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Originally Posted by lettie
It must be something to do with my musical era, because I always thought that Paul Weller was something of a talent too...  |
Being from the same era, I concur.
Paul Weller started out as the driving force of The Jam, writing the majority of their lyrics. He was often referred to as the 'angry young man', due to his highly politicised songs, like Standards, Going Underground, Eton Rifles and 'A' Bomb in Wardour Street.
Besides these angry side-swipes at the British establishment of the time, Weller also displayed a mellower more soulful aspect to his song writing, with songs like Fly, Ghosts (a personal favourite of mine) and English Rose amongst others. Incidentally, Weller would never agree to allow the lyrics of English Rose to be published on the album sleeve notes for ‘All Mod Cons’ because he felt that to read the words alone, without the musical arrangement was lacking something.
To read more about Paul Weller’s songwriting talents from this era go to
http://www.thejam.org.uk/main.html.
As an example of how astute and how acerbic Paul Weller’s pen was, here are lyrics of the title track from the album ‘All Mod Cons’; short and sweet and straight to the point. This man did not suffer fools…..
ALL MOD CONS - Paul Weller
Seen you before, I know your sort,
You think the world awaits your every breath
You'll be my friend, or so you say
You'll help me out when the time comes
And all the time we're getting rich,
You hang around to help me out
But when we're skint, Oh God Forbid!
You drop us like hot bricks
Artistic Freedom. Do what you want.
But just make sure that the money ain't gone
I'll tell you what, I got you sussed
You'll waste my time, when my time comes.