The Style Council: Classic or Dud?

there's a Style Council documentary on Showtime, interesting, wasn't that familiar with them

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.

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

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.

Couple songs live in Japan 1987.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9G_A5Bn1Drk

Ever so classic.

5. most women want to fuck paul weller

Not sure how well this has aged.

There would be no Monocle magazine without The Style Council.

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.

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.

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.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eweq1pnVOF0

wow

Weller struck me during this period as playing at leftish politics.

quite

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.

I like Down in the Seine for the utter moroseness