Once again, it has never featured on any studio album, and for a time was very hard to find on CD in its 7″ version (i.e. It struggled in comparison to Speak Like A Child, and became Weller’s first single to miss the Top 10 since 1979 when it peaked agonisingly at #11. Musically, it continues where Precious – the AA-side of 1982’s Jam classic A Town Called Malice, effectively left off. Heavily influenced by the new breed of 80s club sounds (Pigbag, Haircut 100, early Spandau Ballet), Money-Go-Round is Weller at his most relentless and politically fired-up.
With barely a pause for breath, TSC ploughed on with a very different follow-up single an intense funk workout with call and response vocal chants and, it has to be said, not much in the way of tuneage. The Singular Adventures Of The Style Council (Vol.1), Greatest Hits, The Sound Of The Style Council, Long Hot Summers…The Story Of The Style Council, Hit Parade (4CD edition), Collection, Classic Style Council, Sweet Loving Ways.Ģ. The track was not included on any studio album, but is the most widely compiled TSC 45 of them all, missing on only one of the major compilations. Tracie “House That Jack Built” Young reprises her role as guest female vocalist on the final Jam singles.įanbase loyalty sent it straight in at #6, and the Council were up and running in Style. Less than three months on from The Jam’s split, Weller came bursting back with this giddy, infectious slice of hammond-driven pop. A handy guide to The Style Council on 45, and where to find them….ġ. The latest, Long Hot Summers: The Story Of The Style Council, doesn’t attempt to be a Singles anthology with its wide-ranging selection of album cuts, alternate versions and curios scattered amongst some of the hits. Obviously there are many Style Council compilations, almost a dozen official ones in fact, but none come close to doing the business.
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No problemo, you’d assume, surely a compilation would kindly collect them in one place, so that the full TSC singular experience could be enjoyed?Įr, well. Even towards the end, there were orphan singles or heavily edited/remixed tracks lifted from the LPs. Weller’s passion for the single as a standalone entity, already established and espoused during his days with The Jam, saw most of The Style Council‘s early 45s omitted from their albums or else featured in alternative versions. Lee) released 18 singles and 4 studio albums. Better late than never, I suppose…īetween 19, the band (Paul Weller, Mick Talbot and Steve White, augmented first by Tracie Young and then Dee C. More than 30 years after The Cappuccino Kid was last spotted loitering around Parisienne cafes, the music of The Style Council is finally getting a long-deserved reappraisal.
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