The Jam - Art School

[94sealover]

I wish i had a time machine....and never see Lady Gaga,Jonas Brothers,justin Bieber and all these bullshits again....

[gogoardo]

yo <3 paul wellleer

[Angrynudfo]

Look at that fuckin' hair. haha.

[redsull123]

77 better than 11

[tracy1steve]

great band,was one of the 5000 that saw the last gig.

[shakermaker2009]

Quality, search 'Spiders - Where does this leave us now?'

[dereia]

@shakermaker2009 spiders are a poor mans right said fred mate

[khalidsaddique]

awesome went to see them live in newcastle in 1977 they were awesome and those were the days

[indydaisy1]

@khalidsaddique happy days, remember the 7/7/77 that was a warm day as a kid :)

[jackhandy0001]

I love this song, simply, because I went to art school. How many art students does it take to screw in a light bulb? One, but they get a credit for it...

[1968Kiwi]

Great great great !!!

[comebackwimeapplepie]

Paul Weller's not just still alive, he's ALIVE!

[TheNylonJacket]

Art school...

[gleona1]

this always reminds me of mama's boy now XD

[agramsci]

I love how these pedantic people tell me "This isn't punk, it's new wave." Right, and my mother wasn't uptight Christian, she was Baptist. Idiots.

[radioclash84]

@agramsci i totally agree, this is punk man.

[TheToneross]

yes,the jam/heard em in the 80's ,loved em ever since.'89 in Toronto the vibes were not very jam - ish but i dug em anyways,them and zepp. odd combo eh hahah/love eton rifles and going underground especially

[StevenAteYourDogs]

the singer sounds just like the one from the buzzcocks

[ibazookajoe]

@StevenAteYourDogs

The singer?

[blueybrown1]

oh the fabulous fabulous jam...................

[MultiCobra1978]

voolllllllllllllllllllllllllll­l geil

[revpgesq]

ahead of their time...especially in regard to the media as watchdog.

[jimmyvirtue]

acid speed and booze is not my favourite cocktail as i hate being a being being love mostly on tuesdays when i scratch my name in the desk, yankee football rules. vermont radio k/w xxx <3

[cconfusion1]

rickenbacker porn...awesome song!

[TomMagic92]

Pauls Rickenbacker looks gooooooooooooooooooooooood

[modette69er]

@TomMagic92 very very very gooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo­oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo­oooooooooooooooooooooooood

[FesterCrust]

@TomMagic92 sounds so goooooood too

[poopinyourpantsporn]

I love the Jam. It is the only band whose sound followed a simple path: Energy. All of The Jam records bear the same musical energy as the first recordings. Belive me, I burnt a CD with "In the City" and "Setting Sons" and I can't tell the difference. This is what I like; great music that will forever last with a predominately aggressive sound.

LONG LIVE THE JAM!

[DaMnMeSsEdUpKeYbOaRd]

Weller played this last night in Bournemouth, the crowd went fucking mental! Such a good gig!

[fluffpuffbobo98]

they will never die in my mind

[FesterCrust]

SO MUCH ENERGY, THE JAM FOREVER!

[lol3151]

Punk? Mod? How funny in youre head can you b.?

[JESSESEIBEL]

Someone explain why the word "mod" is being used here? I don't understand it in this context.

[noobyloopy]

@JESSESEIBEL Mod (from modernist)

[JESSESEIBEL]

@noobyloopy Thank you. :)

[lefteylongcake]

to b honest this is what is now termed power pop. the jam were and always have been mods that just played rock n roll. same as the action and small faces before them

[mickeycello]

Its Mod in dress, and punk in attitude.

[theblake]

Weller totally looks like Alex Turner from Arctic Monkeys here.

[sfm1967]

@theblake oh come on could it be the other way round pal

[norrisonthespot]

Punk was the rebellious bastard child of glam rock and mod. Think New York dolls and The Who :) Seriously though punk branched out from a myriad of influences. The Clash for example were influenced by reggae! 'Punk' is impossible to pigeon hole. The Jam were a punk group dressed like mods.

[jimmyjazz60]

No, I just listen to them.

[SuperAndrei82]

It's kind of a mod sort of punk

[MrHAPPYDAYS10]

My favourite Jam song ever !! The complete rawness and energy is second to none. Weller = Class personified !!

[jimmyjazz60]

Bob Marley,song, Punky Reggae Party. " The Jam, The Damned, the Clash." Who want's to argue with Bob?

[TheDude4077]

this video is so cool

[disordermbmufc]

The Jam were technically New Wave, but took influences from punk, mod etc...

[Alwaystheshyones]

I got into the jam because my brother likes them....he said they were punk....everyone else has argued with me that they are not....so thank you x

[MilesHADOUKORE]

THIS IS MOD

[trapset9]

i'm in art school.

[mrmattstrat]

@trapset9 stay and learn all you can!...peace!

[dweebcentric]

@trapset9 - suckerrrrrr!

[popomczowzow]

@trapset9 enjoy your poverty!

[diogobue]

this song is so awesome

[aero105]

this is great but i prefer it when the jam properly came into their stride and had that brilliant ,defining sound.

[SgGuitarist27]

@ibazookajoe You turn the volume of one of the pickups down to 0, and then flick the pickup switch up and down repeatedly.

[ibazookajoe]

How does he do that mamamamama thing with the guitar at the end?!?!?

[googuse]

@ibazookajoe You flip the pickup switch up and down

[ibazookajoe]

@googuse But all that does is that changes the tone :/ no mamammmaa

[prunch72]

'Fools only laugh 'caus they envy you'....

[JESSESEIBEL]

I would like to start a band like this. It's been a dream. :)

[rockergirl180]

@JESSESEIBEL :D

[JESSESEIBEL]

@rockergirl180 Double smile! :D

[TheBeck666]

not long enough

[MrEua666]

Maybe they are not punk people. But they do a punk song!

[ak47blunt05]

the 1st 2 album are punk after that the jam are in a league of there own no one could touch them then and now

[MrTulip65]

@ak47blunt05 well put ,man-I saw them live at Reading University (I was only 12),and it's still one of the best gigs I've ever seen!!

[tomdav97]

first song the modfather wrote

[SLAPnPOP726]

i agree with agramsci;punk isnt a way of dressing or acting a certain way, its a way of thinking. and i for one believe The Jam are in fact punk in that respect.

[debugogo]

いいぞぉー(^O^)／

[FrankHammond1906]

@debugogo Innit!

[planetjanine]

omg Paul Weller was gorgeous once. I never knew he was in The Jam. not that it matters if he's gorgeous or not. it's the talent and music that make musicians like him and Thom Yorke gorgeous. ;D btw a shame what happened to his son. he says he's a cross between Marilyn Manson and Victoria Beckham. :\ it would be great if he could have had a son making similar music. oh well.

[666rocko]

you know its good music, when after youve heard it you wanna go out and break somthin

[miriyaa]

this is shit for whites, snoop dog rulz

[MrYoungMod]

@miriyaa

Erm... Lettme think bout that... NO!... The jam are the best band ever, snoop dog cant even sing!, neither can any of these other modern day singers, there are only a few, so i perfer to listen to real music thanks!

so no, snoop dog doesn't rule..

[1Beatlemaniac1]

I like this

[NoahAndABadger]

there's this song by the jam and i think i've heard it on a few adverts in the past or on the radio and i have no idea what it's called, anyone know?

i know, not very helpful info lol

[SenseiSixString]

If it was for Cadillac, it was "Start" from Sound Affects. Though that was here in the US, might be different for you. I heard it on t.v. and thought I was imagining it.

[historyuktv1]

Could be English Rose that's on an advert

[XVLaHireXV]

classic!!! hourrah!!!

[PopeFlores]

Foxton and Weller re-unite for NEW album! Oh. Hell. Yeah!

[jamzo261]

Class music! takes me back to my mod and punk days!.........now look where you are weller!

[lb11lb18]

are you some kind of prick?

[Wilipeidia]

loving bruces kick at 1:15,

this is one of my favourit jam songs

[yosoitonto]

MOD

[yosoitonto]

MOD

[punchtheclockhard]

if youre talking bout pop punk....ure about right

[JoeParkinson23]

ha im 19 and i know mod was before punk. If anything mod influenced punk. Mods like The Who were around in the 60s and provided a sound that branched off into punk rock and gave rise to bands like the Sex Pistols, Ramones etc.

[RaelSpice]

BOLLOX

[shelleys9I]

Lydon, says the same in his autobiography. The yanks like to revise history, as if the MC5 etc didnt pretend to be the Stones,Kinks,Them etc in 65?

[up2space]

@JoeParkinson23 interesting thought, no one has made this connection before..

[trvekvltBurzum]

@JoeParkinson23 Punks broke off from the rockers... Since rockabilly is rocker music and punks took it for themselves... But punks are rather a mix between the mods and rockers. As much as I know mods conflicted with punks at some time.

[TheSonicchick]

@JoeParkinson23 I find it a bit of a stretch to suggest that the Who are at the roots of punk. Some of there stage antics may suggest a punk attitude (smashing guitars etc.) but their sound, not so much. If you want to check out the roots of punk, Iggy Pop and the Stooges and MC5 would be more appropriate bands to reference.

Cheers to your interest in the history of real music!

[poopinyourpantsporn]

@TheSonicchick Yes. Search and Destroy and The Passenger helped shape the angry sound bands from the Punk scene put in their songs. Totally agree.

[Baudez]

@MrSueVeneer Good words, wise words.... thumbs up!

[billdeal]

@MrSueVeneer *shit music

[UZIsuicide9111]

@MrSueVeneer this isnt that intelligent lmao. its rock N roll man

[2206411411]

@MrSueVeneer: Why do you think they call it pigeon-holing? Think - what do YOU think the RIAA pigeons do in holes?

[jimmy96k]

This band are loved like no other in towns throughout provincial England. I grew up in a town near Stoke in the 90s and the Jam were never off the juke box.

[Alejandroenfuego]

True they were mod. With a big punk influence goes without saying. Obviously. Punk helped influence Mod. It's like saying they're reggae but with a heavy ska influence. One really came from the other, you can't separate the two. Gospel gave birth to the blues in part, so punk in part gave birth to Mod.

[THClove]

finaly someone said it

[ravenTJ1979]

Mod was created on the 60s ,Punk  the 70s .

[jhonwanegasey]

iggy pop was from the 60s ,mc5 but didnt mods come from ska

[ravenTJ1979]

No mods was from the 60s early who, the kinks and other british bands were MOD they sometimes are labeled as hippy in america cause there was no MOD movement there but thats wrong.

Scooters and tailor suits (fashion in general) were also important to 60 Mods , Austin Powers character is more of a Mod than a hippy but gets labeled the other way .

The Jam was a Mod revival.

[BobMonkfish]

@ravenTJ1979 - Punk actually originates towards the end of the sixties with the MC5 (founded 1964), The Stooges (founded 1967), the New York Dolls (founded 1970), the Velvet Underground (1965)... all long before Rotten, Strummer and co, who acknowledge their influence too.

[Franzko787]

MC5 were leftist like trade union Weller. Stooges maybe. NY Dolls sucked and early Japan which sucked ripped of NY Dolls. Last 3 Japan albums were great.Velvets were not punk but pretenious art band. Lydon said Alice Cooper was also a big influence. The one you are forgetting is The Ramones. Lydon said they were an influence. The Pistols were far more liberatarin and did not like The Labour Party that Weller fawns over. The Clash with their leftist schtick jumped on the punk bandwagon. Posers.

[stubobmac]

Clash posers? Really? I respectfully disagree. Perhaps others were too quick to label them punk, but I think that posers is a bit strong. New York Dolls were pretty good too. Did you like Japan covering VU? VU my not have been punk but they sure influenced a lot of early punk.

[dethbed77]

How did punk give birth to mod? there was mods in the eary 60s...

[BobMonkfish]

Early "mod" and early "punk" were very similar to one another, as was early hard rock. The Velvet Underground is definitely punk - check out the noise and distortion etc in some of the songs, plus politics, but not in the sense of speed that later punk had. I didn't mention the Ramones, because they are later than the MC5, NYDs and VU. Could also have mentioned the Saints, although they're more of a parallel development than an influence on English punk.

[KatiaImeldaMarcos]

Honestly, do you really care in which " category" The Jam (or any band) might fall? This song is about not falling for this shite categories game pulled out by the media. This is good music. That' s all IMHO

[jasonmeen]

colabacio...

You are a COCK, go away and read up on musical style and then report back there's a good boy/girl.

[skottkoonz]

Mod, punk, whatever! He I see alot of energy, something that is lacking in music today. This is great. When he kicks the T.V...is punk to me. These guys are great!

[ravenTJ1979]

Wrong thats not punk.

When Townshed smashed his guitar or Moon is drum kit it was not punk,it was mod.

[colabacio]

The Jam were a mod band,end of story,weller even said "i`m a mod,i`ll always be a mod"...the `punk` band thing was a load of crap.most of the so called punk bands were nobheads pretending to be anarchists...the jam were songwriters in the same bracket as the who,kinks,beatles,spencer davis etc etc..i had a jam badge(red white and blue target) so i`m sorry agramsci,i`m telling you they werent punk ..they were a mod band and had more talent than to latch onto some fake anarchistic shit

[oneplusanotherone]

your so tough

[InternetUser1999]

Yes they were mod but with a big punk influence. The Jam played the 100 club punk festival in September 1976 along with the first punk bands. They also had a massive punk following in the beginning long before the mod revival took off.

[AClarke2007]

Ah Bollocks - it`s ENERGY!

[texplastics]

the jam were a mod band influenced by the who, some of the tracks they did are from the who, kinks and the beatles. They were the best british band of my generation the 80s wouldnt have been the same without them. go boys

[seanyw89hotmailcom]

Actually the Jam never claimed to be punk.They believed that punk is just a market label and I agree with that.

[Reint25]

In the Tom Snyder show Paul Weller said he preferred ''New Wave''.

[Wehategod]

The Jam's First LP is so good.

[agramsci]

Why wasn't this a punk band? Was it because it Paul didn't change his name, or they didn't wear clothes found in a rubbish bin? Forgive me, this is punk music. I love Johnny Mellor, but you could never say The Jam weren't punk.

[jjschultz101]

@agramsci

They're Mods, man. No worries. Why do they "have" to be a punk band?

It's just good music, enjoy it.

[PBANDSNOW]

@agramsci in my opinion only of course, but i dont think yoi can get paunk out of an album, punk is only live. Even the sex pistols bollox album wasnt that punk because it was so refined. Punk is real punk when its live

[MadMrMeister]

@agramsci The Jam definatley had punk influences, and the sound was somewhat punkish, but it was influenced much by 60s british invasion bands and the memebers themselves were Mods not punks. The Jam is a Mod Revival band.

[SozzledTerror]

@agramsci Punk was unsophisticated disestablishment rantings. The Jam on the whole were more polished and veneered. So not punk.

[punkrockenpunk]

@agramsci the jam didnt consider themselves punk they had punk attitude punk lyrics and punk tunes etc but they didnt want to be a punk band. i think they are more punk than the ymay think they are but u kno it dont matter its great anyway

[TheRapmeister]

@agramsci

I saw the Jam live 9 times from the 100 Club in 1977 to the final concert in Brighton in 1982. Who cares what genre they were, they were fucking great and the blueprint for a generation. Paul Weller is an arrogant twat, but hey, he wrote great music in the early days, not so sure now!!

[pwyndam]

@agramsci Amen Brother. There is intelligent life out there! I appreciated your comment. Punk is a state of mind expressed with first actions and words from the heart. The cool clothes, and fuck you attitude is the icing on the punk rock cake.

[mrt0724]

modern artist have the shelf life of sour cream .Although I will agree with you that there are probably some very good ones out there who get no airplay whatsoever.

[mrt0724]

those were great days for music , when creativity and originality still existed

[blackmore4]

Well, I'm probably just as old, bitter and twisted as you but you go too far. You suggest that there is no "creativity and originality" whatsoever today and I think you're as wrong as those middle-aged cynics who decried Punk in the 70's. 90% of all pop music has always been garbage - somehow each generation manages to remember the brilliant 10% of their youth as being a far bigger %. There's always great stuff out there; you just don't need it as desperately as you once did.

[EuGJaMMeR]

That's very true. I wish I could've experienced these days. I'm only 14 and I get sick of sounding like a child when all I listen to is Punk Rock and some 70s-80s songs. Everyone loves R&B and Hip-Hop so much nowadays.

[plonkywonky]

Give Public Enemy or Rage Against the Machine a go. Very hardcore.

[oneplusanotherone]

bahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha­hahahahahahahahahaha may ian mckaye have mercy on your soul

[lomasca]

i fucking love Bruce kicking the amp away

[NeebsLucas11]

I just discovered the jam the other day cuz they showed them in the movie it might get loud and now there on my list of awesome bands that I like.

[giovb87]

MODS=COOL

[TheLatchford]

wow its so amazin watchin myself grow from an angry young man into a fairly pissed off middle aged man ha ha .weller i love you

[hallamhal]

The Jam are the best! many have tried, and failed, but no band these days can match them!

[totalstranga]

god knows Menswe@r came close :p

[MrMod1981]

cool as fuck!

[Bilborock]

Tienes sangre? TE VA A GUSTAR. jejejejejeje

[scotchpfc]

"fueraa fueraa" buen profesor el tuyo eh...

[scotchpfc]

ajajajaja tu a lo tuyo hijo mio, pero si estos tres tipos no se hubieran juntado, tus monos ni siquiera habrian tocado una guitarra

[scotchpfc]

creeme, yo tengo 17 años y tengo los 2 discos de los monos, pero los jam son infinitamente mejores, es un hecho =)

[redbugiii]

theat's really cool!!

[alvarojox]

lo maximo THE JAM!!!!..

q viva l punk..!!!

[FoolMentalJane]

q viva l mod..!!! ; D

[TheGildeon]

Simplesmente do Caralho ! The Clash lembra muito The Jam.

[BlueMoonTearDrop]

Wow! Love the guys in the background w/ the art! Truly Awesome!

[carlos7217]

SO YOUNG,BUT SO COOL..EARY JAM

[sameoldfitup2008]

Police accused of being fearful in tackling culprits over citys growing toll of racial assaults THE number of white victims of racist attacks in a Yorkshire city has risen 30 per cent in a year to more than 300 and police have been accused of being afraid to take on the culprits

[maril275]

the jam were the monkeys of their times but a bit more talented

[THClove]

u say the artic monkeys i say the jam

u say green day i say the clash

u say reel big fish i say the specials

[lukikara]

green day has got nothing on the clash, green day sucks

[TurbaTaT]

hear, hear

[dreamfuelz]

lol arctic monkeys were influenced by the jam

and anyways i think arctic monkeys are a lot better =P

[redwaz]

I hear The Jam in Green Day, I like Green Day though. Good band

[CassG08]

Paul Weller looks epic

[FoolMentalJane]

because he's epic! : )

[CassG08]

defo :D

[dunhill711]

Smashing!

[DannyBoyo68]

Probably one of the 5 best Jam songs, def the best album!

[mrt8dc]

que sería de los monos del artico si no hubieran existido estos dementes? tal vez tocarían el bongo o hubieran formado parte de take that.

[scotchpfc]

cierto amigo mio, cierto

por cierto amigo, tremendamente mejores los jam no crees?

[floppyd0g]

jam were around before gang of 4 and joy division got it together. i know cos i was there...

[poar]

paul weller is tom clark dad?