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Where does the following phrase come from?
Tea and toast by Calvin Most.
*An Official Foo-Approved guitarist since Sept 2023.
*An Official Foo-Approved guitarist since Sept 2023.
Truly one of my 8 desert island discs....
*An Official Foo-Approved guitarist since Sept 2023.
Calvin Most was a runner at Polydor and Weller famously signs into hotels as "Calvin Most' to this day.
*An Official Foo-Approved guitarist since Sept 2023.
The rest are on this...
http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/B0000076ET/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?qid=1410628525&sr=8-1&pi=SY200_QL40
So I've got everything but not necessarily in the right order.
Being a youth (or not born) when they charted I got into them late!
I was waiting for someone to play the plagiarist card.
I'm not going to try and defend it either - he's not afraid to borrow something and run with it. And most likely create a hit record!
But most artists borrow from their influences surely?
You know, I'm one of these rare people these days who actually believe in God, and I can tell you - seeing The Jam live was one of the most amazing spiritual experiences I have ever encountered. All music is spiritual imho; but The Jam were incredible; truly life changing. I was very fortunate to see them 4 times live, and no other artist has ever come close..,
Incredible, passsionate, full of integrity, soulful, life shattering power.
Lyrically, one of the best songwriters ever. I still miss The Jam even now... Granted, we've had some leaner times as Weller fans recently - with some disappointing solo stuff....
None the less, that simple three piece band, made me think about life, love and belief at a young age. And that, is very powerful stuff. Three chords and the truth, as they say...
Don't forget you saw it here first...
The Style Council? Never got it at all....
Solo stuff has had its moments.
Now he strikes me as a man wearing a hair-style unbefitting his age.... He's starting to look a little embarrassing IMO.... He seems to be a permanent fixture on every series of 'Later' - and represents 'Dad Rock' to balance the newer acts....
Each to his own my friend, and I understand that Weller's arrogance can promote such views....
Just for the record, 'modernist' refers to a rise in consciouness; and more important, the whole ethos of the 'Mod' movement - building something new, inspired by the past, full of soul and purpose, clean living under difficult circumstances...
For example, "what's the point is saying destroy... I want a new life for everywhere"
I agree that most artists do borrow from their influences but the truly talented ones bring something of their own to the party and integrate the two together to produce their own distinctive voice, David Bowie being a great example. Weller has never done anything other than wear his influences much too loudly and proudly on his sleeve so as to drown out the sound of whatever scrap of originality may be lurking beneath, which suggests to me that the scraps aren't that big.
As @Wazmeister says, each to his own. I'm sure I like lots of artists/bands that would draw similar criticisms from folks like myself. I was hugely surprised to find that I really like Florence and the Machine... Kate Bush wannabe anyone?
Just to respond to Wazmeister's comments on the Mod movement, perhaps Weller isn't a Mod after all as not much of that very eloquently put description applies to him, asides from the inspired by the past bit...
He really is a crown jewel of British music, albeit an under-rated one.
*An Official Foo-Approved guitarist since Sept 2023.
I'll just pop this here. Beware he's reaching Chuck Berry levels of out of tune-ness toward the end.