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Paul Weller - As Is Now - Deluxe Version CD/DVD Set Audio CD

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Paul Weller Band: Paul Weller
Title: As Is Now - Deluxe Version CD/DVD Set
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Release Date: 2005-10-11
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: Blink and You'll Miss It 2: Paper Smile 3: Come On/Let's Go 4: Here's the Good News 5: Start of Forever 6: Pan 7: All on a Misty Morning 8: From the Floor Boards Up 9: I Wanna Make It Alright 10: Savages 11: Fly Little Bird 12: Rock Along Summer 13: Bring Back the Funk (Pt. 1-2) 14: Pebble and the Boy 15: From the Floorboards [DVD][Live] 16: Here's the Good News [DVD][Live] 17: Come On/Let's Go [DVD] 18: From the Floorboards Up [DVD] 19: As Is Now [DVD]

The Return of "Fire and Skill"
" His last few outings of original material were, in my opinion, too slow, unfocused, and meandering, with only occassional flashes of the Weller brilliance. I will admit to being less than hopeful prior to purchasing Paul Weller's new album "As Is Now. But throughout his career, Weller has built a reputation for surprises -- and brand new starts. "As Is Now" delivers both.

From the ruggedly-gorgeous opening guitar chords of "Blink and You'll Miss It," through the Jam-like ravers "Come On/Let's Go" and "From the Floorboards Up," to the quitely beautiful numbers ("All on A Misty Morning," "Fly Little Bird"), Weller the songwriter re-establishes his knack for creating music that is passionate, direct, and insightful. Strands of sounds Weller has patented throughout his career in the Jam, Style Council, and under his own brand bubble up and filter through. "The Pebble and the Boy" evokes the beauty and grandeur of the Style Council's overlooked masterpiece "Confessions of a Pop Group," and "Bring Back the Funk" suggests that Weller, in the spirit of Bill Clinton, could be Britain's first black Prime Minister.

I had the opportunity to see Weller and his top band (with special kudos to the brilliant skinsman Stevie White, and Damon Minchella, who with the passing of John Entwistle earns my vote as rock's premier bassist) at Roseland in NYC last month. At 47, he is firing on all cylinders -- and that's a V8 under that hood. If the chain smoking doesn't catch up with him too early, "As Is Now" suggests Weller is only half-way through a brilliant career.


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