The Jam - Absolute Beginners live

[barry1853]

the Jam, The Style Council, solo Paul....the sound track to my life. other than Bruce Springstien name an artist that has GROWN with you? just asking

[dicky466]

Bruce Foxton's bass playing is off the planet on this.

[dicky466]

Kick out the Style bring back the Jam! Never been more true.

[widge7uk]

awesome

[DDslinky]

Beautiful melodic bass line - love it. Also love Paul's hair :) he was quite appealing really...

[drawlbag]

Wot? The Jam, aggressive from the start, built with each song, beat surrender, why the fuck did they split up. Why o why o why?

[fullmetalwelly]

crap sorry about the spelling below

[fullmetalwelly]

This is the video fro Sweden or something fior the first part of the song Wellers guitar volume working so the mixing guy likely got a shoeing after - if you watch the whole video theres a strange interview after where they mention chicken in a basket ro soemthing - tales of the riverbank is the other son they perfomed

[krg1965]

@fullmetalwelly I wasn't sure if this was just from the bad old days when TV sound people didn't understand how mix live music to broadcast. There's the bit where Paul's guitar bursts into life around 1:16 and you see someone sneaking offstage, so it may have been a dead DI or mic. Dead right, it does look like a 'cabaret' do with a few real fans up in the balcony with scarves.

[fightinfarrell]

A Class Act!

[Lee1878Sant]

Proper !!! Great upload man thank you :)

[Alejandroenfuego]

f'in brilliant



[doctorjimmy123]

They arnt miming the soundtracks just slightly out of sinc with the video.

[JennySussex]

Genius!

[sherbert500]

they never did mime very well but what a great tune

[madeofstone95]

@sherbert500 They're not miming.

[fliznid]

fantastic! my favorite Jam song. The one time I got to see them live they didn't play this song. Great to see it live!

[BlondeRocknRoll]

i loved the jam, spent my youth listening to them, and i adore Wellers solo work, but why do people give TSC, such grieve, they were class.. love this song, these were great times ..

[Supers0nic1991]

I never thought this song would sound that awesome live

[mmcdonald0822]

Bruce Foxton is one of my favorite bass players

[clashcityrocker2007]

@mmcdonald0822 it certainly stands out in this particular recording

[DuLeth91]

Pauls hair. Amazing.

[sandeepa4]

class!

[sandeepa4]

Horns are class,,,,,, Mr Weller that Rickanbaker sounds soooo good!!!!

So miss THE JAM!!!!!

[ellycat]

You can see that Weller had his idea of The (shit) Style Council with this (average) track from a superb band imo.

[forestfan3]

@ellycat open your mind

your fucking cunt

style council-Jam-Solo career

they are all on the same level of magic

Goodness gracious me some people!

[ellycat]

@forestfan3 It's called an opinion and what does "your fucking cunt" mean? Is there any chance you could put your P.O.V. across without using expletives?

[EuchridEucrow1]

Sounds like they may have had a bit of problem mixing Paul Weller's live guitar, unless that was intentional.

[SmithersJones87]

@EuchridEucrow1 Ha nothing til around 1:10, then all of a sudden his Telecaster roars into action from nowhere.

[sayasitis]

wow..... so good ........ just love the Jam

[korochibipuku1]

This is the first time I've seen they play this song! Sensational! Thanks very much!

[demento81]

Brilliant!  That's all.