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Down in the Tube Station at Midnight / So Sad About Us / The Night [7" VINYL]

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With the nostalgic sentiment and the overall tone of the song, I think Keane is attempting to express a Portuguese term known as 'saudade', which does not have a direct English translation but roughly means "that which we remember because it is gone. Do this with all the vocabulary and, over time, this will help improve all your English skills — reading, writing, speaking and listening. Down in the Tube Station at Midnight" is a single by the Jam, and was the second single from their third album, All Mod Cons. Phil went on to play bass with the Cure during the Love Cats era, also with Edwyn Collins, playing and co-producing Never Met A Girl Like You.

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Polishing the glasses and pulling out the cork"' portays a man's love for his wife better than an endless stream of 'ooh, I love you baby, ooh's.He heard the crackle of a radio, then the doors hissed closed and the train pulled out of the station and into the dark tunnel. Tony from BelfastNowhere in the song does Weller mention skinheads and he was a great admirer of the origianl skinhead and sudehead movements with it's emphasis on black music and sharp clothes. The lyrics are sentimental, contrasting the warmth of home and domestic life with the dangers of 1970s London's urban decay and casual late-night violence.

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An overflowing rubbish bin with discarded fast-food wrappers and fizzy-pop cans at the bottom of it. John nodded at the train guard — he recognised him from the dozens of times he had seen him before but could not remember his name. The sound of an Underground train at the beginning and end of the song was recorded at St John's Wood Station.The song, written by Eddie Miller and Jimmy Campbell, explores the delicate nuances of love and showcases Arnold’s emotive vocals. This anti-racism song was a first-person narrative about a brutal mugging by jackbooted right-wing thugs in London. You could be onto something, in the Seventies the tube closed much earlier but at midnight it would be around the time of the last train, hence more isolated.

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So it was legitimately at 0000, as the pubs would have chucked out at 2330 (2345 to allow for 15 minutes drinking up time). Tension is heightened by a heartbeat audio effect in the left stereo channel at points during the song. Chastened by the experience, he emerged a more bitter, cynical person and he penned this song from the perspective of an ordinary working man on the way back to his suburban home, who is beaten senseless by skinheads.Maybe we would have come around to recording it later on in the project, but he'd just reached that point of 'Oh bollocks, this isn't working, it's a load of crap. Phil from Antwerp, BelgiumThis song still sends shivers down my spine every time I listen to it, even after so many years.

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Davie from Scotland, IrelandThe Jam and Paul Weller at their absolute best - Brilliantly raw sound especially Live - The best song of All Mod Cons LP by a mile ! It wasn’t too far — sometimes he took a taxi — but other times he walked and the streets were empty with strange shadows creeping across between the houses. I was insistent on him reviving it, and once the band got involved and we developed the sound it turned into an absolutely brilliant track, a classic.Sister Christian" was written by Night Ranger drummer Kelly Keagy, who was imploring his younger sister to be careful in her reckless youth, especially when "motoring" (driving around) with friends.

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