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The Style Council, Live in Japan June 7, 1989
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"I spent a lot of money on booze, birds and fast cars. The rest I just squandered." - George Best --- Dienstags und donnerstags, ab 20 Uhr, samstags ab 20.30 Uhr: Radio StoneFMHighlights von Rolling-Stone.deDie letzten Stunden im Leben von Amy Winehouse
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25 Jahre „Parachutes“ von Coldplay: Traurige Zuversicht
WerbungWow, das ist endlich mal ein Top-Sound! Meine RAH-Aufnahme klingt ja ziemlich unterirdisch!
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Staring at a grey sky, try to paint it blue - Teenage BlueVielen Dank Martin!!
Freu ich mich sehr drüber.
„Changing The Guard“ und „Very Deep Sea“…..noch mehr zum schmusen!:liebe_2:
……am liebsten mit dem Herrn PP.:sonne:Gruß Fish
P.S.@Jan Wölfer.
Geht mir ganz genauso. Mit dem Sound meine ich.--
________________________________________ little fish......don`t cryFishVielen Dank Martin!!
Freu ich mich sehr drüber.
„Changing The Guard“ und „Very Deep Sea“…..noch mehr zum schmusen!:liebe_2:
……am liebsten mit dem Herrn PP.:sonne:äähhm… Du kommst doch mit Freundin nach HH, oder?
Hallo,
um den Schmerz zu mildern, dass Come on… schon wieder aus den Top 40 ist, ein paar links.
http://www.paulweller.com/board/viewtopic.php?t=9270 (da hat wer das Sun-Interview – Vorsicht vor den Blutflecken – reinkopiert und drunter ist noch was Schottisches)
http://www.eastvalleytribune.com/index.php?sty=50156
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,6903,1587902,00.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/filmandmusic/story/0,16373,1586201,00.html
Viel Spaß!
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JanPPäähhm… Du kommst doch mit Freundin nach HH, oder?
Vieleicht sollte ich mir das unter diesen Umständen nochmal überlegen.:lol:
…………………………………………..keine Angst, ich komm schon nicht alleine.Kuss Fish!;-)
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________________________________________ little fish......don`t cryKann mir jemand sagen, wo ich qualitativ gute Weller-Shirts kaufen kann?
Btw: Was haltet ihr von dem Shirt?:
Einfach schlicht – ich werd`s mir wohl kaufen. Hoffentlich ist die Qualität gut…
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Hast du fürs stanley road shirt eine bezugsquelle? gefällt mir auch gut
ich habe meine shirts immer auf den konzerten am merchandising stand gekauft und sie halten schon ewig, trage sie allerdings nicht soooo oft
und die konzerte sind ja bald – in berlin geht´s los, morgen in einer woche …..
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MyeverchangingmoodsHast du fürs stanley road shirt eine bezugsquelle? gefällt mir auch gut
rechter mausklick und dann unter eigenschaften die url ausspionieren. ;)
oder den link nehmen: http://www.textilwerbung-ernst.de/ und dann motiv-shop —> auswahl —> nach unten scrollen.
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I'm forever blowing bubbles, pretty bubbles in the air... Girls, go home! ...verdammt gut schaut er aus!MyeverchangingmoodsHast du fürs stanley road shirt eine bezugsquelle? gefällt mir auch gut
ich habe meine shirts immer auf den konzerten am merchandising stand gekauft und sie halten schon ewig, trage sie allerdings nicht soooo oft
und die konzerte sind ja bald – in berlin geht´s los, morgen in einer woche …..
Meine sind auch irgendwie eingelaufen, glaube ich:lol: .
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FishVieleicht sollte ich mir das unter diesen Umständen nochmal überlegen.:lol:
…………………………………………..keine Angst, ich komm schon nicht alleine.Kuss Fish!;-)
Ich werde mich extra hübsch machen für den Herrn PP:spudnikco .
Keine Sorge, war nur Spaß. Ein Münchner in Hamburg, gibt’s ja höchstens im TV.
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Nachdem einige TSC aus ganz bestimmten Anlass hören, gell Herr Fish:wave: , kommt im Januar das Richtige. Sozusagen, das TSC-Kama Sutra Buch. Für die Unromantischen ist es einfach die Style Council Biografie, mit offizieller Absegnung.
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Mr. CleanKann mir jemand sagen, wo ich qualitativ gute Weller-Shirts kaufen kann?
Btw: Was haltet ihr von dem Shirt?:
Einfach schlicht – ich werd`s mir wohl kaufen. Hoffentlich ist die Qualität gut…
Ich habe noch das gefunden (falls die links nicht direkt funktionieren, bitte Suchfunktion benutzen).
http://www.djtees.com/tshop/store/listItems.asp
http://www.paulweller.com/illuminations/shop/tshirt.html
http://eil.com/shop/presetlist.asp?pageID=704&artist=WEL:BFX:DCL:STY:JAM:&artistname=Paul-WellerHoffe, das hilft weiter.
Gruß
Niclas
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The INDEPENDENT
Album: Paul Weller
As Is Now, V24 out of 5
Reviewed by Andy Gill
Published: 07 October 2005
Last year’sStudio 150 collection of cover versions seemed to mark a re-charging of Paul Weller’s creative batteries after 2002’s drab dad-rock exerciseIllumination, an album so dull it even featured a guest spot by Kelly Jones. Though that rather begs questions of the cart and horse, chicken and egg variety – perhaps the mere presence of the Stereophonics front man cast a pall over the entire record?As Is Now picks up whereStudio 150 left off, using the same studio team of co-producer Jan „Stan“ Kybert and engineer Joeri Saal, and applying the same spare, sinuous sound to Weller’s best batch of new material in years. The first sign of this new focus came with the single „From the Floorboards Up“, a tight, pared-back slice of brittle punk-pop that is, for me, his most accomplished work since the glory days of „Going Underground“, but which failed to secure the attention of a public addicted to the lullaby teats of Blunt, Gray, Melua and their ilk. Too brusque and abrasive by far, no doubt.
That sparky, energised tone continues here on tracks like „Blink and You’ll Miss It“, a critique of a friend lacking the ability or desire to change, and „Come On/Let’s Go“, a general call to action – „Hanging round the corners, shouting at the top of your voice/ Sing, you little fuckers, sing like you have no choice“ – in which the lack of any specific aim is regarded as a positive factor, not a shortcoming: „Come on baby, let’s go/ You say, ‚Where to?’/ I say, ‚I don’t know'“. Unless we grab hold of our freedom and run with it – somewhere, anywhere – it might shrivel up and die, Weller seems to suggest. The same mood emanates from „From the Floorboards Up“, in which the singer seeks illumination through the constant pursuit of change: „I get a feeling from the walls and chairs/ They turn me on to things that’ll always be there/ All that is not will have to go back to dust“.
Much of the rest of the album finds him in more reflective mood, pondering theological matters against a backdrop of piano, flute and choral backing vocals in „Pan“, coming over all Pentangle in „All On a Misty Morning“, and livening up a plaintive plea for peace with a reversed guitar break in „Fly Little Bird“. It’s Weller’s most eclectic set since 2000’sHeliocentric, with pop and rock stylings sitting alongside jazz, funk and folk elements. „Bring Back the Funk“ is a slick New Orleans workout with drummer Steve White; „Here’s the Good News“ rides a tack-piano riff reminiscent of „Oh You Pretty Things“; „I Wanna Make It Alright“ is like a country heartbreaker built on a familiar Miles motif fromKind of Blue.
As Is Now offers a comprehensive picture of where Weller is now; whether he’ll stay there long remains to be seen. In this kind of mood, he could be anywhere in another three years‘ time.
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SCOTSMAN
The time is now, but the songs aren’t here
Fiona Shepherd
PAUL WELLER: AS IS NOW ***
V2, £13.99THERE is no big story about this release – As is Now is just another Paul Weller album, but one which is being spun as the natural successor to Stanley Road and Wild Wood, the two 1990s albums which bolstered Weller’s career, established him as a respected solo artist and became artistic benchmarks like nothing else he had released since his days fronting the Jam.
Touting an album in such a way is a tacit admission that he has been coasting for a while, enjoying the perks of being Paul Weller Modfather – a title he hates but a reputation which is not to be sneered at – without doing anything to consolidate the accolade. Last year’s Studio 150 covers album was a fair enough tribute to his fine taste in music, but ultimately felt like an underwhelming stopgap of a release. As is Now is a more robust collection, but one which is lacking a future Weller classic.
Most of the songs were written last year during an enforced layoff when his touring was curtailed because of a throat infection, and then recorded in just two weeks with his regular band at Oasis’s Wheeler End Studio. There is no sense of toil about the album, although the songs are generally thoughtfully arranged, creating sonic interest where it might not otherwise have existed.
There have already been approving nods for the clipped boogie of comeback single From the Floorboards Up, featuring Weller sounding choppier and hungrier than he has for a while. But its agreeably economic rock sound is only one facet of As is Now, which is more of a refinement of the many familiar faces of Paul Weller, including the autumnal shades of Wild Wood, the rhythm’n’brass of the Style Council and the bug-eyed virility of the Jam.
On the rockier side, opening track Blink and You’ll Miss It announces the album with a pleasing burnished retro soul flourish, while the Beatlesy Here’s the Good News tempers its east-end pub jam feel – Jools Holland already rubbing his hands at the prospect of a guest appearance in the near future – with flashes of a more careworn tone and a warm trumpet part. Paper Smile is just a mid-paced sub-Kinks meander, barely testing Weller’s songwriting abilities.
Completing the opening salvo is current single Come On/Let’s Go, which references the acoustic guitar intro to That’s Entertainment. Weller comes close to reprising his angry young man delivery, even if it is not apparent what he has to be so passionate about. That said, if this was an Oasis single, as it threatens to be at times (it also teeters on the brink of Dire Straits‘ Sultans of Swing at one sobering point), everyone would be celebrating its fleet-footed form.
Beyond this, the album takes a more wistful turn. The Start of Forever is a pretty acoustic number with a light touch and Bacharach horns, while All on a Misty Morning gradually builds into a fine Woodstock folk rocker. The lyrical piano ballad Pan is plain old-fashioned rather than retro, with a cooing background choir and a fluttering flute lending a stage musical feel. It could be the start of a whole new direction for Weller.
In the meantime, his fans don’t like to go too long without some political comment. Savages is Weller’s direct response, especially as a parent, to the Beslan massacre. „Savages/you can dress it up/give it a name and a fancy uniform“ he deplores over a track of Coldplay/Travis proportions. This is not Weller railing furiously against international terrorism, more a weary contemplation of the inexorable inhumanity of fundamentalism at its most vicious.
From here, he glides straight into Fly Little Bird, a personal meditation on the positive, rejuvenating influence of the innocent – or maybe just a soppy song about babies, which sounds like it is there to reassure himself more than anything else. Roll Along Summer, with its fluttering saxophone, syncopated rhythm and undulating acoustic guitars, is considerably more evocative.
He allows himself further brooding sentiment on closing track The Pebble and the Boy, a lustrous orchestral ballad about meeting yourself as a child and tracing a link between childhood and adulthood, which just misses out on the emotional impact it seeks to make.
If this is all too earnest for some, there is a tranquillising dose of his typical meat and potatoes rhythm’n’blues jamming in the shape of Bring Back the Funk (Parts 1&2), which rumbles on long enough for him to bring the funk back about ten times over. At this rate, the Modfather won’t be unseated for some time yet.
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Paul Weller: As Is Now
7 out of 10The Modfather returns to show the kids a thing or two
Every couple of years, Paul Weller looks like he’s finished. ‚Studio 150‘, last year’s covers farrago, was more miss than hit and was loved only by the Modfather’s fierce devotees.But every time he looks like he’s about to fall off the edge, he returns with a record that reminds you why he is much more than just a well-dressed man with great hair.
‚As Is Now‘ is Weller plugged in again. He’s heard the sound of The Libs and Epworth’s stable, realised they are all in his thrall, and kicked back to show the upstarts just how daddy can rock.
‚Blink And You’ll Miss It‘ and forthcoming single ‚Come On/Let’s Go‘ channel the spirit and the spit of The Jam. His comeback seven-inch ‚From The Floorboards Up‘ has the edgy, malevolent sting of a man in a hurry. Something is prickling one of the most prickly men in rock and he’s in no mood to sit down.
Then, just as you feel the album is packed full of no-fear tunes, he pulls the rug. ‚All On A Misty Morning‘ is bucolic folk – tremendously earnest and very, very grown up. And head for ‚Bring Back The Funk (Pts 1 & 2)‘ with your guard up. It’s jammed full of slap bass, sounds like The Style Council at their worst, and is infuriating.
But, these are minor gripes because, truly, Weller’s back. And this time, he rules.
Paul McNamee
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Paul Weller – As Is Now (V2)
UK release date: 10 October 2005When Paul Weller released what’s generally thought to be his best album, Wild Wood, there was a track there called Has My Fire Really Gone Out?. Intended as a riposte to his critics who had long written him off as an irrelevancy, it was the highlight of a blistering return to form that saw Weller once again widely respected.
Now, over a decade after Wild Wood, Weller finds himself again the subject of carping from snide critics. Although albums such as Heavy Soul had their moments, there was something that suggested Weller was coasting somewhat. Last year’s covers album, Studio 150, was a well-meaning experiment that fell flat on its face and people began to wonder whether Weller’s fire really has gone out for good this time.
So As Is Now sees the man back with a point to prove – and long term fans of Weller will know this is when he’s at his best. As Is Now is easily his best album since Stanley Road, seeing him refocused, reinvigorated and projecting a real sense of purpose.
As Is Now sees Weller revisiting various points of his varied career and updating them. So there’s the brittle guitar pop of Come On/Let’s Go which recalls The Jam, the pastoral, laid back vibe of Wild Wood in All On A Misty Morning and even the ghost of the Style Council is resurrected in Bring Back The Funk.
It’s the former material that works brilliantly here, with opening track Blink And You’ll Miss It grabbing the listener from the scruff of the neck from the opening chord. Weller spits the lyrics out with urgency and vigour, bemoaning a friend’s apathy – „why you got your head in the clouds?“ he asks, as his furious guitar works its magic
A similar theme of railing against inaction is continued in Paper Smile („what’s in a life if you don’t live it?“ as the opening line goes), and even more so in Come On/Let’s Go, which brings to mind classic moments like Going Underground. It’s a passionate, urgent anthem with Weller in magnificent voice.
Things calm down for the frankly very odd interlude of Pan, which sees piano, flute and a choral choir employed while Weller ponders matters of a religious and spiritual bent. It’s a brave move, but one which doesn’t really sit easily here. Savages sees Weller on much safer ground, being an angry and articulate response to the Beslan massacre: „You have no Gods, they’ve all disowned you“. It’s one of the standouts of the record.
From The Floorboards Up even takes on the art-rock of Franz Ferdinand and Bloc Party by being a brash, jittery, angular rocker with a very contemporary sheen. Bring Back The Funk isn’t so successful, featuring a slap-bass technique that sounds rather dated now, but Roll Along Summer and The Pebble And The Boy are Weller at his more introspective and make for a nicely relaxing end to the album.
The truth of the matter is that Weller’s fire never went out – it may have flickered a bit from time to time, but As Is Now sees those flames raging once again.
– John Murphy
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The Times4 out of 5
Pete Paphides on As is Now, the former Jam Jam’s return to form
Asked about last year’s covers album Studio 150, Paul Weller’s response was frank. While in the throes of writer’s block, he thought that it might be nice to sing a few songs by other people while waiting for the muse to return.
Perhaps if this had been Weller’s very first bout of writer’s block he might have been more worried. But the last time he endured a creative drought, he returned with what was arguably his finest solo album — Wild Wood (1993).
It turns out that he was right not to fret. Recorded live over the course of a fortnight, the 14 songs on As is Now draw from every colour on the emotional palette. There’s more than a shade of the young provocateur who gave us Eton Rifles on Come On/ Let’s Go (“sing you little f***ers/ sing like you’ve got no choice”). Similarly, the stroppy rabble-rousing of From the Floorboards Up, the first single released off the album, suggests that the song’s creator may have divined some of his inspiration from his earliest records.
And yet only the most cloth-eared nostalgist could dispute that the band he has here gathered together — comprising Weller, the long- serving drummer Steve White and two Ocean Colour Scene alumni — is the finest that he has recorded with.
Blink and You’ll Miss It and Paper Track are two of his most joyously affirmative tracks to date, with all the tension of Heavy Soul married to the tenderness of Wild Wood.
Elsewhere, As is Now depicts a man enraptured by new love and the beauty it confers upon the world. The sun-dappled psych-folk of All On a Misty Morning is one of his most affecting songs. Ditto The Start of Forever and I Wanna Make it Alright — unabashed declarations of devotion to melt the hardest of hearts. Even the sepia jazz of Roll on Summer sees Weller emerging with his face free of egg.
In fact, only on Bring Back the Funk (Pt 1 & 2) do your thoughts wander to ovens left on and bills unpaid. Erase that aberration from As is Now and the ratio of killer to filler couldn’t be more agreeable.
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"I spent a lot of money on booze, birds and fast cars. The rest I just squandered." - George Best --- Dienstags und donnerstags, ab 20 Uhr, samstags ab 20.30 Uhr: Radio StoneFMNiclasIch werde mich extra hübsch machen für den Herrn PP:spudnikco .
Keine Sorge, war nur Spaß.och, macht ruhig Ernst. Ich wollte schon immer meinen eigenen Fanclub. Antje kann auch gleich mitmachen, dass passt ja perfekt. wo sie schon zu schüchtern ist, mich anzusprechen, kann sie ja vielleicht wenigstens n shirt mit meinem namen tragen…
Mr. CleanBtw: Was haltet ihr von dem Shirt?:
.hm nicht schlecht, aber n bisschen langweilig.
@martin: danke fürs posten! aber wer soll n das alles lesen? ich will hören!
die sterne-bewertung gefällt mir übrigens gut:
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