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20th Century Masters: The Millennium Collection: The Best Of The Style Council (CD)

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The Style Council Artist Snapshot:

Formed by influential guitarist/vocalist/songwriter Paul Weller (with ex-Merton Parkas keyboardist Mick Talbot) after the break-up of his legendary band The Jam, Style Council traded in The Jam's mod/punk guitar rock for heavily R&B- and disco-influenced pop. Interestingly, the ever-enigmatic and uncompromising Weller chose to match his highly accessible modern soul music with lyrics based on European Socialist rhetoric, in the process instantly limiting his group's appeal. Unsurprisingly, Weller eventually found the band's highly stylized music limiting, and left to begin a solo career.

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DISC 1 for 20th Century Masters: The Millennium Collection: The Best Of The Style Council (CD) Album By The Style Council (Artist)
1   It Didn't Matter
2   My Ever Changing Moods - (single version)
3   You're The Best Thing - (single version)
4   Shout To The Top - (extended version)
5   Boy Who Cried Wolf, The
6   Speak Like A Child
7   Money-Go-Round - (Parts 1 & 2)
8   Long Hot Summer - (single version)
9   Call Me, (When You) - (live)
10   Have You Ever Had It Blue
11   Walls Come Tumbling Down
 

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Title Note

The Style Council: Paul Weller, Mick Talbot.

Additional personnel includes: Gil Evans (arranger).

Producers include: Paul Weller, Peter Wilson, Clive Langer, Alan Winstanley, Robin Miller.

Compilation producers: Mike Ragogna, Dana Smart.

Recorded between 1983 & 1987. Includes liner notes by Scott Schnider.

This is part of Universal Records "20th Century Masters The Millenium Collection" series.

Given that the Style Council's sophisticated, jazzy soul, which incorporated elements of New Wave and R&B, was an erratic endeavor, a single-disc compilation is an excellent choice for the casual fan. THE BEST OF THE STYLE COUNCIL: THE MILLENNIUM COLLECTION, though not quite as comprehensive as 1989's THE SINGULAR ADVENTURES OF THE STYLE COUNCIL, is still a top-drawer survey of one of the key British pop groups of the '80s.

The group's sleek, appropriately "stylish" sound--complete with drum machines and synthesizer--added a modern European gloss to Paul Weller's songs (which were directly inspired by American R&B). The earliest tunes here, "Speak Like a Child" and "My Ever Changing Moods" were chart hits in Britain (and the latter cracked the American Top 40). Almost every song here was a major hit in the UK in the mid-'80s, including the lounge-inspired "You're the Best Thing," the exuberant "Walls Come Tumbling Down," and "It Didn't Matter," which fuses dance grooves and torrid soul. THE MILLENNIUM COLLECTION affirms the band's status as one of the best groups of its milieu.

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