My older brother turned me onto the Jam in 1977 when I was 15 and I was hooked. I kind of felt like an isolated fan in America since most people I knew never heard of the Jam and they never made commercially here. Glad I saw them in 1982 in New York before they broke up.
@Geoffthebull haha every time this played in the car my dad would shout at passers by " the eating of trifle" cheers you've brought back a very happy memory mr bull
This is a must view for young musicians, catchy, lively,melodic, instruments, the right amount of time for a song, hopefully we can get better songs written for the future.
I saw Paul Weller the night before last at Thebarton Theatre in Adelaide, capacity 2000 and it wasn't full. He did Eton Rifles and the (small) crowd went off. I remember bouncing around my bedroom to this and at 40 I still had it! He did all the Jam classics -including Carnation (one of my favourites) and I didn't even have to push to get to the front of the stage.... brilliant :)
brilliant song, one of the best Mod bands back in the day..thanks for this..here i was perusing stuff on youtube and i come across tis gem, thanks mate
Love the Jam awesome back catalogue never tire of listening to it. P.S. is there anyone out there who can even begin to understand how we got from music like this to rap? At this rate my grand kids will be listening to white noise with someone swearing over the top of it.
That's a Suzy Quatro reference, She chose The Eton Rifles as a favourite on Tracks Of My Years and admitted that she assumed eating trifles was some English expression at first.
The next generation really needs to remember that people can play their own instruments and do their own singing without the computer serving as anything other than the method of capturing what you can do yourself.
A band that i interviewed recently. The vinyls have a really nice few songs on their new album, that a reminiscent of the Jam. They a very vintage sound. They are under The Vinyls on UA-cam, check em out..recommended :)
@squidvicious27 the term great in great britain....is because in latin....brittany means little britain....harking back to a time when languages like welsh were spoken everywhere
A catalyst is something that speeds up a chemical reaction without being used up itself. In this case, I imagine he means that whoever he's talking to sped up what was inevitable
I was 19 when the jam released this. If I could only travel back and know what I know now. What you reckon Paul instead of social commentating you could have changed things with honesty... Think about it...
weird, One of the few times Joy Division played on TV was on this same show. For years I saw the Joy Division performance and wondered who that was on the big photo to the side of them. I now know it was the Jam And as if to confirm the point, to the side of The Jam playing here is the Unknown Pleasures poster.
I can not belive how great this(Paul Weller) three piece band sound!, I bet all and sundry, this year's x -craptor shite does not emerge with anyone anywhere near 1% of the talent of these three?
Can any one confirm that the lyrics "Thought you were clever when you lit the fuse,Tore down the house of commons in your brand new shoes,Compose a revolutionary symphony,Then went to bed with a charming young thing" is a dig at the Clash as well as the 'Eton boy's' runing the Commons?
Actually the story is that a section though it would be a good idea to have a go at the Eton lot as you said but the instigators ran away and left the rest of the people on the protest to get an absoluter battering. hence the lyric "What a catalyst you turned out to be, Loaded the guns, then you run off home for your tea Left me standing like a guilty schoolboy"
A laughable comment on so many levels. Cameron's top notch education obviously didn't teach him what irony means. And what would lay-about, right wing slob from Eton know about fighting?
The Jam ended with dignity and at the top- and im glad weller moved on! Who wants to see Weller slog through these now- that would be depressing! If you take his solo career and add up the great songs there hes got a matching catalogue thats different but just as good(including a few council numbers that are top class) though ill always favor the prime jam era! Saw him recently and he did a stunning version of the butterfly collector !
I must admit they are good lyrics, but a lot of my relatives went to Eton and so do many of my friends, Eton college has changed a lot since they 70s and the pupils there do not go around beating up the local boys or look down on people any more, and if Paul Weller went to have a look round Eton he would be suprised how much its changed.
Weller recently told the media that he nearly had a canary when he heard that David Cameron listed this one of his favourite songs as a kid. No doubt Dave's flop-haired buffoon of a mate, now London's mayor, was an Eton Rifle, jeering and spitting at the jobless as they marched to the Commons...
@MissTeeenAIabama A guy writes an insightful classic song, and you expect him to live his life according to it's tenants forever? Put down the hatorade, don't worry about Weller's kids, accomplish something yourself.
Hey stop slagging off the uploader for getting the title wrong, it's probably the only reason youtube haven't taken it down!...They think it's about someone whose been eating long guns lol.
I remember back in about 1980, we were in a nightclub and this girl though I was in the Army. She asked me what regiment I was in and I said "Eaton Rifles". She believed me.
Weller is easily as good as McCartney and Bowie - but he is openly anti-establishment, and this makes a huge difference to the mainstream powers that be.
Eton is a very famous school in England that allows the continuation of the old boy network to thrive and take the great unwashed into unwanted wars, hence rifles and a left wing band singing a political song about them. Eaton is merely an Americanism for dinner table, probably.
Brilliant live TV performance from one of my fave bands of all time. Why can't today's music be like this?
my grandad says exactly the same and we just can't talk to him - bless, simple times
I think that its all safe & corporate:-(
Because these days they don't learn how to play instruments and they can't sing.
My older brother turned me onto the Jam in 1977 when I was 15 and I was hooked. I kind of felt like an isolated fan in America since most people I knew never heard of the Jam and they never made commercially here. Glad I saw them in 1982 in New York before they broke up.
They had The Jam and Joy Division in one show. What a legendary moment in rock music.
I blame X factor and wokeness
@Geoffthebull haha every time this played in the car my dad would shout at passers by " the eating of trifle" cheers you've brought back a very happy memory mr bull
This is a must view for young musicians, catchy, lively,melodic, instruments, the right amount of time for a song, hopefully we can get better songs written for the future.
My dad loved the jam when he was a mod in the 80's
And i like em aswell !
I saw Paul Weller the night before last at Thebarton Theatre in Adelaide, capacity 2000 and it wasn't full. He did Eton Rifles and the (small) crowd went off. I remember bouncing around my bedroom to this and at 40 I still had it! He did all the Jam classics -including Carnation (one of my favourites) and I didn't even have to push to get to the front of the stage.... brilliant :)
I've been a PW for many years this is a typical example of pure energy, good music combined with intelligent lyrics.
Bruce Foxton is one of the bass guitar's forgotten heroes.
YEA ABSOLUTELY / WAS GOOD WITH S.L.F AS WELL
brilliant song, one of the best Mod bands back in the day..thanks for this..here i was perusing stuff on youtube and i come across tis gem, thanks mate
my favorite Jam song!
Love you Danielle . xxx
Love the Jam awesome back catalogue never tire of listening to it. P.S. is there anyone out there who can even begin to understand how we got from music like this to rap? At this rate my grand kids will be listening to white noise with someone swearing over the top of it.
The young are the new old.
thumbs up if you love jam and love the jam
Couldn't put it better my self.
"Eating trifle! Eating trifle!" LOL
That's a Suzy Quatro reference, She chose The Eton Rifles as a favourite on Tracks Of My Years and admitted that she assumed eating trifles was some English expression at first.
yea I like the paul wella covers album I discovered it 05 it s pretty good if you forget the Jam and enjoy his voice,tx
I went to the guitar shop where I live....16 month wating list for a new Rick....
What a record. listening to this music really does make you think how shite music is in this day and age
So is everything else
My god you're really close minded
The next generation really needs to remember that people can play their own instruments and do their own singing without the computer serving as anything other than the method of capturing what you can do yourself.
@@LuaNub no you're just bloody stupid
saw these 3 times in concert in the late 70s early 80 brillant once a mod always a mod
awesome
Setting Sons is a brilliant piece of work.
最高です！！i'mJapanees yeah!!
A Fall t shirt in the audience too - those were the days!
Eton is a public school. many Tory politicians studied there,
*dances*
this and a couple of other Jam songs just amke you want to move your feet.
x
Yes !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
You're right-good call!
i love trifels
Change the spelling!
A band that i interviewed recently. The vinyls have a really nice few songs on their new album, that a reminiscent of the Jam. They a very vintage sound. They are under The Vinyls on UA-cam, check em out..recommended :)
@squidvicious27 the term great in great britain....is because in latin....brittany means little britain....harking back to a time when languages like welsh were spoken everywhere
Paul Weller goes to bed every night knowing he will never top the jam,poor bloke
Harry Fox or even he was the JAM?
What a bell end
+T Hemphill more than you will ever do.
FOR FUCK SAKE CAN NO ONE T
AKE A JOKE!
do u think he gives a shit.
my mum still dances like the people the audience.
A catalyst is something that speeds up a chemical reaction without being used up itself. In this case, I imagine he means that whoever he's talking to sped up what was inevitable
Oh my, what a voice !
I think the right title is "Eton Rifles"
I was 19 when the jam released this. If I could only travel back and know what I know now. What you reckon Paul instead of social commentating you could have changed things with honesty... Think about it...
life mate .... all the way
weird, One of the few times Joy Division played on TV was on this same show.
For years I saw the Joy Division performance and wondered who that was on the big photo to the side of them. I now know it was the Jam
And as if to confirm the point, to the side of The Jam playing here is the Unknown Pleasures poster.
I heard this is David Cameron's favourite song! lol- THE JAM ROCK
I can not belive how great this(Paul Weller) three piece band sound!, I bet all and sundry, this year's x -craptor shite does not emerge with anyone anywhere near 1% of the talent of these three?
Can any one confirm that the lyrics "Thought you were clever when you lit the fuse,Tore down the house of commons in your brand new shoes,Compose a revolutionary symphony,Then went to bed with a charming young thing" is a dig at the Clash as well as the 'Eton boy's' runing the Commons?
Actually the story is that a section though it would be a good idea to have a go at the Eton lot as you said but the instigators ran away and left the rest of the people on the protest to get an absoluter battering.
hence the lyric
"What a catalyst you turned out to be, Loaded the guns, then you run off home for your tea Left me standing like a guilty schoolboy"
Eat Trifle, Eat Trifle :-)
The Rifles.
@SirBanuTheFourth Check out 0.54 and 2.40 on - sounds like the 3rd of may to me.
@Westy91 and the pistols!
Cameron was right to like this song. After all it did celebrate the fighting skills of the Etonians against a bunch of left wing unemployed layabouts.
It was a right to work march by the working classes. 'WORKING'!!
A laughable comment on so many levels. Cameron's top notch education obviously didn't teach him what irony means. And what would lay-about, right wing slob from Eton know about fighting?
reading this comment made me depressed
@antfoley1983 sound affects is my favorite and the one that has aged well!
Its not mocking the Eton kids, it's mocking the others who can't find the strength to challenge them.
my walk on music when i play darts on stage
How can I change rating ? I really love Paul Weller and The Jam .
i love rick buckler style,they were all intelligent sub grammer school maybe grammer school if not this they still astound me
you're referring to i can't explain, i presume, not substitute, correct?
Epic, Search Spiders-Dangerously Close To What I Want
@Westy91 Throw in early Manic Street Preachers and Rage Against The Machine and you're spot on..
The Jam ended with dignity and at the top- and im glad weller moved on! Who wants to see Weller slog through these now- that would be depressing! If you take his solo career and add up the great songs there hes got a matching catalogue thats different but just as good(including a few council numbers that are top class) though ill always favor the prime jam era! Saw him recently and he did a stunning version of the butterfly collector !
It is a punk song. It was inspired by the rise of the Sex Pistols. The image is mod.
"Eton Rifles" are cadet corps at Eton college
I must admit they are good lyrics, but a lot of my relatives went to Eton and so do many of my friends, Eton college has changed a lot since they 70s and the pupils there do not go around beating up the local boys or look down on people any more, and if Paul Weller went to have a look round Eton he would be suprised how much its changed.
What do the youth get nowdays? Mcfly... Glad i'm not 16 in 2009
Weller recently told the media that he nearly had a canary when he heard that David Cameron listed this one of his favourite songs as a kid. No doubt Dave's flop-haired buffoon of a mate, now London's mayor, was an Eton Rifle, jeering and spitting at the jobless as they marched to the Commons...
Possibly my favorite song. Also, its Eton, not Eaton lol.
does anyone know what guitar he is using?
is it semi-hollow?
Welller
thanks for proving ma point lossers, getin so touchy are we? aww HA!
good song
@MissTeeenAIabama A guy writes an insightful classic song, and you expect him to live his life according to it's tenants forever? Put down the hatorade, don't worry about Weller's kids, accomplish something yourself.
EATING TRIFLES
The Plebs would buy it!!!
It's actually mocking the other lads who can't find the strength or unity to challenge them.
I hear they're going to play this at Thatcher's funeral
It's "ETON" Rifles, people. As in the place ETON. Honestly.
Message to Tory Toff CaMoron!
Hey stop slagging off the uploader for getting the title wrong, it's probably the only reason youtube haven't taken it down!...They think it's about someone whose been eating long guns lol.
What a catalyst you turned out to be,
Loading the guns and you ride off home to your tea,
Left me standing like a guilty schoolboy...
ha ha , you spelt Eton WRONG it is as in eton college, not as in 'i had consumed ? '
the next Prime Minister sees this as an empowerment anthem... we are fucked
@Westy91 well im not really into the smiths, but i know that they are not that political. can u tell me about some political songs by them?
@stylophobia Spot on!
I remember back in about 1980, we were in a nightclub and this girl though I was in the Army.
She asked me what regiment I was in and I said "Eaton Rifles". She believed me.
Lol..nice one.
Cool man, I would tell that story to anyone any chance I get... Classic story. WOW
Eton rifles
Eton old chap Eton.
🤣🤣🤣
EATING TRIFLES
One of the best Bands ever!!!!
the Jam were brilliant, their music will live forever among lads who have mod and punk in them
bruce is such a solid bassist, bloody awesome.
Eaton? Why the fuck can't people spell common song titles?
Terrible they didn't even research before posting.
American lol
Why on earth would someone click "dislike" for a MASTERPIECE like this?
No taste
Strange as it may sounds, not everyone has the exact same taste in music. Just sayin'
@@mbogucci1 You Sir, are a genius. Thanks for the input.
@@SoulStylistJukeBox Yeah, it's a gift.
a tory voter?
It's 'The ETON Rifles'. What a song! What a performance!
Rick Buckler is pure class.
Weller is easily as good as McCartney and Bowie - but he is openly anti-establishment, and this makes a huge difference to the mainstream powers that be.
This is no doubt, a truth
Weller cant be bought, he hasnt forgotten his roots And yes hes made money throu his own talent, but stayed in the U.K
"What chance have you got against a tie and a crest" songs with meaning these - under-rated.
Eton is a very famous school in England that allows the continuation of the old boy network to thrive and take the great unwashed into unwanted wars, hence rifles and a left wing band singing a political song about them. Eaton is merely an Americanism for dinner table, probably.
+MusicIsRubbish Amen, Brother. :) Keep the faith...
Well said, just wish Paul would smile a bit more..
+MusicIsRubbish it was a about a fight between the boys of eton school and london mods
+MusicIsRubbish veery well said :)
"Eaton is merely an Americanism for dinner table, probably."
Not quite, nice try though
He was an English poet really, his song will always be looked upon as history
The jam had it all,won't see they're likes again
What chance have we got against a tie and a crest!!!!
absolute classic.
check out The butterfly collector bit of an unknown but amazing!
This is one of the best performances by any band I've seen on YT.
Yeah, this and the ABC TV show in the USA, great storming version of Private Hell
In my opinion one of the most relevant songs ever.
Something a lot of the current wave of bands should aspire to become.
one of the best the jam songs, just brilliant.
It's ETON rifles, not eAton ;-)...anyways, thanks for this song...love it!!!
Paul weller top man the jam is one top band