10 Famous Rock Songs Written So Fast You Won't Believe

10. That’s Entertainment - The Jam

You know that picture of the different stages of human evolution? Well, The Jam are whatever bit comes between The Beatles and Oasis.

Heavily inspired by both the mod movement of the 1960s and the contemporary punk scene, The Jam presented a more radio friendly version of the young lads with mohawks screaming about how much they hated Thatcher.

One of their most successful and beloved songs is 1980's That's Entertainment, from the album Sound Affects. No, that's not a typo, it's just a very clever title.

The song reflects on the humdrum nature of every day working class life with Jam frontman Paul Weller musing on such topics as cold flats, boring Mondays, and feeding the ducks.

Yep, that's Britain summed up right there.

Weller said in an interview that he wrote the song in "10 mins flat" and that he was able to do this because he was drawing inspiration from his own life. The actual music of the song is pretty straightforward, so it's no surprise that he was able to bash it out in such a short space of time.

That's not a dig, by the way. This song rules.