Artist: The Jam (Paul Weller / Bruce Foxton and Rick Buckler

Track: In The City – their smashing debut single – B side: All my lovin’

Date of release: April 29, 1977

Album: same titled album – released May 20, 1977

Sound: Furious guitars. Thunderous kicks. Awesome bass lines.
First ‘classic’ sneers from angry young man Paul Weller!

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In the city there’s a thousand things I want to say to you
But whenever I approach you, you make me look a fool
I wanna say, I wanna tell you
About the young ideas
But you turn them into fears
In the city there’s a thousand faces all shining bright
And those golden faces are under 25
They wanna say, they gonna tell ya
About the young idea
You better listen now you’ve said your bit-a

And I know what you’re thinking
You still think I am crap
But you’d better listen man
Because the kids know where it’s at

In the city there’s a thousand men in uniforms
And I’ve heard they now have the right to kill a man
We wanna say, we gonna tell ya
About the young idea
And if it don’t work, at least we still tried

In the city, in the city
In the city there’s a thousand things I want to say to you