Songs Of the Day: October 24-25, 2005
In case you didn't realize just how popular the Jam were in England by the early 80s, here are a couple of 45s by bands who very much would have liked to be Weller and Co. While they are able to ape only superficial aspects of the Jam's sound and were subsequently left in the dust by Weller's growth as a songwriter, it must be said that they, along with their obsessively-dressed peers produced dozens of cool singles, (and in the case of the Chords, a surprisingly strong LP) many of which are rounded up on Anagram Records' This Is Mod series.
2 Comments:
I like some of the mod-revival bands of 1978-1980, that must have been a fun time back then. Although I admit, the majority of those mod-revival bands all sound the same and are so heavily Jam influenced. But I've heard people say that all power-pop bands sounds the same too. I like the mod-revival bands that did not copy of the Jam or Weller's songwriting so much.
I think the best bands of that mod-revival era are The Jolt, The Chords, Squire, The Teenbeats, and The Purple Hearts.
Cool post. Keep up the good work.
That Chords song is great, but man, the Circles got them some terrible, terrible lyrics.
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