The Jam - When You're Young 

If you can get the kids joining in you’re onto a winner 🏆👍😂

I was 12 when this came out, as young as the kids in the video. I'm a grandad now. This song genuinely makes me tear up at the rate of knots our lives speed by. If you're young and you read this, please travel, be open minded, make friends all over the world. Live your best life You are old in the blink of an eye.

The lyrics still true today

A great song to dance to, especially my blend of punk and Northern Soul shuffle

Keep the faith 80s mods

45 years old this month.

For his work with The Jam alone, Paul Weller should be regarded as one of the best ever English songwriters - total genius ! 'And you find out life isn't like that It's so hard to understand Why the world is your oyster but your future's a clam It's got you in its grip before you're born It's done with the use of a dice and a board They let you think you're king but you're really a pawn'...

At 81 yo I have just discovered The Jam. WOW

How true it is that life flies by in the blink of an eye enkoy it while you can kids

Underrated often overlooked classic Jam track.

The world is your oyster but your futures a clam - legend

Love this song listened when I was about 15 now 53 and still listen to it still great tune 👍

Just showed how great the jam was back in the day..(and still relevant).. great singles like this and not even on an LP…

Life is a drink and you get drunk when youre young......weller what a genius you are....

My past was so much better than my future. The Jam. The Best. Loved them days so much.

You think you're a king but you're just a pawn... one of Britain's best lyricist,if not the best. Imo.

Love Paul's boating blazer. 😸

Voice of a generation. Nearly 60 & it still speaks to me...

Life is timeless, days are long when you're young You used to fall in love with everyone Any guitar and any bass drum Life is a drink, and you get drunk when you're young Life is new, and there's things to be done You can't wait to be grown up Acceptance into the capital world You pull on some weed, then you pull on someone when you're young But you find out life isn't like that It's so hard to comprehend Why you set up your dreams to have them smashed in the end But you don't mind, you've got time on your side And they're never gonna make you stand in line You're just waiting for the right time You're fearless and brave; you can't be stopped when you're young You swear you're never ever gonna work for someone No corporations for the new age sons Tears of rage roll down your face But still you say, "it's fun." And you find out life isn't like that It's so hard to understand Why the world is your oyster but your future's a clam It's got you in its grip before your born It's done with the use of a dice and a board They let you think you're king, but you're really a pawn You're fearless and brave; you can't be stopped when you're young You used to fall in love with everyone

Consistently been one of my favourite Jam singles. It was released I think in July/August 1979. It reminds me of that joyous times I had as 16/17 year old watching and following The Jam!

“But you don’t mind you’ve got time on your side…” Often plays over in my mind, thinking of life when I first heard it and it applied to me. Compared with now when time feels a lot more precious.

Just Fantastic.Still the greatest band of all time.

O to be 14 again The first time I seen the jam in concert 1978 the odeon Birmingham And I was the there in 1982 Bingley hall

the light is going out - going out - going out - going out

Wonderful bitter sweet lyrics that totally summed up what it was and still is like to be a teenager in Britain. Barely 20 yrs old when he wrote this.

You think youre the King but youre really the Pawn.... brilliant and spot on

This park is around the corner from Queens Park tube station. The rest of the video was shot around Kilburn High Rd. I recognise some of the kids in the video , i did not know them personally , but they were from around Kilburn , Kensal Rise & Harlesden.

This was my life back then the jam were my life.

11 yr old mod with a Brutus parka that tripped me up when I walked in my badger shoes. Best jam tune of all time, Bring back the French spike.

I've always heard..... "you pull out some weed and you pull out some lawn.." whenever I hear this classic song. Kind of makes more sense if you think about it. Bought this single first week out.

One of my favourite Jam tracks. After all these years, this track could’ve been written yesterday. Still so raw and full of energy.

Paul Weller is a genius

Thank god I was young then and not now

Probably with the who made the biggest impact on my youth thanks lads

Was at school when this came out. Still can’t believe how good it is. We felt this, had a connection. Not the same today. Music back then was so good. The Jam were the best. Period. ,

Absolute classic Weller. Well The Jam to be fair. Belting lyrics. “ Tears of rage roll down your face but still you say ‘it’s fun’ “. “It's got you in its grip before you're born It's done with the use of a dice and a board And let you think you're king but you're really a pawn”. Genius lyric. Only thing that annoys me about the great man is he sent his kids to private school.

Great track. Up there with the best. Probably the best song the jam did. Loved strange town also 😎🎸🎶👍

The Jam, Forever young..

Great song great times when people lived with respect

Love this song perfect song in every way

TheJam is forever...

The bass on this is fabulous

Good old Queens Park back in the old days before gentrification, my aunt lived in Kilburn and we was always here as kids. Great song and lots of memories of the era to go with it.

I was 5 in '77. They looked so old on top of the pops.. Loved it ever since.

Listening to this again, does Weller have a time machine, did he see it all mapped out? I used to sing this song then but now, wow its come home!

One of my great jam tracks

Love this track, never gets old

Love the QPR shirt , best band ever ,best club ever !

Weller actually looks like he is enjoying himself here!

The older I get, the better this song gets!

My brother always played this on vinyl in 1982 i love this song 🎵 as it takes me back to being 10 years old at school such happy carefree days of a better era in time!!! I love the bass and the screaming guitars 🎸 we no longer produce masterpieces like this anymore sadly!!! 🥰😍🤩😎🥳🥳🥳🥳

Life is timeless, days are long when you're young You used to fall in love with everyone Any guitar and any bass drum Life is a drink and you get drunk when you're young Life is new and there's things to be done You can't wait to be grown up Acceptance into the capital world You pull on some weed, then you pull on someone when you're young But you find out life isn't like that It's so hard to comprehend Why you set up your dreams to have them smashed in the end But you don't mind you've got time on your side And they're never gonna make you stand in line You're just waiting for the right time You're fearless and brave - you can't be stopped when you're young You swear you're never ever gonna work for someone No corporations for the new age sons Tears of rage roll down your face But still you say "it's fun" And you find out life isn't like that It's so hard to understand Why the world is your oyster but your future's a clam It's got you in its grip before you're born It's done with the use of a dice and a board They let you think you're king but you're really a pawn You're fearless and brave - you can't be stopped when you're young You used to fall in love with everyone Any guitar and any bass drum

The jam when your young classic song from the eighties good song from them forty five years old still sounds good now good stuff

Absolute Classic

I love the wee reggae beat in this tune

Love this song. Love this vid .. they were just beginning to realise how great they were ... you can see it on their faces! The excitement of breaking through....

I love he done a song from a kids point of view ,showed his sensitive side,and imagine being o ne of the kids in the video now,

Any guitar and any bass drum!!!

КЛАССНЫЕ ВРЕМЕНА!Мне тоже вспомнилось детство в начале 80-ых)

Any guitar and any bass drum... Perfect!

the single most beautiful song ever written.....Weller's lyrics are quite astonishing, the the guitar parts are so emotive. And as always Foxton and Buckler hold the whole thing together and really drive it....

Although I had already "borrowed" my brother's All Mod Cons Album, this was my first ever single. 13 and already in love with what could be? I discovered The Beatles, The who, Kinks and small Faces through this band! still trying to write a song that compares...

The jam were a band from my youth, and spoke to youth at the time through there music, they were unique, little did you know how unique until you look back, I was 17 when this was out, still listening to this at 60

Happy Modfathers Day!❤💙❤

Only Paul Weller would write a song about the expectations of the young not being realised when he was young himself .He was so right of course.

Storming song from a wonderful period. Best band in Britain then

Your fearlous and brave , you cant be stopped when your young !

It still sounds so fresh and relevant unlike the turgid crap about now.

As 13 kid in Cork Ireland spent alot of time visiting family in London introduced to the JAM saw them @ Wembley Arena December 82 ... 16 at time 😎👍

Fantastic lyrics the jam where fantastic and their music is still being discovered. Paul Weller one of the greatest songwriters this country has ever produced.

Tears of rage run down your face and still you say it’s love , gotta be in top twenty all time one liners When I heard that for the first time I thought I’ve made ex girlfriends feel that way and also been on the end of it to !! Things you do when your young 👍

the Jam do a lot of running around London in their film clips(strange town,absolute beginners)

Weller was criminally young to be smashing out these lyrics.

Fantastic wish i was still young 🧒

Was 15/16 when this was in the charts , riding an FS1E , many scooter's n bikes later , still riding a scooter as well as a Bonny nearly 60 a granddad n still listening to the jam, great times great music late 70s n 80s .

If I can say one last thing in your videos, WOW !!! Your Hot show more in those than yesteryear. Wow !!! Girl show it all.

Fav jam song, lyrics sum up life, back then . 40 years plus most of us just fall in line. Life's like that

Simply the best jam song, well also a town called malice

Always loved this, one of Weller's greatest from a fantastic period in his song writing career. The final lines always got me, 'in this country the lights are going out..............' it's not sung on every version. fantastic tune.

Esto es música, ritmo y pasión.

They were young and fresh but wrote with the wisdom of elders.

Classic song....and a Classic QPR shirt on 32s.

Still my favourite song of all time, bought it on the same day as I also bought Duchess by The Stranglers

“Tears of rage roll down your face but still you say it’s fun.” The epitome of my youth

this was stuck in my head for about two weeks straight and i couldn't figure out the song name and it was really getting on my nerves, but at least i know now

This will my funeral song

Prescient. Look where we are now!

what a fantastic band

Rickenbacker heaven

Not overlooked by, its a classic what we jam fans grow up with

Done with the use of a dice and a board.. one of the greatest odes to youth ever written

Lyrics so clever and true. Think you are King but really a Pawn!!! Yep Paul,so right

my fav Jam song what an incredible claim to fame to be one of the kids in this video wonder where they are now

The video kills it.

Me in the stripe Tee 2:20 :)

A better song about being young has never been written and probably never will. The genius of Weller. Should be made poet laureate. For every generation!

absolute weapon of a tune

Genius....

Love this tune, first heard it when I was 23, now I’m 24 still love it

What a cool jacket