What Are You Listening To?

[CRAZY-HORSE]

PAUL WELLER "saturns pattern" cd, 2015

solo career stats:
studio albums..........12
compilations.............4
live albums..............4
"ep's"......................3
singles....................39

this album stats.................#2 UK.....#58 AU
singles:
"white sky".......................no chart action
"saturns pattern".............#102 UK
"going my way".................no chart action

Weller's twelfth studio album as a solo artist and twenty-third over his thirty-eight year recording career(if you count Style Council/The Jam)....
too much happening on this one, and too much of nothing overall...
Weller is trying to be too eclectic these days instead of focusing on what the fans expect/want and what he is good at....
along with The Jam's "this is the modern world",Style Council's "cost of loving"/"modernism" and his solo "sonic kicks" this ranks down there with those...
lyrically,very little happening,musically,noisy and fragmented, melodies,non-existant all round...
there are a couple of genuinely cool moments on it, but that doesn't make an album....
maybe the Brit's love-affair with Weller is waning as although this peaked at #2 over there it is yet to reach 'silver' status, and that's the first solo album his
that hasn't gone 'silver','gold' or platinum' over there....
all up, a disappointing effort from Mr.Weller, that's two duds in a row now, and as you know, im a huge fan of this guy

I DO NOT LIKE THIS ALBUM

worst track: in the car
best track: going my way

[video=youtube;UPL5ecJ766Q]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPL5ecJ766Q[/video]

tracks:

1...white sky **
2...saturns pattern *
3...going my way ***
4...long time **
5...pick it up *
6...I where I should be *
7...phoenix **
8...in the car *
9...these city streets *

3s=1
2s=3
1s=5

rating: 1.5