The Jam - Going Underground 

I read this comment as he sang the second line... that is "genius lyrics"

Well spotted

As is Weller!! Kx

Nothing about this band is "underrated". Genius...yes... Underrated..No.

Genius songwriter WELLER :)

Chart sales based on pre-orders by shops, and this one had a free live EP bundled with it, which probably helped. Not knocking it - went up to WH Smiths at lunchtime (from school) to listen to the chart run-down and when this was announced as the first straight-in at Number One since Slade, we were in tears. Incredible moment.

How sad but how utterly predictable that nothing's changed

I think that Weller has shied away from making political/social comments in his songs now:-(

Hello, how are you doing it's nice meeting you here

Genius.

What an exit ❤

''This boy shouts & this boy screams!''

Great sense of humour.

Will probably always be relevant, unfortunately. Legendary song.

I guess the birthday song is a masterpiece.

One of the greatest lines ever written

@@stuartmckern3434 Totally agree Stuart, every time I see a politician spouting off this little line pops in my head.

Cue Borrissey!....

Yes mate PW was telling us 40 years ago nothing changed. Vote weller

God bless the JAM

Not politely at allow straight for the throat trouble is no says wot they think

la-la-la

down in the tube station at midnight. listen to that

Tis the British way

@@Benophobia except for Jan. 30, 1972

Down in the tube station at midnight is one of my all time favourite songs

have you added midnight oil to your playlist?

You're in for a real treat. Enjoy your journey. I was fortunate enough to see them live in what I believe was their only U.S. tour. Be sure to listen to some early Who singles (I Can't Explain, Anyway Anyhow, Anywhere, and Substitute) if you like this style.

They had huge hits in the late 70s early 80s look up all the hits from the Jam i was lucky to be a Mod in the late 70s and early 80s still a Mod but they were my best times of my life late 70s early 80s the music scene was fantastic then on a par with the 60s.

Viva the Mods!

Same! Car rides to primary school at high speed brought me here.

Same bro my dad blasting it out the Jam then the Style Council

One that definitely benefits from maximum volume

oldays freakin better

most wholesome comment

if you like this you my brothers music. His name is Stu Morris

You should emigrate to North Korea.

Especially with COVID, dialysis machines will definitely be replaced with rockets and guns soon, WW3 is upon us. The Jam predicted the future.

Fun fact: thid is a Song from manfred manns earth Band!

@@rocktheshock4705 MMEB covered this song! It´s by the Jam

@@COBGHDGG11162 I know, but the original is shit!

@@rocktheshock4705 can't be that shit if you're listening to it

We still Love the Miners.....❤

F#ck the tories

now they're anti coal altogether...

You should emigrate to China and work in a coal mine.

Forever union forever united

To me Weller’s direction on The Jam is the perfect example about how the music scene in Britain went from Clash and Buzzcocks-style punk (see In The City & This is the Modern World) to ambitious post-punk (Setting Sons, Sound Affects) to New Wave (also Sound Affects & The Gift). As an American I am both so glad I was able to discover a band that never became big in the US thanks to the internet but also extremely frustrated they never broke into the rock scene here.

And he's hugely underrated as well

He is rotten to his roots Myrddin. A total fucking sell out. He will be advertising Tampax next.

Ablion online es un mmorpg no lineal donde tu escribes tu propia historia

That's life. Angry youth followed by maturity and reflection. It's perfectly natural, but expressed immaculately 👍🤠

this says it all, I agree 100%

Bit technical

And all in 3 minutes as well, which is pretty much the perfect length for a to-the-point pop song.

aprc1977a Well said!

aprc1977a too fucking right mate

I'm 42 girl mod ,🇬🇧🤣🇬🇧

Yeah.

Though funnily enough every year at Xmas I got the newest Jam album, Santa had good taste round our way

Can't have that. All by design

@@Norrbottning It's not design. There'll never be another Elvis either. We were lucky to live in that era.

Agreed, 70s,80s,90s music creativity pushed the frontiers, our golden era of pure talent! I now live in the Country of Georgia and all you hear is Tv adverts, musicians in the streets and bars playing UKs 80s and 90s music!

@douglas2902 You are nominated for ''Comment of the Century!''

All safe & corporate!

Without forgetting the awesome bass of Bruce Forxton

At least it aint the Beatles, no, just kidding :p

@@azevbn326 ofc ❤️

@@Urlocallordandsavior haha

Well done Grandad.

Im Sorry for your miss

@@Br1anwastaken Thanks Brian.

I hope you're doing well now

Peace be with you and him dude

The jam was the fist cassette I ever owned I was 8 years old and my mam got me it

Me too

I love the Jam, it is very similar to Argentine rock. Thanks Brittain for being the cradle of great Rock

@@tuff9486 I second that

Great memories of my undergrad days at UofM

Yeah

1980 had Enola Gay by OMD, Fade to Grey by Visage, Whip it by Devo. Love will tear us apart by Joy Division. So many classics!

@@johnmccarthy4134 definitely John especially that fade to grey for me a early dance tune But the Jam listening with my dad full blast

Fade to Grey is still one of my "on repeat" tunes.

​@johnmcoh carthy4134 oh yes too.

I just tried to dance and be as cool as Bruce Foxton. I fell over my cat and ended up on the floor but still singing this legendary song.

bitter sweet for me too -how time flies

Absolutely, takes me back to my teenage years dancing to the Jam at my school disco. Timeless classic. ❤

Yes. Joe Strummer and Pete Shelley for me as well.

We are the mods

It so surely is too a real gem great too.

Too scared to listen to 'Down in the Tube Station at Midnight'? - Just kidding. I loved the Jam then and still do now.

Some things are better to be hidden

I never heard of them or Paul Weller. Doesn’t sound like punk to me. But during those years there was a lot of great music. Not saying Weller is not talented.

Everyone over 35 knows this gem, it’s like one of the biggest songs of the 80s.

Exactly although I might say over 30 ... Tune

In the UK we do😊

Hello, how are you doing? It is nice seeing you here.

Now your talking sense and you got your brain most people have completely lost it.

Heidegger argues that our minds are constantly projected into the future, even looking back is done in order to influence our future decisions

the bass player is bruce foxton and he is still in a band called from the jam check them out they are quite good

okAy

Royal Blood?

Foxton is the best bass ever

Good thing my dad was a bassist, I don't even know him personally lol

Clever shit, thank you JoBro

I still love the Jam; reminds me of better times.

I think I went thru that door back in the times! :)

Yeah now this fucking doctor is dead.

That means Jesus has blessed you

Jojolion ?????

@@dakedokyoumojojoni R.I.P going underground you will forever be remembered a born this way's og name

@@Nixnotmation Better than Born This Way ✊😔

I'm a supporter of the bike being GU while the rider is BTW

@@bennettmoseley2622 It wouldn’t be the first time a stand and its pilot/driver would have diff names

Wait, how is it a fact if you said “probably”

my deisgn was based off of the artist rene magritte

@@heavyweatheraudios1656 most of the WoU design comes from rene magritte but the scarf and the little star shaped things come from this one

@@horlogeampoule2492 maybe

Facts can’t be “probable”.

Paul? The name of the drummer in the band is Rick.

@@chrisparkin9947 yu

@@chrisparkin9947 Maybe Weller plays drums also?

You turned on the TV, which means you *opened* it, and then your body froze. *THIS MUST BE THE WORK OF AN ENEMY STAND!!!*

Y did they change the name to born this way?

It's worse. At that time at least the working classes had pop music to express themselves. Nowadays the Tory propaganda media has dumbed down society getting people to care about talentless trash like Kardashians or Beckhams selling their ugly kids into the celeb industry, so people want to make a living selling dumb interviews about their designer handbag they can't pronounce the name of, or bullying anybody not any use at being a slave to upper classes, bankers and corporations, while worshipping the royal family, while thinking suddenly as if by Magic Tories will start doing what's best for most British people or society if we leave the EU

what a load of bollockssssssssss @@paco4639

Too right In Germany we always have this Greta-sheep with this climate bullshit on state television

@QT JD There's no other group which comes close to The Jam. Simply the best 👍

Nothing comes close!!!

@QT JD they literally were the best ever.

@@christophermorrison3667 when I see what the music is like now it's total crap

@@kunoellis8968 getting old you tell me ?

Well said.

Yeah, and on Eaton Rifles it punches your brain around your skull.

Who underrated him? When was he underrated? Don't write such nonsense.

@@zodrob7 he has not had the world recognition his talen deserves compared to other songwriters

Him and Ian Hunter

@@zodrob7 Children nowadays are so self-absorbed they can't imagine people who came before them appreciating anything. "Underrated" translated means "Me and my fellow 12 y.o.s just discovered this, no-one else could have *possibly* liked this."

@@zodrob7 Pretty much everyone outside of the UK back in the day

Never a really happy bunny but this was class ! He wrote it they played it and what a fucking song it was! Tuneful bitter and meaningful ! Job done

Loved them for 46 years

🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧💯

Good choice 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧

you friend had a keen sense of humour and impeccable taste in music

That´s called "Going in style......."

Legend

From The smiths to the Who, from Black sabbath to Pink Floyd, Britain started rock

The smiths and oasis are my favourites from England

+josh jackson why u forgetting the clash

I'm so sorry mate forgive me lol I love this clash as well that country is special

i cant disagree mate , nobody does it like us ..

Hello, how are you doing? It is nice seeing you here.

If you know where Emporio is please tell me sir.

Enrico Pucci With Whitesnake I saw him go around that way.

@@notemporioiswear9979 Into the burning house?

r/beetlejuicing/usernamechecksout

@@elizabethsusanlibra *O X Y G E N* goes brrrr

Aint that so

Check the top 40, there’s no use in knowing all those songs, they’re all rubbish

Damn

if you like this you my brothers music. His name is Stu Morris

Pedro Monforte and bade player!

He was an amazing drummer, still is, thanks to social media especially, rick buckler has a voice of his own, great bloke, great drummer.

Nah fam, it’s the bASS player who’s underrated. Trust me.

Conrad Boerner big time. Foxtons bass on this and on tube station especially are epic 👍

philip perry I know. Thank’s for telling me anyways. 👍

Good one! I grew up listening to them and still love them.

Keepit up lad I'm 57 and still keep going underground, and walls come tumbling down Kee[pit real Bro .

No Beatles?

@@outlawfett3530 can't you read????

@@stevelarge Jesus, I’m going weary now!😂😂

Small faces should replace the Stones in that list

Actually - if it is 'Stone Roses' then I am happy to leave it in the list but not if it is The Rolling Stones. Mick can't sing for toffee

Now not 2019

Me and my grandad, nan love this band

We need more jojo references

Im Sorry for your miss

You should say the same thing to Van Morrison, apparently...

and as loud as possible

arita2006 very loud that the U.K. Will have an earthquake of magnitude 9

Get a job, pay your taxes and stop blaming others for your circumstances.

Jon Birch not wrong there lad

@@saxglend9439 Funny enough, those who believe what OP said tend to have a job, pay their dues, and live their lives. They just know better than stick their peepers out and blame the government they themselves put in power. "You made your bed, you better lie in it."

We are mods we are mods 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧👍

@@littlenicola6726 keep the faith 80s mods

Is this a jojo reference

*Born Underground*

@@cheesusdamonke6599 it was an old name of a stand called Born This Way.

Is thar a motherfucking jojo reference?

Enrico Pucci With Whitesnake bruh i know that, you are talking with one of the biggest jojo fan right here

It went underground.

Looking at album sales in America it looks like #LinkinPark's 2001 album #Hybridtheory was the last time a rock act was number 1 for the year. Since then it's all #rap & #TaylorSwift...

+Whoreish Bananas God bless your Grandmother.....I think she had a great send off.

+Throwing Spaghetti her ide? or do you have a uncel with a morbid sens of humor?

lordofdarkdudes probs the second one.

Aww that is soooo cool... yaaaay 💖

+Throwing Spaghetti when i die i want them to roll me up and smoke me

They are mod, new wave, punk, power pop, post punk... they are everything, but NEVER UNDERRATED! They were the most popular band of the early 80s in the UK, 4 number 1s in 2 years!

9

Liberian dance music

K Russell

MERCI POUR TON ANALYSE effectivement jam groupe plein d'une energie Incroyable ils m'on fait aimer la grande Bretagne et les petites anglaises .

un peu réactionnaire pour qui ne connait pas .

Some things never bloody change.

ifyouwantbochin edgy

Absolutely right Dave. Nobody of working class wants it. Just non working class. I was naive enough through all those Tory years of thatcher and major TO think I was red ( cos I was young daft and had Fk. all ) then even the watered down lefties fkd it all up more than even Maggie.We cannot go back to the 70s with the brothers Grimm ( Corbyn and McDonald's) Fairytales are just that.

80's brit bands knew. You Kipper, Granville Thorndyke, Iconoclast, Mark Collett, Survive the Jive, etc - many youtubers creating reactionary content to oppose globocommie gaydiscoplex. Master Brew channel highly recommended! Do your bit and fight the good fight! Save Our Race!!

Stoicorum wat bout London working classes

What the fuck are you talking about?

@@jimmystetler2572 Are you American, then?

Huh? I’m American and they’re far, far from unheard of

I've heard of them. I just don't much care to hear FROM them.

Don't tell that to a Fenian.

Friely WATP I'm a Fenian. Hello.

zghvbn1 Wasn't talking to you? Wrong person?

+Friely WATP whats your problem mate? take your sectarian shite elsewhere.

+Friely WATP sorry your broken english is lost on me.

Hello, how are you doing? It is nice seeing you here.

Same and I’m not even british

Me too. Wonder how many posted it to their FB wall? I know I did...

Labour is for the foreign not the Briton.

Me too....wow I wish we could do a poll.

Karezza Kenosis and Tories are for the rich AKA legal robbers. They both suck stop relying on government.

alex's games and more I’m listening to it because it relates word-for-word to the position we, as a society, are in right now. Weller..poet, prophet, genius. I’m going to listen to nothing other than The Jam until we come out of lockdown.

My Mum wanted Elvis - Return to sender.

That is godamn genius

the coffin should be adorned in British flag too

What a send off. God bless.

Toss up for me. The Jam . Going underground. Or , The Who , my Generation. Either way I'm going down fighting.😁