Song · Paul Weller
“Wildwood” by Paul Weller
From the album Wild Wood (1993)
“Wildwood” by Paul Weller appears on 6 radio countdowns from 1 station between 1993 and 2006. It was first released in 1993 on the album Wild Wood. Its best result is #4 on the Virgin Radio Top 10 Songs of 1993. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #116 alternative song of 1993 and #2,887 alternative song of all time.
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"Wild Wood" is the title song of Paul Weller's second solo album, released on Go! Discs in 1993 as that record's second single, and it's the sound of the old firebrand pulling off the road and wandering into the trees. Weller wrote it and sings it over his own guitar, with Marco Nelson's bass barely there, Steve White's drums soft and patient, Helen Turner's organ and producer Brendan Lynch's mellotron and Minimoog drifting in like mist.
It reached 14 in the UK and went silver. One reviewer caught a Neil Young flavor in its easy acoustic pace, and in 2021 Alexis Petridis of The Guardian ranked it fourth among Weller's greatest songs, the best of a folk streak running back to the Jam's "English Rose" and "Liza Radley". Portishead remixed it for a 1999 reissue.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
Alternative & Modern Rock
All Rock Formats
Year-end countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1993 | 4 | Virgin Radio United Kingdom | Virgin Radio Top 10 Songs of 1993 | 10 |
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2001 | 302 | Virgin Radio | Virgin Radio Top 500 Songs of All-Time (December 2001) | 500 |
| 2003 | 47 | Virgin Radio | Virgin Radio VR10x10 (April 2003) | 100 |
| 2004 | 202 | Virgin Radio | Virgin Radio Top 500 Songs of All-Time (December 2004) | 500 |
| 2005 | 177 | Virgin Radio | Virgin Radio Top 500 Songs of All-Time (December 2005) | 500 |
| 2006 | 92 | Virgin Radio | Virgin Radio Top 500 Songs of All-Time (December 2006) | 500 |
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