Audio CD review:
Paul Weller - Illumination [Limited Edition w/ Bonus DVD]

Paul Weller - Illumination [Limited Edition w/ Bonus DVD]

Band: Paul Weller Title: Illumination [Limited Edition w/ Bonus DVD] Rating: Release Date: 14 January, 2003 Media: Audio CD Tracks: 1: Going Places 2: A Bullet For Everyone 3: Leafy Mysteries 4: Its Written In The Stars 5: Who Brings Joy 6: Now The Night Is Here 7: Spring (At Last) 8: One x One 9: Bag Man 10: All Good Books 11: Call Me No 5 12: Standing Out In The Universe 13: Illumination 14: Horseshoe Drama (Bonus Track) 15: Push Button, Automatic (Bonus Track) 16: Talisman (Bonus Track) 17: Sunflower (Video - Live From Hyde Park) 18: You Do Something To Me (Video - Live From Hyde Park) 19: Standing Out In The Universe (Video - Live From Hyde Park 20: It's Written In The Stars (Video) 21: Leafy Mysteries (Video)

Editoral Review This 2002 collection strives to both showcase that diversity and further focus Weller's voice and songwriting sense to the spare, forceful vehicle that's brought him back to the top of the U. While Paul Weller veered from the Mod-obsessed, early-Who-inspired successes of the Jam to further explore the R&B and Motown roots of those influences with Style Council, his solo career has continued down that restless creative path with wildly disparate results. K. charts. There's an echo of the savory rootsiness of Rod Stewart's "Gasoline Alley" on tracks like "Going Places," the title track, and "Now the Night Is Here," but the album's back-to-the-future R&B sense (exemplified by the single "It's Written in the Stars") is often a deceptive tease. Weller's guitar-driven conscience tears into "A Bullet for Everyone" and "Leafy Mysteries" with the abandon of old, and his muse leads him as far a field as the wordless, raga trance of "Spring" and the acoustic folk of "Bag Man. " Throughout it all, Weller's pop instincts remain strong, if prickly, as the music-hall-inspired "Push Button" and Mellencamp-esque "Talisman" (two of the album's three bonus U. K. B-sides) well attest. --Jerry McCulley .. You can see a complete list of all Paul Weller discography, or go back to the Paul Weller tabs