Style Council |
The Style Council were the second musical creation of the great British musician Paul Weller, after the experience (and success) of The Jam. With the Style Council, active from 1983 to 1990, Mr. Weller with his "partner" , the keyboardist Mick Talbot, has been able to implement in full his musical ideas, an original mix of "cool" musical style, with Soul and Rhythm & Blues influences, sophisticated orchestrations jazz inspired, committed and highly polemical lyrics, against Britain and the U.S. during the Thatcher - Reagan era, and an aesthetic image, very far away from the then declining punk, elegant and refined, with the two musicians in the role of arbiters of elegance, in an explicit mention of the Mod movement of the '60s .
Many were the successes of the group, who
scored the background music of the '80s , from "Speak like a Child " to
" How Tumbling Down The Walls " to " You're The Best Thing " . |
Essential Discography |
1983 |
Introducing the Style Council Café Bleu My Ever Changing Moods (1) Internationalists Our Favourite Shop Home & Abroad [live] Cost Of Loving Confessions Of A Pop Group |
ANTHOLOGY |
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1989 |
The Singular Adventures of The Style
Council Greatest Hits Here's Some That Got Away The Style Council Collection The Complete Adventures of the Style Council In Concert [live] |
(1) Reissue of Café Bleu for US market, includes the bonus single "A Solid Bond in Your Heart" __________________ |