Paul Weller - Wild Wood Demos (1993)

Paul Weller's 1993 album "Wild Wood" is still my favorite out of his many solo albums, though some others are close. So here's a somewhat different way to listen to that great album.

A deluxe version of "Wild Wood" was eventually released with an entire second disc of extra material. Most of that was demos. Generally speaking, these aren't solo acoustic demos. Instead, they're band performances, but usually simple and stripped down arrangements.

I took a few of the songs from the deluxe edition extra disc and put them on different albums, usually when they were songs he never did anywhere else and not just alternate versions of "Wild Wood" songs. That leaves the first eight songs here as demos of "Wild Wood" songs, following the song order on the album. The last three songs are demos of other songs from the time that ultimately made it onto the "More Wood" album instead. Add them up and you get 47 minutes of music, which makes a nice album length.

01 Sunflower [Demo] (Paul Weller)
02 Wild Wood [Demo] (Paul Weller)
03 All the Pictures on the Wall [Demo] (Paul Weller)
04 Country [Demo] (Paul Weller)
05 5th Season [Demo] (Paul Weller)
06 The Weaver [Demo] (Paul Weller)
07 Shadow of the Sun [Demo] (Paul Weller)
08 Moon on Your Pyjamas [Demo] (Paul Weller)
09 Ends of the Earth [Demo] (Paul Weller)
10 The Loved [Demo] (Paul Weller)
11 Everything Has a Price to Pay [Demo] (Paul Weller)

https://www.upload.ee/files/16696787/PALWLLR1993_WldWodDmos_atse.zip.html

I got lucky with this album cover. The photo I used actually shows Weller in the studio in the spring of 1993, working on the demos for the "Wild Wood" album. It was black and white, so I added the sepia tone.