Down in the Tube Station at Midnight / So Sad About Us / The Night [7" VINYL]

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Do this with all the vocabulary and, over time, this will help improve all your English skills — reading, writing, speaking and listening. The lyrics after "It blended in with the weather" I have only just found out and this has impressed me even more than the words I already knew. This sentence feels as if the only thing it wants to convey is their history together, namely, husband and wife. The lyrics are sentimental, contrasting the warmth of home and domestic life with the dangers of 1970s London's urban decay and casual late-night violence.

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Chastened by the experience, he emerged a more bitter, cynical person and he penned this song from the perspective of an ordinary working man on the way back to his suburban home, who is beaten senseless by skinheads. You could be onto something, in the Seventies the tube closed much earlier but at midnight it would be around the time of the last train, hence more isolated. Maybe we would have come around to recording it later on in the project, but he'd just reached that point of 'Oh bollocks, this isn't working, it's a load of crap.

This anti-racism song was a first-person narrative about a brutal mugging by jackbooted right-wing thugs in London.

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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. The sound of an Underground train at the beginning and end of the song was recorded at St John's Wood Station. This person got really burned in a previous relationship, and because of this is unable to love and show care in his present one, even though he so badly wants to. The song starts with the atmospheric sounds of a London Underground station, then a tense, syncopated beat carried by the bass guitar.

no explanation of how they would know his address though) but it does mean he has no thought of getting back anytime soon. Tony from BelfastNowhere in the song does Weller mention skinheads and he was a great admirer of the origianl skinhead and sudehead movements with it's emphasis on black music and sharp clothes.

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Despite having a BBC airplay ban due to its "disturbing nature," it became The Jam's second UK Top 20 hit. The many hints that this attack could be fatal: "Jesus Saves", "My life swam around me" and "drowned me". An overflowing rubbish bin with discarded fast-food wrappers and fizzy-pop cans at the bottom of it. Phil went on to play bass with the Cure during the Love Cats era, also with Edwyn Collins, playing and co-producing Never Met A Girl Like You. There is in my mind no song that expresses the harsh reality of prejudice and senseless violence so vividly.However, after writing and recording two Jam albums in six months and endless touring he suffered premature burnout. The single was backed by a cover version of the Who's song " So Sad About Us", and the song "The Night", written by Bruce Foxton. Cause they took the keys, and she'll think it's me" I view this as him stating that the thugs will then go to his house and cause great harm to his wife -- when she hears the door open with the keys, she will think it is her husband but rather it will be a Clockwork Orange. The song, written by Eddie Miller and Jimmy Campbell, explores the delicate nuances of love and showcases Arnold’s emotive vocals.

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Phil from Antwerp, BelgiumThis song still sends shivers down my spine every time I listen to it, even after so many years. Feelings that may be universal, without necessarily being totally specific to us, or a place, or a time.The then Radio 1 DJ Tony Blackburn complained that, "It's disgusting the way punks sing about violence. So it was legitimately at 0000, as the pubs would have chucked out at 2330 (2345 to allow for 15 minutes drinking up time). On the back cover was a portrait photograph of Keith Moon who had died a month prior to the single's release. There's no way they'd lock him in, so the only explaination is that its a crime-scene and his body has not yet been moved. Some of the other guys that worked in the station would put some energy into their voices or put on a funny voice.