Down in the Tube Station at Midnight
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| "Down in the Tube Station at Midnight" | ||
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| Single by The Jam | ||
| B-side(s) | So Sad About Us/The Night | |
| Released | 1978 | |
| Format | 7" vinyl | |
| Genre | Punk rock | |
| Label | Polydor (UK) | |
| Writer(s) | Paul Weller | |
| Producer(s) | Vic Coppersmith-Heaven | |
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| The Jam singles chronology | ||
| David Watts (1978) |
Down in the Tube Station at Midnight (1978) |
Strange Town (1979) |
"Down in the Tube Station at Midnight" was the second single taken from the album All Mod Cons by The Jam. Released on 21 October 1978 it charted at #15 and was backed by a cover of a Who song So Sad About Us and The Night, written by Bruce Foxton. The back of the record jacket displayed a photo of Keith Moon, former drummer of The Who, who died of an overdose the month prior to the single's release.
"Down in the Tube Station at Midnight" regained The Jam their former critical acclaim. "Tube Station", in which the narrator gets beaten by thugs who "smelled of pubs and Wormwood Scrubs and too many right-wing meetings", is a story seemingly ripped from contemporary headlines of skinhead violence. Alternating Paul Weller's quiet verses and loud choruses and propelled by Foxton's tense bassline, "Tube Station" channels the atmosphere of fear and violence that was afflicting Britain in the late 1970s.
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