The Complete Adventures of the Style Council [Box set] [Import]

Product Description
90 digitally remastered tracks - virtually every studio cut made by the group Paul Weller formed with pianist Mick Talbot after The Jam dissolved. Features all 12 tunes from the previously unavailable 1989 album 'A Decade Of Modernism', plus six other cuts making their CD debut & the previously unavailable 'Money-Go-Round (Pt.1 & 2)' (Bert Bevans Alternate Remix). As with The Jam box, it contains no live recordings & comes in a 6 inch x 12 inch longbox with a detailed 112 page color book with liner notes, lyrics, etc. 1998 Polydor release.

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The Complete Adventures of the Style Council [Box set] [Import]

Average customer rating: Adding to C. Jannuzi's review... It's In The Mail! Aspired to 1000x more than most artists' dream of... Giants of the '80's: TSC FIVE DISCS THAT WILL TAKE YOU TO THE PROMISED LAND

The Complete Adventures of the Style Council The Style Council Manufacturer: Polygram Int'l ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music New Wave | New Wave & Post-Punk | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music General | Pop | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music General | Adult Contemporary | Pop | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music General | Pop | Box Sets | Stores | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Box Sets | Stores | Music General | Rock | Box Sets | Stores | Music Rock | Imports | Stores | Music Similar Items: In Concert Direction Reaction Creation Illumination [Limited Edition w/ Bonus DVD] As Is Now Stanley Road ASIN: B00000G6H5 Release Date: 1998-10-26

Tracks:

1. Speak Like a Child
2. Party Chambers [*]
3. Money-Go-Round, Pt. 1 & 2 [Bevans, Bert Alernate Remix][#]
4. Headstart for Happiness
5. Mick's Up
6. Long Hot Summer
7. Paris Match
8. Lpart [*]
9. Solid Bond in Your Heart
10. It Just Came to Pieces in My Hands
11. My Ever Changing Moods [12" Version]
12. Mick's Company
13. Spring, Summer, Autumn
14. Mick's Blessings
15. Whole Point of No Return
16. Me Ship Came In!
17. Blue Caf
18. Paris Match
19. My Ever Changing Moods
20. Dropping Bombs on the White House - The Style Council, The Style Council
21. Gospel [#]

Tracks:

1. Strength of Your Nature
2. You're the Best Thing
3. Here's One That Got Away
4. Headstart for Happiness
5. Council Meetin'
6. Big Boss Groove
7. Shout to the Top!
8. Ghosts of Dachau
9. Piccadilly Trail
10. Soul Deep [Bevans, Bert Remix][*]
11. Walls Come Tumbling Down!
12. Whole Point II
13. Bloodsports
14. Spin' Drifting
15. Homebreakers
16. All Gone Away
17. Come to Milton Keynes
18. Internationalists
19. Stone's Throw Away
20. Stand Up Comic's Instructions
21. Boy Who Cried Wolf

Tracks:

1. Man of Great Promise
2. Down in the Seine
3. Lodgers
4. Luck
5. With Everything to Lose
6. Our Favorite Shop
7. (When You) Call Me
8. Have You Ever Had It Blue? [Uncut Version]
9. Mr. Cool's Dream [*]
10. It Didn't Matter
11. All Year Round [*]
12. Right to Go
13. Heavens Above
14. Fairy Tales
15. Angel
16. Walking the Night
17. Waiting
18. Cost of Loving
19. Woman's Song
20. Francoise [*]

Tracks:

1. Wanted
2. Cost of Loving [12" Version] - The Style Council, The Style Council
3. Life at a Top Peoples Health Farm [Um & Argh Mix]
4. Sweet Loving Ways
5. It's a Very Deep Sea
6. Story of Someone's Shoe
7. Changing of the Guard
8. Little Boy in a Castle/A Dove Flew Down from the Elephant
9. Gardener of Eden (A Three Piece Suite)
10. Why I Went Missing
11. How She Threw It All Away
12. Iwasadoledadstoyboy
13. Confessions 1, 2, & 3
14. Confessions of a Pop-Group
15. In Love for the First Time
16. I Do Like to Be B-Side the A-Side/The Mixed Companions

Tracks:

1. Promised Land [Longer Version]
2. Can You Still Love Me?
3. Long Hot Summer '89
4. Everybody's on the Run/Modernism: A New Decade
5. New Decade
6. Can You Still Love Me?
7. World Must Come Together
8. Hope (Feelings Gonna Getcha)
9. That Spiritual Feeling
10. Everybody's on the Run
11. Love of the World
12. Sure Is Sure

Album Description

90 digitally remastered tracks - virtually every studio cut made by the group Paul Weller formed with pianist Mick Talbot after The Jam dissolved. Features all 12 tunes from the previously unavailable 1989 album 'A Decade Of Modernism', plus six other cuts making their CD debut & the previously unavailable 'Money-Go-Round (Pt.1 & 2)' (Bert Bevans Alternate Remix). As with The Jam box, it contains no live recordings & comes in a 6 inch x 12 inch longbox with a detailed 112 page color book with liner notes, lyrics, etc. 1998 Polydor release.

Album Details

5 CD Box Set.

Customer Reviews:

Adding to C. Jannuzi's review..........2006-11-28

If you are a die hard TSC fan, this package takes most of those LP's, plus the 45's and 12" discs you purchased between albums in the 80's and packages them together for you to play on CD. You can leave the old wax in their sleeves now.

C. Jannuzi posted a very informative and accurate review of the discs themselves. I will not attempt to add to that portion of his review. I am adding that this is the best packaged box set I have ever seen. The booklet alone is close to being worth the price of the set. (I bought mine from one of Amazon's retail partners - much cheaper and still in shrinkwrap.) It contains a complete history of the band, a diary of the band's recordings, releases and appearances, a thorough discography, band promo and live photos, a Paul Weller interview, and images of scores of promotional posters, advertisments, and obscure disc sleeves. Each of the 5 discs is packaged in it's own glossy cardboard sleeve with track listings and information plus another photo. Each disc is also in a paper sleeve inside the cardboard to further protect the disc. I have not seen this degree of disc protection before. In addition to the booklet and discs, there is complete lyric sheet which includes a listing of the musicians on each track, its recording date and lyrics.

Although the booklet is printed on high quality paper and has excellant sharp images, it is not bound well. Mine has not fallen apart but you must be gentle and not crease the spine of the book.

Overall, a fantastic package of wonderful tunes.

It's In The Mail!.......2003-10-06

I haven't yet even received my copy of this anthology, and I'm already beside myself! As someone who lived through their musical journey, and first began hearing this group while the world was still fresh and new to me, I already know that this collection will be nothing less than stellar! Paul Weller was truly at his peak when he wove the artistic tapestry that was The Style Council. It's funny how some artists alone are pretty good, but when you mix just the right combination of talent... BOOM!!!! You make history, and inspire the world.

Aspired to 1000x more than most artists' dream of..........2002-02-07

How many artists' would trash a hard fought following like the Jam eventually achieved...and as a white english guy seek to sound as soulful as The O'Jays and Ramsey Lewis Trio?

IMHO, that's a pretty 'darn' TALL order. Pulling it off...even 50% of the time is a massive artistic achievement in my book. Had Mr Weller ever known I'm sure he would count among TSC's biggest successes as having the Black (nearly all) "Dusties" (oldies) format radio station (in Los Angeles) add "Long Hot Summer" to their rotation back when it was released...which it was! I heard it.

Giants of the '80's: TSC.......2001-11-02

Saw one of those Time-Life ads for an '80's collection. Some good stuff; a lot of trivial songs intermixed with a few catchy ones. No TSC. Bummer. These folks bestrode the '80's like giants amongst pygmies. Who else but the Beatles managed to conquer so many pop idioms, yet do them all extremely well at the same time?
Most of this has to do with the pairing of Weller and Talbot. Much as Lennon/McCartney, each partner gave a missing element to the writing, to produce a product so much stronger as a result. The true strength in this pairing comes from the tremendous drive always inherent in Paul's writing and playing (The Jam) coupled with the lucious charts and strength of Mick's playing. The result was hard-driving acid_jazz/rock/lounge/house/big_band/every_pop_idiom_under_the_sun, but so much more. After TSC, Paul's work, while always good, lacked the finesse of TSC; Mick's subsequent work lacks the drive of TSC.
Memories of the pop culture of the '80's gain great depth when listening to their music. They reinvented lounge music; virtually invented house music (the last unreleased lp) and acid jazz. I hope this magnificent collection, which is the only true single showcase of all of this variety, will boost their reputation in the States and all over the world.

FIVE DISCS THAT WILL TAKE YOU TO THE PROMISED LAND.......2001-06-15

This is complete retrospective of TSC's studio career. It makes you realize what a prolific musician and composer Paul Weller is, though he also gets a lot of help from the various TSC personnel, most notably Mick Talbot, keyboardist extraordinaire.

Weller is truly a pop-rock chameleon. He sheds his skin every so many years and starts a new phase, and given his influence on UK music, the phase often becomes a period. Have no doubts, outside of a few groups like New Order, the Smiths, and the Cure, TSC were the most important group of the 1980s, able to mix artistic ambitions with popular success.

It's also easy to say, in retrospect, that TSC is not as important as Weller's Jam phase (late 70s, early 80s) or his solo career (90s til now); however, this is based more on middle class revulsion of Weller's politics (he went from a glib Thatcher supporter to total Thatcher-hating leftist).

My estimation of this career path differs from current opinion: the Jam were too often callow and leaden (compared to TSC anyway), though entertaining with their singles and their last 3 studio albums (none of which had any impact in the US anyway). Weller's solo career seems so wonderful now because he is so much more talented than most current Brit rock. The help he gave Oasis seems to have made at least one of their songs brilliant. But musically, TSC is his peak, which doesn't mean there is not an awful lot to enjoy in the other periods.

Disk One: 21 tracks, with at least 15 out and out classics. Very rarely does music come across as so cinematic as this. When I listen to these songs my memory evokes a time in the 1980s that never was and will never be again.

Disk Two: 21 tracks, even more classics, with the production getting better and better.

Disk Three: 20 tracks, the absolute peak of TSC, production wise, playing wise, everything. This disk just keeps getting played again and again.

Disk Four: 16 tracks, a wonderful tapering off from the peak, with some out and out classics as well. TSC seems to be a complete group, with little left to prove.

Disk Five: Not TSC I know, since so much of its content remained obscure to the fans of the 1980s. Weller doesn't seem to be his usual dominant force either. Not bad, but clearly ahead of its time. Perhaps TSC is incorporating so many influences here that it would have alienated their fan base anyway. One gets the feeling that Weller was just truly burned out from trying to make popular music that didn't destroy his artistic vision.

My only complaint about this import: the highly informative and attractive booklet that came in the set immediately fell apart as soon as I opened it.

There is a nice lyrics sheet as well.

Average customer rating:

Complete Adventures of the Style Council ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Rock | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music ASIN: B000A29DWY Release Date: 1999-05-21

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