When Paul Weller announced The Style Council’s arrival in March 1983, he’d come a very long way. In fact, at the age of just 24, he was already a musical veteran with six albums and nine Top 10 singles under his belt with The Jam. As their leader he had become a deity-like figure and for his fans, The Jam’s split was unimaginable.
But creatively restless and of inquisitive mind, Paul jettisoned them at their height to form a collective with an eventual core line-up of Paul with Mick Talbot, Dee C Lee and Steve White. In a quest for new sounds, the group travelled to realms previously unchartered for a pop group incorporating musical influences as wide ranging as Blue Note jazz and Chicago soul, Claude Debussy and Erik Satie, Chicago House and Jacques Brel. At the same time, as battle lines were drawn in a decade under Margaret Thatcher culminating in the miner’s strike of 1984-85, Paul’s lyrics spoke with the language of the activist and his state of the nation addresses were both fierce and eloquent. Over four albums and 17 singles, The Style Council made a stand and became the standard bearers of progressive soulful pop and social comment.“We set out to have fun, document the times and at the same time we wanted to elevate pop to an art form – I think we did that.” Paul Weller
TRACKLIST:
A1. Headstart For Happiness
A2. Long Hot Summer
A3. My Ever Changing Moods
A4. Walls Come Tumbling Down!
A5. Party Chambers
B1. Wanted (Or Waiter, There's Some Soup In My Flies)
B2. Shout To The Top!
B3. It Just Came To Pieces In My Hands
B4. Come To Milton Keynes
B5. Why I Went Missing
B6. Waiting
C1. Ghosts Of Dachau
C2. Down In The Seine
C3. The Paris Match
C4. Life At The Top People's Health Farm (Remix)
C5. Dropping Bombs On The White House (Previously Unreleased)
D1. Speak Like A Child
D2. The Lodgers (Or She Was Only A Shopkeeper's Daughter) Money-Go-Round (Single Edit)
D4. You're The Best Thing
D5. How She Threw It All Away
E1. A Man Of Great Promise
E2. The Piccadilly Trail
E3. A Solid Bond In Your Heart
E4. Sweet Loving Ways
E5. Promised Land (Single Edit)
E6. It Didn't Matter
F1. Have You Ever Had It Blue (Uncut Version)
F2. Spin Drifting
F3. Here's One That Got Away
F4. Changing Of The Guard
C5. My Ever-Changing Moods (Demo) (Previously Unreleased)
Condition: BRAND NEW - SEALED
