I grew up with the jam and this genre of music. Protest music. Smart, intelligent lyrics with great songwriting. How I miss it. Completely gone now. Nothing.
I often think that of Noel gallagher. Whether people like Noel or not they can't deny how worldly wise he is even in his mid to late 20s. Paul is more political though Noel songs about life and how things are, still political but not directly if u catch my drift
@paulanthony5274 I love Noel Gallagher, fab songwriter, but I do think though that Paul Weller just pips him to the post lyrically. Weller wrote such clever, observational songs at a very young age, he was/is so aware of the world around him. As you say, Paul more political, can't knock Noel though, I just rate Paul a bit more.
MY favourite band when I was a teenager, I loved Paul Weller's lyrics. This has certainly stood the test of time, hasn't it? Relevant as ever, or even more so.
I'd say less relevant. More needed but who's going to march now? Each generation of workers has less and less fighting spirit. I love this song, but we need more than words.
They should have at least TRIED to play them over here. I liked them right off. Americans don't care about British-isms and dialect, we just want to rock out. Paul is the goat.
Song stands the test of time. Loved it when it was a hit when Thatcher came to power as it spoke the truth. Nothing changed as is shown by this video. Nothing has changed now. "Plus ca change, plus la meme chose". Keep going, Lads. Our day will come!
I didn t understand the meaning of the song when I heard it for the first time. But I saw a good documentary about The Jam three or four years ago. And I realized that things are still the same even on France and maybe difficulties are more important now. I like this song because there s some kind of rage that must always must be present.
Someone told me, and he was a Mod friend, that the song is about a small town, whom got challenged to a fight by a big town, and the small town knocked the stuffing out of them, and apparently they have a Rugby match every year to celebrate it.
@@timbayliss4153 Well, he told a load of bolox. It's primarily about the public school system (eton being pre eminent) that produces our "elders and betters". The lyric DOES reference a fight between local school kids and Eton pupils in which the working class lads came off worse but only as a device to hang the whole idea of the song on to.
What a prophetic video! I love the short reggae dub riff halfway through this track (Jamaican genes). Today's news makes your video spot on. Well done!🙂
Well done for including the pictures of all the Old Etonians. 7% of the British population are privately educated but they dominate politics, media and businesses. The 93% never stand a chance because the odds are stacked against them so heavily. People are brainwashed by newspapers that are owned by the 7% that only the 7% can lead them. Paul Weller was trying to teach people about these leaches way back in the eighties but nothing has changed, we have yet another Etonian in number 10. Why? Why do more prime ministers come from Etonian than all the state schools put together? This song came out just as I was starting my working life, I am now coming to the end of my working life and the Etonians and the rest of the 7% have had the easy privileged life while my 93% have struggled.
I remember seeing them do this live. A fucking lifetime ago now. I've been to see From The Jam, they're a cracking live band but it ain't the same without Paul.
The Jam.... SLF........ The Clash....... Omg (even tho you weren't supposed to, being into punk 😅😅 a secret bit of Black Sabbath that I over-heard from the heavy-mental Boyz who always seemed to play table-tennis inschool!) and even tho I'm soon to be 60 I still can't you a red pen cus only teachers can use red pens😅😅....... BRILLIAT music back in the day👍👍
@@lewisbracken5520 And then everyone stood down because they were too big of cowards to do anything about it. The brave thing to do would have been hold an actual election, not a referendum.
To be a pedant: Boris Johnson and Dave Cameron were Etonians, Osborne - St. Paul's, Clegg - Westminster and William Hague, the only one who went to the local Comp.
The jam weren't really my thing back then, fast forward a few decades I love em especially this song, Paul Weller keeps reinventing himself great singer songwriter. It used to be about the beat now I pay more attention to the lyrics !!!
yeah right! mid 60's Mod culture in the late 70's early 80's. What does 'ahead of their time' really mean ? is it because it's so good it must be modern, like the crap we're hearing now, sanctioned by Simon Cowell and his ilk. They were of their time, my time, your time, any time.
I love The Jam almost beyond words. As a juxtaposition to the sentiment of this video though, Paul Weller's personal wealth almost certainly outweighs that of David Cameron's. How does that fit here?
I too loved the Jam, brilliant, brilliant memories, I was aged 10 when In The City came out ..... Anyway It fitted back when he wrote it and to me it doesn't matter if he is quite wealthy now either. It's whether his views remain the same despite his wealth and I 'suspect' they still do. After all not all rich people automatically become tories
Weller's wealth has been provided to him voluntarily by those of us who have enjoyed his music. I am not sure how this song criticizes earned wealth per se. My recollection is that Weller claims he was inspired by watching entitled rich schoolboys jeering right to work marchers on the news.
Labour abandoned the very people this song was for. At least the Tories pretend to listen, even if they don’t follow through on anything they do. We need a party by the working class, for the working class, free from the university educated middle class who hijacked our party as a protest vehicle against their parents.
