Paul Weller

[getreal1]

Don't get this thing with Paul Weller.

Other than the odd one or two, he has to be the most boring singer/songwriter this country has ever produced and continuously lives off his success with the Jam and the Stanley Road LP.

As for him being called the "mod father" why? Is it because he dresses in a Parker jacket and has a haircut that was "cool" around 30 years ago?

Paul Weller - overrated.

 

[wallyback]

Down in the tube station at midnight, That's entertainment, In the crowd, You do something to me, Wild wood, Smithers Jones

Smithers-Jones is not a weller song

 

[hans kraay fan club]

BTW, Mrs b&w stripes says English Rose...

She is correct.

English Rose
Shopping
Butterfly Collector

 

[Goldstone Rapper]

Smithers-Jones is not a weller song

Although Weller did write the last verse, the one that really makes it.

 

[The Modfather]

Had a bit of a Style Council session last night. Anyone who thinks his music is samey really should check out some of the b-sides and albums tracks he released with TSC.

Here's a few suggestions:
It just came to pieces in my hands.
The whole point of no return.
Paris match.
Headstart for happiness
Spin Driftin'
Changing of the guard

 

[BN9 BHA]

Had a bit of a Style Council session last night. Anyone who thinks his music is samey really should check out some of the b-sides and albums tracks he released with TSC.

Here's a few suggestions:
It just came to pieces in my hands.
The whole point of no return.
Paris match.
Headstart for happiness
Spin Driftin'
Changing of the guard

How come you missed this thread last weekend?

 

[Brighton Mod]

Private hell

THIS... is my favourite, an album track fromn the Setting Sons album.

'the man that you once loved, is bald and fat and seldom in
working late as usual
and in the afternoon the weekly food is put in bags
as you float off down the high street

Written by a teenager on what he saw, how right he was. except i'm not fat.

The 'mod father' wrote such great songs in his teenage and formative years that I feel
he will never eclipse them. Go to his concerts and everyone wants only the old songs
and when they come the venue erupts.

Weller. the British Springstein an inspiration for a generation,

We are the mods, in a song sort of way!

 

[Brighton Mod]

Had a bit of a Style Council session last night. Anyone who thinks his music is samey really should check out some of the b-sides and albums tracks he released with TSC.

Here's a few suggestions:
It just came to pieces in my hands.
The whole point of no return.
Paris match.
Headstart for happiness
Spin Driftin'
Changing of the guard

Weller music is samey, I don't think so, what about the massive difference between the following,

To Be Someone
So Sad About Us
Ghosts
Just Who is the Nine O'clock Hero
Absolute Beginners
Tales From the River Bank
Little Boy Soldiers

Those who think his music is samey don't know his music

 

[The Modfather]

How come you missed this thread last weekend?

Just back from hols. Never switch on the phone, PC etc when i'm away.

Think I will give Setting Sons a blast later

 

[Goldstone Rapper]

Weller music is samey, I don't think so

It's samey nowadays, isn't it?!

 

[Brighton Mod]

Don't get this thing with Paul Weller.

Other than the odd one or two, he has to be the most boring singer/songwriter this country has ever produced and continuously lives off his success with the Jam and the Stanley Road LP.

As for him being called the "mod father" why? Is it because he dresses in a Parker jacket and has a haircut that was "cool" around 30 years ago?

I havn't seen Weller wear a Parkha for 30 years or more and his haircut is nothing like it was during the Jam days. Your ignorance in your last sentence invalidates your previous comments, you know very little and your opinion has little weight, sorry mate your way out on this one.

 

[Brighton Mod]

It's samey nowadays, isn't it?!

No, but I find myself more discerning these days, Aim High was not like Wake Up the Nation, but as I have previously stated he set the benchmark so high in his early years that those songs will never be surpassed.

 

[The Modfather]

It's samey nowadays, isn't it?!

Well the last album, Sonik Kicks had a bit of reggae (study in blue) & krautrock (around the lake), so different to anything he's done previously. So are the likes of 111 & God from the 22 Dreams.

 

[Willy Dangle]

Do you really wants to hurt me.

 

[albionant]

Butterfly Collector
Man Of Great Promise
Carnation
To be someone
Above the clouds

 

[albionant]

What !
No Ghosts of Dachau !!!