All Mod Cons by The Jam 1978

I was just finishing up my punk era playing in a band called the Fiction. I had already got them to wear suits and ties on stage and introduced a number of sixties cover songs. I guess it was all leading to this. In 1978 when this came out it gave a lot of us a direction and style. The words were bandied about a lot. But with this album, The Jam gave us songs of style and content up there with the Kinks. After the disappointing second album where even their clothes were starting to look old hat, they came out with a blinding burst of post-punk modernism. Suddenly there were more scooters. More parties with sharp suits and mini skirts. The world moved towards a new technicolour age.
And there was "Tube Station". One of their greatest songs and a cover Little Murders played in 1982 and still played 30 years later.. It's mod poetry! A few years back I saw Paul Weller play at the Forum. He's good but when he plays Jam songs he's a god!