All Mod Cons

This article is about the album by The Jam. For the television episode, see All Mod Cons (Minder).

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 British band the Jam, released in 1978 by Polydor Records. The title, a British idiom one might find in housing advertisements, is short for "all modern conveniences" and is a pun on the band's association with the mod revival. The cover is a visual joke showing the band in a bare room. The album reached No. 6 in the UK Albums Chart.[6]

The album was reissued in the United States in 1979, with the song "The Butterfly Collector" replacing "Billy Hunt".

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