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Album: Wild Wood [LP]
# Song Title   Time
1)    Sunflower More Info... 0:04
2)    Can You Heal Us (Holy Man) More Info... 0:03
3)    Wild Wood More Info... 0:03
4)    Instrumental One (Part 1) More Info... 0:01
5)    All the Pictures On the Wall More Info... 0:04
6)    Has My Fire Really Gone Out? More Info... 0:04
7)    Country More Info... 0:03
8)    Instrumental Two More Info... 0:01
9)    5th Season More Info... 0:05
10)    The Weaver More Info... 0:03
11)    Instrumental One (Part 2) More Info...
12)    Foot of the Mountain More Info... 0:03
13)    Shadow of the Sun More Info... 0:07
14)    Holy Man (Reprise) More Info... 0:02
15)    Moon On Your Pyjamas More Info... 0:04
16)    Hung Up More Info... 0:02
 
Album: Wild Wood [LP]
# Song Title   Time
1)    Sunflower More Info... 0:04
2)    Can You Heal Us (Holy Man) More Info... 0:03
3)    Wild Wood More Info... 0:03
4)    Instrumental One (Part 1) More Info... 0:01
5)    All the Pictures On the Wall More Info... 0:04
6)    Has My Fire Really Gone Out? More Info... 0:04
7)    Country More Info... 0:03
8)    Instrumental Two More Info... 0:01
9)    5th Season More Info... 0:05
10)    The Weaver More Info... 0:03
11)    Instrumental One (Part 2) More Info...
12)    Foot of the Mountain More Info... 0:03
13)    Shadow of the Sun More Info... 0:07
14)    Holy Man (Reprise) More Info... 0:02
15)    Moon On Your Pyjamas More Info... 0:04
16)    Hung Up More Info... 0:02
 
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Performer Notes
  • Personnel: Paul Weller (vocals, guitar, strings, harmonica, piano, Hammond organ, Mellotron, Moog, bass, percussion); Steve Craddock, Robert Howard, Dave Liddle (guitar); Jacko Peake (flute, horns); Helen Turner (organ); Mick Talbot (Hammond organ); Max Beesley (Wurlitzer, percussion, background vocals); Brendan Lynch (MiniMoog, Mellotron, Stylophone, percussion); Marco Nelson (bass, background vocals); Yolanda Charles (bass); Steve White (drums); Dee C. Lee, Simon Fowler (background vocals).
  • Recorded at The Manor, Oxford, England from April to May, 1993.
  • Arguably Weller's best solo album, and certainly the one where all his influences first congealed into something uniquely his own. WILD WOOD's template would once again seem to be Traffic--Weller's surprisingly soulful vocals most often recall a gruffer version of Steve Winood, and there's even a jazz flute in the concluding "Holy Man" jam. Weller's songs however, are not so easily pigeonholed; an achingly beautiful acoustic ballad like "Country," for example, owes a stylistic debt to no one except its composer.
Professional Reviews
Rolling Stone (10/20/94, p.146) - 3.5 Stars - Good - "...Resolutely pre-punk in its spirit, this album gives retrochic an unexpected twist. With its echoes of vintage Traffic...WILD WOOD could have been recorded in 1970..."

Entertainment Weekly (5/27/94, p.88) - "...pits the gruff-punk charge of the band against the refinement and musicality of his later group, the genre-hopping Style Council....It's a record full of intricate nooks and crannies that begs for exploration...." - Rating: A-

Q (12/99, p.76) - Included in Q Magazine's "90 Best Albums Of The 1990s."

Q (6/00, p.63) - Ranked #77 in Q's "100 Greatest British Albums" - "A warm, raw, uplifting but endlessly self-questioning record....this is the sound of an artist finding a more emotional voice..."

Q (7/00, p.141) - Included in Q's "The Best Male Angst Albums Of All Time"

Q (1/94, p.86) - Included in Q's list of `The 50 Best Albums Of 1993' - "...showcases an artist maturing before our very eyes..."

Q (p.133) - 4 stars out of 5 - "[A] change of direction that both demonstrated a new maturity and ushered in the whole '90s trad-rock boom."

Uncut (p.116) - 5 stars out of 5 -- "WILD WOOD still smells fresh as newly cut pine. 'Country' steals redemption from despair in three minutes..."

Stereo Review (7/94, p.86) - Performance: Extraordinary / Recording: Good - "...Weller has always possessed the uncanny ability to interlace the personal with the political, crafting lyrics that can be read on both levels. But it is as a musical force that Weller looms most impressively on WILD WOOD..."

Mojo (Publisher) (p.121) - 5 stars out of 5 -- "WILD WOOD remains Paul Weller's most exquisitely balanced album, with soul stirrings, pastoral folk-rock vibes and stinging REVOLVER guitars dissolving into an elegant and exciting sonic hybrid."

Record Collector (magazine) (pp.98-99) - 3 stars out of 5 -- "The album still sounds like a man having fun, which is infectious. 'Hung Up' remains a great lost single..."
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