Defending The Indefensible : PAUL WELLER!

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^ 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 (six 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 (six years ago) link

one year passes...

God, 'Shadow of the Sun' is fucking perfection.

Le Baton Rose (Turrican), Friday, 18 May 2018 20:47 (five years ago) link

four months pass...

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

five years pass...

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 (two weeks ago) link


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