Wild Wood

Eh

18th June 2021 Started listening on Friday but had to finish on Monday as we went away up to Leicester for the weekend to visit Adna and Joe. Slightly better bit of dad rock. Not that memorable for me to be honest. 2.5 if I could.

OK, jusy not my bag man.

Jääkligt tradit, hade satt 2,5...

A lot of this album is forgettable for me despite loving Paul Wellers other work. Fav song: the weaver

I like the Jam and I don’t mind the Style Council but Paul Weller’s solo stuff has always just felt a bit naff to me. Don’t mind a couple of tracks on here but not really an album I’d ever choose to put on (unless maybe I was having some sort of ‘dad rock’ themed party).

idk about this. I liked Sunflower and Wild Wood, but overall it was too country-folksy ish

Big meh, the best song was the 1st one because the guitar was nice but or else it was p boring

A couple of very good songs, but otherwise but great

Not particularly wild. Extremely wood, though.

Meh pero un poco nice porque después de escucharlo se puso una canción aleatoria de pa'i y me gusto bastante.

Insgesamt nicht schlecht, wenn man Hitradio RT1 steht oder auch mal nen pfiffigen Roadtrip durch die Hammerschmiede / Firnhaberau im Auto von Mama und Papa wagen will. Perfekte Musik für alle die es gerne mal nicht so schnell und aufregend wollen, sondern bei Nirvana an Heavy Metal denken und es deshalb nicht hören. Ich sage nein, aber komm, besser als Talking Shit is der bumms. Sorry Paul. 2*

Naja rock halt kp

Greit håndverk men neppe en plate jeg kommer til å høre igjen

ehhhhh

I can't handle the voice

Meh

Not 4 me

Kinda boring tbh

Mid. Boring. No place on this list. The only half interesting moment is "Holy Man (reprise)"... Why not bring that vibe to the full song?

There’s a fine line between mellow and mind-numbing, and this album sprints past it. Every track blurs into the next in a fog of nothingness, like being trapped in a lukewarm cup of herbal tea. Wild Wood isn’t bad in an interesting way unfortunatelty it’s just bad in the most unforgivable way: completely, crushingly forgettable.

I've never been so bored listening to an album. And I don't mean bored like"Oh I've heard this type of stuff before." No, I mean bored like "There isn't a single solitary nanosecond of anything interesting going on here." ZERO STARS

🙄 wow, so very…whatever

I’m not finishing this, I’ve decided. This is so boring and annoying. This bitch is not a poet. He is not a singer. He is not even a competent personality. It is preposterous that I should have to listen to drivel like this during international women’s day. I’ma go listen to Lily Allen. 3.1/10

I'm really not sure about this one. There are a good few established paths for aging punks to take, but without getting too far into it, wise and poetry savvy singer-songwriter is very much one of them. And it's one where mileage varies *a lot*. Nick Cave is someone who I think is a good example of someone who is still making great, beautiful music that's slower, sadder, and more contemplative than his younger years. But Paul Weller kind of gives us the other side of the coin. I don't particularly care about The Jam, but they have a couple of pretty good songs. But now, in 1993, Paul Weller is trying to sell himself as kind of a folksy soulsman. But I do *not* think he pulls it off. This reminds me of late-era Van Morrison and Pearl Jam's rootsiest songs, with a hint of the era's Brit-pop for good measure: And I do not consider that a good thing. I don't really like Paul Weller's vocal approach, or lyrical approach, and I don't think there's much special about these songs. But what I think really dooms this album for me is that 1993 was during a new golden age for earnest, Singer-songwriter-y stuff. It was a time for exciting new artists to expand the genre, and for old favorites to re-invent themselves in exciting ways. But here, Paul Weller's entire sound is too tied to decades old ideas from music he likes for him to indulge in anything genuinely new and exciting. He puts a lot of weight on the fact that he embraces electronic influences here. But honestly, it sounds like he's just keeping it at a comfortable, unchallenging distance. He isn't willing to incorporate electronics to an extent that would allow them to actually effect how he writes these songs at all. And he just throws a cool synth over stuff every once in a while. And I think that his approach of just letting the classics run could at least be forgivable if there was anything exceptional about the performances or songs or aesthetics on this album. But it really does just feel like he spent some time listening to some 70's folk-rock and soul records and he said "I just need to model my new record after *exactly* this". This is gonna sound mean, but I really think it's just a couple of steps above listening to a decent cover band in a bar. It's not even that this is unpleasant, it's just that it's *so* unoriginal, and *so* self-important, and *so* unexceptional in execution that, aside from a couple of fleeting moments of neat sounds, I don't get anything from the experience of this album at all. This doesn't offer me *anything* I can't get from it's influences, which I think marks a total failure for what I would loosely call a genre revival record. This is almost a challenge to my grading principles. Does a somewhat listenable album with a few, sporadic seconds of interesting music skirt by on a 2, even if it has nothing to offer me? I think I'm gonna come down and say that this is where I'm staking the flag (for now) on what the best 1 may look like. It's inoffensive because Paul Weller happened to be listening to decent records, but Wild Wood feels like a functionally empty experience.

It's like music in the background of a 90s coming-of-age drama. Which means it should be 2 minutes max.

I already forgot what this album sounded like.

I don’t know how much more I’d like this album, but I’d like it more without this guy’s voice. Didn’t resonate with me at all. First half of the album I was like “this vocal type is so closely associated with white harmonica dudes & like “‘Merica Pride” songs and sure enough I got a harmonica. Takes two stars off, minimum. (His softer songs don’t fit that description, but I just found those to be pretty bland. He’s on a playlist with Nick Drake & I’m just reminded what a rich album that was in comparison.)

Shit sucks

It's kinda wild to me that the descriptors "middle of the road" and "pedestrian" can both be applied to this shite. I'd rather walk into moving traffic than listen to this greige slop.

Made me feel nothing aside from an instinctive need to cover my drink

It's okay, a little boring for my taste, and the songs that lean towards country i turned off immediately (Has my Fire Really Gone Out?) I liked the first song on the album (Sunflower) but again i didn't add it to my library as it was a bit too slow and sappy for me. Maybe it's his male voice that throws me off with the gentle songs. I liked the rockabilly sound of 5th Season, but the country twang was a bit much for me. Overall i didn't really enjoy this album but it wasn't terrible.

Complete non-descript singing to a background of non-descript guitar playing. If this were food it would be the colour beige, chicken nuggets and chips. Bland.

Det ser ikke ut som noen har nevnt det før, men da lever Paul Wellers fanbase i fornektelsen: dette er post-grunge. Kanskje folk blir lurt fordi de tenker dette er ren Springsteen-forgudelse? Noe av den døveste og mest intetsigende musikken jeg noensinne har hørt. Trikset post-grunge har perfeksjonert, er å late som om det er alright musikk når det egentlig er et produkt laget av kreativ impotens og dårlig smak, gjemt bak et slør av bombastisk produksjon. Weller kommer nærmest med å lykkes å transcendere simulasjonen med Shadow of the Sun, hvor det er et instrumental-parti hvor det høres ut som om musikerne har fått et plutselig blaff av inspirasjon og kreativ frihet, men det spiller absolutt ingen rolle når resten av produktet er så dårlig.

There's no way it was necessary for me to listen to this supremely boring record during my limited time on Earth.

Possibly the lamest of all Paul Weller recordings... not including his other solo stuff...

I don’t understand why you would need to listen to this album before dying. I appreciate Paul Weller’s influence for britpop but I really didn’t like this at all.

I just could not find anything interesting here. I know I'm missing something. Unfortunately it reminded me of older guys at open mic nights who seem to think they are the front man of a rock band. There is some solid basic technique and songwriting fundamentals, but just nothing at all that makes me particularly interested to listen more unfortunately.

nostalgia é uma merda porque um camarada saudosista se propõe a fazer um negócio que era legal antigamente mas que na época que ele fez já era mais cansado que correr maratona sendo fumante

Nothing to see here

This is the music equivalent to Applebees. Like, it's not good but objectively not that bad. But why on earth would you choose to eat there over hundreds of better and more interesting places? This album is certainly not a must-hear. It's not terrible, but it might be worse - it's a waste of my time.

Just not for me, I think that this brand of rock feels really dated in a way that some genres just don't. I don't think that it's a bad record, but I can't think of anyone that I would recommend it to.

Subhuman scum

The definition of MOR.

A standard bearer of British punk/post punk cool blows all his cred making a blues dad album. It's easy going easy listening stuff without any edge. But the rubbery bass, whispy vocals, and generic funkiness are tragically middle aged. Some of the guitar sounds are really good at least and the looser jammier parts are fun. But the crooning smooth blues...oof. Favorites: shadow of the sun, has my fire really gone out

Helemaal niets aan.

Generic dull dreadful Rock. Wanted to quit long before the first CD was over, being very disappointed it's not even close to the end in the first third of the second CD.

Ne

Pas sûre... assez convenu, et pas tout le temps tight musicalement, mais sans les hooks mémorables de ses contemporains comme Oasis. J'embarque pas

Nope. Not vital at all. A beige niche record for England only. I've realized that I do not enjoy Paul Weller or The Jam in any fashion. It is a slog getting through these records. Too much imitation of earlier times instead of creating timeless music. This album feels like a 90s artist's take on a 1973 album and it is borinnnnnnnng.

Dull legacy rock albums from the 90s and 2000s, one of my most dreaded sub-genres. The Jam kicks ass, by the way.

Very generic-sounding. Supposedly British, but the vocal styling and baby, baby, baby lyrics give away the game of wanting to be the next great 1970s all-American songwriter. It's really a 2/5, but because it's way too bland and also way too long, and I didn't sleep well last night, here we are, 1/5

I really don’t have a lot to say about this record. I tried giving a review of each song, I really did, but I just completely zoned out after the first instrumental. The only way I can put it is that these songs weren’t made for an album. Individually, they would…well they’d still be pretty garbage. But putting them in a near hour long album just makes them far worse. I was initially gonna give this a 2, but then there were 30 more minutes of the exact same song. I have no idea who these songs are even made for. The lyrics are as uninspired as the instrumentals. The album stars out with Sunflower: “We have no future, we have no past.” I’ve heard that line probably more times than minutes are on this album. It continues with the ugly repetitiveness of “I miss you so.” It’s fine if a song has a repetitive chorus but at least make it mean something. Also, throughout the album are these Marvin Gaye-ass lyrics that fall completely flat about peace and war and love and humanity. They sound good coming from Gaye. Not you, Weller. Be more poetic about it next time. Really needed those two instrumentals so that I couldn’t hear the god awful lyricism. But yeah, in short, the singing is boring, the lyrics are boring, the drums are boring, the guitar “solos” are SO boring, etc. etc. I wish I could remember anything from this album. Actually, scratch that, glad I don’t. Well, the title track was fine.

Boring.

I felt like I'd heard this name before, I'm still. It sure, and I didn't really enjoy it

This might be my least favorite album I've had to listen to for this. Hated it. Excercised the rare "skip" halfway through the Stars on my Pyjamas song or whatever that was called. Nails on chalkboard.

1. Good intro. Tolero su voz, nice guitaring. Kinda boring pero nice ending riff. 2. Boring. 3. 4. 5. 6. Redneck boring shit. F... Mostly boring shite, couple liked. 1.5 actually

Meh

The Jam is a blindspot for me and maybe I'd feel differently if it wasn't? Probably not, there's a distinct lack of bangers and it veers to the corny pretty frequently. Feels a lot like the grating naivete of that first Lenny Kravitz album but this guy was older and should've known better.

Definitely not my thing. The best parts are the instrumentals, when he’s not singing. What’s weird is that his voice is pretty good, so I’m confused. I sense a lack of spirit, perhaps?

I don't see anything special about this album. The most bland, generic, 90's rock album. I don't like this one bit. 3/10

The safest type of rock is called Paul Weller.

The Brit equivalent to Hootie and the Blowfish

Boring

Not my thing. After listening to this album, I couldn’t remember a single thing about it. To me, it was a completely unremarkable piece of art.

When people say "boomer" as an insult, this dusty-ass dad rock is what they're talking about

not rly my vibe

Meh.

0/16 totally a good album though

Didn't like this one.

Have never warmed to solo Weller. I like a few Jam tracks, and the tremendous Walls Come Tumbling Down by Style Council just might be the best song he's ever had anything to do with, but (despite repeated exposure) solo Weller has never come across to me as anything more than, or less than, absolutely fine. I don't really like Traffic either, it turns out. Wild Wood's been on a couple of tracks ago and I've already forgotten the tune again, it's so bland. The rest is even more bland. In a normal rating situation I'd give it mid to low marks. In a list of 1001 all time albums taking the place of another record, it's got to be the lowest score. Thoroughly unremarkable.

Absolutely competent, but ultimately a crushing disappointment. Mr. Weller's songwriting has aged out of my taste. I'd rather throw on the worst B-side riddled album by The Jam any day of the week over this mid-tempo boomer rock. I am legit sad to have heard this record.

U/5

No sir, didn't like it at all...

Yet another "midlife crisis of a dude 20 years past his prime" kind of album. It's one of those days when I remember that this book is actually more about old white guys circlejerking each other, rather than an actual showcase of interesting music. Sad, innit, but what can you do. My list would probably suck similar amounts of dick.

Mid 90s, Sunday afternoon, disappointing pub lunch.

Det kan godt være det bare er mine Meshuggah-tømmermænd, men det her var sgu for benløst.

Dødkedeligt.

Gear: Aür Audio Aurora Mix: meh. Musik: meh. Wertung: 😐/5

yuck

Never heard of him, wish it could have stayed that way

Anytime a song fades out in the middle of a gentle saxophone solo, you know you're in laundromat music territory. Has Paul's fire really gone out? Yes, yes it has. If he had any to begin with. 1 laundry basket out of 5 🧺

This went down hill fast for me. First song 'This isn't bad' to the end 'I'm bored and i don't like this'.

Started this and quickly shut it off. It wasn’t bad it was just white noise.

When this was released I remember being hugely disappointed and revisiting it now hasn't shaken that feeling. I coped with the Style Council but this was just too far removed from the Jam that I loved so much. This is undoubtedly finely crafted, just not for me.

1. zunflouuer - 1 2. can you heal uz - 1 3. uuild uuood - 1 4. inztrumental - 1.5 5. all the picturez on the uuall - 0 6. haz my fire really gone out - 7. country - 1 8. inztrumental tuuo - 1 9. 5th zeazon - 0 10. the uueaver - 0 11. foot of the mountain - 1 12. zhadouu of the zun - 0 13. holy man - 14. moon on your pyjamaz - 1 15. Hung up - 1

Very disappointing. I love The Jam, The Style Council, and have enjoyed some of Paul Weller's solo music, but this was so far off the mark for me. Generic, hokey, and somehow appearing ahead of its time only in the fact it sounds like a strange John Mayer acoustic tribute act at times. Genuinely torn between a 1 or a 2 star, but I found it hard to find anything I really enjoyed.

I really didn't like this. I thought it had a consistent sound throughout the album, but it wasn't my thing and I couldn't really decipher what was special about it. More 90s Brit rock, ugh.

bland

Nee

Awful. This noodling feels like one step above Phish. Between the keyboard and saxophone jams I want to crash my truck. During the breakdown of Has My Fire Really Gone Out? I picture a bunch of Ridgid musicians on stage whose only movements are the head nods and smiles they give to each other while ever so slightly bouncing at the knees. If this is the kind of shit I will have to listen to, I absolutely will not make it through all 1001 albums.

Paul Weller and U2 in a week? Whatever I did, I repent. This 1993 album, along with Suede's basically set up the whole Britpop scene to come. Where Suede's set up an exciting, quirky interesting scene, this album said, go on Noel, give us all the most plodding bits of the 60s, reheated to a lukewarm temperature, but look like you 'mean it, maaaaan'. That's al

Meh Is it done yet?

Bluesia, joka välillä toimii ok ja välillä on puutteellista, pinnallista

Onko hän onnistunut uskottelemaan itselleen, että on tällä levyllä tosissaan?

I couldn't make it through this.

1.5 Felt like I was missing something; deeply unfun. But not in a sterile way. In a...bald guy who refuses to discuss his baldness way.

Dull

N0T 4 M3

New artist! Not for me! 1/5

Couldn’t even get through, will try again maybe but what an ass mix

Did not enjoy any of the songs

Boring

Don’t really dig the acoustic guitar

Hated it.

For me, a tad dull

Jag tyckte det va ganska tråkigt tyvärr och glömde bort å lyssna

The only redeeming feature was some good guitar bits which still weren't that impressive to me... Needless to say I hated this album. Dull as fuck dad rock.

Had a gorgeous time at Osborne House on Wednesday. Real V&A vibes for some absolutely obvious as fuck reasons. Bumped It Takes A Nation of Millions To Hold Us Back in the car. I imagine I couldn't have picked an album further from this one.

Really boring. Not my taste

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