Dan Geddes wrote:
>No, but he shouldn't try to milk the thing that made him famous (and DON'T say that
>he's not!) while churning out some other schlock....Like what if Dave
>Matthews started
>sporting targets and mod trappings (and I know a few bands have done that
>from a humor
>angle...)...you'd be like "What the f*ck?"...It's just that Weller can dupe
>a lot of
>people because of his past cred...
I've got to agree with Dan. Since breaking up the Jam, Paul Weller has:
1. had shit fashion sense
2. had shittier hair
3. made music suitable for light-rock milquetoast office radio and not much
else
4. collaborated with OCS which, in my opinion, almost wiped his past slate
of any "cred" clean in one swipe
5. never once apologized for abominations like "Wildwood"
6. has been severely overrated, drooled over, and paid for by mostly
British, mostly mod/ex-mod, mostly pathetic music journalists, worshippers
and fans
7. has been an asshole to poor old Bruce and and Rick, the real backbone of
his success
8. given innumerable piss-weak, gloss-coated, shallow interviews laced with
denial of all of the above
In short, I think Paul Weller has become a complete joke. Sure, I'm a Jam
fan, but he should have hung it up in '83, at least. I'm completely baffled
as to why anyone would think his contemporary work and persona has any
connotation or connection to mod culture these days. And that's not even
really the point; his solo work sucks, period, regardless of what cultural
group has duped itself into thinking it's supposed to like it, or vice
versa. He and Sting both need join Santana on tour where they belong or
retire and get their knighthood so they can have tea at Paul McCartney's
with Bob Geldof while Tom Jones teaches them all how to really sing!
Bitter Bek
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