Disc 1
1. Fly On The Wall
2. Pink On White Walls
3. Amongst Butterflies
4. Wild Wood
5. Hung Up
6. Out Of The Sinking (Band Version)
7. Clues
8. Whirlpool's End
9. Out Of The Sinking (Acoustic Version)
10. Broken Stones (Band Version)
11. Time Passes
12. The Changingman
13. I Walk On Gilded Splinters
14. Broken Stones (Acoustic Version)
15. You Do Something To Me
16. Brushed
17. Peacock Suit
18. Up In Suzes' Room
19. Friday Street
20. Mermaids
21. The Poacher
Disc 2
1. Driving Nowhere
2. Friday Street (Acoustic Version)
3. Science
4. Wishing On A Star
5. Thinking Of You
6. Corrina, Corrina
7. Early Morning Rain
8. Foot Of The Mountain
9. To The Start Of Forever
10. Out Of The Sinking
11. Paper Smile
12. Come On / Let's Go
13. Amongst Butterflies
14. Frightened
15. That's Entertainment
16. All I Wanna Do (Is Be With You)
17. Cold Moments
18. Push It Along
19. Pretty Flamingo
Disc 3
1. My Ever Changing Moods
2. A Man Of Great Promise
3. Kosmos
4. Speak Like A Child
5. Just Like Yesterday
6. Work To Do
7. Pity Poor Alfie
8. What's Goin' On
9. Uh Huh Oh Yeh
10. Hercules
11. Bull Rush / Magic Bus
12. Above The Clouds
13. Everything Has A Price To Pay
14. Headstart For Happiness
15. Into Tomorrow
16. Porcelain Gods
17. Stanley Road
18. Can You Heal Us (Holy Man)
Disc 4
1. Shadow Of The Sun
2. I Walk On Gilded Splinters
3. Out Of The Sinking
4. Hung Up
5. Sunflower
6. Broken Stones
7. Fly On The Wall
8. Tales From The Riverbank
9. Peacock Suit
10. Heavy Soul
11. Science
12. I Didn't Mean To Hurt You
13. Brand New Start
14. Wild Wood
15. Friday Street
16. The Changingman
Biography: Paul+Weller
* Born: May 25, 1958, Woking, Surrey, England Period: `70s, `80s, `90s, 2000s
Biography:
As the leader of the Jam, Paul Weller fronted the most popular British band of the punk era, influencing legions of English rockers that ranged from his mod revival contemporaries to the Smiths in the `80s and Oasis in the `90s. During the final days of the Jam, he developed a fascination with Motown and soul, which led him to form the sophisti-pop group the Style Council in 1983. As the Style Council`s career progressed, Weller`s interest in soul developed into an infatuation with jazz-pop and house music, which eventually led to gradual erosion of his audience -- by 1990, he couldn`t get a record contract in the U.K., where he had previously been worshipped as a demigod. As a solo artist, Weller returned to soul music as an inspiration, cutting it with the progressive, hippie tendencies of Traffic. Weller`s solo records were more organic and rootsier than the Style Council`s, which helped him regain his popularity within Britain. By the mid-`90s, he had released three successful albums that were both critically acclaimed and massively popular in England, where contemporary bands like Ocean Colour Scene were citing him as an influence. Just as importantly, many observers, while occasionally criticizing the trad rock nature of his music, acknowledged that Weller was one of the few rock veterans who had managed to stay vital within the second decade of his career.
Weller`s climb back to the top of the charts was not easy. After Polydor rejected the Style Council`s fifth, house-influenced album in 1989, Weller broke up the group and lost both his record contract and his publishing deal. Over the next two years, he was in seclusion as he revamped his music. In 1991, he formed the Paul Weller Movement and released "Into Tomorrow" on his own independent label, Freedom High Records. A soulful, gritty neo-psychedelic song that represented a clear break from the Style Council, "Into Tomorrow" reached the U.K. Top 40 that spring, and he supported the single with an international tour, where he worked out the material that comprised his eponymous 1992 solo debut. Recorded with producer Brendan Lynch, Paul Weller was a joyous, soulful return to form that was recorded with several members of the Young Disciples, former Blow Monkey Dr. Robert, and Weller`s then-wife, Dee C. Lee. The album debuted at number eight on the U.K. charts, and was received with positive reviews.
Wild Wood, Weller`s second solo album, confirmed that the success of his solo debut was no fluke. Recorded with Ocean Colour Scene guitarist Steve Cradock, Wild Wood was a more eclectic and ambitious effort than its predecessor, and it was greeted with enthusiastic reviews, and entered the charts at number two upon its fall 1993 release. The album would win the Ivor Novello Award for Outstanding Contemporary Song Collection the following year. Weller supported the album with an extensive tour that featured Cradock as the group`s leader; the guitarist`s exposure on Wild Wood helped him successfully relaunch Ocean Colour Scene in 1995. At the end of the tour, Weller released the live album Live Wood late in 1994. Preceded by "The Changingman," which became his 17th Top Ten hit, 1995`s Stanley Road was his most successful album since the Jam, entering the charts at number one and eventually selling nearly a million copies in the U.K.
By this point, Weller decided to stop attempting to break the United States and canceled his North American tour. Of course, he was doing so well in the England he didn`t need to set his sights outside of the U.K.. Stanley Road may have been greeted with mixed reviews, but Weller had been re-elevated to his status as an idol, with the press claiming that he was the father of the thriving Britpop movement, and artists like Noel Gallagher of Oasis singing his praises. In fact, while neither artist released a new album in 1996, Weller`s and Gallagher`s influence was felt throughout the British music scene, as roots-oriented, `60s bands like Ocean Colour Scene, Cast, and Kula Shaker became the most popular groups in the U.K.
Weller returned in the summer of 1997 with Heavy Soul. Modern Classics: Greatest Hits followed a year later. Heliocentric -- which at the time of its release he claimed was his final studio effort -- appeared in the spring of 2000. The live record Days of Speed followed in 2001, and he released his sixth studio album, Illumination, in 2002. The covers record Studio 150 appeared in 2004. As Is Now arrived in October of 2005 on Yep Roc. The live album Catch-Flame! followed in 2006.
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