All Mod Cons

All Mod Cons
Studio album by
the Jam
Released3 November 1978
Recorded4 July – 17 August 1978
StudioRAK and Eden, London
Genre
Length37:28
LabelPolydor
Producer
the Jam chronology
This Is the Modern World
(1977)		 All Mod Cons
(1978)		 Setting Sons
(1979)
Singles from All Mod Cons
  1. "David Watts"
    Released: 11 August 1978
  2. "Down in the Tube Station at Midnight"
    Released: 13 October 1978

All Mod Cons is the third studio album by the English band the Jam. It was released in 1978 by Polydor Records. The title is a British idiom seen in British advertisements at the time. It is short for "all modern convieniences" and is also related to the mod subculture. The cover is a visual joke showing the band in an empty room. The album reached No. 6 in the UK Albums Chart.

References

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  3. ↑ Booth, Michael (1999). "The Jam". In Buckley, Peter (ed.). The Rough Guide to Rock (3rd ed.). Rough Guides. pp. 528–30. ISBN 9781858284576.
  4. ↑ Dolan, Jon; Fine, Jason; Fricke, David; Garber-Paul, Elisabeth; Greene, Andy; Hermes, Will; Sheffield, Rob; Wolk, Douglas (6 April 2016). "40 Greatest Punk Albums of All Time". Rolling Stone. Archived from the original on 4 February 2019. Retrieved 21 October 2020.
  5. ↑ Segretto, Mike (2022). "1978". 33 1/3 Revolutions Per Minute - A Critical Trip Through the Rock LP Era, 1955–1999. Backbeat. pp. 347–348. ISBN 9781493064601.
  6. ↑ Roberts, David, ed. (2006). British Hit Singles & Albums (19th ed.). Guinness World Records Limited. p. 277. ISBN 1-904994-10-5.