Stanley Road
by Paul Weller
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Stanley Road is ranked as the best album by Paul Weller.
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The tracks on this album have an average rating of 80 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
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| ! | 07/22/2026 16:30 |  Tamthebam | 23,170 | 69/100 |
| ! | 04/20/2026 14:16 | Exist-en-ciel | 15,463 | 70/100 |
| ! | 02/28/2026 16:01 | DaveH68 | 1,363 | 76/100 |
| ! | 01/30/2026 10:02 | Leginlists | 3,774 | 83/100 |
| ! | 12/08/2025 03:04 |  Kingturtle | 7,579 | 73/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 2% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 78.1/100, a mean average of 77.1/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 78.4/100. The standard deviation for this album is 14.7.
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Squonk007 11/25/2023 16:16 | #300137 | TOP COMMENT
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There's some good things on here notably Out Of The Sinking, Time Passes, Wings Of Speed and Broken Stones. Some of the record seems to repeat itself Whirlpool sounds like Changing man for instance. Overall decent. (Edited)
Amongst several excellent solo albums, Stanley Road is just a level above all the rest. Flawless.
Weller follows up a masterpiece (Wild Wood) with another masterpiece. As good as anything he did with The Jam or Style Council
Wellers most consistent solo outing. Time passes is just lovely. Changing man or 10538 overture rehashed, is still a highlight. Similar to start, he avoided plagiarism with this one. Still a very pleasing and solid output.
Paul Weller and the Jam/Style Council have been at the periphery of my music taste for years - enjoying hearing the singles but never getting an album. I did get a Greatest Hits a few years back but only got this album about 2016.
"You Do Something To Me" is one of the best, sweeping songs you will ever hear. But there are so many good tracks here with The ChangingMan, Broken Stones, Out Of The Sinking and Wings Of Speed all doing it for me.
It lands at 101 for me though
Sandrof1969 02/19/2018 17:36 | #208825
Passato dal punk dei Jam all'intrattenimento soft e raffinato degli Style Council, Paul Weller è uno che ha cambiato meno pelli di David Bowie ma lo ha fatto in maniera ancora più radicale. Nella sua veste solista rivendica le sue radici Mods, specie in questo album che è buono in toto ma soprattutto nell'iniziale "The changingman" ( ecco, appunto… ).
Another Great album from Mr. Weller 'Out of the Sinking' my favourite here along with 'Broken Stones' regarded as his best album with most of his well known tracks although I prefer its Predecessor.
WOOOOOO, THAT SOUNDS GREAT JOJOEXILE! I'LL RECORD MUSIC TOO! PAUL WELLER IS GREAT! EVERYTHING IS GREAT!
jojoexile 08/03/2011 21:25 | #25656
CERTAINLY RECALLS BITTERSWEET MEMORIES OF 1995...THE PICCIDILLY TOWER RECORDS HAD A HUGE DISPLAY IN THE STORE FRONT WINDOW...THE SONGS ARE REMARKABLE AND I WILL ALWAYS REVISITE THIS FOR HOW IT MAKES ME FEEL...MELANCHOLY OR NOSTALGIC...
badfaith 09/30/2009 06:54 | #6462 | TOP COMMENT
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You Do Something To Me, and Broken Stones would be regarded as standards if they were released 60 years ago.
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