with silver paper.

Ideal way to make your beer last longer during the early 80's when us teenagers had no jobs and nowt in our pockets

[bobmorrice]

i always thought it was about taking speed?

the speed being wrapped in silver paper

[steelbanktrucker]

Could be, bobmorrice, I'm no expert.

I'll try the silver paper in my pint tomorrow night to see if it fizzes. Purely for research purposes of course!

[scottkingofska]

did it work man?..

[theface79]

yeah, come on - tell us

[steelbanktrucker]

Sorry lads and lasses,

I haven't had a pint go flat yet!!!

[slim1146]

Yes

[owteufel]

If you bought a lager and left it too long, it went "flat" ie the CO² went out of it. If you took the silver paper from your packet of cigarettes and stirred it in your lager, the bubbles fizzed up again. Basically it means that they used to sit there with 1 pint of beer for hours, because they had no money. Hope that helps ;)

[stefanook]

Saturdays kids play one arm bandits,

they never win but that's not the point is it ?

[babyb1234512345]

How about that? far out man

classic 0:56

[pomomatthew]

they never win, but that's not the point is it?

[Museywusey]

Eeh I used to work in woolies until it closed at christmas.

I buzzed off this song.

Long live woolworths, and all of the generations of saturdays girls who worked there!!

[clumsyclara99]

You should go to PaulWellerChat all one word . and com. ; )

[jd7547]

They never win...but that's not the point;is it?

[inshreds66]

.....well Tesco's only these days!

[scooter10666]

well said

[bobmorrice]

dip in silver paper when their pints go flat

[PottyEsq]

Reminds me of the bombed out house sites in East Ham where we used to smash old TVs with bricks when I was a kid.

This song just oozes urban poverty....Love it.

Thanks for posting this.

[Larawilliams001]

What can I say, caps the time it was made

[megaforcemedia]

Foxton showin' off the mullet.

[modsheff1]

TALK TO JAN IN BINGO ACCENTS!

[Blueskinedbeast]

saturdays kid is a little known gem of a track its the bollox

top tune

[RenegadesTV]

Its quality init mate

[MissyRedxx]

i grew up on the jam .

it will always be with me :D

[aconstantfalling]

v neck shirts and baggy trousers!

[bombermarsh]

I love the fact that people keep these tunes alive totaly awesome. reminds me of being a kid.

[XTheKatybanX]

i never knew you liked this song

tis sehe gut =D

[wearethemods1994]

love it, love all the jam songs of course

and the lyrics are so true! lmao

[Ylime93]

Grreat Song!!!

Love It x

[SmithersJones87]

Grew up (and still live!) near a council estate or two.... lyrics remind me of some of the lads from school.

Underrated. Nice one. :D