This was originally in the Melody Maker, but I've added to it:MODS!
The Ten Commandments of Mod
The only rule to follow is the washing instructions on your shirt label
The last button on your 3-button jacket should be undone
Live seven days in one day
Girls are harder than boys
Don't be a victim
Don't look like a victim, if you are one
Miniturisation is the key
Stick together
Express things in style
Destruction is the father of creation
Films/TV shows Mods watch
Get Carter
Blow Up
Quadrophenia (despite Sting)
Alfie
Breakfast at Tiffany's
Smashing Time
Here We Go Round the Mulbarry Bush
The Italian Job (for the suits!)
A Clockwork Orange
If
Performance (because Chas is such a cool Mod)
Pieroit Le Fou
The Prisoner
O Lucky Man
The Man From UNCLE
Up The Junction
Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased)
Mod Icons
James Brown
Wilson Pickett
Pete Townshend
Steve Marriott
Chas from "Performance"
David Hemmings (Blow Up)
Cathy McGowan
Paul Weller
The Specials
Kevin Rowland
Graham Coxon (Blur)
20 Classic Mod Anthems
Booker T. and the MG's - Green Onions
James Brown - Papa's Got A Brand New Bag
Wilson Pickett - In the Midnight Hour
Bo Diddley - I'm a Man
Smokey Robinson/Miracles - I Gotta Dance to Keep from Crying
Slim Harpo - Got Love If You Want It
Temptations - Since I Lost My Baby
Davy Jones and the Lower Third - Liza Jane
The Who - My Generation
The Who - The Kids Are Alright
Solomon Burke - Everybody Needs Somebody to Love
Small Faces - Whatcha Gonna Do About It?
The Kinks - You Really Got Me
The Action - I'll Keep Holding On
The Eyes - My Degeneration
The Creation - Making Time
The Jam - The modern World
Merton Parkas - You Need Wheels
Secret Affair - Time for Action
Blur - For TomorrowBooks
Shena McKay - Dust Falls on Eugene Schlomburger
Kevin Pearce - SomethingBeginning with 'O'
Colin McInnes - Absolute Beginners
Richard Barnes - Mods
Richard Allen - Mods Rule
John Paul Satre - Nausea
Nic Cohn - Another Saturday Night
Jack Kerouac - On The Road
Allen Ginsberg - Howl
J D Salinger - Catcher in the Rye
"That brings me to today, and to the third item in my education, my university, you might say, and that's the jazz clubs. Now, you can think what you like about the art of jazz - quite frankly, I don't care what you think, because jazz is a thing so wonderful that if anybody doesn't rave about it, all you can feel for them is pity: not that I'm making out that I really understand it all - I mean, certain LP's leave me speechless. But the great thing about the the jazz world and all the kids that enterinto it, is that no one, not a soul, cares about what your class is, or what your race is, or what your income, or if you're a boy, or girl, or bent, or versatile, or what you are - so long as you dig the scene and behave yourself, and have left all that crap behind you, too, when you come to the jazz club door. The result of all this and that, in the jazz world, you meet all kinds of cats, on absolutely equal terms, who can clue you up in all kinds of directions - in social directions, in culture directions, in sexual directions, and in racial directions...in fact almost anywhere, really, you want to go to learn." - Colin McInnes, Absolute BeginnersThe Mods Mailing List