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Lyrically perfect. This album features a truely fantastic cover and for sure the music inside does not disappoint. Down At The Tube Station…” from All Mod Cons was a long poem which Vic Smith helped me shape into a song, and that convinced me that there were ways of making things a bit more literary and still fitting them into a song structure. My songs were getting a bit more involved than verse-chorus-verse-chorus. So, from a selfish point of view, I felt I made a leap forward with my writing on Setting Sons. Wells, Simon (6 September 2011). "The Jam: December11th 1982 by Simon Wells". Modculture . Retrieved 20 December 2016. From The Jam 2007 tour". Noble PR. 2007. Archived from the original on 3 November 2007 . Retrieved 30 July 2007.

But “Private Hell”, “Wasteland”, “Saturday’s Kids”, “The Eton Rifles” and the orchestral version of Bruce Foxton’s “Smithers-Jones” are all close relations; bitter reflections on ordinary English men and women – working-class and suburban middle-class – alienated and manipulated by corporate and military power. The music for “The Eton Rifles” is positively inspired—the dissonant chord that opens the piece, hinting at a descent into madness—the muscular, assertive rhythms—the Eton Rifles Choir (a group of boys who hung around the studio whom Weller invited into the studio) on the “Hoorays!”—and the rare appearance of an organ to add a touch of funereal blues to the mix. It’s a terribly exciting song with an unfortunately timeless but important message: you can’t win if you can’t break the cycle and you can’t break the cycle until you break the cycle that lives inside your head. Snow, Mat (16 April 2014). "Paul Weller: 'Most people dislike me anyway … it can only get better' ". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077 . Retrieved 21 November 2017. Setting Sons spent 19 weeks on the UK Albums Chart, rising to No. 4. [18] In the United States, the album spent eight weeks on the Billboard 200 chart and reached its peak position of No. 137 in March 1980. [19] Top 100 Artists". Virgin Radio. 2002. Archived from the original on 3 November 2005 . Retrieved 27 April 2011.

It prompted Weller to write his famous song about class warfare and inequality, The Eton Rifles. It was released on 26 October 1979 and shot to number three on the hit parade. Thank you! The album has unusual depth that people may not grasp at first, which in my book qualifies it as a timeless work. a b Roberts, David (2006). British Hit Singles & Albums (19thed.). London: Guinness World Records Limited. p.277. ISBN 1-904994-10-5. The other great album by The Jam... Unbelievably I totally ignored this album at the time of release, possibly due to a little teenage prejudice against the 'mod revival' styling of the era. I do however remember owning 'Eton Rifles' on single, and this must be one of THE songs of all time.

Mulholland, Garry (12 December 2014). "The Jam – Setting Sons (Deluxe and Super Deluxe Editions)". Uncut. Archived from the original on 29 November 2015 . Retrieved 29 August 2016. Yeah, totally! It’s the “Yellow Submarine” of Setting Sons, innit? But I didn’t have any more songs… that’s the truth of the matter. It’s a shame there isn’t a real closer for the album, but that’s just the way it was. The reprise is essentially an updated version of Country Joe’s “I Feel Like I’m Fixin’ to Die Rag,” albeit more cynical and hopeless:Generally accurate, though I take exception to the label “new wave” to describe The Jam. Let me give you one other important bit of context from Uncut: “Following the Conservative victory at May’s general election, a raft of new policies led to a swift rise in unemployment and a growing suspicion that was the nation was being divided along class lines.” THE JAM: About The Young Idea (Book+2DVD+CD)". hifi answers. 16 January 2022. Archived from the original on 28 May 2022 . Retrieved 28 July 2022. As the 17 June 1978 edition of the Socialist Worker newspaper reported, the head boy patronisingly told the marchers: “I hope your jolly campaign gets you somewhere.” I love your writing even when I don’t agree with you but, like the Jam, you hit this one out the park. Great analysis of one of my favorite albums ever. Being a similar age to Paul Weller, this album connected with me strongly when it first came out and I love it even more all these years later. Like some of Dylan’s early work (“Bob Dylan’s Dream” reminds me of some of Weller’s lyrics on this album), Paul Weller seems to display a wisdom beyond his years on this album. You are absolutely right that “Wasteland” is a brilliant song – as are most others on this album. To me this album is the apex of Weller’s work and I don’t think he ever came close to matching it. “Sound Affects” has some decent songs but I think his goes down hill from there. Like you, I would have loved to have heard the full concept album, which would have bested any of Ray Davies concept works (as good as they are) but this is still a masterpiece even with it’s minor flaws.

I think I just ran out of ideas, if I’m really honest. Maybe I wasn’t sure if it was the right thing for us to do anyway. It was a bit of a half-baked concept. Egan, Sean (2018). Love With a Passion Called Hate: The Inside Story of the Jam. London: Askill Publishing. ISBN 978-0-9545750-9-0. Christgau, Robert (31 March 1980). "Christgau's Consumer Guide". The Village Voice . Retrieved 29 August 2016.I’ll spare you the suspense and tell you that I think very highly of Setting Sons . . . but I also wonder what could have been had Paul Weller been given the time and space to realize his original vision of a concept album that followed the lives of three boyhood friends who grow up and apart after a war deflects their life trajectories.

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