All Mod Cons

All Mod Cons
Studio album by
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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