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All Mod Cons. All Mod Cons is the third studio album by the British band the Jam, released in 1978 by Polydor Records. The title, a British idiom one might find in housing advertisements, is short for "all modern conveniences " and is a pun on the band's association with the mod revival. The cover is a visual joke showing the band in a bare room.
He was the drummer for the Jam from its formation in the early 1970s through to its break up in the early 1980s, during which time it became a critically acclaimed and commercially successful rock band with an original sound as part of the mod revival movement in England's music and fashion scenes of the period.
The Jam were an English rock band formed in 1972 in Woking, Surrey. They released 18 consecutive top 40 singles in the United Kingdom, from their debut in 1977 to their break-up in December 1982, including four number one hits. As of 2007, "That's Entertainment" and "Just Who Is the 5 O'Clock Hero?"
Mod revival. Oi! The mod revival is a subculture that started in the United Kingdom in the late 1970s and later spread to other countries (to a lesser degree). The Mod Revival started with disillusionment with the punk scene when commercialism set in. [citation needed] It was featured in an article in Sounds music paper in 1976 and had a big ...
Down in the Tube Station at Midnight. " Down in the Tube Station at Midnight " is a single by the Jam, and was the second single from their third album, All Mod Cons. Released in October 1978, it reached No. 15 on the UK Singles Chart. [1] The single was backed by a cover version of the Who 's song "So Sad About Us", and the song "The Night ...
Setting Sons. Setting Sons is the fourth studio album by the English rock band the Jam, released on 16 November 1979 by Polydor Records. It reached No. 4 in the UK Albums Chart upon the first week of release, [5] continuing the commercial (and critical) favour that had begun with their previous album All Mod Cons. [6]
Pig Out is set to host a number of tribute and cover bands over the next few days, including AC/DC tribute "BC/DC" on Sunday and Ramones tribute "Loudmouth" on Monday. Jaymie Harding said that ...
From the Jam are an English band, formed in 2006 as the Gift by Rick Buckler, former drummer with the Jam, together with musicians Russell Hastings and David Moore. The band was named after the Jam's sixth and final studio album (1982), and plays material by that group. In 2006, former Jam member Bruce Foxton performed on stage with the Gift ...