BBC SOMETHING ELSE: 1981 - PAUL WELLER - THE JAM - COMPLETE 

I’m an American who’s aware of British subculture during those times it was a real treat to see lesser known bands, such as The Questions (who came off very XTC) and Dolly Mixture deliver a brilliant live performance but most of all, ‘Funeral Pyre” was even more incendiary live than on vinyl. This puts me smack dab in the middle of it all! I appreciate the thoughtful considerations of emerging youth of the times and was impressed to hear the perspectives from both sides of the economic field. Overall, this is an incredible journal of early 1980s Britain and wow, how young for everyone to be so wise! Hats off to whoever put this together.

Insightful young people; I wish we saw more stuff like this now

so funny to be there. Went after school, lost a Jam scarf and I had hair!

Ahh the wonderful bands weller signed to Respond 😂 The Jam. One of the most important bands of our time

These 2 " Blistering Performances " From The Jam Are A " Stark Reminder " As 2 Just How Essential And Relevant The Band Were At That Particular Time !!! From Adrian Browne 1965

this little film is as relevant 40 years on as it was then.

That is fantastic! On behalf of my 11 yr old self, my middle aged self would like to thank Paul Weller for introducing me to the reality of politics, power, and most of all, issues around class. As said by another already, everything is just the same, nothing really has changed, especially structurally. Publishing is still controlled by the toffs, it is classist, very ableist and does not tolerate neuro-diversity at all. The only change I see is in "young adult" books. Market forces eh?

38:39 A very young Paul Weller quoting Solzhenitsyn, it doesn't get better than that!

Wouldn't it be a better world if the youth of today took so much pride in understanding how the world works and actually did something proactive. Or at least took an interest in history and politics.

Thanks for this, used to watch "Something Else" from '79( BBC2 )until it finished in 83 or so.. I remember it had the Sid Vicous music intro to begin with, later this electro-pop version, rare to see the whole show an not just the music stuff

I'm really glad and even happy to see the rar early work from Anne Clark now on youtube, because I've always read about this in magazin, her book and other sources. I love her music and poems really much, she influenced my life by her words and arrangements. Thanx very much. ;-) to all of you.

I cant believe it.. Its absolutely amazing that we once paid 8p for a cup on coffee ☕ someone should go and tell Starbucks the highway men of coffee!!

This is rare

Wow, BBC2 in 1981 was really interesting. I'd like to watch Prisoners of Conscience.

Classic .......

38:20. "Whoever puts his hand on me to govern me is a usurper and a tyrant, and I declare him...my enemy!" (Proudhon). Love that quote.

excellent

I need the song by the Questions at the beginning but I can’t find it anywhere

Does anyone know what the instrumental tune is at the very end of the show when the credits are showing?

LOL, I sometimes forget how crap TV was back then 😆

who has The Questions song Trouble

Who did the artwork featured in this programme?

who was that first band ?

Funny how The Questions sound slightly like The Jam, two years later they became more "Funky"

ya gotta job for me?Made in Britian still is a crack up!

Where are all those people now? Anyone recognise themselves? There was no internet then ,no i- phones ,no mobile phones only what was printed on paper or on the radio or on the 4? TV channels!!!

Inspirational! Simple as it gets! Agenda 21 Orwellian state

Does anyone know the tune at the end of the show?

WTF is this?