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Watch the official music video for The Jam's iconic 1982 hit: The Jam - Town Called Malice : r/80smusic TheJamVEVO Reddit• Jun 25, 2025 The TV Series (2023)

Released as a double A-side with "Precious," this track became one of the band's most enduring hits and a definitive anthem of working-class Britain. A Town Called Malice

The title was later used for a Sky Max crime thriller and family saga set in the early 1980s. Watch the official music video for The Jam's

: It debuted at number one on the UK Singles Chart and remained there for three weeks. It was the 10th best-selling single of 1982 in the UK and was the band's only entry on a mainstream American chart (peaking at No. 31 on Mainstream Rock Tracks). It was the 10th best-selling single of 1982

: Frontman Paul Weller wrote the song about his hometown of Woking . It reflects the "pent-up rage and frustrated ambition" of the early Thatcher years, depicting a community struggling with economic decline and unemployment.