Paul Weller – Stanley Road
Stanley Road is the third solo album by Paul Weller, released by Go! Discs in 1995. The album took it’s name from the street in Working where Weller grew up. Weller claimed on a BBC special that he hopes he can one day create an album as perfect as this one, stating that all the stars were aligned during the writing and recording period of Stanley Road. The song “I Walk On Gilded Splinters” was featured in the season ending montage of The Wire’s fourth season finale, Final Grades.
The album’s cover is by the cult British pop artist Peter Blake. In 1998 Q magazine readers voted Stanley Road the 46th greatest album of all time. Paul Weller is an English singer, songwriter and musician. Weller achieved fame with the punk rock/new wave/mod revival band The Jam. He had further success with the blue-eyed soul music of The Style Council (1983-89), before establishing himself as a solo artist in 1991.
