the jam
 

i just want to say they are one of my favorite bands ever.

Isn't it so very quiet here?

love them

gOING UNDERGROUNDDDDD

Or ponce punk, as they call it on my ward.

they are ridiculously poncey. but i enjoy them.

The Jam were grest indeed, but Weller's subsequent "career" has been one long snorefest. My faves? "That's Entertainment", "Eton Rifles" and the bitter love-songness of "The Bitterest Pill".

the butterfly collector
i have the yellow promo 7"

When I picked up that first album back in 77 or whatever, I was like, wtf, it's the Who! But it did grow on me.

the bitterest pill is one of my favorites too. i really like going underground, down in the tube station at midnight, their cover of david watts and slow down a whole lot. slow down is actually my favorite jam song.

In The City is a great tune.

It wasn't until he formed The Style Council that he truly became the greatest figure in popular music besides that bloke with the muscles out of Go West. A true giant.

that record is like a punk rock early who, but that's what makes it so great since the who's first album and singles were amazing.

True.

demonrail - I know all about you and your "secret" Mick Merton fetish.

Demon's real #1 tune is "Come To Milton Keynes". TrueMellyFax.

They're pretty good. I like their singles better than their albums.

they were a great song band.. i mean the albums never quite clicked together but they have some amazing songs... going underground, town called malice, news of the world... classics!!!!

and i also hate to admit to liking anything weller ever did.... but thats my problem.....

i saw Paul Weller last week.

not so good.

'the butterfly collector' was magnificent, though.

absolute rubbish!

Never have two truer words been typed.

I was gonna come in here and say "I fucking hate the Jam", but it would just look like I'm jumping on the bandwagon now...

The wagon is certainly big enough to take one more. Hop on.

There's a reassuring irony that most people here that love The Jam are American, while most of us that utterly loathe them are English.

the jam never released any good songs apart from what you give is what you get which in turn is taxman by the beatles, or for you young whippersnappers devils haircut by beck.

I thought Start was the total Taxman rip-off

Edit: Ignore me, i see what you mean. i t's the same song. Bollocks either way.

I like The Jam. I became obsessed with them awhile ago, and I had a lot of money to spend, so I bought the Direction Reaction Creation boxset. There's nothing wrong with the music, but it really was a waste of money.

First band I ever saw live.

They had some great songs, but it helped if you'd never heard The Who at the time.

I love those first few Jam albums. Absolutely great.

I prefer the peanut butter.

crunchy or smooth?

half and half.

There's about 10 songs by them that I think are great. I have never listened to a whole album, so maybe there are more or none at all. If you take 2 and add 3, that will become 5, which in turn you want to multiplicate by 2, and end up with a 10.