8. Town Called Malice – The Jam

Back when I was a kid I used to play soccer for the local team, and because my folks were working in the shop on the weekends I used to get a lift to the games with Gabriel Keegan, a curiously named Argentinean kid on my team, and his dad in his old blue Bedford van. He always had the radio on and we’d sing along to whatever was playing, but the year this came out this song came on every week, either on the way there or back, and we used to belt out the the bah bah bahs and howl with laughter. Obviously we had no idea what the song was about (I think we actually thought it was Town Called Alice, and that it was about the Springs) but it didn’t matter, because it’s a brilliant tune and steams all the way to the end, and we’d always end up singing it again afterwards, just because it was brilliant. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YfpRm-p7qlY