The Jam - The Butterfly Collector + Lyrics video free download

Tonio Bolonio

Love this song, in my top 3 Weller songs, not being picky but at 1:19 its 'Own' little dream world ;-) lol

Sean Doherty

No 35 The Jam – Butterfly Collector. This makes it into my little chart, even though I'm probably being a little arty-farty in not picking some of the more obvious Jam classics, but there's a nice distilled purity of malice to this which contrasts beautifully with the raw anger of A Bomb in Wardour Street and is not yet tainted with the overly produced sound of much of the Jam’s later output and certainly that of the Style Council. I think I know what the song is about, but like a great number of rock classics I'm not sure and I don't really care as it's the tone rather than the substance that really makes this piece.The video I have picked is one that shows us the lyrics because it’s often fun to discover that the words you’ve been singing all these years are totally wrong and didn’t really make any sense. With hindsight it seems more than a little stupid to have thought that the acquisition of a small claim would bring you into cost basis but I had merely thought that Paul might have been pissed off with somebody’s accountant. I actually prefer my version which states “You just don’t care ‘cos you’ve got no brain” and will defiantly continue to use it as I sing along and wash the dishes.Again in this case simplicity of structure is key to why the song is so damn catchy. Slow haunting verse, slow haunting verse, fast vitriolic chorus, slow haunting ...The change from slow haunting to fast vitriolic is magnified by the change from clear single string lead guitar of the verses to the louder rhythm chords of the chorus. Finally there is good news for the much-maligned target of the lyrics as I had thought that “the bit between your legs, has blown off” was what had happened. I’d rather lose the appeal than the whole apparatus. I just can’t shake the suspicion that this song isn’t really about lepidoptery ...www.youtube.com/watch?v=R9Whn2eQGSM

Olivier LARBREVIF

One of my favorite, thanks for the lyrics

steve radford

YES, i think we can safely say that Helio.

heliocentric68

best b side band? butterfly collector, dreams of children, Tales From The Riverbank, Disguises, precious, liza rasley

heliocentric68

best b side band? butterfly collector, dreams of children, Tales From The Riverbank, Disguises, precious,

MrSaltford

is he a time lord or what boy lad man 2nd to none

Josephine Hadland

Is it 'you can't light a fire', or 'you can't nine to five'?. It's a wonderful song anyway.

michael joshua MCBLAIN

nah bad pal

x SANDINISTA x

You've achieved your aim by making me walk in line

Anthony Longson

its about sue catwoman....a punk groupie from the 70s

MrSaltford

this is weller talking about a tv show from the year 2000 big brother how far ahead of his times was paul weller GENIUS

mc77ification

Paul Weller is the King!

licence2cool1

awesome no more no less !

somebodynew1

My favorite song that they do.

mc77ification

Great Lyrics, cheers

patrick hurley

Their finest moment (and there were many)

McCandlessJohnJ

how's that goin then mate?

CHEWEY SHUTE

ENJOI FOLKS

Serena Heart

Ha, ha, ha, ha...lol, that's so funny :)

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