Paul Weller: Wild Wood
Continuing my week-long focus on the career of Paul Weller, today’s selection is from his 1993 album Wild Wood. After The Style Council broke up in 1989, Weller immediately made the choice to go solo. His success as a solo artist was not immediate, although he found some UK pop chart success in the early ’90s. Anyone with a cursory knowledge of the music of the early ’90s can immediately guess that the music of Paul Weller was lost in a world suddenly awash in rap, grunge, and hip-hop influenced R&B. Amazingly, Weller’s career over the last 35 years has found him still going strong. He is now the patriarch of British rock music. While Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Rod Stewart, and other British artists from the ’60s and ’70s may still be out there making music and touring, Weller stands as one of the last remaining living symbols of the punk movement and an influence and mentor for young British artists. His music found a second life during the Brit-pop heyday of Blur and Oasis, and he has released 16 solo albums in the last 35 years. The main connection across his releases is the strength of his songwriting. Whether he is composing post-punk, soul, ballads, hard rockers, or pop, the music of Weller is always lyrically mature and instrumentally interesting. It also doesn’t hurt that he is one of the greatest vocalists of the post-punk era.
To learn more about Paul Weller, check out his Wikipedia page.
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