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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.
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 ...
Darkness on the Edge of Town is the fourth studio album by the American singer-songwriter Bruce Springsteen, released on June 2, 1978, by Columbia Records.The album was recorded after a series of legal disputes between Springsteen and his former manager Mike Appel, during sessions in New York City with the E Street Band from June 1977 to March 1978.
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]
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.
All songs written by Paul Weller except as indicated.. Side one "In the City" (100 Club, London, 11 September 1977) "All Mod Cons" (the Rainbow, London, 13 December 1979) "To Be Someone (Didn't We Have a Nice Time)" (the Rainbow, London, 13 December 1979)
Bruce Douglas Foxton (born 1 September 1955) is an English singer, songwriter and musician. Foxton's music career spans more than 40 years. He came to prominence in the late 1970s as bassist and backing vocalist of mod revival band the Jam. He occasionally performed the lead vocals, such as on the songs "Carnaby Street", "News of the World ...