Track Listing

Disc 1:

1. In The City
2. All Around The World
3. The Modern World Single Version
4. News Of The World
5. David Watts Single Version
6. 'A' Bomb In Wardour Street Single Verson
7. Down In The Tube Station At Midnight Single Version
8. Strange Town
9. When You're Young
10. The Eton Rifles Single Version
11. Going Underground
12. The Dreams Of Children
13. Start! Single Version
14. That's Entertainment
15. Funeral Pyre Original Mix
16. Absolute Beginners
17. Town Called Malice
18. Precious Single Mix
19. Just Who Is The 5 O'Clock Hero?
20. The Bitterest Pill (I Ever Had To Swallow)
21. Beat Surrender

Disc 2:

1. Speak Like A Child
2. Money-Go-Round (Parts 1 & 2) Original Full 12 Inch Version
3. Long Hot Summer Single Edit
4. A Solid Bond In Your Heart
5. My Ever Changing Moods Single Edit
6. You're The Best Thing Single Edit
7. The Big Boss Groove Full Version
8. Shout To The Top Full Version
9. Walls Come Tumbling Down
10. Come To Milton Keynes
11. The Lodgers (Or She Was Only A Shopkeeper's Daughter) Extended Single Version
12. Have You Ever Had It Blue Cut/ Single Version
13. It Didn't Matter Single Edit
14. Waiting
15. Wanted (Or Waiter, There's Some Soup In My Flies)
16. Life At A Top Peoples Health Farm
17. How She Threw It All Away
18. Promised Land Radio Edit

Disc 3:

1. Into Tomorrow Album Version
2. Uh Huh Oh Yeh! (Always There To Fool You!)
3. Above The Clouds Album / Single Version/ New Mix
4. Sunflower
5. Wild Wood
6. The Weaver Single Edit
7. Hung Up
8. Out Of The Sinking Original / Single Version
9. The Changingman Single Edit
10. You Do Something To Me
11. Broken Stones
12. Peacock Suit Single / Album Version
13. Brushed
14. Friday Street
15. Mermaids

Disc 4:

1. Brand New Start
2. He's The Keeper Single Edit
3. Sweet Pea, My Sweet Pea
4. It's Written In the Stars
5. Leafy Mysteries
6. The Bottle
7. Wishing On A Star (Single Version)
8. Thinking Of You
9. Early Morning Rain
10. From The Floorboards Up
11. Come On/Let's Go
12. Here's The Good News
13. Blink And You'll Miss It

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #13514 in Music
• Released on: 2008-06-02
• Number of discs: 4
• Format: Box set
• Dimensions: .78 pounds
• Running time: 234 minutes

Amazon.co.uk Review
With three decades of acclaimed songwriting behind him, former Jam frontman Paul Weller knows a thing or two about knocking up a catchy tune. It may come as a surprise, but Hit Parade is Weller's first major career retrospective, combining material from his Jam and Style Council days, as well as from his last 15 or so years as a solo artist. Released to coincide with a high-profile full-length BBC documentary, Hit Parade features his biggest hits. Seminal Jam anthems such as "Town Called Malice", "Going Underground", "Eton Rifles" and "Down In The Tube Station", sit surprisingly well next to Style Council selections like "Shout To The Top!" and "You're The Best Thing", connected of course via Weller's distinctive, raw vocals and his dual passion for soul and rock. Not all of his solo albums are represented, but most of his best loved records are here; "Wild Wood" and "Sunflower" (from Wild Wood), as well as songs from Stanley Road and 2005's As Is Now. It's a compelling profile of a man whose unique sound has proved not only thoroughly consistent, but also impressively enduring. --Paul Sullivan

CD Description
Career overview of one of the most successful British songwriters of all time, Paul Weller. All of his most popular andenduring material is featured here, from his angry, heavilypoliticised beginnings in The Jam through to the bluesier, retro work he turned in as a solo star in the mid-90's. Includes the tracks 'Eton Rifles' and 'You Do Something To Me'.

Customer Reviews

From The Floorboards Up It's Written In The Stars
It arrived through the post today...South-East Asia is a long way from Woking, but somehow I feel a bit nearer to Weller's homeland. Under £20 for 4 themed CDs of fantastic music, superbly packaged in a book-form. 30 years of music making and this is only the tip - The Hit Parade, those that made the charts, graced the A-sides (if you remember those!) of those wonderous shiny 7" of plastic pleasure. Forget the moans of where is The Butterfly Collector...blah, blah, blah. It does exactly what it says on the tin - the singles, and boy what a collection. Three phases, three successes. The Jam, Style COuncil, Weller solo...always interesting, never compromising...we need more like this man. I interviewed Weller once and despite being told he was a difficult man to interview, he was a complete gent. His passion, then, like always (and certainly on this collection) shone through above all else. Somewhere in a storage facility in Germany I have Paul's hand-written lyrics to Butterfly Collector...but the although the words are genius, the real magic is in the music and the man. Buy today...

Perfect anthology for the Changing Man
If you're looking for a neat synopsis of Paul Weller's work you should definitely check this out.

This collection is great to use if you're looking for a particular track or period of his expansive career but working through the tracks is perhaps the best way to see how his work has developed over the decades.

His talent, & this collection, go deeper than the hits - if you're not too familiar with his work, this is pretty much essential listening; if you're already a fan, this is a "must have"!

Just fantastic.

The ModFather Rules
Ordered this on Monday received by Wednesday, superb service by anyones standards.

A real Christmas bargain!!

Even if you're only a fan of one of the Paul Weller phases (The Jam, The Style Council or Paul's solo stuff) I implore you to buy this and beleive me you will not be disappointed.