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In 2013, NME ranked All Mod Cons at number 219 on its list of the 500 greatest albums of all time. In 2000, Q placed All Mod Cons at number 50 on its list of the '100 Greatest British Albums Ever'. NME ranked All Mod Cons as the second best album of 1978 in its end of year review. Dave Schulps of Trouser Press stated that ' All Mod Cons firmly establishes Paul Weller (and the Jam) as a major talent (and band) for the '80s.' In his review for NME, Charles Shaar Murray said that All Mod Cons was 'not only several light years ahead of anything they've done before but also the album that's going to catapult the Jam right into the front rank of international rock and roll one of the handful of truly essential rock albums of the last few years.' Sounds critic Garry Bushell hailed it as the Jam's 'statement of artistic triumph, musical maturation and compositional strength'.

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Reception Professional ratings Review scores 'Mr Clean' was my view of that.' ДЄll Mod Cons was reissued on CD in 2006, featuring a second disc of b-sides, outtakes and unreleased demos and a DVD containing a 40-minute documentary directed by Don Letts. So I had those images вЂ“ people catching the train to Waterloo to go to the city. ' Woking has a bit of a stockbroker belt on its outskirts. ' Class issues were very important to me at that timeВ .' said Weller. The lyrics of the song 'To Be Someone (Didn't We Have a Nice Time)' criticised fickle people who attach themselves to people who enjoy success and leave them once that is over.

The song is a first-person narrative of a young man who walks into a tube station on the way home to his wife, and is beaten by far right thugs. The single ' Down in the Tube Station at Midnight', which Weller had originally discarded because he was unhappy with the song's arrangement, was rescued from the studio bin by producer Vic Coppersmith and became one of the band's most successful chart hits up to that point, peaking at number 15 on the UK Singles Chart.

All Mod Cons was more commercially successful than This Is the Modern World.Д«ritish Invasion pop influences run through the album, most obviously in the cover of The Kinks' ' David Watts'. Weller admitted to a lack of interest during the writing/recording process, and had to completely re-record a new set of songs for the album after producer Chris Parry rejected the first batch as being sub-standard. Under pressure from their record company, Polydor, to deliver a hit record, songwriter Paul Weller was suffering from writer's block when the band returned to the UK. The Jam were not well received on the tour and This Is the Modern World failed to reach the Billboard 200 chart. Paul Weller, reflecting on his mindset between This Is the Modern World and All Mod Cons in a 1998 interview with Uncut magazine ДЇollowing the release of their second album, This Is the Modern World, the Jam undertook a 1978 tour of the US supporting American rock band Blue Г–yster Cult. After This Is the Modern World, I thought, 'Am I going to let this slide or fight against it?' My back was against the wall.