All Mod Cons is the third  by British band , released in 1978 by . The title, a British  one might find in housing advertisements, is short for "all " and is a pun on the band's association with the . The album reached No. 6 in the .

The album was released in the US in 1979, with the song "The Butterfly Collector" replacing "Billy Hunt".

Following the release of their second album, , the Jam undertook a 1978 tour of the US supporting American rock band . The Jam were not well received on the tour and This Is the Modern World failed to reach the Billboard 200 chart. Under pressure from their record company, , to deliver a hit record, songwriter was suffering from writer's block when the band returned to the UK. Weller admitted to a lack of interest during the writing/recording process, and had to completely re-record a new set of songs for the album after producer Chris Parry rejected the first batch as being sub-standard. All Mod Cons was more commercially successful than This Is the Modern World.

 pop influences run through the album, most obviously in the cover of ' "". The single "", which Weller had originally discarded because he was unhappy with the song's arrangement, was rescued from the studio bin by producer Vic Coppersmith and became one of the band's most successful chart hits up to that point, peaking at number 15 on the . The song is a first-person narrative of a young man who walks into a  on the way home to his wife, and is beaten by  thugs. The lyrics of the song "To Be Someone (Didn't We Have a Nice Time)" criticised fickle people who attach themselves to people who enjoy success and leave them once that is over.

" issues were very important to me at that time ..." said Weller. " has a bit of a  on its outskirts. So I had those images – people catching the train to  to go to the city. 'Mr Clean' was my view of that."

All Mod Cons was reissued on CD in 2006, featuring a second disc of b-sides, outtakes and unreleased demos and a DVD containing a 40-minute documentary directed by .

In his review for ,  said that the album was "not only several light years ahead of anything they've done before but also the album that's going to catapult the Jam right into the front rank of international rock and roll; one of the handful of truly essential rock albums of the last few years." Dave Schulps of  stated that "All Mod Cons firmly establishes Paul Weller (and the Jam) as a major talent (and band) for the '80s."

NME ranked All Mod Cons as the second best album of 1978 in its end of year review.

In 2000,  placed All Mod Cons at number 50 in its list of the 100 Greatest British Albums Ever. The album is also listed as one of the . In 2013,  ranked it at number 219 in its list of .

Side one[] "All Mod Cons" – 1:20 "To Be Someone (Didn't We Have a Nice Time)" – 2:32 "Mr. Clean"* – 3:29 "" () – 2:56 "English Rose"** – 2:51 "In the Crowd" – 5:40 Side two[] "Billy Hunt" – 3:01 (UK release)/"The Butterfly Collector" – 3:11 (US release) "It's Too Bad" – 2:39 "Fly" – 3:22 "The Place I Love" – 2:54 "'A' Bomb in " – 2:37 "" – 4:43

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