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Thought id start a wee thread in the UK for everything mod.Im giving the parker a dust down and the Bowling shoes have been cleaned lets have a laugh.This is for Rob and Mark.
kicking off this topic is the question.Why is this is the modern world always said to be the worst albumThere are many great tracks on that LP that are cracking.The combine and Tonight at Noon are great tracks.What do you guys think?
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ITC = Raw live sound
AMC = Intellectual artistic studio band (strings etc.)
TITMW = We aren't sure what we are. One foot in both camps.

A lot of early fans hated the change after ITC and moved on. Most jumped on the band wagon after AMC, so TITMW gets lost in the shuffle.

That being TITMW is my favorite of the first three.

Todd i had to think what was happening there i thought id taken a stroke.i get you now TITMW i thought id start this thread cause i gave it another listen last night,funny cause the tile track is my least favorite i suppose in many ways it comes down to how songs survive the test of time.thanks for your post.BTW whats the pic in your avatar i cant quite make it out?

What kind of fool do you think I am?

There is nothing wrong with this album. I think the above post is spot on.
Similar to how everyone panned Sandinista, but it has some great songs on it.
I'd much rather listen to the worst Jam album than the best Van Halen or G&R album.

Weller with a Vox

I love the song and the album. I listened to it last week several times over on a long drive. Still high on my playlist after all these years.

The avatar is a picture of F1 carbon fiber control arms.

captsandwich wrote:What kind of fool do you think I am?

There is nothing wrong with this album. I think the above post is spot on.
Similar to how everyone panned Sandinista, but it has some great songs on it.
I'd much rather listen to the worst Jam album than the best Van Halen or G&R album.

+1

This was the album that got me into The Jam big time. It was then a joy to go back and discover their debut album 'In The City', and I've been a fan ever since.

Regardless of the usual critique, I actually like the production sound and tone of the album, and apart from a couple of duffers (London traffic and Don't Tell Them You're sane - sorry Bruce!) it's got some great tracks on there. There's also some superb pictures on the cover (Weller with black tape stuck onto the front of his sweater - we've all done it since!)
I also love some of the little soundbites between the tracks, but because we're now the single track download generation, you don't get those any more on albums. Shame.

It's a classic.

8/10.

Other scores for The Jam's studio albums.....

In the City - 8/10
All Mod Cons - 10/10
Setting Sons - 9/10
Sound Affects - 9/10
The Gift - 9/10

That back cover pic on the album is one of my favorite Rick pics ever. Go Bruce!

I always wondered why this album got so much abuse; there are some obvious clunkers, previously mentioned, but there also a lot of really cool songs as well. It's definitely a Jam album I like.

scotty wrote:Weller with a Vox

Wow, that's cool; that's the first time I've seen that video, and of course I gotta love that he's playing a red Vox teardrop XII; I think that's only the fourth one I've ever seen; Will Sergeant from Echo and the Bunnymen's, the two I've owned, and now this one.

This and In The City where the first two albums i bought ,it's one of my favs.
Now ,i didn't buy them when they came out in 1977 ,as i was too young,i got them around 1981or so.

I loved that photo on the back,class.

Here Comes The Weekend and Life From A Window where my favs from Modern World,
but i pretty much like most of it.

Beatles, Beatles, Beatles. Love it.

another great mod album that gets hardly enough recog.Modern life is rubbish.Overtones of Small faces/Kinks all over the place and still played often by yours truely.love the riff of this song.Also FP`s and Oxblood loafters! you canny whack em..
Chemical World

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