What Are You Listening To?

[CRAZY-HORSE]

PAUL WELLER  "hit parade" cd, 2006

a career spanning cd containing hit singles from The Jam, Style Council and his solo years...
there is also a 4cd box set containing around 80 of his biggest UK singles also (i didnt get that one though)...
this set just goes to show how eclectic his career has been up to that point...
excellent album IMO
I LOVE THIS ALBUM

1:   a town called malice (Jam)  ***
2:   going underground  (jam)  ***
3:   shout to the top (tsc)  **
4:   from the floorboards up (solo)  ***
5:   down in the tube station at midnight (jam)  ***
6:   peacock suit  (solo)  ***
7:   the changing man  (solo)  ***
8:   the eton rifles  (jam)  ***
9:   come on/lets go  (solo)  ***
10: sunflower  (solo)  ***
11: walls come tumblin' down (tsc)  ***
12: beat surrender  (jam)  ***
13: thats entertainment  (jam)  ***
14: broken stones  (solo)  ***
15: out of the sinking (solo)  ***
16: long hot summer  (tsc) ***
17: youre the best thing (tsc) ***
18: wild wood (solo)  ***
19: you do something to me (solo)  ***
20: hung up (solo)  **
21: my ever changing moods (tsc)  ***
22: speak like a child (tsc)  ***
23: start! (jam)  **

3 -  20
2s -  3
1s -  0

rating:  2.8

so after listening to the 'best of the best' of his singles from the first 30yrs of his career my favourite single is the one that personifies the exhuberance of youth IMO.






Your hair hangs in golden steps
You're a bonafide in every respect
You are walking through streets that mean nothing to you
You believe you're above it and I don't really blame you
Maybe that's why you speak like a child;
The things you're saying like "I'm so free and so wild"
And I believe it when you look in my eyes;
You offer me a life, and never lies
Least only the kind to make me smile

Your clothes are clean and your mind is productive
It shops in store where only the best buy
You're cool and hard, and if I sound like a lecher
It's probably true,
But at least there's no lecture

I really like it when you speak like a child
The crazy sayings like "I'm so free and so wild"
You have to make a bargain with me now
A promise that you won't change somehow
No way, now how

Spent all day thinking about you
Spent all night coming to terms with it
Time and conditions are built to tame
Nothing lasts with age, so people say
But I will always try to feel the same

I really like it when you speak like a child
I really like it when you speak like a child
The way you hate the homely rank and the file
The way you're so proud to be oh, so free and so wild