| Wake Up the Nation | ||||
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| Studio album by Paul Weller | ||||
| Released | April 19, 2010 | |||
| Recorded | 2009 | |||
| Genre | Rock, Indie rock | |||
| Label | Island (UK, EU) Yep Roc (USA) |
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Wake Up the Nation is the tenth studio album from Paul Weller and was released April 19, 2010. It was nominated for the 2010 Mercury Music Prize.
It is the first of Weller's albums since 1982 to feature contributions from Bruce Foxton, formerly of The Jam. Weller told Mojo magazine: "We'd both lost loved ones and without getting too spiritual that was the spur of it. I spoke to him this time last year when his wife Pat was ill and that broke the ice, then I invited him down to Black Barn (studio). There was no big plan, it was easy, a laugh, and nice to see him and work together again. We just slipped back into it." [1]
Contents |
All songs written by Paul Weller and Simon Dine.
1. "Wake Up the Nation (Zinc's Crack House Remix)" - 5:10
2. "Fast Car / Slow Traffic (Erland & Carnival Carnivalization)" - 2:50
3. "Grasp & Still Connect (The Bees Version)" - 2:47
4. "She Speaks (Tunng Remix)" - 3:57
5. "Andromeda (Richard Hawley Remix)" - 3:51
6. "In Amsterdam (Noonday Underground Remix)" - 2:00
7. "No Tears to Cry (Leo Zero Remix)" 8:03
8. "Find the Torch, Burn the Plans (Nick Zinner from the Yeah Yeah Yeah's Remix)" - 5:18
Aim High / Pieces of a Dream – The Amorphous Androgynous Remix
9. "Part 1: Aim High (Aim Higher)" - 5:57
10. "Part 2: Pieces of a Dream (A Dream in Pieces)" - 5:27
11. "Part 3: Aim High (The Higher Aim)" - 4:57
12. "Part 4: Aim High (Like Water Needs a Flower)" - 5:05
13. "Pieces of a Dream - Original Version" - 2:56
14. "Grasp & Still Connect - Original Version" - 2:22
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| Review scores | |
| Source | Rating |
| Allmusic | [2] |
| BBC | (very positive)[3] |
| Slant Magazine | [4] |
| Q Magazine | |
| The Guardian | [1] |
| Pitchfork Media | [5] |
| PopMatters | (9/10) link |
| The Independent | [6] |
| NME | (8/10) link |
Wake Up the Nation received great acclaim from most music critics. In Metro, John Lewis awarded the album 4 stars out of 5 and commented: "Since turning 50 two years ago, the Modfather seems to be making the most adventurous music of his career, astounding even the most Weller-phobic critics ... Most of the 16 tracks are short, sharp, clever and often wonderfully odd: check out bonkers music hall epic Trees, jazz waltz In Amsterdam or militaristic sound collage 7&3 Is The Strikers Name (an unlikely collaboration with My Bloody Valentine’s Kevin Shields). Weller loyalists will be reassured by the copper-bottomed dad-rock staples, while Style Council fans will love Aim High, his finest blue-eyed soul ballad in ages."[7]