WELLER: "WildWood" vs. "Heavy Soul"

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PREAMBLE:
If you are not a fan of the modfather (i am..ish) please, i beg you, don't berate me for my taste in music etc, Weller seems to evoke extremely disparate emotions in different folk 'la and I don't want to get into a ruck etc. Anyway...

I feel that "Heavy Soul" is Weller's best album so far, even though everyone seems to gravitate towards "WildWood", which is also great...just not as great as "Heavy Soul" s'all.

Agree/Disagree?

― Derek Dalek (Derek Dalek), Thursday, 29 August 2002 20:36 (twenty-three years ago)

WIld Wood for me - love the title track esp. (tho Portishead remix has eclipsed it) despite Weller's descent into general naffness (which i suppose actually started in the 80s altho i do quite like 'Uh Huh Oh Yeh' as well and EVEN some Style Council, so there)

i thought most people thought 'Stanley Road' was his best solo album tho...

― blueski, Thursday, 29 August 2002 21:39 (twenty-three years ago)

It is someone's urgent duty to start a band called Weller and get famous so fans of the 'Modfather' (see upcoming other thread) are forced to use his full name!

― Tom (Groke), Thursday, 29 August 2002 21:42 (twenty-three years ago)

"Stanley Road" is a decent album, no doubt.
I dunno though, "Heavy Soul" is a great rock and roll album, bluesy, dirty. Some of the stuff on "Stanley Road" was rather too well crafted, if you know what I mean, although "Broken Stones" IS a great, great song.

― Derek Dalek (Derek Dalek), Thursday, 29 August 2002 21:46 (twenty-three years ago)

Heavy Soul sounds like a great session the playing is great, loose and dirty, I'd love to hear some of the jams they were edited from. I saw him on that tour and the funniest thing was Noel Gallagher came on to play guitar for the last song and basically sat there and was outplayed by Paul and Matt Deighton - "Hey Noel come onstage and we'll embarrass the hell out of you, it'll be a laugh". But the songs aren't as good as Wild Wood, thus the best Weller solo album is Live Wood. I saw him a few months ago and he was doing a fair amount of stuff from that period.

I think Stanley Road was his best selling solo album on the back of several big singles, e.g. "You Do Something" topped some poll of romantic songs on handbag.com beating stuff like "Wonderful Tonight" etc. etc.

BTW if you like Heavy Soul then check out Mother Earth - the band on Acid Jazz records that Matt Deighton played with, especially the live album The Desired Effect and the People Tree. Great stuff.

― Winkelmann, Friday, 30 August 2002 08:35 (twenty-three years ago)

Hi Winkelmann,
Thank you SO much for those braw suggestions. I'll definitely have to take a listen to "Live Wood", and also check out Mother Earth. I heard Matt Deighton being interviewed on 6music a few months back, I believe he helped out Oasis during one tour or other, seems like a cool guy.

Cheers,

Derek

― Derek Dalek (Derek Dalek), Friday, 30 August 2002 09:29 (twenty-three years ago)

Hope you like some of them.

Some of the Mother Earth albums used to turn up cheap often enough.

― Winkelmann, Friday, 30 August 2002 13:46 (twenty-three years ago)

I was sort of hoping that WELLER was an acronym for a new type of question about artists that have lost it progressively over the years, ie. Will Enthusiasts Lose Lunch Experiencing Records?

― Dave M. (rotten03), Friday, 30 August 2002 15:23 (twenty-three years ago)

i heard Weller (WELLLLEERRRRRR!) made an actual proper house album at the turn of the 90s but it was never released....not as Style Council either tho i'm sure 'Promised Land' wouldve fitted on it a treat...i'm sure its not very good tho, which would explain why he retreated entirely into his mod/folk mudhut for the rest of that decade

― blueski, Friday, 30 August 2002 17:16 (twenty-three years ago)

The Style OCuncil recorded a house album which their record company refused to release, though the single Promised Land did emerge. The album (Modernism) finally came out as part of a Style Council boxed set a few years back.

― Winkelmann, Monday, 2 September 2002 07:58 (twenty-three years ago)

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