You Do Something To Me

Once again utilizing a great feel for rhythm as well as Lyrics, Broken Stones written by Paul Weller which is another super song on the Stanley Road CD. The beats which play behind the song and the feel behind the song is original. Weller had came out with something fresh and innovative. There is great music as well as singing all I this song.

Like pebbles on a beach
Kicked around, displaced by feet
Like broken stones – all trying to get home.
Like a loser’s reach
Too slow & short to hit the peaks
So lost & alone – trying to get home.

As another piece shatters
Another little bit gets lost
And what else really matters – at such a cost?

Like a loser’s reach -
Too slow & short to hit the peaks
So lost & alone – trying to get home.

Trying to get home -
Like broken stones – All trying to get home.

I have been a Paul Weller fan for many years and this track is yet another example of many of just what a great song writer “Weller” is, The album Stanley Road illustrates that point perfectly well as do 98% of all his other albums.

Hats off to one of the greatest song writers ever the one and only Weller for writing another classic song and Album.

Some people think they’re jammy
But I know they must be crazy
Can’t see their misfortune
Even if they’re lazy
Walk throughout the fire
Drive throughout the smoke
See my enemy at the end of the rope

Walk on piles of needles
See what they can do
Walk on gilded splinters
With the king of the zulus

Kon kon, the kiddy kon kon
Walk on gilded splinters
Kon kon, the kiddy kon kon
Walk on gilded splinters

Here I go, now
Til I murder, til I’m dead
I rode out my coffee
By drinking poison from my chalice
Propped against my faith
I drink oil for my malice

Meet me on your doorstep
Soon we’ll be in the gutter
Melt you just like butter
I’ll make you stutter

Walk throughout the fire
Drive throughout the smoke
See my enemy at the end of the rope

Walk on piles of needles
See what they can do
Walk on gilded splinters
With the king of the zulus

Kon kon, the kiddy kon kon
Walk on gilded splinters
Kon kon, the kiddy kon kon
Walk on gilded splinters

Til I murder, til I’m dead

The Great Depression is another wonderful Paul Weller song written whilst he was in the Jam, with Bass Player Bruce Foxton, & Drummer Rick Butler. This song is on the super album called Extras which has loads of demos of many songs written by Paul before they were recorded in the studio. This CD is well worth its weight in gold.

Lyrics to The Great Depression :

I think we must have all gone mad
Maybe right turned over
They promise us the earth
Instead we’ve got the great depression
Now you’re free and easy with the base
You blame your brothers and sisters
And neurotics say “sod the rest”
It’s the new dissention

Into the abyss
By pushing forwards
It’s always down
It’s a desperate war
You’re trying to blow yourselves up
You don’t care who you stand… with the help about
Hey hey

well that’s not the way
No sense or reason in your fussing and fighting
And your violent obsession
Who’s ever really left feeling fine
After the great depression?
No sense of purpose in the competion
Keeping up with the Jones’s
You buy a house,
You buy a car
You buy a marriage and a bed of roses

Into the abyss
By pushing forwards
It’s always down
It’s a desperate war
You’re trying to blow yourselves up
You don’t care who you stand … with the help about

Hey hey

well that’s not the way

I think we must have all gone mad
Maybe right turned over
They promise us the earth
Instead we’ve got the great depression
Now you’re free and easy with the base
You blame your brothers and sisters
And neurotics say “sod the rest”
It’s the new dissention

Into the abyss
By pushing forwards
It’s always down
It’s a desperate war
You’re trying to blow yourselves up
You don’t care who you stand… with the help about
Hey hey

well that’s not the way
No sense or reason in your fussing and fighting
And your violent obsession
Who’s ever really left feeling fine
After the great depression?
No sense of purpose in the competion
Keeping up with the Jones’s
You buy a house,
You buy a car
You buy a marriage and a bed of roses

Into the abyss
By pushing forwards
It’s always down
It’s a desperate war
You’re trying to blow yourselves up
You don’t care who you stand … with the help about

Hey hey

well that’s not the way

Time Passes is a track which shows how one can feel when they are still hanging on to some feelings for a person they once were close to but it never worked out, and then you do see that person by chance but when you do and despite the fact you both will end up going separate ways you still wonder how it would have been had you tried harder.

Paul sings this song with lots of feelings and he also gets some high notes when he really wants to bring a point out in the song

This has to be one of my favorite tracks on Stanley Road I love the guitaring, I like the riff and the sound paul gets from the guitar, he played this from some old marshall valve combos, those old times love the sound of a valve amplifier as they feel you get a a much warmer tone from the guitar. This song projects that point wonderfully. The changing man is a great song which reflects things which happen to Paul as life is going by. Its also a song which could reflect many parts of our own life.

Broken Stones is a classic track written by Paul Weller taken from the wonderful album stanley road, This song has a a great feel around the whole song, the piano rhythm is classic as well as irregular making it sound totally original. This is a song favoured by many fans, Paul also played a version of the song with guitar which is also an interesting version, you can find it here on YouTube.

Stanley Road is the title of the album where these classic tracks are played and I love this song, it really does bring back memories of things which happened in the past in my life. In fact this is why Paul Weller songs mean so much to me, they reflect things which have happen and still do happen in my life, in addition to that he projects those emotions and events in a very desirable way. Stanley Road is a wonderful example of Paul’s Great writing skills.

Porcelain Gods is my least favourite on the Stanley road CD none the less its not a bad track when you listen to it a few times however it never really grabbed me the way others did on the CD. Perhaps there are those of you who favour this track but for me it never really touched me. check the track out for yourself and make your own opinion.

Pink on White Walls was a song which Paul Weller wanted the famous R& B singer Steve Winwood to sing however somehow he never got around to do so. Other rumours circulated that he wanted Joe Cocker to sing some of his songs.

Pink on White Walls main riff is played on piano a track which Paul wrote on the piano, its a lovely melodic song and well worth learning and listening too again and again. In fact when you listen to the album stanley road it will be hard to have a favourite as so many songs on the CD are so good Pink on White Walls written by Paul Weller is no exception

Out of the Sinking is one of those great tracks which has nice guitar riffs and tasteful guitar phrases combined with nice licks. So you take a way the vocals and there is a distinctive sound. When Paul’s combines his vocals with this track its absolutely brilliant.

There is a part of the song where there is a standard rock beat used, I can recall seeing PaulWeller play this song live with one guitar when he started having Steve Cradock play guitar with him and they played this part together the strength of two guitars gave a much stronger effect to the song.