# What did the Mods listen to? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 24, 2004, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-the-mods-listen-to/265816 "2004-09-24T03:19:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![racinchikki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/eada6e/32.png) [@racinchikki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racinchikki)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2004, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-the-mods-listen-to/265816/1 "2004-09-24T03:19:07Z")
And while I’m sure Coldfire, Gaudere, Lynn and all the rest have excellent taste in music, that’s not what I’m talking about. The '60s kids with the miniskirts and stuff. What did they listen to? Every '60s music compilation I’ve found has been split between surf and stoner sounds, so I’ve got no idea for mods. ---
**Author:** ![Inigo\_Montoya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inigo_montoya/32/124_2.png) [@Inigo\_Montoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inigo_Montoya)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2004, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-the-mods-listen-to/265816/2 "2004-09-24T03:27:45Z")
Well, in Quadrophenia they listend to The Who a lot & popped blues. ---
**Author:** ![levdrakon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@levdrakon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/levdrakon)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2004, 4:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-the-mods-listen-to/265816/3 "2004-09-24T04:20:37Z")
The Moderators around here??? Sheesh, probably the Divje babe flute or something. Help! Help! A moderator’s got me!! ---
**Author:** ![Jplacer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/85f322/32.png) [@Jplacer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jplacer)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2004, 4:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-the-mods-listen-to/265816/4 "2004-09-24T04:32:33Z")
Pink Floyd’s Piper at the Gates of Dawn The Move The Smoke The Nice The Crazy World of Arthur Brown The Small Faces A lot of 60s British psychedelia ---
**Author:** ![Arch\_Trout](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9f8e36/32.png) [@Arch\_Trout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arch_Trout)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2004, 4:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-the-mods-listen-to/265816/5 "2004-09-24T04:43:57Z")
Tamla Motown stuff. The Animals The mod revival in the late 70’s uk was headlined by The Jam. ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2004, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-the-mods-listen-to/265816/6 "2004-09-24T15:03:17Z")
Paul Revere and the Raiders. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Roboto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/76d3ee/32.png) [@Mr.Roboto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Roboto)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2004, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-the-mods-listen-to/265816/7 "2004-09-25T17:37:44Z")
The Attack Velvett Fogg The Onyx Carnaby Big Boy Pete Marmalade Andromeda ---
**Author:** ![An\_Arky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/87869e/32.png) [@An\_Arky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Arky)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2004, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-the-mods-listen-to/265816/8 "2004-09-25T18:24:45Z")
Heh. Mostly American soul and R&B. The Who were mod posers and they’ll be the first to admit it. The Small Faces were closer to the mod spirit… ---
**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2004, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-the-mods-listen-to/265816/9 "2004-09-25T20:37:49Z")
So, what _was_ the ‘Mod Spirit’? How was it different from the psychadelia spirit of later Beatles albums and Jimi Hendrix and the rest of those space cadets? ---
**Author:** ![Horatio\_Hellpop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Horatio\_Hellpop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatio_Hellpop)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2004, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-the-mods-listen-to/265816/10 "2004-09-25T22:39:09Z")
The Kinks The Animals Manfred Mann Stuff that was “artsy” and less R&B-based. ---
**Author:** ![vl\_mungo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/bc8723/32.png) [@vl\_mungo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vl_mungo)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2004, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-the-mods-listen-to/265816/11 "2004-09-25T23:06:47Z")
Mod Revival… **The Jam The Lambrettas The Jags The Merton Parkas The Yachts Nine Below Zero** … and I think they also drifted into ska as well. ---
**Author:** ![An\_Arky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/87869e/32.png) [@An\_Arky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Arky)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2004, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-the-mods-listen-to/265816/12 "2004-09-25T23:35:55Z")
> [@Derleth](#): > > So, what _was_ the ‘Mod Spirit’? How was it different from the psychadelia spirit of later Beatles albums and Jimi Hendrix and the rest of those space cadets? Well, to start with, the original Mod scene in England occured a few years earlier than all of that, early to mid-sixties. They weren’t space cadets; they were primarily working class kids who got into getting dressed up and dancing to r&b…the psychedelia came later, from the states. I suppose some folks who were mods at sixteen became hippies at age 20, and so forth, but in terms of fad scences, mods were a distinct place and time, separate from the late 60s stuff. I would almost define 60s music as being pre-Hendrix and post-Hendrix; he really did come along and change everything. A good source of anecdotes from the mod era can be found [Here](http://www.modculture.co.uk/culture/).