Wait, what?!

tell me about it😔

Nice song!!..

I often think the same , he was wise for his years

I've been thinking same for years ...not just this song but every jam song.....so young and being able to write what he did ....

Always wondered why, unbelievable,

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 !

He wrote teenage anthems when he was a teenager. Incredible.

@@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"

...baaaabbyyy

Did you get in for Royal Festival Hall in October ?

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 !

That's brilliant mate... Top man!

Nah, The Gift

For me All Mod Cons, and then Setting Sons. Love the Burning Sky demo more than the Setting Sons version.

Gotta be setting sons for me to

Sound affects for me. Set the house ablaze is just amazing

john santa greatest warrior

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.

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 . !

Me too mate.I agree.

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 !

Damn was it really that long ago must check for some more grey hair 😂😂😂 what a great show

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!!

Saturdays Kids

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."

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.

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 !

"Fly" what a tune that is.

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!

@Jack D'Ripa Hi Dave

@Jack D'Ripa fuck you. Twat

Agreed, this is great.

I think you mean Town Called Malice !

@@johnnyuppal7878 I think 'A Band Called Malice' is a Jam tribute band.

Suite XVI AZ hewrote the song you fkn clown and band called malice are copying the jam .

Simon Wells agree with you .. Tonight at noon could be considered as being the present Gravity track !

He is writing about you .... not himself .

It.ll never go out...you dunna know your arse from your elbow!!!!!

Val Doonican

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

It's too slow... lacks the emotion and statement the original made.

Agree@@kiwikid4688

Much prefer the original version, but 1 has to admire weller improvising and putting a different spin on 1 of the many great songs that hes written.

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...

Yes f terrible he has sold out years ago sounds like f blur

Prick

Prick as well......

@@leegardiner7916 Ha he is hard work

Grant Barclay more likely to be blur sounding like Weller (without the need to add the f word)

NO lol

Not a question of the singing its the heart.

Are you nuts

never going to happen. move on . weller has.

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 !

@@johnnyuppal7878 My friend was at the Festival Hall gig he said it was good.

@@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.

Iain Donald .. And that is exactly what this song is portraying the song which was once so beautiful is still there but unrecognizable ..

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 ..

@Jack D'Ripa fuck off u wanker. God help you if my mates got hold of you. And they wouldn't let you off lightly. 🚾🚾🚾🚾🚾🚾🚾

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.