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Add Your New Review About The Song The Reviews about DOWN IN THE TUBE STATION AT MIDNIGHT (page 1/1) ------ performed by The Jam Oh...the memories of a brilliant era | Reviewer: Steve Martin | 4/16/2008 This record still sends a shiver down my spine..I'm still a great music lover every now and then I put The Jam on to remind me of their raw energy, brilliant lyrics, how they gave and still do give me a major buzz.....into Indie bands now and The Enemy have a touch of The Jam in them but there will only ever be one "The Jam"...... A classic Jam song | Reviewer: Jonathan Pitt | 9/17/2006 The song is like a social commentary of the time and also political. The main character is returning home to his wife when he is beaten up by a group of thugs. He probably had a very long day at work and is looking forward to his curry with his wife. The thugs probably decide to beat him up and take all his belongings. You sympathise with the man and I am wondering what becomes of him. Do the thugs get arrested and does the man survive the attack? A wondering piece of song writing. The Jam- Down in a tube station at midnight | Reviewer: James Gollins | 5/15/2006 The Jam were a part of the punk mod era and what a band they really were. This song also shows like many others Paul Weller's great lyrical talent that we still see today. Radical social commentary - what punk was really about | Reviewer: Anonymous | 2/2/2006 This is a true punk song from the early - though not the earliest - years of The Jam, before Paul Weller abandoned his roots and sold out to the piss-poor dirgeful soul that would characterize his later work. It has the raw anger of punk that captures the essence of British urban life in the late seventies/early eighties. It was a time when a lot of people were radicalized politically and punk bands gave this awakening a youthful outlet. Punk was depoliticized and sanitized by bands like The Ramones in the US and burned itself out in the UK. In the US, Green Day show some signs of the energy of the earliest days of punk but when you have record companies in control, you can never really have what you had when The Jam ruled the roost. Add Your New Review About The Song