Paul Weller - Paul Weller Has Got Soul, Volume 2: The 1970's and 80's

I just posted Volume One of this two volume series. For most of the info on it, please refer to my notes there. In short, British rocker Paul Weller is a huge soul music fan, and I thought it would be fun to compile all the soul covers he's done in his long career. There were so many (as I write this in 2023) that I had to make two big albums.

I think my tastes in soul music are very similar to Weller's. It's my opinion that the soul music was devastated by the rise of disco in the late 1970s, and it's never been as good since then. Weller must have a similar idea, because even though this is billed as covers of the songs from the 1970s and 1980s, everything is from the 1970s except for the last two songs.

As with Volume One, the songs are ordered by when the original versions were released, not by when Weller did his versions. 

It's quite possible that I've missed some cover versions here and there. If you see any that I've missed, please let me know.

Here's the list of the original artists for each song:

01 Move On Up - Curtis Mayfield
02 War - Temptations / Edwin Starr
03 Give Me Just a Little More Time - Chairmen of the Board
04 Hanging On to a Memory - Chairmen of the Board
05 What's Going On - Marvin Gaye
06 Family Affair - Sly & The Family Stone
07 Will It Go Round in Circles - Billy Preston
08 I Wanna Be Where You Are - Michael Jackson
09 If I Could Only Be Sure - Nolan Porter
10 Work to Do - Isley Brothers
11 Hercules - Aaron Neville
12 Stoned Out of My Mind - Chi-Lites
13 The Bottle - Gil Scott-Heron
14 Ain't No Love in the Heart of the City - Bobby 'Blue' Bland
15 Wishing on a Star - Rose Royce;
16 One Nation Under a Groove - Funkadelic
17 Thinking of You - Sister Sledge
18 The Razor's Edge - Defunkt
19 Promised Land - Joe Smooth

And here's the usual song list:

01 Move On Up (Jam)
02 War (Jam)
03 Give Me Just a Little More Time (Jam)
04 Hanging On to a Memory (Style Council)
05 What's Going On (Paul Weller)
06 Family Affair (Paul Weller)
07 Will It Go Round in Circles (Paul Weller with Jools Holland)
08 I Wanna Be Where You Are (Carleen Anderson & Paul Weller)
09 If I Could Only Be Sure (Paul Weller)
10 Work to Do (Paul Weller)
11 Hercules (Paul Weller)
12 Stoned Out of My Mind (Jam)
13 The Bottle (Paul Weller)
14 Ain't No Love in the Heart of the City (Paul Weller)
15 Wishing on a Star (Paul Weller)
16 One Nation Under a Groove (Style Council)
17 Thinking of You (Paul Weller)
18 The Razor's Edge (Style Council)
19 Promised Land (Style Council)

This album is an hour and eight minutes long.

https://www.upload.ee/files/15100060/PaulW_2023_HasGotSoulVolume21970and80_atse.zip.html

Just like Volume One, I had some fun making the album cover heavily based on soul music concert poster art. Here is the exact poster I based this one on.