I grew up with the jam and this genre of music. Protest music. Smart, intelligent lyrics with great songwriting. How I miss it. Completely gone now. Nothing.
MY favourite band when I was a teenager, I loved Paul Weller's lyrics. This has certainly stood the test of time, hasn't it? Relevant as ever, or even more so.
I'd say less relevant. More needed but who's going to march now? Each generation of workers has less and less fighting spirit. I love this song, but we need more than words.
They should have at least TRIED to play them over here. I liked them right off. Americans don't care about British-isms and dialect, we just want to rock out. Paul is the goat.
What a prophetic video! I love the short reggae dub riff halfway through this track (Jamaican genes). Today's news makes your video spot on. Well done!🙂
Song stands the test of time. Loved it when it was a hit when Thatcher came to power as it spoke the truth. Nothing changed as is shown by this video. Nothing has changed now. "Plus ca change, plus la meme chose". Keep going, Lads. Our day will come!
I didn t understand the meaning of the song when I heard it for the first time. But I saw a good documentary about The Jam three or four years ago. And I realized that things are still the same even on France and maybe difficulties are more important now. I like this song because there s some kind of rage that must always must be present.
Someone told me, and he was a Mod friend, that the song is about a small town, whom got challenged to a fight by a big town, and the small town knocked the stuffing out of them, and apparently they have a Rugby match every year to celebrate it.
@@timbayliss4153 Well, he told a load of bolox. It's primarily about the public school system (eton being pre eminent) that produces our "elders and betters". The lyric DOES reference a fight between local school kids and Eton pupils in which the working class lads came off worse but only as a device to hang the whole idea of the song on to.
Well done for including the pictures of all the Old Etonians. 7% of the British population are privately educated but they dominate politics, media and businesses. The 93% never stand a chance because the odds are stacked against them so heavily. People are brainwashed by newspapers that are owned by the 7% that only the 7% can lead them. Paul Weller was trying to teach people about these leaches way back in the eighties but nothing has changed, we have yet another Etonian in number 10. Why? Why do more prime ministers come from Etonian than all the state schools put together? This song came out just as I was starting my working life, I am now coming to the end of my working life and the Etonians and the rest of the 7% have had the easy privileged life while my 93% have struggled.
@@lewisbracken5520 And then everyone stood down because they were too big of cowards to do anything about it. The brave thing to do would have been hold an actual election, not a referendum.
I remember seeing them do this live. A fucking lifetime ago now. I've been to see From The Jam, they're a cracking live band but it ain't the same without Paul.
The jam weren't really my thing back then, fast forward a few decades I love em especially this song, Paul Weller keeps reinventing himself great singer songwriter. It used to be about the beat now I pay more attention to the lyrics !!!
To be a pedant: Boris Johnson and Dave Cameron were Etonians, Osborne - St. Paul's, Clegg - Westminster and William Hague, the only one who went to the local Comp.
Labour abandoned the very people this song was for. At least the Tories pretend to listen, even if they don’t follow through on anything they do. We need a party by the working class, for the working class, free from the university educated middle class who hijacked our party as a protest vehicle against their parents.
yeah right! mid 60's Mod culture in the late 70's early 80's. What does 'ahead of their time' really mean ? is it because it's so good it must be modern, like the crap we're hearing now, sanctioned by Simon Cowell and his ilk. They were of their time, my time, your time, any time.
Watching this today in 2024, the 4th of July and all I can think when I hear Weller's words is "How little things have changed".
To write those lyrics at such a young age was genius.
It's the 4th of jew lies bro
I grew up with the jam and this genre of music. Protest music. Smart, intelligent lyrics with great songwriting. How I miss it. Completely gone now. Nothing.
Now your talking 👌
The radio stations played it because they had to. I don't think they understood the lyrics.
@@condensedsleep3936 I'm sure the BBC controllers did.
Yeah now we got Sam Smith wailing about Dildos and Gay sex and everyone clapping like seals and saying how great it is !
Composed at a time when bands were intelligent
If ever there should be a song of 2023 this is it!
Mod in appearance but so 77 punk in attitude and musical style - love em so much
MY favourite band when I was a teenager, I loved Paul Weller's lyrics. This has certainly stood the test of time, hasn't it? Relevant as ever, or even more so.
I think that Paul Weller has always been sussed
I'd say less relevant. More needed but who's going to march now? Each generation of workers has less and less fighting spirit. I love this song, but we need more than words.
Unbelievable how working class people were duped into voting for this evil Tory government for thirteen years
This song has come full circle
Absolute genius lyrics, its staggering how old Weller was when he wrote this.
Very astue and knowing
The best band ever, never replace them.
Now your talking 👍
They should have at least TRIED to play them over here. I liked them right off. Americans don't care about British-isms and dialect, we just want to rock out. Paul is the goat.
11years old I got into The Jam. And Weller was only 21 !! Prophetic stuff!!
I never get tired of these lyrics
Weller said about Cameron, "does he think it's about his mates?" He fuckin' hates that Cameron is a fan.
So do Morrissey and Marr!!!
@@johnbarry1965 Oh. Well, I admire the taste, can't comment on his politics, but I guess if they hate him it's for a reason.
Ah left wingers , don`t you just love `em
@@Battismore-Blue I guess no, you don't. So keep your hugs to yourself, thanks
Paul Weller sent his kids to private school. I'm not sure exactly what that tells us, but it feels disappointing somehow
"I'd prefer the plague to the Eton Rifles."
Well, there it is... ICRC x
FAUCI funded skynews australia
sadly.we ended up with both in the uk
One of the greatest songs ever made.
That punchy, raw solid bass sound , awesome!!
Now that's a way to open a song!
Such a clever song!!!
❤❤AMEN THEM DIDN'T EVEN USE A PEN ¥=¥=)=>$€£ 😂
Foxtons bass just amazing
That unmistakable Rickenbacker tone...
I'm obsessed with this song at the moment.
I was obsessed with this song at some point in the past, too. Possibly more than once
I am obsessed with this song ever & FORever ❤
Revolution boyz/girlz. For us working class nobodies!
Clean living under difficult circumstances
I used to love the jam. Love from Ireland.
What a prophetic video! I love the short reggae dub riff halfway through this track (Jamaican genes). Today's news makes your video spot on. Well done!🙂
Look at that w**Ker Cameron
Thank you
Song stands the test of time. Loved it when it was a hit when Thatcher came to power as it spoke the truth. Nothing changed as is shown by this video. Nothing has changed now. "Plus ca change, plus la meme chose". Keep going, Lads. Our day will come!
I didn t understand the meaning of the song when I heard it for the first time. But I saw a good documentary about The Jam three or four years ago. And I realized that things are still the same even on France and maybe difficulties are more important now. I like this song because there s some kind of rage that must always must be present.
Someone told me, and he was a Mod friend, that the song is about a small town, whom got challenged to a fight by a big town, and the small town knocked the stuffing out of them, and apparently they have a Rugby match every year to celebrate it.
@@timbayliss4153 Well, he told a load of bolox. It's primarily about the public school system (eton being pre eminent) that produces our "elders and betters".
The lyric DOES reference a fight between local school kids and Eton pupils in which the working class lads came off worse but only as a device to hang the whole idea of the song on to.
I can't believe how fucking relevant this song is now in January 2019.
Totally agree with you
It's just like one big club... and guess what .. you ain't in it. George Carling RIP.
George was, and still is a legend
I don’t want to be in their greedy club. F*ck’em.
It never ends... brilliant
Its 3.27 minutes long, it definitely ends!!
Haha, I'm just being silly, ignore me!
I still have this classic on 7"
This song is actually an anthem at Eton College ironically enough and in the British Services x
Of course they'd try to claim it.
One of the best thing about this is that modern Conservatives have claimed it, regardless of what the Jam have to say about it.
What a brilliant, brilliant video - sadly not seen till now. And sadly, it still goes on...
Still relevant in 2024 as the day it was released.
@@idonthavealoginname Outrageous how it still speaks
Well done for including the pictures of all the Old Etonians.
7% of the British population are privately educated but they dominate politics, media and businesses.
The 93% never stand a chance because the odds are stacked against them so heavily.
People are brainwashed by newspapers that are owned by the 7% that only the 7% can lead them.
Paul Weller was trying to teach people about these leaches way back in the eighties but nothing has changed, we have yet another Etonian in number 10.
Why?
Why do more prime ministers come from Etonian than all the state schools put together?
This song came out just as I was starting my working life, I am now coming to the end of my working life and the Etonians and the rest of the 7% have had the easy privileged life while my 93% have struggled.
More brainwashed than ever thanks to the BBC sun mail etc etc
I wonder if his had he's 2 jabs.. ❤️🗽🇮🇸
6 now fella
So true Today as back then,,, "we were no match for there untamed wit" .
Classic stuff.
What chance have you got against a tie and a crest.
nothing has changed since this song was written. the rich get richer and the rest of us dont matter.
"How did Cameron not get this?!"
These sentiments don't stop being true just because the bands gone onto legend
Probably their best track 🧿
✡ eton rifles
what chance have you got against a tie and a crest,
Next time wheel out the guillotines, I hear they work well against the upper class
And a straight nose.
❤EPIC.
❤UK.
2023 STILL RELEVANT. RESPECT.
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What incredible lyrics
Loaded the guns and ran home for your tea says it all
It's a poignant line
Currently learning some songs for a covers band who are slightly older than myself (80s born here). They listed this one, I may be a new convert!
'king love this one: video was spot on.
Cheers mate
Fave song of the seventies
It really hits home
Loaded the guns and run off home for your tea.. David Cameron and Brexit..
? they held a referendum and we voted to leave. simple.
@@lewisbracken5520 And then everyone stood down because they were too big of cowards to do anything about it. The brave thing to do would have been hold an actual election, not a referendum.
You had a chance to overturn the referendum and bring in your socialist utopia under Old Jeremy Dustbin and you didn't take it.
You shit your pants.
Frazer Duncan Voting in the UK as in most places is just a token gesture:-(
Should have made the vote compulsory, then no one could complain.
Stand together and fight
Class song, great video
JUST THE BEST
Great song. Clegg and Cable didnt go to Eton though. Clegg went to Westminster school and Cable was a Grammar school boy.
Aye, my lad goes to Cable's old school and he's a working class lad...
Nor did William Hague... he was a grammar school lad
I remember seeing them do this live. A fucking lifetime ago now. I've been to see From The Jam, they're a cracking live band but it ain't the same without Paul.
True, saw The Jam 4 times, wish i'd seen them more
Yes Paul summed it up pretty well !
Quality video. Nailed it
Cameron liked this song; no idea it's a stand against the elite
If this song doesn't scare the hell out of you seek help.
Fire and skill...!!
Great tune
Class 🇬🇧🎤🎸🥁🎸
The jam weren't really my thing back then, fast forward a few decades I love em especially this song, Paul Weller keeps reinventing himself great singer songwriter. It used to be about the beat now I pay more attention to the lyrics !!!
love what you did there! ;)
Good song and great video!
Hello hurray
It's such a nice day for
Eating trifles
Eating trifles
- The Jammy
Perfectly written song..
To be a pedant: Boris Johnson and Dave Cameron were Etonians, Osborne - St. Paul's, Clegg - Westminster and William Hague, the only one who went to the local Comp.
Eating trifle, eating trifle
Labour abandoned the very people this song was for. At least the Tories pretend to listen, even if they don’t follow through on anything they do.
We need a party by the working class, for the working class, free from the university educated middle class who hijacked our party as a protest vehicle against their parents.
New Labour/Tory Lite Mark2=Controlled Opposition
Went to London with my mum when I was a 15 we seen Eton school boys in real life
Oh starmer you are eating us alive ...
Great video. Can you update it for the current situation?? 😂
It would just be a Uni-Party being played like puppets by The WEF and the rest of the globalist entities
@@JimJordan85 spoiled yourself there with the wef thing
Oh wow, how relevant!!
Wallace farnborough .brilliant tune. Lorrys
Brilliant.
Best Band In The Fucking World.
Argh mate what a band, so ahead of their time clearly...
yeah right! mid 60's Mod culture in the late 70's early 80's. What does 'ahead of their time' really mean ? is it because it's so good it must be modern, like the crap we're hearing now, sanctioned by Simon Cowell and his ilk.
They were of their time, my time, your time, any time.
@EJB2274 - Yes, prophetic then and relevant today.
So there's goes the hope, then.
This is one English world leader who won't have been educated at Eton College. St Michael the First Prince of America..
Must be f*c*in solid these Eton Rifles...if that's what an expensive education does for you...I'm in.
Osbourne was at St.Paul's.
Tune wallace. Farnborough
NOICE
Would luv them to put differences behind them and reform.....
Told u guys about the Eton rifles years ago
Hope Boris played this at his Party's. 😂👍😎
Good old 7"
The TRUTH.
An extremist scrape.
A song for The Rangers Boys!!!
Like what you did there.
Can confirm all that rugby puts hair on your chest
Britana should rule the world.
i wish they would bury the hatchet & get back together even it it was for just a few gigs
@MusicalElitist1 fuck off yourself
oh and at 1:23 they misspelt a word x
I thought they meant an extremely peanuty dip
How right they was, only one good Tory that’s a dead one
...and the plague is here, yet again.
Who are the people who ask are you here in 2024?listening to this song?, stop it,it's the only way youl get thumbs up,but from me thumb down,
well that video editing was prophetic wasn't it?
why?
Boris
I don't think William Hague went to Eton.
Good job Bruce Foxton never wrote this song,as he sent his son to,you've guessed it.....Eton (you couldn't make it up)
no better way to rub it in their face than to get your kids on the same level as theirs despite how hard they make it
Euan Banner I think that everyone wants the best for their kids
Ex-PM David Cameron’s favourite song whilst at Eton apparently. Don’t think he realised it was an anti ( Eton) establishment song…maybe he did!
Eating rifles,eating rifles!!
Take a look at the photos in this video and then you will realise why the UK is in the mess it's in.
Absolutely.