Track Listing

Disc 1:

1. Uh Huh Oh Yeh! (Always There To Fool You!)
2. I Didn't Mean To Hurt You
3. Bull-Rush
4. Round & Round
5. Remember How We Started
6. Above The Clouds
7. Clues
8. Into Tomorrow
9. Amongst Butterflies / Arrival Time
10. The Strange Museum
11. Bitterness Rising
12. Kosmos
13. Here's A New Thing
14. That Spiritual Feeling
15. Into Tomorrow
16. Arrival Time
17. Fly On The Wall
18. Always There To Fool You
19. Everything Has A Price To Pay

Disc 2:

1. All Year Round
2. Feeling Alright
3. Hot Rod - Bath Demo
4. I Didn't Mean To Hurt You
5. Bull Rush
6. Round & Round
7. Remember How We Started
8. Clues
9. Into Tomorrow
10. Butterflies
11. Bitterness Rising
12. Kosmos
13. New Thing
14. Fly On The Wall
15. The Bitter Truth
16. Amongst Butterflies
17. Abraham, Martin & John
18. Kosmos

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #700 in Music
• Released on: 2009-11-02
• Number of discs: 2
• Format: Extra tracks
• Running time: 163 minutes

Customer Reviews

Paul Weller's Greatest album.
Before all the buddying up with the dubious talents of the Gallagher brothers and members of the much lauded Ocean Colour Scene and their pale imitation of the mod and mod influenced bands of the 1960s there was a different Paul Weller.After the disaster of the last Style Council album(a Chicago house influenced "effort" called A new decade in modernism)in which Weller claimed Chicago house for a new generation of mods,a failed experiment which didn't see release till a decade after it was recorded,came this.

Weller had entered into fatherhood,loss of musical direction and more worryingly-writer's block then a short spell as the leader of the Paul Weller Movement .After a short spell of this he returned to the music which originally inspired him in his teenage years,the soul and funk of the 60's and 70's and bands like The Small Faces and The Action interspersed with the new influences of with the up and coming Acid jazz scene.So what about the songs?

The album starts with the delicious "Uh Huh oh Yeh",a fantastic Small Faces soul stomper with some flashes of hip hop in the instrumental breaks.a great opener by anyone's standards.Moving swiftly onto "I didn't mean to hurt you",a lovely ballad recalling the influence of Curtis Mayfield and with some fantastic soul stirring lyrics and some of Weller's finest singing to date.The album continues in this vain for the remainder of side one(if you had the old tape or vinyl) of the album except for the precurser to the "Wild Wood" phase Weller-"Bull Rush"-one of the finest songs Weller has ever written,a timeless classic and even displays a nod to The Who's "magic bus"in the outro.The beautiful "Above the clouds"closes side one with it's peaceful atmosphere and "What's going On" Marvin Gaye era song craft.Side 2 opens with "clues"a Traffic influenced jazz-rocker with some exemplary playing from Weller and his band into "amongst Butterflies" with it's great lyrics and vivid imagery contained within.great melody too.As for the rest of the tunes...have a listen for yourself...

Production wise this is Weller's most crisp,clear and fully realized album,Weller's voice is at it's most soulful and smoothest it would ever be whilst still retaining the gruff edge of old ,his guitar playing is at it's most inventive and playful with some of the most unusual Weller would ever employ and it's most technical for those interested in that sort of thing and songwriting wise this is a Weller revitalized and focussed on the job at hand.For me this is the last breath of the young Paul Weller before he would reach the more mature territory of the "Wild Wood"album and the "Stanley Road" era which for me was a mixed and patchy affair and i wish those oasis/OCS boys had stayed away from him and steal the man'ds credibility and soften the sharp focuss of his first two solo efforts.His best album,if only the reviews at the time of it's release had reflected that.Weller's best album...give it a spin,it won't let you down!



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Great re-issue
This is the album that relaunched Paul Weller after stepping out of the gloom from the final days of the Style Council. Originally to be the launch of another band (the Paul Weller Movement that included actor Max Beesely), PW instead went back to basics and took the focus as a singer/ songwriter. Critically acclaimed and to my mind one of his best (equal to Wild Wood and Stanley Road). The man is a legend.

PAUL WELLER (DELUXE EDITION)
You will not be disappointed with this purchase if you are a Weller fan or simply appreciate great music - this gives an insight to the master at work with a huge variety of tracks. NOT TO BE MISSED!!