The style council

THE SINGULAR ADVENTURES OF THE STYLE COUNCIL

In retrospect, the Style Council has always been looked at as the (better part of a)
decade that constituted Paul Weller's lost in the wilderness period,
the time between his sharp, focused songs with the Jam and his more adult, reflective work as a solo artist. While it's undeniable that the period was marked by unevenness and experimentation, Weller and Mick Talbot's group chalked up their share of gems--it was just that for every "Long Hot Summer" there's "A Gospel"; for every "You're the Best Thing" and "My Ever Changing Moods" comes in, rounding out the above singles with other favourites, including "Speak Like a Child", Solid Bond in Your Heart", "Headstart for Happiness" and "How She Threw It All Away". In many ways, this "best of" foreshadows Weller's solo output: the best songs from the Style Council are those that are quiet and reflective; they feature breezy structures that let the songs breathe and shine through, here enhanced by bright synths and lounge-jazz arrangements rather than the Traffic-era guitar effects and classic keyboard sounds that would mark his later work.


You're the Best Thing
Have You Ever Had It Blue (12"version)
Money Go Round (parts1&2)
My Ever Changing Moods (12"version)
Long Hot Summer (12"version)
The Lodgers
Walls Come Tumbling Down!
Shout to the Top!
Wanted
It Didn't Matter
Speak Like a Child
A Solid Bond in Your Heart
Life at a Top Peoples Health Farm
Promised Land
How She Threw it All Away
Waiting

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Weller took a lot of heat for trading the Jam's sound and fury for
the more graceful arrangments of the Style Council, but appreciating
the former (and this reviewer does) by no means excludes one from e
njoying the latter. Furthermore, it's hard to believe that anyone who
listens closely to songs like "The Lodgers" and "A Stone's Throw Away",
could believe that Weller had compromised his convictions.


1.Homebreakers
2.All Gone Away
3.Come To Milton Keynes
4.Internationalists
5.A Stones Throw Away
6.The Stand Up Comics Instructions
7.Boy Who Cried Wolf
8.A Man Of Great Promise
9.Down In The Seine
10.The Lodgers (Or She Was Only A Shopkeeper's Daughter)
11.Luck
12.With Everything To Lose
13.Our Favourite Shop
14.Walls Come Tumbling Down
15.Shout To The Top (USA Remix)

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