The Jam — This is the Modern World

• Artist: The Jam
• Title: This is the Modern World
• Year: 1977
• Format: Vinyl 12 in.
• Rating (1-10): 8
• Owner: Mary? Tracy?
• Acquired: ?
• Keeper: Yes

I’ve been busy making the doughnuts so it’s taken me a while to give this record a proper listen. And The Jam’s This is the Modern World deserves a proper listen, or a few. You get your money’s worth with a total of 13 songs. All of them are exquisitely naked, mod, and short. There’s only one song over three minutes, and there’s one cover, a mod-punked out version of Wilson Pickett’s “In the Midnight Hour.” Looks like I disagree with The Jam critics, historians and maybe even Paul Weller himself, again.

Back to the doughnuts. Who wants one?