“Strange Town” by The Jam

"Strange Town" came out on Polydor on 9 March 1979, a Paul Weller song that stood apart from the Jam's albums, and it's mod revival with its jaw set. Vic Coppersmith-Heaven produced it, and it slots into the band's run of singles between "Down in the Tube Station at Midnight" and "When You're Young". Weller wrote the flip side, "The Butterfly Collector", as well.

It reached number 15 on the UK singles chart by 8 April and picked up a Silver certification in 1983, marking 250,000 sold. Among the band's studio records, only the Canadian pressing of Setting Sons found room for it; otherwise it lives on the hits collection Snap! The promo clip opens at the entrance to Victoria station's underground section in London.

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