Paul Weller - Arrival Time - Various Studio Songs, 1990 - 1992

I just posted an album of live songs by Paul Weller from 1990 to 1992. As I said in that post, that is one of three albums I've made of his stray tracks in the first years of his solo career. Here's the second one, which is all studio songs that didn't make it on his first solo album (the 1992 album simply titled "Paul Weller").

As I mentioned in that last post, Weller's career was as a very low point in 1990, after his band the Style Council had fizzled out and broken up. He couldn't get a record contract for a long time, so he recorded an album with his own money and then shopped it around. But his music was seen as so uncommercial that even then it took him quite a while to get a record company to sign him!

Like the last post, the songs here are ordered by the year they were recorded. The first two songs are from 1990, and are from rehearsals for his first solo tour. The rest are from 1991 and then 1992 as his first solo album started to come together.

My usual rule is to not include any songs from official albums released around the same time unless they're significantly different. In this case, I did include a couple because they are different. One, "Always There to Fool You," is basically an instrumental version of the song "Uh Huh Oh Yeh" from his first solo album, despite the different title. Also, I found an interesting version of the album song "Round and Round" that was mostly instrumental. I edited out a minute of vocals from the middle of it to make it a fully instrumental version.

The other songs are a mix of originals that didn't make the album and some covers. The first song, "Waiting on a Connection," is a new version of a Style Council song.

By the way, note that one song here, "Work to Do," was also on the live Weller album I just posted. It's a cover of an Isley Brothers song. But that was live and part of a medley and this is a studio version, and the song has never been officially released by him in any form, so I figured both versions were worthy of inclusion.

"Just like Yesterday" is an original song performed in concert in 1990 that went unreleased until its inclusion on the "At the BBC" box set many years later. There's a demo version that can be found on bootlegs at well, but I prefer the live version.

01 Waiting on a Connection (Paul Weller)
02 Work to Do (Paul Weller)
03 Just like Yesterday (Paul Weller)
04 Here's a New Thing (Paul Weller)
05 That Spiritual Feeling [Instrumental] (Paul Weller)
06 The Bitter Truth [Demo] (Paul Weller)
07 Don't Let Me Down (Paul Weller)
08 Always There to Fool You [Instrumental] (Paul Weller)
09 Sitting in Limbo (Paul Weller)
10 Arrival Time [Instrumental] (Paul Weller)
11 What's Going On (Paul Weller)
12 Round and Round [Instrumental Edit of Alternate Version] (Paul Weller)

https://www.upload.ee/files/15191539/PaulW_1990-1992_ArrivlTime_atse.zip.html

The album cover is from a photo of Weller in 1992. Since I consider this part of a trilogy of Weller albums from the early 1990s, I'm using the same fonts and even similar colors for the text.