Thursday, January 9, 2025

Paul Weller - BBC Sessions, Volume 9: In Concert, BBC Radio Broadcasting Theatre, London, Britain, 4-23-2001

Here's another BBC album by Paul Weller. This one is rather unusual in that it contains a full solo acoustic concert. I believe 2001 was the first time Weller did a major tour in fully acoustic mode.

This concert bears a strong similarity to the official album "Days of Speed," released in late 2001. That is a compilation of various performances in Europe from this acoustic tour. So many of the songs are the same even though all of the exact performances are different. I prefer this though, as I generally prefer single full concerts with banter between songs over live albums that are compilations from lots of concerts. Admittedly, there isn't a lot of banter here, but there is some.

There's not much else to say. The sound quality is excellent despite everything here being officially unreleased.

On a related note, as I write this in January 2025, Weller recently released a new studio album, "66." I gave it a listen, and I was pleasantly surprised at how good it is. In my opinion, most songwriters his age tend to lose some of their creative fire after putting out dozens of albums (the title refers to his age of 66 years old at the time it came out), but Weller is still going strong.

This album is an hour and 12 minutes long.

01 talk (Paul Weller)
02 The Loved (Paul Weller)
03 Brand New Start (Paul Weller)
04 Out of the Sinking (Paul Weller)
05 talk (Paul Weller)
06 Clues (Paul Weller)
07 talk (Paul Weller)
08 All the Pictures on the Wall (Paul Weller)
09 Amongst Butterflies (Paul Weller)
10 talk (Paul Weller)
11 Science (Paul Weller)
12 Back in the Fire (Paul Weller)
13 talk (Paul Weller)
14 Sweet Pea, My Sweet Pea (Paul Weller)
15 talk (Paul Weller)
16 Here's One that Got Away (Paul Weller)
17 That's Entertainment (Paul Weller)
18 talk (Paul Weller)
19 Frightened (Paul Weller)
20 You Do Something to Me (Paul Weller)
21 There's No Drinking After You're Dead (Paul Weller)
22 Everything Has a Price to Pay (Paul Weller)
23 talk (Paul Weller)
24 Wild Wood (Paul Weller)
25 Headstart for Happiness (Paul Weller)

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The cover photo is from a concert in London on July 1, 2001.

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