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Das ist natürlich sehr oberflächlich von mir aber ich habe jahrelang „Wilander“ anstatt „Willander“ gelesen u. so zitiert. Auch wenn es keine Entschuldigung ist aber das Unterbewusstsein hat mir einen Streich gespielt. Da bin ich mir sicher.
Was hier alles so möglich ist, Dank HighTec.--
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Werbungj.w.Und ich habe immer noch Dangerous Age als Ohrwurm. „Shoo-ooop!“
Ich auch. Ich bin mir mittlerweile fast sicher, dass sein neues Album besser als das letzte wird.
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How does it feel to be one of the beautiful people?optimistIn Frage gestellt wurde nicht Weller’s Leidenschaft, Energie oder Mut sondern einzig das Ergebnis seiner Arbeit. Und diese gleichbedeutend zu setzen mit „The Piper At The gates Of Dawn“ (Pink Floyd), „Reproduction“ von The Human League oder „Loveless“ von My Bloody Valentine regt zum Widerspruch an.
Bei allem Respekt für Paul Weller: die Qualität genannter Alben hat er nicht mit einem seiner Solo-Platten erreicht.Was sind denn das für Äpfel-mit-Birnen-Vergleiche? Mich interessieren Human League oder My Bloody Valentine nicht die Bohne, aber ich wüsste nicht, warum er nicht zB mit „Wild Wood“ ein genauso großartiges Album geschaffen haben könnte. Innovation ist ja nicht gleichzusetzen mit Qualität.
Weller-Fans sollten um 20.00 Uhr mal bei StoneFM reinhören.
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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 StoneFMSelbst dran schuld, wer nicht einschaltet:wave:
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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 StoneFMBin gerade erst online – lohnt sich’s noch, Martin?
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Staring at a grey sky, try to paint it blue - Teenage BlueoptimistIn Frage gestellt wurde nicht Weller’s Leidenschaft, Energie oder Mut sondern einzig das Ergebnis seiner Arbeit. Und diese gleichbedeutend zu setzen mit „The Piper At The gates Of Dawn“ (Pink Floyd), „Reproduction“ von The Human League oder „Loveless“ von My Bloody Valentine regt zum Widerspruch an.
Bei allem Respekt für Paul Weller: die Qualität genannter Alben hat er nicht mit einem seiner Solo-Platten erreicht.nail75Das stimmt wohl, allenfalls Wild Wood kommt entfernt in die Nähe
Falsch. Seine ersten beiden Soloplatten sind besser alle die drei genannten und Stanley Road muss lediglich „Pipers“ den Vortritt lassen.
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Staring at a grey sky, try to paint it blue - Teenage Bluej.w.Bin gerade erst online – lohnt sich’s noch, Martin?
Es läuft gerade der letzte von 3 Tracks.
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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 StoneFMEs liefen auf StoneFM:
Kling I Klang
Study in Blue
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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 StoneFMFred Perry
“Paul Weller will play his new album ‘Sonik Kicks’ in full at The Roundhouse, London, with performances on Sunday 18th and Monday 19th March. Here’s a preview listen of new single ‘That Dangerous Age’ – thoughts?“gerade auf fb gelesen. ich pack meine tasche wieder aus …:roll:
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I'm forever blowing bubbles, pretty bubbles in the air... Girls, go home! ...verdammt gut schaut er aus!Wer hat das Album schon gehört? Hier ein paar Reviews:
An emotional, experimental ride, Weller’s 11th solo LP is brilliant stuff.
Jude Rogers 2012-03-12
Thirty years ago, Paul Weller was number one. The Jam’s A Town Called Malice spent three weeks at the top of the charts, its Motown bassline bustling, its finger clicks rustling. Watch its video now, and the 23-year-old at the middle of it has hardly changed in some ways. His Woking vowels are still ‚ow’s-yer-father; the haircut’s still cockatoo-daft. But he sings a line in its first verse that’s practically become his motto: „Stop apologising for the things you’ve never done, because time is short and life is cruel, and it’s up to us to change.“
Weller has never been a man to look back at his career, in anger or otherwise; time ain’t been short for him either, but it seems to have inspired him rather than smothered him. Sonik Kicks, his 11th solo album, is alive with the vitality that implies. Nevertheless, so rapturous has been the reception to his recent LPs – 2008’s 22 Dreams and 2010’s Mercury Prize-nominated Wake Up the Nation – that’s it’s almost become a cliché to flag up his return-to-form as something thrillingly adventurous, even avant-garde. But this isn’t skronky, dissonant (The) Wire (magazine) music: this is psychedelic, kaleidoscopic pop. It just happens to be made by a man always interested in filtering the past in his own way – and most 53-year-olds don’t do that as peculiarly as this.
Sonik Kicks fizzes and spits from its first track, Green, blasting off with a synthesiser that recalls the motorik rhythms of Neu!, as well as the drone that starts The Human League’s Love Action. Then we whirl into a world of vocal echoes, garbled lyrics about secret guides and quiet times, and stereo whooshes through the headphones: it’s really hard not to be energised. Dragonfly and Around the Lake are similarly propulsive and sci-fi, driven by drumbeats and Joe Meek-friendly sound effects. Then we get into the weirder, instrumental stuff. Sleep of the Serene is like a 1960s B movie curio, full of electronic burbles and strings that get progressively strange. Twilight is 18 seconds of metallic clatter and messing about with sine waves, before Drifters arrives with a shadowy Silver Apples bassline, chunky guitars, and Weller „finding his way back home“ as a mysterious voice calls „him on“. It’s still pop, Paul, but it’s not as we know it.
More than anyone, these space-age stylings make you think of David Bowie, of whom Weller’s new wife is a huge fan – so much so, she’s famously named one of their new twin boys after him. But there are more solid, classic Weller tracks too. That Dangerous Age is particularly funny, a brilliantly self-aware piece of pop about a middle-aged man: „He likes three sugars in his coffee / He wants that chick in the office / He’s took to staying up late / He’s on a much higher rate.“ Kling I Klang is slightly less successful, a funny piece of oompah about salty days and vicars’ wives, while When Your Garden’s Overgrown could have come from Weller’s mid-90s Modfather era. Its chorus, however, still packs a real punch: from A Town Called Malice to here, the man still has an ear for a tune.
The most moving moments, though, are the two big ballads: stunning pastoral epic By the Waters and the mainstream-friendly finale, Be Happy Children. This features Weller’s daughter Leah on a chorus, infant son Mac at its end, even a lyric that he’s acknowledged as a nod towards his late father („your daddy’s gone, but only for a while“). Weller throws it all in on this record: experiment as far as he can take it, emotion as far as he will allow. To these ears it’s a heady, and brilliant, combination.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/music/reviews/dhq4
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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 StoneFMCoinciding with musical and personal upheaval – and a new partner who finally got Paul Weller (pictured, right) into David Bowie – Sonik Kicks is the third in a triumvarite of experimental albums that seems to be the Woking mod’s answer to the Thin White Duke’s Berlin trilogy.
Like 2008’s 22 Dreams and 2010’s Wake Up the Nation, Weller’s 11th solo effort rampages from station to station: motorik Krautrock bleeds into to wah-wah freakouts to strings-drenched soul to pastoral psychedelia and even heavy dub, sometimes simultaneously. It’s a dizzying but never baffling musical odyssey, anchored at crucial moments by more conventional songs – the imaginary Bowie-Blur collaboration That Dangerous Age or By the Waters, a soul ballad reminiscent of the Style Council and his early solo work.
With the likes of the lovely Be Happy Children rooted in domestic bliss, fans of the more politicised Weller may miss the state-of-the-nation grumbling that inspired the Jam and Wake Up the Nation. However, you have to marvel that a 53-year-old man can still make music so brimming with adventure. ****
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2012/mar/15/paul-weller-sonik-kicks-review
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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 StoneFMDaily Mail
Modfather gets over his mid-life crisis to make a great pop albumBy Adrian Thrills
Rating: *****
Verdict: He shoots, he scoresA chart-topper with The Jam in the punk era, Paul Weller spent the Eighties playing smooth jazz-pop with The Style Council before launching a solo career 20 years ago.
So if anyone has a right to milk the nostalgia market, it’s him.
But The Modfather, 53, re-draws the map again on Sonik Kicks. His 11th solo album is an edgy, yet vibrant, affair full of jazz, folk, psychedelic rock and reggae, featuring backwards guitars, old-school synths and special effects galore.
Out on Monday, it isn’t just experimentation for the sake of it, either – there are great tunes here, too.
The past few years have been eventful for Weller, and his new songs pack a powerful emotional punch. In 2009, his father died after a long illness. On a happier note, this year Paul and wife Hannah Andrews, 25, had twins: Bowie and John Paul.
The indignant tone of his current single That Dangerous Age – built around a riff similar to All Day And All Of The Night by The Kinks – mocks those who claimed photos of Paul and Hannah the worse for wear in Prague in 2008 were part of a mid-life crisis. He says: ‘It’s about how society views people of a certain age.’
Weller, now teetotal, faces his demons again on the wonderful Paperchase, which reflects on excesses, though he admits some of it was inspired by the death of Amy Winehouse.
On a gentler note, Study In Blue, with Hannah on backing vocals, is a jazzy throwback to The Style Council. Elsewhere, we get German electronics in Kling I Klang and Around The Lake, Spanish flamenco on Drifters and psychedelic rock on Dragonfly – with Blur guitarist Graham Coxon on a Hammond organ. Other familiar sidekicks in unfamiliar guises include guitarist Steve Cradock on drums – and Noel Gallagher on bass. Despite a fondness for abstract sounds, Weller’s greatest strength is still his songwriting.
Among the most memorable are The Attic, which revisits the kitsch end of pre-Beatles pop, and When Your Garden’s Overgrown – which constructs an alternative life for Pink Floyd’s Syd Barrett. It’s a great track and – like Paperchase – a little like Blur.
The final track, Be Happy Children, is even stronger. A tribute to his father, it features two of Weller’s seven children – daughter Leah and seven-year-old son Mac – on vocals.
After all that experimentation, he closes with a soulful tear-jerker. It’s hard to think of anyone who mixes the ground-breaking and the sentimental with such aplomb. But there is no one in pop quite like Weller.
Listen to Sonik Kicks in full at paulweller.com. And he appears at the Roundhouse, London for five nights from Sunday (theticketfactory.com).
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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 StoneFMLondon Evening Standard
PAUL WELLERSonik Kicks
(Island)
****
On his 11th solo effort, 53-year-old Weller sounds fresher and is more sonically adventurous than he has been in years. Perhaps it’s because Sonik Kicks is his first teetotal album, or maybe it’s the influence of Hannah Andrews, the current Mrs Weller, who duets on the sprawling Study in Blue, but from the moment Green kicks in with an walloping, late-period Jam-style-clatter, he’s all over the place — in an inspired, engrossing way.
And much as he acknowledges his own past, he’s rekindled his curiosity in other music, whether peering into Krautrock on Kling I Klang; paying homage to Pink Floyd’s Syd Barrett alongside Noel Gallagher on When Your Garden’s Overgrown or paying genuinely emotional tribute to his father alongside a couple of his own offspring on Be Happy Children.
And as if to show he can walk as well as run, he slows down the frenetic pace and strips everything back on the lovely, string-laden By the Waters.
All things considered, it’s hard to think of a bolder, braver or better Weller album.
JOHN AIZLEWOOD
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/arts/m…k-7574868.html
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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 StoneFMDrowned In Sound
Paul Weller
Sonik Kicks
by Aaron Lavery
With a 22-track experimental opus and a Mercury-nominated whipcracker preceding this record, you could forgive Paul Weller if he fancied playing it a little bit safe with his latest LP – maybe roping in some guest stars and recreating the vibe of Stanley Road or Wild Wood. Credit to the man with one of the crappest nicknames in music then, because with Sonik Kicks The Modfather has completed a hat-trick of records that genuinely challenge his status quo.
With any Weller record, the sense of energy and enthusiasm that you get on first listen is usually a good indicator of the standards to be found within. Even on his more traditional records, you can see if his heart is in it or not, and proceed or not from that point. One listen to ‘Green’, Sonik Kicks’ opener, tells you that it’s going to be worth sticking about.
Shooting out of the speakers like an impatient cousin to Wilco’s ‘Art of Almost’, ‘Green’ is a bundle of energy that fizzes around Weller’s steady stream of beat poetry, all ‘Tomorrow Never Knows’ drums and guitar squalls bursting out unexpectedly. It’s the first part in an opening collection of tracks that defy Weller’s reputation as a curmudgeonly keeper of the classic rock keys.
‚The Attic‘, a sharp blast of guitar pop energy built on a hyperactive drum beat and surging strings, is chased around the corner by ‚Kling I Klang‘, a track that kidnaps Ray Davies and plonks him down in the midst of a propulsive motorik rhythm. There’s probably some story about the lives of ordinary Lahndan folk going on somewhere, but it’s too frantic to stop and pay any attention.
It’s a pretty fiery, experimental trio to start any album with, albeit in a Noel and the Chemicals way rather than Metal Machine Music (thank God). Following it is a true indicator of how Weller has not just paid lip service to the idea of pushing himself. Strings bubble and disintegrate for a two-minute respite, before lush Nick Drake-esque strings signal the arrival of ‘By The Waters’. A beautiful, languid track, it’s a real change in direction for the LP – but not the first.
‘Study In Blue’, a beautiful duet with Weller’s wife Hannah that initially harks back to his Style Council days with a dub bass throbbing underneath, is perhaps the centerpiece to Sonik Kicks. Established artists can often raise an eyebrow or two by paying lip service to a couple of new genres, and if you only heard ‘That Dangerous Age’ from this LP, a catchy number let down by lyrics that sound like a dressing down from your dad, you might put Weller in that category. When ‘Study In Blue’ pushes itself into an extended dub workout before being followed by the XTRMNTR-esque ‘Dragonfly’ and the anthemic ‘When Your Garden’s Overgrown’, you know Weller has gone the whole hog.
It might seem lazy to suggest that Sonik Kicks combines the urgency of Wake Up The Nation with the boundary pushing of 22 Dreams, but it’s such an apt comparison that it’s difficult to ignore. Weller seems enthusiastic, upbeat and genuinely inventive across the whole LP, with only a couple of minor missteps throughout. Noel Gallagher has been bigging up his collaboration with the Amorphous Androgynous for a while now, suggesting that it’s going to be pushing the boat out. Hate to tell you our kid, but Weller’s got there and done it before you.
8 / 10
http://drownedinsound.com/releases/1…eviews/4144635
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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 StoneFM
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