[Music] How did Brighton become (a) mod?

[Stato]

Every time I see the title of the now closed, squabble about moderators, I confuse it with all things bowling shoe and Ben Shermany. It strikes me that its one area of music that I've not seen a thread about on here. Yes there are loads of great Jam and Who songs, but the original mod's musical taste spread far and wide into some fantastic soul, blues and jazz stuff even before they started forming bands themselves. There was also some really good stuff connected with the revival. So, let's have your favourite mod related tunes.

To start, the song and band that gave Alan McGee a name for both his group and his record label:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OmCupPRLWCw

and perhaps the coolest instrumental of all time:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iFQEsUjI0U8

 

[Insel affe]

https://youtu.be/Oq_u0dl4Qfs

Utter shite song and band, but

sorry I could not resist

 

[schmunk]

Posting this thread? You're off your rocker.

 

[zefarelly]

https://youtu.be/Oq_u0dl4Qfs

That was so predictable

 

[zefarelly]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3qJ-KPlt4M

 

[Stato]

https://youtu.be/Oq_u0dl4Qfs

Utter shite song and band, but

sorry I could not resist

Disappointed that, on listening, this wasn't a love song to Lesley Ash's Steph.

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aj2JnPVnStM

 

[Stato]

Here's Gladys Knight when she was a teenager:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GXoHK1GKRuo

And Brighton's own: (RIP Jez)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HmjYvFUkgY0

 

[BN9 BHA]

https://youtu.be/sVHT5fLrX2k

Small Faces

 

[GT49er]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3qJ-KPlt4M

The Pretty Things, THE hairiest band in the world in those days, and rather scruffy - Mods? Hmmm ..................

 

[BN9 BHA]

https://youtu.be/7X_2agt3Q98

From the late 70s Mod revival

 

[Stato]

As nobody else has posted them yet:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OavZBwI8HCM

 

[chaileyjem]

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[Comrade Sam]

The Pretty Things, THE hairiest band in the world in those days, and rather scruffy - Mods? Hmmm ..................

They don't have to be Mods to make a top mod tune! Do you think the soul and ska greats of the 60s were all Mods?

 

[Nitram]

 

[Nitram]

 

[scooter1]

 

[Louis MacNeice]

Here you go:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ye8Fq0ACugs

Cheers - Louis MacNeice

 

[zefarelly]

As nobody else has posted them yet:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OavZBwI8HCM

A brilliant song, that nails bonafide 'mod'

 

[zefarelly]

https://youtu.be/1pxJInQ34oE