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Mod revival stuff pretty often gets slagged off for a few reasons. Firstly, the genre as represented by late seventies’ era groups is a bit too reverential to be considered original and artful. But coming out of the punk scene, more than a few of these groups watched countless acts play basically the same song over and over again with only vaguely different lyrics. The other problem people have with that crop of mod related groups is that the RnB quotient being ratcheted up so high and its accompanying attempts at harmonizing renders otherwise tough compositions to flaccid junk. Both of those issues take with the genre are obviously difficult to argue away. But the fact that the Sex Pistols saw fit to plain old rip off the Jam says something about the movement.