This is the one I always play to people to try to explain that things have changed. If you don't like this, then probably safe to ignore everything I've said...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GxdLSv_Xbbg
― dlp9001, Tuesday, 16 May 2017 22:50 (seven years ago) link
^ I think there's better examples than even that. I mean, that one's got Bruce Foxton on it, so the chorus sounds very Jam-like (to me) but it's offset by all the other stuff.
Wake Up the Nation is my least favourite of the post-As Is Now albums.
― The Anti-Climax Blues Band (Turrican), Wednesday, 17 May 2017 01:16 (seven years ago) link
Oh but I love "Wake Up The Nation" in part because Paul seems to be consciously avoiding sounds/styles that he's used to death in the past, c.f. the weird vocal quirk on the title track's chorus.
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Wednesday, 17 May 2017 01:55 (seven years ago) link
God, 'Shadow of the Sun' is fucking perfection.
― Le Baton Rose (Turrican), Friday, 18 May 2018 20:47 (six years ago) link
His latest one (True Meanings) seems to mark a bit of a break from the type of material he's been doing over the last 10 years or so - it's basically more of an acoustic guitar led album featuring songs he's been stockpiling for a while because they didn't fit on other albums. There's some nice stuff on it ('Glide', 'Mayfly', 'Old Castles', the opening track) but it's quite a long album and all of the tracks are in the same mould, so it feels like more of a slog than it should. Hopefully it's just a detour and he gets back to making albums like Sonik Kicks and Saturn's Pattern again. The last 10 years of his solo career has had plenty of surprising moments.
― Le Baton Rose (Turrican), Thursday, 11 October 2018 20:09 (five years ago) link
Weller (appropriately) playing this week with this flag onstage:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2a8AItMybew
― paisley got boring (Eazy), Saturday, 13 April 2024 03:46 (one month ago) link