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"That's Entertainment" is a 1980 song by British punk/Mod Revivalist group The Jam off their fifth album, Sound Affects. Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ...
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Year 1981 (MCMLXXXI) was a common year starting on Thursday (link displays the 1981 Gregorian calendar). ...
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The mod revival was a music genre and subculture that started in the United Kingdom in 1978 and later spread to other countries (to a lesser degree). ...
A songwriter is someone who writes the lyrics to songs, the musical composition or melody to songs, or both. ...
Paul Weller The Modfather (born John William Weller May 25, 1958, in Sheerwater, near Woking, Surrey) is an English singer-songwriter. ...
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Start! is a song by English rock band The Jam, released on their album Sound Affects and as a single with Liza Radley, both in 1980. ...
Funeral Pyre was the The Jams thirteenth single released on 6th June 1981. ...
Thats Entertainment! is a popular song. ...
Punk rock is an anti-establishment music movement beginning around 1976 (although precursors can be found several years earlier), exemplified and popularised by The Ramones, the Sex Pistols, The Clash and The Damned. ...
The mod revival was a music genre and subculture that started in the United Kingdom in 1978 and later spread to other countries (to a lesser degree). ...
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Sound Affects is a 1980 album by British group The Jam. ...
Song profile "That's Entertainment" is probably The Jam's best known and most acclaimed song (although "Town Called Malice" is the next closest); it is the group's lone entry, at #306, on the list of the 500 greatest songs of all-time released by Rolling Stone in 2004. It consistently makes similar British lists of all-time great songs, such as BBC Radio 2's Sold On Song 2004 Top 100, at #43.[1] Featuring one of the easily-recognisable bass-lines in British music history,Town Called Malice is a song recorded by The Jam from the album The Gift. ...
The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time was the cover story of a special issue of Rolling Stone magazine published in November 2004. ...
BBC Radio 2 is one of the BBCs national radio stations and is by far the most popular station in the UK, reaching some 27% of the available audience in 2006[1]. It broadcasts throughout the UK on FM radio between 88 and 91 MHz from its studios in...
It was never released as a domestic single in the UK during the band's lifetime, but incredibly it made the charts as an import, backed by a live version of "Down in the Tube Station at Midnight," peaking at #21. It was given its first full UK release in 1983 and peaked at #60. A second reissue in 1991 also made the Top 50. Down In The Tube Station At Midnight was the second single released from the album All Mod Cons by The Jam. ...
It remains one of the two all-time biggest selling import singles in the UK, alongside The Jam's own "Just Who Is the 5 O'Clock Hero?," which would hit the charts at #8 as an import in 1982. The group's appearance on the Rolling Stone list was surprising, given their lack of visibility in America and their lack of appearance on such American lists in the past. Just Who Is The 5 OClock Hero? was the second single to be released by The Jam from their sixth studio album The Gift. ...
Though it remains perhaps The Jam's most famous effort, it is ironically one of the least "distinctively Jam" songs of their career, venturing far from the driving rhythms and chiming electric guitars that dominate most of the group's oeuvre. The song uses an almost entirely acoustic arrangement with only very light percussion, not even using a snare drum. Like much of Sound Affects, the song has strong undercurrents of pop-psychedelia. The only electric guitar part in the song is played backwards over one of the verses, a hallmark of psychedelia. Moreover, the entire song's swirling aesthetic is very evocative of '60s British pop. The snare drum or side drum is a tubular drum made of wood or metal with skins, or heads, stretched over the top and bottom openings, and with a set of snares (cords) stretched across the bottom head. ...
Sound Affects is a 1980 album by British group The Jam. ...
Psychedelia is a term describing a category of music, visual art, fashion, and culture that is associated originally with the high 1960s, hippies, and the Haight-Ashbury neighborhood of San Francisco, California. ...
The minimalist, slice-of-life lyrics only list various conditions of British working class life. Consider the first verse: The term working class is used to denote a social class. ...
- "A police car and a screaming siren"
- "Pneumatic drill and ripped-up concrete"
- "A baby wailing, stray dog howling"
- "The screech of brakes and lamp light blinking"
culminating in the laconic, ironic chorus of "That's entertainment, That's entertainment!"
The most frequent interpretation is that the song is a rejection of the romanticism often afforded the British working class lifestyle (such as in television programmes), although there are some other interpretations as well. Either way, it is The Jam's most frequently covered song.
Cover versions There have been numerous subsequent renditions including British (Morrissey, Reef, The Wonder Stuff) and American (Face to Face, Velocity Girl) artists alike. The song is frequently used in a more shallow sense ("That's entertainment!") by television companies (notably ITV, who launched their 2002 new look with it). For other uses, see Morrissey (disambiguation). ...
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The Wonder Stuff are a band originally based in Stourbridge, West Midlands, in the Black Country, England. ...
face to face was a punk band from Victorville, California. ...
Velocity Girl was an American indie rock band formed in 1989 in College Park, Maryland, although it was generally known as a Washington, D.C.-area band. ...
Independent Television (generally known as ITV, but also as ITV Network) is a public service network of British commercial television broadcasters, set up under the Independent Television Authority (ITA) to provide competition to the BBC. ITV is the oldest commercial television network in the UK. Since 1990 and the Broadcasting...
Other versions A demo version was first released on the Snap! compilation. This featured engineer Peter Wilson on drums and Paul Weller on all other instruments. A later demo version with Bruce Foxton and Rick Buckler in their respective roles appeared on the Direction Reaction Creation boxed set. These versions feature a fuller arrangement, but lacked the flourishes of the final released version. The version which appears on The Sound of the Jam and Paul Weller's Hit Parade is the "Snap!" version with the bass and drums removed. The demo version of the song was used in the soundtrack to the film Stranger Than Fiction. Snap! is an expanded re-issue of Compact Snap! by The Jam. ...
Paul Weller The Modfather (born John William Weller May 25, 1958, in Sheerwater, near Woking, Surrey) is an English singer-songwriter. ...
Bruce Foxton is an English rock and roll musician born on September 1st 1955 in Woking, Surrey who is best remembered as the bass player in punk/new wave band The Jam. ...
Rick Buckler (born 6 December 1955—), was the drummer and an original member of The Jam, a British rock-band that enjoyed considerable success in the United Kingdom between 1977 and 1982. ...
Direction Reaction Creation is a box set by the group The Jam released in 1997. ...
The Sound of the Jam is a greatest hits album release by pop group The Jam released in 2002 featuring 26 tracks. ...
Stranger than Fiction is a 2006 American comedy-drama film. ...
The Hit Parade version was also used in the film, American Dreamz. Hit Parade is a 2006 greatest hits boxset of Paul Wellers musical career. ...
American Dreamz is a 2006 comedy film that satirizes both American politics and popular entertainment. ...
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