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Having bought a £3 compilation of the Jam today, I felt I HAD to post this!!

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piratecat · 17/09/2008 14:27

uk.youtube.com/watch?v=hD7MV9JzGxE

We are the mods we are the mods...!!!

this video is soooooooooooooo bad, but I used to adore this song.

PLus i i now remember i had a coat like Paul Weller has on too!!! ah they were THE days!

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piratecat · 18/09/2008 23:29

oh how embarrassing, just me then (wheels her vespa into the garage)...!

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moondog · 18/09/2008 23:32

Completely and utterly brill Pirate.

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moondog · 18/09/2008 23:34

He was so weedy and poor looking wasn't he?
I remember the backing singers on TOTP were really rough dogs too. Made it al lthe better of course.

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littlelapin · 18/09/2008 23:36

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LargeGlassofRed · 18/09/2008 23:36

just bought tickets to see jam tribute band.
Love the video my hair was just like that

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piratecat · 18/09/2008 23:37

ah thank feck!!

I am having abit of a jam revival, past few days!! course it's all in the loft on vinyl, but have been you tubing, and my dd6 is getting into it, much to the dismay of my poor sis who had to endure the jam back in out yoof!!!

god yes he was a spratty looking thing wasn't he!!!

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piratecat · 18/09/2008 23:39

lapin i love the bunny with the bandana!

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piratecat · 18/09/2008 23:43

last one i promise

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solidgoldbrass · 18/09/2008 23:44

I always had a kind of love-hate thing with The Jam: most of the people who liked them were wankers but they had some very fine songs. I still want this played at my funeral as a final fuck-you.
Oh and I did love watching the Bitterest Pill video again though it makes me giggle more than it used to (Take your chewing gum out before you kiss her, Weller! No wonder she chucked you for your bass player!)

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Anchovy · 18/09/2008 23:46

Ooh, I was a huge Jam fan.

About a year ago I was flying back from Tokyo and was sitting in the Virgin lounge somewhat tired and hungover with some Style Council on my ipod and I opened my eyes and Paul Weller was sitting directly opposite me.

I did a huge jump because I thought in my somewhat befuddled state that I had sort of imagined him into being there.

He has very dodgy hair - it sort of looks like he cuts and dyes it himself.

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piratecat · 18/09/2008 23:46

and the drummer apparently if you check aagain -shhhhhlaaaaagggg!!!

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piratecat · 18/09/2008 23:48

anchovy that is a very cool story, and yes i must agree his hair is a bloody eyesore. those long bits just hanging down, look rubbish. He needs a nice crop.

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Janni · 18/09/2008 23:51

Saw Paul Weller recently at a school concert as my DS is in the same year as his daughter. He's got a lovely full head of (grey) hair, is slim and fit-looking but with very bad sunburn!

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Anchovy · 18/09/2008 23:52

I had to keep nonchalently wandering to the loo during the flight just to walk past him (was in Virgin Upper, so quite small comaprtment) I also hung winsomely round the bar area on the plane.

He probably just saw a hungover 40+ year old who he assumed had a weak bladder!

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solidgoldbrass · 18/09/2008 23:54

Oh, he was always a runty little ferret. Bruce Foxton was the one I would have not exactly kicked out of bed for eating biscuits.

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piratecat · 18/09/2008 23:55

ooh janni, how exciting,

this is the hair i don't like its too flappy.

www.music4.com/images/celebrities/paulweller.jpg

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Janni · 18/09/2008 23:56

Yep, that's the hair!!

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piratecat · 18/09/2008 23:59

this is the stuff

tres chic barnet

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Janni · 19/09/2008 00:07

There's a biography of him out, if you really love him .

I actually liked more of his Style Council than his Jam stuff, but I'm not known for my finger-on-the-pulse musical tastes.

Actually, the hair is awful, isn't it? I think I just got excited because he wasn't bald!

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piratecat · 19/09/2008 08:22

lol janni!

I might delve i nto that book. I have a few jam ones, I really was a die hard mod, scooter and all!!

I followed his solo career for about 3 albums, then after that I though it really all started to sound the same.

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WowOoo · 19/09/2008 08:24

Ah!

His new album is quite good so far.
Why did I used to fancy him? Oh yeah, he was cool. Now, I'm not so sure.

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daftpunk · 19/09/2008 08:31

brilliant start to the day...thanks piratecat,

i'm late for school now!

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piratecat · 19/09/2008 12:13

oh yip yip, people who loved the jam!! I had posted and had no replies for 24 hrs, and thought myself very 'old'!!

lets kep the jam thread alive man {wink}

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2shoes · 19/09/2008 12:53

I love the Jam, I saw them live twice, brilliant band

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nowirehangers · 19/09/2008 13:08

I love, love, love the Jam and have all their albums which I never play because they are lps and my turntable is gathering dust in a cupboard [old gimmer emoticon]
However, Paul W is allegedly the biggest wanker in the music business - which is saying a lot. A famously nasty bit of work. I also find it hilarious that the man who wrote Eton Rifles sends his kids to private schools because - to paraphrase the quote - he didn't want his kids turning into chavs.
But you can't let that detract from the music - aaah, reverie, town called malice, ooh, ooh, yeah - nowire reminisces about snogs at the youth club disco with boys in doc martens