Paul Weller (album)

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Paul Weller
Studio album by Paul Weller
Released	1992
Genre	Rock
Label	Go! Discs Records
Paul Weller chronology
	Paul Weller (1992)	Wild Wood (1993)

Paul Weller is Paul Weller's first solo album, released in 1992.

After disbanding The Style Council and leaving label Polydor in 1989, Weller formed The Paul Weller Movement in 1990, releasing a single, Into Tomorrow, on his own Freedom High record label, in October 1991. Its success - reaching #36 in the UK chart - led to Weller being offered a new record deal with Go! Discs, and the resulting album was released on September 1st, 1992, reaching #8 on the UK album chart. In addition to Into Tomorrow, included on the album, two further singles were released from the album - Uh Huh Oh Yeh, on August 15th, 1992, reaching #18, and Above The Clouds on October 10th, 1992, reaching #47.

The album represents something of a return to Weller's 'roots', with Into Tomorrow and Uh Huh Oh Yeh in particular being heavily influenced by 60s R&B, whilst the album as a whole retained some of the funk influences displayed by The Style Council, on I Didn't Mean To Hurt You and Remember How We Started. Tellingly, however, the political leanings of The Style Council are - explicitly at least - abandoned, the lyrical themes visited on the album being much more personal.

[edit] Track listing

1. "Uh Huh Oh Yeah"
2. "I Didn't Mean to Hurt You"
3. "Bull-Rush"
4. "Round & Round"
5. "Remember How We Started"
6. "Above the Clouds"
7. "Clues"
8. "Into Tomorrow"
9. "Amongst Butterflies"
10. "The Strange Museum"
11. "Bitterness Rising"
12. "Kosmos"

[edit] References

• Paul Weller Official Site