Playing his classic track from The Jam, Paul Weller performs 'Private Hell' with his band and the London Metropolitan Orchestra at Radio 2 In Concert at the BBC Radio Theatre.
I'm 29, and never lived in England or through the times Weller shared his social commentary via his music, but the fact that I now have access to 2 great versions of a meaningful song by my favourite songwriter/musician thrills me.
Absolutely fuckin' stunning song. Lyrically, this is one of his best and this orchestral arrangement makes it even better. When I first heard this version a few weeks ago I was reduced to tears, as it reminded me of my own "Private Hell". I'm 53 years old with 2 grown up children and I can so identify with the main character within this song. Bravo Mr Weller.
Wonderful. Just let this wash over me for 5 minutes as I reflected on the 40years of my life that have elapsed since I first heard it. Where did it go?
How did he have so much insight into the stark reality of 'real life' at such a young age ? Love this version and for all viewers watching this in black and white ..'this one is in Technicolor...,
IAN DAINTON Agree with you .. I was at the recent Southbank concert and after walking towards Westminster all his songs came back to remind me of his knowledge of real life .. Inc A Bomb In Wardour Street. Etc. Sadly we are now in a time of pathetic boy & girl bands ..reality TV .. & no idea of how brutal life can be. At his age of writing PRI ate Hell most of his peer group probably had posters of motorbikes and page 3 girls in there bedrooms and living at home with Mum .. Still in puberty and excited by the prospect of going to University.. Whilst Weller gave us compositions which still evoke goose bumps ! Thank you for your comment .. I hope I have not bored you !
@@tinsoldier1983 I think the point being made is that this particular song is written from the point of view of a middle age housewife stuck in a dreary marriage. It isn't a "teen anthem"
i was at the 1st concert at the festival hall in london! this brought tears to my eyes! been a jam fan for going on 37 years, would have never thought weller could sing private hell again after the jam but wow just wow!
I'm actually really pleased about this one. There's no way you can match The Jam '79 but still ... a beautiful version of a brutal track from a brilliant album 💪🏼
from one Johnny to another ... agree with you. I have uploaded more footage in hd of the Royal Festival Hall and Bham concert should you be interested on my page !
I have uploaded the concert from The Royal Festival Hall in hd including this track should you wish to have a look at some more of this very exclusive and great performance !
Sad how many people on here don't get this as just a different version and want to be 17 again, get over it I was there in the 70s and can still appreciate both versions as just that VERSIONS of a great tune.
Thank you for making this comment ... the negative comments seem to be from people who want to be 17 again but are more likely to be in a world of there own at age 50+. They try (and fail) to be critic"s and probably still have issues of smash hits plastered over the bedroom walls and living with Mummy at home . !
I bought this over 30 years ago and was blown away - now last night I watched this and was blown away again. Great arrangement and would buy again today. Awesome
I was lucky to have been in the audience for the 2 concerts at Royal Festival Hall in August and have uploaded some hd footage of it on my page should you "wish" to come true !! hope you will enjoy , but more importantly share the experience. I am more than happy to try and help anyone who may have missed the opportunity to experience the one in a lifetime concert in London.
amazing so haunting he is still the best i have ever heard and i have been to a few from the jam concerts but no one can do his songs like he can Russell Hastings is just a pretend as no one can be Paul
Daltrey and Townsend still 'BOUNCE' around as does Jagger and they're a lot older than Weller so please stop brown nosing him and talking bollocks. Weller has turned into a very boring old fart and his music is yawwwwwwwwwn these days!!
The seventies was a shit decade to grow up in but we had Weller. Thank you Paul and all the other great musicians of the seventies for providing colour in a grey decade.
Liked this version better than the original, I believe this has got more feel than the original one, I mean just listen to the line where he says "you see it SMASH". But, that may also be because I heard this song before heard the original(yes, I had been living under a rock). Anyway, this is one hell of a song and Paul Weller still got that fire in his voice. Marvellous, just Marvellous!
Good observation on the the way he performed this reflective reality of life. I was lucky enough to be at the Festoval Hall gig in London 13th October 2018 & have uploaded it on my channel should you want to experience more of the concert. Nice to see a Singh who likes this .. as a second generation Punjabi there are not many of our type .
@@johnnyuppal7878 Likewise Johnny. I am sure it must be a grand feeling listening to such great orchestra live. I wish to experience the same. And I am a Rajasthani Singh (Rajput), not Punjabi.
@@arvindsinghkaviya3031 Thanks for your comment.. I also prefer the festival hall version. Rajistan ? I kind of know the area as my sisters daughter who is a model and lives in mumbai works a lot in that part of India !
absolutely brilliant IMO... the lyrics are more in the foreground and audible compared the original Jam version... how did he have such insight into the lives of middle aged couples at age 20-21? was he watching his own parents relationship? anyway, I love the reinterpretation of that classic song, would love to hear him record a whole album of Jam songs reimagined with a string quartet or orchestra...English Rose, Liza Radley, Tales From The Riverbank, Man In The Corner Shop, Tonight At Noon, Carnation, Set The House Ablaze, etc etc and he could call the album "classical jam" awesome!
Almost word for word identical as my comment a few weeks ago... He seemed to have so much knowledge of real life and the shit which goes with it at such a young age. Tonight at Noon with those two words "Time and Tears" may fav. Nice to read your comment .. would be great if someone could make a movie with all his songs called "from the cradle to the grave " (sound effects album pic."
what an amazing songwriter weller is only lennon and mcartney, Ray davis in front of him. loved his music since the jam days style council stuff was great too. guys a legend
and the content and how it actually makes you reflect upon the "real world" still there after 30 + years of writing it shows the test of time. At such a young age he had so much insight and I hope that your son has at least listened to it as it will make him one step ahead of what other"s at University "think" they know.
Beautiful we all gain weight as we age or get skinny don't matter our hart's is what matters. Thank God my mind an health is great, not bad looking ether for my age, lol some people think differently but I don't care, I love my self and that's all that matters
Joy Tackett It would be nice if more people could think about life like you. There but for the grace of the almighty is in my head when I feel I am having a hard life and I think about others who are inflicted with a whole array of real problems... Self pity..self serving .. Nah ! Not for me !
Whilst acknowledging your opinion, which you are perfectly entitled to , the statement that “only the musically educated can appreciate this arrangement “ is both ignorant and insulting to anybody who has commented negatively to this post . It appears you infer that you are “musically educated” which unless you reveal yourself as an iconic artist/writer etc and justify your comments I will maintain that this is absolutely crap and better left full of energy in the period it was written
I have been listening to music my entire life from artists and singers who would wipe the floor with this pretentious prick. I am very musically educated thank you very much and the learning has taught me that this performance is total shit!
Not Out, intact and polished. Not the velocity, nor venom of the past; but a deeper and more solvent presentation. It (the song...) still has bite, just tempered and gently served for your contemporary audience. He's fought the past for decades, tried to escape his youth, tried to be true to both himself AND his followers. the Jam was long ago friend, we move on...
jkthemod I take part of that but to do an orchestral version of Private Hell is not moving on,; for example I was ok with the philharmonic doing a version of old Elvis tracks, as he is dead and can’t add anything more ;but they did keep the energy of the original song : maybe we will appreciate Paul Weller more when he’s gone , but hopefully we will remember him for his early stuff and not for the Cotton Trader era
that's fair... I'm a huge "fan" of velocity, aggression, angst; all missing from THIS. but I also get that perhaps he's rethought approaches; all greats do it, and he's trying to get the message across in a new way? may make it more palatable for him; we may see/hear more of the beloved Jam catalog in a new variation.@@graemeraw8894
Marvellous. Weller's lyrical ability in his solo work has never really been as acute and pointed as it was in his Jam / Style Council work...... possibly because it didn't need to be. Still haunting after all these years, "Private Hell" works brilliantly in this arrangement.
Spot on with your comment .. it is indeed haunting -- a private hell haunting which every single one of us will experience. They say the only thing in life which is a certainty is death , this song reflects some of that journey...
Where once he was pointing the finger at an older woman and her lot from the perspective of a young man now Paul sees it from the perspective of the woman and the man themselves which makes the song both poignant and a little threatening.
Me, singing: Look what he's done to my song ma Look what he's done to my song It's the only thing I could do alright And he turned it upside down ma Look what he's done to my song Sorry, Paul. That's way too much.
Yeah !.. the drummers don"t add anything .. and do not look like they actually want to be there. The concert at Festival Hall was good and during one of the songs you can see the women playing the violins are actually laughing at them .. rocking forward and backwards .. complete with man boobs ! Almost more embarrassing as Mick Talbot in the Style Council "Shout to the top " video where he looks like he is not hitting the keyboard between his legs !
@@neilbillybob3065 Yes it was very good ! A mission to get a ticket but one of those events which was a "must". I have uploaded a number of hd footage on my youtube account and I have also uploaded clips from the concert he did about 3 weeks before at the Birmingham Genting Arena Festival .. which will give you a chance to "compare and contrast" them both.
I did not know what you "ERXPECTED" but what I think you should do first is learn how to spell in English .. it is as follows "expected" but perhaps you have a special relationship with your namesake Mr Donald Duck ? or you might be thinking of the Looney Tunes version... or perhaps Donald Trump who is well known to have no idea what he is quacking about ..
when i watched this on iplayer i was quite surprised by the lack of enthusiasm for it! It certainly kicks Mallice's arse. I really like this version, to me it's caught most of the original feel, maybe lost a bit of the different colour (compared to the original at " think of Emma, wonder what she's doing......." But what i'm more concerned about is the rugby shirt and superstar hiTops! Unfortunately for me, most of the the gig was a bit of a bore for me, ..... a man of great promise stood out but the rest i've heard too many times.
I don’t know why he gets so angry about Clapton comparisons. Jesus, if I’d somehow been able to see this version in 79 I wouldn’t have believed it. Garbage.
Both of them are now in the "not so exclusive" fellowship of "one day at a time" .. total abstinence of the Demon Drink. Eric Clapton attends a function every new year eve in .. Woking, Paul Wellers home town.
A comment which is a little "RAW" to say the least... Which is made by someone who obviously needs to go to Specsavers not only for glasses but also a hearing aid. Mr Golden Graham ... I thought those TV adverts for breakfast cereals were to do with Football and not as you have suggested a "Rugger" Top. You need to stop watching too much back to back Rugrat episodes. This is a radio show version .. Radio does not have visuals. I think you are confused by saying 'Has he lost the plot ?` .. That was Guy Fawalkes ... Unless of course you are getting excited about The Eaton Rifles. Well at least you have Mr HasKhan who loves you dearly ... Even though it sounds like the name of a sexually transmitted disease .. Which is Raw .. But hey ! He likes it Raw and Rough in a Rugger Rat Stripper.
Nass Khan Lovely to see you like to feel in the same way as Rugrat Graham Raw .. Whatever turns you on mate ... Are you aware he is deaf, dumb and blind ?
