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词条 Going Underground
释义

  1. Song profile

  2. Covers and parodies

  3. Dreams of Children

  4. References

  5. External links

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| type = single
| artist = The Jam
| album =
| A-side = Dreams of Children
| released = 14 March 1980
| format = 7" vinyl
| recorded = December 1979
| studio =
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| genre = {{flatlist|
  • New wave
  • mod revival
  • power pop
  • hard rock[1]

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| length = {{Duration|m=2|s=50}}
| label = Polydor
| writer = Paul Weller
| producer = Vic Coppersmith-Heaven
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| title2 = Dreams of Children
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"Going Underground" is the first British #1 chart single by The Jam, released in March 1980. It went straight in at #1 in the UK Singles Chart,[2] spending three weeks at the top.[3] It was the first of three instant chart-toppers for the group.

Song profile

"Going Underground" was not released on any of the band's six studio albums, although it has appeared on many compilations and re-releases since then. The song was released as a double A-side with "Dreams of Children", which originally had been intended to be the sole A-side; following a mix-up at the pressing plant, the single became a double A-side, and DJs tended to choose the more melodic "Going Underground" to play on the radio.[4]

The song was ranked at #2 among the "Tracks of the Year" for 1980 by NME.[5]In March 2005, Q magazine placed "Going Underground" at #73 in its list of the 100 Greatest Guitar Tracks, and in October 2006, placed it at #98 in its list of the 100 Greatest Songs Ever.

Covers and parodies

Ade Edmondson's folk punk band The Bad Shepherds covered it in 2013.

Welsh alternative metal band Lostprophets covered the song in 2007 as a B-side to their single AM Forever.

The comedy band Amateur Transplants released a two-minute parody titled "London Underground" in 2005 in the light of the December strike. It became a popular download in the United Kingdom.

The song was covered by Buffalo Tom for the 1999 Jam tribute album The Songs of the Jam. This version also was released as part of a double A-side single with Liam Gallagher's and Steve Cradock's version of "Carnation" and reached #6 in the UK singles chart.[6]

Manfred Mann's Earth Band covered the song on their 1986 album "Criminal Tango".

Daryl Denham released a version of the song titled "Go England" in 2002 after Weller gave permission for it to be adapted as a football song.

Dreams of Children

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"Going Underground" was coupled with "Dreams of Children" as a double A-side. It opens and is intermittently accentuated with a backmasked sample of the band's 1979 song "Thick as Thieves". In the US the backwards intro was edited out making the single 10 seconds shorter than the UK Version. This US edit is available on the best-of compilation Snap!.

The Jam released two other double A-side singles: "David Watts"/"'A' Bomb in Wardour Street" and "Town Called Malice"/"Precious".

References

1. ^{{cite book |last1=Egan |first1=Sean |title=The Clash: The Only Band That Mattered |date=6 November 2014 |publisher=Rowman & Littlefield |page=165}} {{ISBN|0810888769|9780810888760}}.
2. ^{{cite book| author= Jo Rice| year= 1982| title= The Guinness Book of 500 Number One Hits| edition= 1st| publisher= Guinness Superlatives Ltd | pages= 202–3| isbn= 0-85112-250-7}}
3. ^{{cite web|title=1980 Top 40 Official Singles Chart UK Archive 22 March 1980|url=http://www.officialcharts.com/archive-chart/_/1/1980-03-22|publisher=The Official UK Charts Company|accessdate=7 March 2014}}
4. ^{{cite book|url=https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=a2r6R374swwC&pg=PA103|page=103|author=David Lines|title=The Modfather: My Life with Paul Weller|publisher=Random House|date= 31 Mar 2012|isbn=9781448149100}}
5. ^{{Cite web |url=http://www.nme.com/bestalbumsandtracksoftheyear/1980-2-1045402 |title=Albums and Tracks of the Year |author= |date=2016 |publisher=NME |accessdate=30 October 2016 }}
6. ^{{cite encyclopedia|author=Nick Edwards|editor=Peter Buckley|encyclopedia=The Rough Guide to ROck|title=Buffalo Tom|url=https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=7ctjc6UWCm4C&pg=PT155|access-date=24 February 2015|edition=3rd|date=October 2003|publisher=Rough Guides|isbn=9781843531050|pages=147–148}}

External links

  • {{MetroLyrics song|jam|going-underground}}
{{The Jam}}

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