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Post by mimmihopps on May 11, 2016 4:55:48 GMT -5
As being a huge Weller/The Jam fan, it's really tough to pick only 5, but these are my all the time favourites:
Songs:
1. Whirlpool's End
2. Into Tomorrow
3. Sunflower
4. Heavy Soul
5. The Changing Man
What's yours?
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Post by Deleted on May 11, 2016 8:21:05 GMT -5
To be honest... I couldn't even name 5 Weller songs. Seems like a nice dude, but not my thing I guess.
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Post by theyknowwhatimean on May 11, 2016 9:20:27 GMT -5
Thought when I read the title for this thread this morning, that you were asking us for our favourite Weller guitar solos. Would still've been a viable thread topic - the guy's a nifty guitarist, I think.
But now I've woken up a bit, and actually read the OP properly, from the records I've heard so far:
1. Up In Suze's Room
2. Above The Clouds
3. The Changingman
4. Wild Wood
5. Heavy Soul, Pt. 1
Honourable mentions: Broken Stones, Have You Made Up Your Mind, Why Walk When You Can Run, One Bright Star, By The Waters, Science, Peacock Suit, and A Year Late (should've been on Stanley Road!).
Who'd've thought in the late 80s, when The Style Council came spluttering to their end, that Weller'd go on to produce the output he has over the last twenty-odd years? It's staggering really.
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Post by Deleted on May 11, 2016 9:44:50 GMT -5
I have to admit I haven't really listened to his solo work. But I like Sunflower, The Changingman, Broken Stones, Out of the Sinking and Friday Street
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Post by mimmihopps on May 11, 2016 11:47:57 GMT -5
Thought when I read the title for this thread this morning, that you were asking us for our favourite Weller guitar solos. Would still've been a viable thread topic - the guy's a nifty guitarist, I think. But now I've woken up a bit, and actually read the OP properly, from the records I've heard so far: 1. Up In Suze's Room 2. Above The Clouds 3. The Changingman 4. Wild Wood 5. Heavy Soul, Pt. 1 Honourable mentions: Broken Stones, Have You Made Up Your Mind, Why Walk When You Can Run, One Bright Star, By The Waters, Science, Peacock Suit, and A Year Late (should've been on Stanley Road!). Who'd've thought in the late 80s, when The Style Council came spluttering to their end, that Weller'd go on to produce the output he has over the last twenty-odd years? It's staggering really. We can do it as well. (our favourite 5 Weller guitar solos). Mine would be: Whirlpool's End (Outro is outstanding) Porcelain Gods Up In Suze's Room Wild Wood Woodcutter's Son I Walk On Gilded Splinters (it's cover, but whatever) What's yours, theyknowwhatimean? |
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Post by theyknowwhatimean on May 11, 2016 11:58:54 GMT -5
Thought when I read the title for this thread this morning, that you were asking us for our favourite Weller guitar solos. Would still've been a viable thread topic - the guy's a nifty guitarist, I think. But now I've woken up a bit, and actually read the OP properly, from the records I've heard so far: 1. Up In Suze's Room 2. Above The Clouds 3. The Changingman 4. Wild Wood 5. Heavy Soul, Pt. 1 Honourable mentions: Broken Stones, Have You Made Up Your Mind, Why Walk When You Can Run, One Bright Star, By The Waters, Science, Peacock Suit, and A Year Late (should've been on Stanley Road!). Who'd've thought in the late 80s, when The Style Council came spluttering to their end, that Weller'd go on to produce the output he has over the last twenty-odd years? It's staggering really. We can do it as well. (our favourite 5 Weller guitar solos). Mine would be: Whirlpool's End (Outro is outstanding) Porcelain Gods Up In Suze's Room Wild Wood Woodcutter's Son I Walk On Guilded Splinters (it's cover, but whatever) What's yours, theyknowwhatimean ? I'd probably go the same, but add Heavy Soul, Pt. 1 in there as well. Love how the two guitars play off each other, down the separate channels, at about the 2 minute mark. And another cover, but gotta go Wishing On A Star as well. The one in the middle is ace, but the one in the outro is so beautifully played, and rounds the song off so nicely, that when you then put the original recording on and it's not there, it just feels flat in comparison. And, not to forget of course, Champagne Supernova!! |
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Post by mimmihopps on May 11, 2016 12:05:14 GMT -5
We can do it as well. (our favourite 5 Weller guitar solos). Mine would be: Whirlpool's End (Outro is outstanding) Porcelain Gods Up In Suze's Room Wild Wood Woodcutter's Son I Walk On Guilded Splinters (it's cover, but whatever) What's yours, theyknowwhatimean ? I'd probably go the same, but add Heavy Soul, Pt. 1 in there as well. Love how the two guitars play off each other, down the separate channels, at about the 2 minute mark. And another cover, but gotta go Wishing On A Star as well. The one in the middle is ace, but the one in the outro is so beautifully played, and rounds the song off so nicely, that when you then put the original recording on and it's not there, it just feels flat in comparison. And, not to forget of course, Champagne Supernova!! Guitar solo from Champagne Supernova has been played by 2 of my heroes - live by Johnny and in studio by Weller. Weller did a great job with "Studio 150". I even prefer Weller's cover of "One Way Road". A Dutch musician Benjamin Herman (New Cool Collective) played on this album. He joined Weller on stage when he played at North Sea Jazz Festival in 2006 and in Melkweg in 2012 for "My Ever Changing Moods". He was a fan of The Jam and saw the band when he was only 12. |
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Post by theyknowwhatimean on May 11, 2016 12:22:57 GMT -5
I'd probably go the same, but add Heavy Soul, Pt. 1 in there as well. Love how the two guitars play off each other, down the separate channels, at about the 2 minute mark. And another cover, but gotta go Wishing On A Star as well. The one in the middle is ace, but the one in the outro is so beautifully played, and rounds the song off so nicely, that when you then put the original recording on and it's not there, it just feels flat in comparison. And, not to forget of course, Champagne Supernova!! Guitar solo from Champagne Supernova has been played by 2 of my heroes - live by Johnny and in studio by Weller. Weller did a great job with "Studio 150". I even prefer Weller's cover of "One Way Road". A Dutch musician Benjamin Herman (New Cool Collective) played on this album. He joined Weller on stage when he played at North Sea Jazz Festival in 2006 and in Melkweg in 2012 for "My Ever Changing Moods". He was a fan of The Jam and saw the band when he was only 12. Must have been quite a kick for the lad. I wonder if the name, The Cool Collective came from his love of Weller? Bears some resemblance to The Style Council... I tell you, one thing that really stuck out to me when I saw Paul in November, was just how good the Style Council stuff sounded. He did Long Hot Summer - not a song you'd thing would be particularly suited to a live atmosphere - and even that sounded ace. |
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Post by mimmihopps on May 11, 2016 12:36:01 GMT -5
Guitar solo from Champagne Supernova has been played by 2 of my heroes - live by Johnny and in studio by Weller. Weller did a great job with "Studio 150". I even prefer Weller's cover of "One Way Road". A Dutch musician Benjamin Herman (New Cool Collective) played on this album. He joined Weller on stage when he played at North Sea Jazz Festival in 2006 and in Melkweg in 2012 for "My Ever Changing Moods". He was a fan of The Jam and saw the band when he was only 12. Must have been quite a kick for the lad. I wonder if the name, The Cool Collective came from his love of Weller? Bears some resemblance to The Style Council... I tell you, one thing that really stuck out to me when I saw Paul in November, was just how good the Style Council stuff sounded. He did Long Hot Summer - not a song you'd thing would be particularly suited to a live atmosphere - and even that sounded ace. Benjamin Herman is active as a solo musician as well. Check his official website if you're interested in him. www.benjaminherman.nl/To be honest I've never been a fan of The Style Council. I do have all of their albums, but the first album is the one I most listened to. BUT I go nuts everytime he plays TSC songs live and I must admit that without his Style Council years he wouldn't have been what he is now. |
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Post by jordan71421 on May 11, 2016 13:13:00 GMT -5
1. Hung Up
2. Friday Street
3. Out of the Sinking
4. All the Pictures On the Wall
5. The Attic
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Post by mkoasis on May 11, 2016 21:00:39 GMT -5
All the Pictures on the Wall
Porcelain Gods
A Bullet for Everyone OR One x One
Back in the Fire
Fast Car/Slow Traffic
plus, almost anything off 22 Dreams, which is definitely my favourite album of his.
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Post by As You Built The Moon on May 12, 2016 20:43:31 GMT -5
That's a hard, hard list to nail down. For one, all of Stanley Road is an experience all to its own for me, so my whole list would come from there, but I want to give credit to his other albums.
Off the top of my head ...
Scratch that, it's too hard. The best I can do is give my favorites from the first (and best) five solo albums:
self titled - Clues
Wild Wood - All The Pictures On The Wall
Stanley Road - You Do Something To Me
Heavy Soul - Heavy Soul, Pt. 2
Heliocentric - Picking Up Sticks
I adore TSC. Especially everything from Confessions Of A Pop Group. If it's like a hundred degrees out I'll be inside listening to that. When I finally get proficient enough on the keyboard to play it I'm going to have someone write out the music for The Little Boy In The Castle for me.
The Jam are my least favorite of his stages, to be honest. I love The Gift but most of the stuff on their earlier albums are hard to sit through unless I'm listening to the remastered versions on the Direction Reaction Creation set. But they had gems, for sure; The Funeral Pyre, In The Crowd, English Rose (forget about it!) and their version of Heat Wave.
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