"I'm Going Underground," The Jam (1980)

 "The public gets what the public wants/you made your bed you have to lie in it/I don't want what society's got" 

       The Jam actually might have been the NewWave-iest band to come out of class of '77 British punk rock. "Going Underground" debuted number one on the UK Singles Chart. It was working class hero songster Paul Weller's first number one as well. Between 1977 and 1982 The Jam scored 18 Top 40 singles and were pop stars. Their reputation rests mostly on their first four Mod revival albums, in the style of "Going Underground," Beatlesque, "And Your Bird Can Sing," snappy power pop but, really, they start racking up the Top Ten records and Number Ones when they begin working Motown into their New Wave sound. And although I do like several more of those early singles, "In The City," "All Around The World," "Down in the Tube Station at Midnight," Sound Affects, from '80, with "Start!" and "That's Entertainment," is ultimately I think my favorite Jam album.