I understand that some people prefer to listen to these great singles without the added commentary. Here’s hoping they form a solid bond in your heart as they have mine. But at their best, The Style Council recorded some of the greatest singles of the 1980s.
Sometimes they failed miserably as noted in the intro, their albums were often uneven affairs. They hit on everything from jazz and hip-hop to bossa nova and classical. At the time, house music was a new genre and yet to go mainstream.Ĭredit Weller and crew for not being afraid to push boundaries and try so many new things during their seven-year run. The record was finished in 1989 but was shelved by the record label and didn’t see a release until 1998. It’s worth noting that The Style Council’s fifth and final album, Modernism: A New Decade, experimented with deep house. The horn charts and organ licks alone put this among the group’s very best. The super catchy, soulful debut single was a huge hit in England, peaking at #4 on the UK Singles Chart. Here are 360°Sound’s picks for the greatest singles from The Style Council: “Speak Like a Child” Released: 1983įrom the EP Introducing The Style Council Looking for an introduction to this underrated ‘80s group? You’ve come to the right place. Last year saw the release of the excellent 2-CD comp Long Hot Summers: The Story of the Style Council as well as a documentary of the same name. All these years later, there seems to be a bit of reassessment of The Style Council. His latest, Fat Pop (Volume 1), dropped just a few months ago.
The Style Council broke up in 1989 and Weller has since focused on his solo career, releasing 16 studio albums. While they have some solid albums, even the best ones get a little too ambitious for their own good and have their share of filler. I’ve heard the entire Style Council catalog and I firmly believe they are best experienced through singles and compilations. But they recorded some damn fine pop songs, many with biting social commentary, that hold up very well nearly four decades later.
No, they weren’t The Jam, one of the greatest rock bands of its era in the UK. (Photo by Steve Rapport/Getty Images) As The Style Council release a new greatest hits album ‘Long Hot Summers: The Story Of The Style Council’, alongside a Sky Arts documentary on the band. For this reason, I believe they were unfairly maligned. The Style Council was smooth, sophisticated, and more rooted in jazz and R&B than rock-n-roll.
THE STYLE COUNCIL PHOTO MOD
The group’s music was a huge break from the punky mod rock of The Jam. After the breakup of The Jam in 1982, singer/guitarist Paul Weller formed The Style Council with keyboardist Mick Talbot.
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