― Bimble brings a lawn chair to antartica so he can sit and drink silver coff (Bim, Sunday, 22 January 2006 10:02 (eighteen years ago) link
5 reasons to hate TSC1. The albums, famously the later stuff2. The cappucino kid sleevenotes3. their attempts at 'rap', ahem4. the jazz pretensions5. the offshoots - especially Respond, Tracie, etc...
― dr x o'skeleton, Monday, 23 January 2006 11:19 (eighteen years ago) link
― m coleman (lovebug starski), Monday, 23 January 2006 11:36 (eighteen years ago) link
― m coleman (lovebug starski), Monday, 23 January 2006 11:38 (eighteen years ago) link
― 'Curt' Russell (noodle vague), Monday, 23 January 2006 11:43 (eighteen years ago) link
― joan vich (joan vich), Monday, 23 January 2006 12:10 (eighteen years ago) link
In particular I want to discuss "Confessions Of A Pop Group". I love that album so much that I had to purchase it separately even though I already had the box set. Such an ambitious album...maybe even pretentious...it has some flaws but to me it's filled with a weighty, comforting substance. Their stab at classical music or whatever...just crazy. No one wanted it out of them, no one cared a jot, but yet...look what they did.
That said, "Life At A Top People's Health Farm" is utter crap and even Weller himself said he was unhappy with it later.
"It's A Very Deep Sea" alone should convince anyone they had something uncommonly brilliant to offer here.
― Good Warlock of the West (Bimble...), Sunday, 7 January 2007 06:00 (seventeen years ago) link
― Good Warlock of the West (Bimble...), Sunday, 7 January 2007 06:15 (seventeen years ago) link
I don't know why the song Money Go Round sounds better than ever now, and I've heard it plenty of times already:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r7Bq9YdDVc8
― Bimble Is Still More Goth Than You, Saturday, 7 June 2008 06:26 (fifteen years ago) link
Listening to The Style Council's The Complete Adventures Of The Style Council box set over the last couple of days, which features all of the material released under The Style Council name throughout their career, plus the unreleased (at the time) lost 'house album'. Listening to their material in this way, I'd say their output was classic until The Cost Of Loving which (maybe 'Waiting' aside) is a massive dud, IMHO. The first side of Confessions Of A Pop Group is classic, and undoubtedly features some of the most adventurous music Weller ever made, and this includes his recent solo stuff. The second half is dud, though, as is the 'house album'.
One thing that I've noticed about The Style Council era from about 1983-1985 is that Weller has a tendency to revisit his songs quite a lot. 'The Paris Match', 'Headstart For Happiness', 'My Ever Changing Moods' to name three were recorded in one or two different arrangements and put out on different releases. Weller didn't really do this very much in either The Jam or his solo career, if at all.
― The Jupiter 8 (Turrican), Friday, 3 August 2012 21:16 (eleven years ago) link
there's a Style Council documentary on Showtime, interesting, wasn't that familiar with them
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 19 February 2021 02:30 (three years ago) link
Every time I dive into their catalog Weller's inability to sing his own songs distances me, but the concept -- punk rocker anticipating Swing Out Sister -- draws me back.
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 19 February 2021 02:52 (three years ago) link
i am going to check them out, have not heard much other than an odd song that might have popped up on a spotify radio station
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 19 February 2021 14:42 (three years ago) link
style council on totp rapping "if you're part of the working class, this issue applies to you!" or something like that was a real "aw, bless" moment.
― Daniel_Rf, Friday, 19 February 2021 16:30 (three years ago) link
Couple songs live in Japan 1987.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9G_A5Bn1Drk
Ever so classic.
― get shrunk by this funk. (Austin), Sunday, 27 February 2022 18:38 (two years ago) link
5. most women want to fuck paul weller
Not sure how well this has aged.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Friday, 1 July 2022 21:41 (one year ago) link
There would be no Monocle magazine without The Style Council.
― deep luminous trombone (Eazy), Friday, 1 July 2022 22:40 (one year ago) link
As dismayed as I was by the breaking up of The Jam, the first Style Council EP was a revelation for me when it came out.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Saturday, 2 July 2022 14:37 (one year ago) link
I did get to one of the last Jam gigs at Wembley Arena, it was very singalongaJam.
Yes, that first ep told me things were going to be good. Better, even.
― Mark G, Wednesday, 6 July 2022 06:42 (one year ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AsW27mRYjh4
"the story of someone's shoe" (1988)
i love this song. it sounds amazing, but it's absolutely disgusting.
― "Why is the voice of reason treated as the unreliable narrator?", asked (Austin), Tuesday, 19 July 2022 18:37 (one year ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eweq1pnVOF0
wow
― | (Latham Green), Monday, 19 December 2022 13:07 (one year ago) link
Weller struck me during this period as playing at leftish politics.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Monday, 19 December 2022 20:37 (one year ago) link
quite
― | (Latham Green), Monday, 19 December 2022 20:54 (one year ago) link
Not a huge Weller fan, but "Boy Who Cried Wolf" is a personal favorite - so smooth. It does annoy Weller fans if you say this is the best thing he's ever done.
― Spencer Chow, Tuesday, 20 December 2022 00:36 (one year ago) link
I like Down in the Seine for the utter moroseness
― | (Latham Green), Tuesday, 20 December 2022 17:05 (one year ago) link