Stanley Road

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Stanley Road
Studio album by Paul Weller
Released	June 7, 1995
Recorded	The Manor, Oxford
Genre	Rock
Length	52:10
Label	Go! Discs / London Records
Producer	Paul Weller & Brendan Lynch
Professional reviews
All Music Guide link Rolling Stone link
Paul Weller chronology
Live Wood (1994) Stanley Road (1995) Heavy Soul (1997)

Stanley Road is the third album by Paul Weller, released by Go! Discs in 1995. In 1998 Q magazine readers voted it the 46th greatest album of all time. The album's cover collage was created by the artist Peter Blake, designer of The Beatles' Sgt Pepper's album artwork (album package design for Weller was supervised by his longtime associate Simon Halfon). Weller claimed on a BBC special that he hopes he can one day create an album as perfect as this one, stating that all the stars were aligned during the writing and recording period of Stanley Road.

[edit] Track listing

1. "The Changingman" – 4:02
2. "Porcelain Gods" – 4:51
3. "I Walk on Gilded Splinters" (written by Dr. John) – 5:24
4. "You Do Something to Me" – 3:38
5. "Woodcutter's Son" – 4:43
6. "Time Passes..." – 4:56
7. "Stanley Road" – 4:18
8. "Broken Stones" – 3:16
9. "Out of the Sinking" – 3:51
10. "Pink on White Walls" – 2:39
11. "Whirlpool's End" – 7:11
12. "Wings of Speed" – 3:13

The "Stanley Road" of the title is Stanley Road [1], Woking, Surrey, the area where Paul Weller grew up (map).

In 2005 a three-disc 10th Anniversary Edition of the album was released.