Track Listing

Disc 1:

1. Blink and You'll Miss It
2. Paper Smile
3. Come On/Let's Go
4. Here's the Good News
5. Start of Forever
6. Pan
7. All on a Misty Morning
8. From the Floor Boards Up
9. I Wanna Make It Alright
10. Savages
11. Fly Little Bird
12. Rock Along Summer
13. Bring Back the Funk (Pt. 1-2)
14. Pebble and the Boy

Disc 2:

1. From the Floorboards [DVD][Live]
2. Here's the Good News [DVD][Live]
3. Come On/Let's Go [DVD]
4. From the Floorboards Up [DVD]
5. As Is Now [DVD]

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #164044 in Music
• Released on: 2005-10-11
• Number of discs: 2
• Format: Explicit Lyrics
• Dimensions: .28 pounds

Album Description
Limited edition with bonus DVD (PAL/Region 0). Paul Weller returns with his most hard hitting solo album to date. As Is Now finds Weller plugging in, and turning the volume up louder than he has in years. The first single 'From The Floorboards Up' is out now and is 2 minutes 27 seconds of edgy, malevolent rock'n'roll. Possessing the same urgency In The City had 29 years ago, it shows Paul Weller rejuvenated - a livewire and firebrand ready to take on all comers on this, his eighth solo album. The bonus DVD features Live Studio Footage of From The Floor Boards Up, The Start Of Forever & Here's The Good News plus a Documentary Trailer. V2. 2005. * Please note you will need an All Code DVD player to view.

Customer Reviews

The Return of "Fire and Skill"
I will admit to being less than hopeful prior to purchasing Paul Weller's new album "As Is Now." His last few outings of original material were, in my opinion, too slow, unfocused, and meandering, with only occassional flashes of the Weller brilliance. But throughout his career, Weller has built a reputation for surprises -- and brand new starts. "As Is Now" delivers both.

From the ruggedly-gorgeous opening guitar chords of "Blink and You'll Miss It," through the Jam-like ravers "Come On/Let's Go" and "From the Floorboards Up," to the quitely beautiful numbers ("All on A Misty Morning," "Fly Little Bird"), Weller the songwriter re-establishes his knack for creating music that is passionate, direct, and insightful. Strands of sounds Weller has patented throughout his career in the Jam, Style Council, and under his own brand bubble up and filter through. "The Pebble and the Boy" evokes the beauty and grandeur of the Style Council's overlooked masterpiece "Confessions of a Pop Group," and "Bring Back the Funk" suggests that Weller, in the spirit of Bill Clinton, could be Britain's first black Prime Minister.

I had the opportunity to see Weller and his top band (with special kudos to the brilliant skinsman Stevie White, and Damon Minchella, who with the passing of John Entwistle earns my vote as rock's premier bassist) at Roseland in NYC last month. At 47, he is firing on all cylinders -- and that's a V8 under that hood. If the chain smoking doesn't catch up with him too early, "As Is Now" suggests Weller is only half-way through a brilliant career.