“Heliocentric” (2000) An expansive pop album in the best sense, mostly filled with easy-going, soulful folk and mature pop such as “Picking Up Sticks,” easily in my top 10 of his solo songs.

“Stanley Road” (1995) A bit of a stylistic sequel to “Wild Wood,” but it has several indispensable songs, including “Changingman,” the majestically slow-burning “You Do Something To Me” and his great cover of Dr. John’s “I Walk on Gilded Splinters,” which played in the wholly devastating final scenes of the season four finale of “The Wire.”

“Wild Wood” (1993) His second rebirth, and a masterpiece at that. Weller created an album of impassioned folk-rock that no one expected from the man who had spent a decade doing faux-soul and cocktail jazz with the Style Council. He had done one solo album the year before that hinted at real revival, but “Wildwood” was something else entirely, a timeless album that had one foot in the rustic, folk-and-jazz tinged work of Traffic and the Brit-pop that he helped kickstart just as Oasis were preparing their debut. Starting with “Sunflower” and continuing on with the title track, “Has My Fire Really Gone Out?” and “All the Pictures On the Wall,” it’s really just flawless when no one was expecting it.

The Style Council — Get “Introducing the Style Council,” “Cafe Bleu” and “Our Favorite Shop” if you have an appreciation for British R&B, Parisian-style new wave and cocktail jazz with a slight socialist bent. Everything after 1985 until his solo career began in the early ’90s was either bland or outright atrocious — seriously.

The Jam — You cannot go wrong with any of their discs, and you shouldn’t. “In the City,” “This is the Modern World,” “All Mod Cons,” “Setting Sons,” “Sound Affects,” and their 1982 swan song, “The Gift.” Most hardcore Jam fans don’t like “The Gift” as much, because it was venturing into the R&B that marked the best Style Council work, such as their big hit, “A Town Called Malice,” but be a completist when it comes to The Jam.