The Jam - Live On The Old Grey Whistle Test

Three live tracks from The Jam - In The Streets, A Bomb In Wardour Street and Billy Hunt. From The Old Grey Whistle Test 1978

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Music

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• punk
• jam
• old
• grey
• whistle
• test

[1MrCiaran]

@ufewl Kind of awkward now, i'm a world music student... I can name about 20 Japanese bands...

[ufewl]

I saw Paul Weller in a hotal bar in Nottingham a few years back. I didn't say hello, mind you he did not even recognise me lol, I expect he gets fed up with people day I used to listen to your music years ago (but now i dont bother),

[ufewl]

@1MrCiaran to be fair he is Japanese, most japs woudl never have heard of the jam never mind paul wellar. how many japaneese bands and singers can you name? I would take a guess at zero!!!

[ufewl]

@showyoume2010 don't know what that means but nice to see a a Japanese Jam fan!!!

[ufewl]

@cinedores i love the intensity, that is what made the Jam stand out from the rest of the shite, where can you get intensity like this these day?

Not from fucking Coldplay that;s for sure!!

[tony671]

@playgirlc yeah there was lots of shite in the charts in the 70s but the good stuff was epic(see above) and yeah if look you find some good stuff now but you shouldn't have too!! in the late 70s we had for about 4 years (from the first clash album to the jams sound affects) a great time i was14 in 77 and it was one of the best times to be a teenager, the jam,the pistols ,the clash,the specials,ian dury,elvis costello ,the undertones,madness i could go on but you get the point

[playgirlc]

i find it intriguing that people say that there aren't great musicians or bands any more. they are all out there, loads of them. they're just not dominating the charts, sadly. people being force-fed fast-food pop pap think they like all that shit but if they/you just look around a bit (and without the internet this would be hard, so thank god for that) there is good stuff out there now, just as much as there was plenty of shite in the 70s and 80s.

[Andrewsuber]

There really isn't a contemporary rock musician with this intensity and enthusiasm.

[cinedores]

brilliant but the intensity is funny

[modsheff1]

@bxxder2008 Simon BASTARD cowell